Sugar and I visited Buttercream Cupcakes & Coffee, owned by wife and husband team Kristine Graulich and Jose Cuellar. The shop itself is warm and inviting. The minute you open the front door you are hit with the warm aroma of baking cupcakes and brewing coffee. Jose and Kristine are friendly, and very welcoming, despite a rash of what seems to be cupcakery spies who have even taken pictures of their ovens and kitchen layout. [People this is NOT cool!] Sugar and I tried several of their cupcakes: vanilla, chocolate chocolate, vanilla oreo, chocolate coconut, triple chocolate, and lastly the most perfect red velvet cupcake to ever have touched our lips!
The cupcakes all have a moist, dense texture that Buttercream is known for. All of the frosting flavors were very rich and had a slight tang to them. Perhaps it is from buttermilk or cream cheese? To be honest, the vanilla was a great cake, but the frosting was a bit overbearing. The cake definitely can stand alone without the very rich and slightly tangy frosting. The chocolate chocolate is a moist, rich chocolate chip studded cake that is almost brownie-like in texture with an uber-rich chocolate frosting. The triple chocolate is one of Sugar’s favorite flavors. It had a very rich and chocolaty overall taste. The chocolate sprinkles actually taste like chocolate instead of sugar as most other sprinkles do.
All of the other cupcakes must be jealous of the red velvet. The red velvet from Buttercream Cupcakes has changed our cupcake lovin’ lives!!!! We have been converted! I realize that I just hadn’t had the right red velvet cupcake before, and I have had more than my share! Perhaps they should be renamed red velvet magic, or red velvet miracles. No, we’re not stopping short of the word MIRACLE. The cake is dense and moist, with a very tender crumb and gently crisp top dome. You can actually taste both the vanilla and the cocoa. The real question is what does Kristine do to her red velvet magic cupcakes? The mystery haunts us every night since we have eaten one. I lie in bed thinking buttermilk? Simple syrup? Cream cheese? And the only way for me to truly find out is to go and taste them again and again and again. I don’t even need the frosting;as a matter of fact, you can scrape it right off! The red velvet miracle cake doesn’t need any frosting, it’s just fine on its own. We recommend that everyone who is in Miami go to Buttercream Cupcakes & Coffee, located at 1411 Sunset Drive in Coral Gables, and taste what red velvet cupcakes are supposed to be.
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