cupcakes

The Baltimore Cupcake Company on Fort Avenue makes a pretty good, although not superb, cake upon which they pile several swirls of extra sweet icing. The flavor is mostly in the icing, although we did discover the blueberry pie had a layer of what is essentially blueberry jam at the bottom of the cupcake paper. You cannot extract the cake and jam together – leaving the “pie” aspect unmet. The cake is vanilla and the topping is a sweet swirled purple frosting about two inches high. The cupcakes are OK. Not fabulous or terribly moist or to-die-for delicious. The icing, like the actual cupcakes, is extremely sweet, almost too sweet. I am not a cupcake connoisseur. They were good, but not wonderful. They were rich but a bit too sweet.

The issue with the BCC is its exterior. They need to hire me to come and explain to them what is wrong with their look. In their limited display window they have a cupcake display tray – brightly colored, but with no cupcakes on it. No cupcakes in the window. No product for passers by to see. In fact, the window makes them look as though they might have closed and gone off leaving this cupcake tower behind. In front of the store on the sidewalk – by the street, not directly in front of the store – is a large (about 8 feet high) dead bush. This should be cleared away. They need a tiny makeover.

A few blocks down the road is Fort McHenry, the place that flew the flag that Francis Scott Key saw when he wrote the Star Spangled Banner. More on this tomorrow.