Cupcake Update

So a few days after I made my now world famous (hey, if its famous in my world ... its world famous!) vanilla cupcakes with blueberry butter cream icing we had a bake sale at work to raise money for the cutest little boy that has cystic fibrosis.  Well wouldn't you know it, someone had brought in two dozen professionally made cupcakes.  What flavour you might ask?  Chocolate cupcakes with blueberry icing!  Everyone is snapping up my ideas!!!  As a matter of fact, Caitlin had suggested to me that I make chocolate cakes with the blueberry butter cream but I thought the vanilla cakes would be much better.  But now, here was my chance to check out chocolate/blueberry combo.

The chocolate cupcake was definitely good.  It was moist with a rich chocolatey flavour.  The icing was not nearly as purple in colour as mine and the flavour of blueberry, if it was there at all, was very subtle.  Obviously it was a much nicer decorating job than I had made of mine ... I guess I still need more practice.  They really did look very nice and generally were very good. I just would have liked a more intense berry flavour.  But the blueberry chocolate combination would be totally do-able.

Blueberry icing colour and design comparison:

I do really love the baker's business cards!  Super cute idea to have her caricature on the card.