Crumbs Bakery

Yes, that is my name plate… and my real last name… but who cares about that!  Look at the cupcakes!

For Blondie & Brownie’s recent blogaversary (they’re 1!), they invited a specially selected group of people (yes, I was included!) to Bamboo 52 to celebrate.  Not one to show up to a party empty-handed, I headed over to my local Crumbs (Wall Street) to pick up some cupcakes, even though recently Blondie remarked they have been slipping in quality lately.  I have to say that the Wall Street location is one of the newer ones in NYC and I’ve never had any problems with their cupcakes (besides with the prices).  What I like here are the “special” ones, the ones the other bakeries don’t make – they don’t make the best red velvet cupcake I’ve ever eaten, but they make really fantastic specialty cupcakes! 

Top, left to right: chocolate covered strawberry; brownie (of course! too corny? they didn’t have a blondie cupcake unfortunately); red velvet
Bottom, left to right: grasshopper; caramel chew/snickers; cappucino

Of course, I was most interested in the grasshopper cupcake, the chocolate mint one, ever since I’d read about it also on Blondie & Brownie’s site way back when.  (I KNOW, it’s from OCTOBER, but I don’t eat sweets that often, ok?!  Stop judging me!)  Dude, look at their pictures.  Freaking.  Amazing.

When I arrived at the party, I didn’t know how to phrase my request, so finally, I blurted out, probably much to everyone’s amusement (or annoyance, depending on the kind of person they are or how well they knew me), “Umm… I don’t care what you do with the rest of the cupcakes… I just REALLY want to try the Grasshopper!!!”  Haha.  I snagged a knife from the server and one of B&B (I don’t really remember because I was staring at the cupcake so hard) cut me 1/4th.  Mmm.  It was good.  All was right in the world; the cake as moist and I was happy.  I didn’t detect the middle creamy chocolate, but it was dark in there and I’d already begun drinking, so.

One thing to note: Blondie (or Brownie?) remarked that these cupcakes didn’t seem to have gone down in quality as much as the one in Midtown she’d been to.  I don’t know if that was luck, or the Wall Street one has the better baker, or what.  But these cupcakes were moist and yummy, so I was happy… as were the other participants, I think!  🙂

I’ve been going to Crumbs for at least a year I’d say, and my boyfriend likes their cupcakes a lot too.  (He can actually eat an Artie Lange cupcake in addition to a full meal; I still don’t understand why he’s not a blimp.)  The above is a shot of a Red Velvet and another Cappucino cupcake… I’ve tried many varieties from Crumbs, and haven’t found one yet that I really hated.  (Though their Red Velvet is probably low on my list that I’ve tried from there.) 

Happy first blogaversary to Blondie & Brownie!  Here’s to many more!!!