Cupcakes - I don't agree with the hype

[Sappermont]

I have heard so much about Disney cupcakes. They look and sound so good that I HAD to try them. So I tried a few and I can't figure out what the hype is about. The cake is dry, the frosting is too sugary and not a creamy, buttery type and the fillings, while most are redeemable, seem to be too sugary for the rest of the cupcake. Here is what my family tried (we all had at least one bite of each to judge them):

White Chocolate Elephant Cupcake - Oh, the thought of coconut set my heart a flutter!!! But alas, there is just no coconut taste only some toasted coconut flakes that must have seen better days. The chocolate cupcake is dry, the frosting is too sugary, and the white elephant is grey and tasteless.

Smores - This was the BEST cupcake out of all of them. The cake itself was a bit moister than the rest we had tried and not as sugary. It had hints of graham in it with chocolate the the frosting was a marshmallow frosting that was light and not so sugary as the others. We determined this is one cupcake we would get again and share...but it is not something we would seek out.

Caramel Dos Leches - Oh, this was sickening. The dry yellow cake had a filling of too sweet caramel and topped with a sugary sweet frosting. None of us would eat more than a bite.

Black Forest - The redeeming feature of this cupcake was the cherry filling which we picked out and ate. The chocolate cake was again dry and the frosting (again) was that too sugary frosting.

Red Velvet - I had high hopes for this one. I thought the cream cheese would really mellow out the sugar but alas, they managed to over sugar the cream cheese filling. The cake was even drier than the others and crumbled into oblivion when we cut into it. And the frosting was still that too sugary frosting.

My family - whom 2 of us are sugar-aholics and 2 others that love to eat dessert - could not eat most of these. We actually threw them all away and got ice cream.

So I don't get the fuss? Well, at least I tried it and can safely look at them in the bakery case, and easily pass them up.

On the other hand, don't get me started on the dole whip....We can not go one day without these at Disneyworld!

The chocolate cupcake from the ice cream truck at Conservation Station in AK was pretty damn good. I didn't try any others.

 

[TravelAgentJen]

I have only tried one cupcake in WDW and it was my daughters at CRT lunchtime it was DELICIOUS!!!!! MOist yellow/white? cake w/purple icing!!http://www.wdwinfo.com/images/smilies/upsidedown.gif