OMG I just went thru this whole thread and now I want a cupcake!
We will be leaving for DW in 22 days and I now have a list of must try cupcakes. Glad we do so much walking to offset all of the eating I will be doing.
Seriously, it stinks. I'll eat 'em anyway, but I'm avoiding sweets for these last couple of weeks before we go, hoping to shed at least a couple of pounds in anticipation of my cupcake splurge while there. There's a lot of sitting and waiting in line at Disney - I never feel like we walk any more than I would at any other amusement park and we do the parks every day open to close for our whole vacation. Why oh why can't Disney food be MAGICALLY free of calories and fat?!?? 
Everyone always mentions the walking to offset the sweets, etc., but sadly, all that walking probably equates to a few Raisinets worth of calories.
You know what is funny is that I do not eat sweets. I would rather have the salty stuff (which I am not supposed to have). But I like to think that vacation food does not count. 
This is a really fun thread and I have been subscribed forever. Wondering if anyone else had my experience. After drooling for months over cupcakes and planning which ones I was going to try...got there last May and just didn't want any! I did end up eating my son's leftover chocolate peanut butter Darth Vader cupcake and it was to-die-for! Now, the year before...before the thread...I did have two, maybe three cupcakes. It's just so strange to me that I was never in the mood for one after all the looking forward to them because of this thread!
I do think part of the problem is that it was hot in May and I am never as hungry when it's hot...more interested in cold drinks and fruit!
But I like to think that vacation food does not count.
I like to think that too (or perhaps delude myself is the better description), but my thighs seem to have a mind of their own and they apparently don't buy my theory.
This is a really fun thread and I have been subscribed forever. Wondering if anyone else had my experience. After drooling for months over cupcakes and planning which ones I was going to try...got there last May and just didn't want any! I did end up eating my son's leftover chocolate peanut butter Darth Vader cupcake and it was to-die-for! Now, the year before...before the thread...I did have two, maybe three cupcakes. It's just so strange to me that I was never in the mood for one after all the looking forward to them because of this thread!
I do think part of the problem is that it was hot in May and I am never as hungry when it's hot...more interested in cold drinks and fruit!
The Contempo Cafe has some pretty birthday cupcakes with Minnie and Mickey toppers.
That is pretty smart. It looks like the took the core of the cupcake out, filled it, then inverted that same piece on top. That way you don't get quite so much icing (not that I don't love icing...), but you still get that huge gourmet cupcake look. Pretty smart indeed.
The best desserts I had all week were the Chocolate Wave at Coral Reef, the sticky toffee bread pudding at Rose & Crown, and the pear something-or-other (it was kind of like a danish) at Biergarten.
With having waaay too much food all week, I only got to try one Disney cupcake - "The King" from Pop Century. It was the chocolate cupcake with the banana filling and peanut butter icing. The filling was great. The cake was just cake - nothing special. And the icing was a bit too overpowering. They should've gone with a lighter PB frosting and a banana cupcake with some chocolate ganache or perhaps a banana frosting with a PB mousse inside. It was good, but not as awesome as it sounded. Was going to try the Tamarind cupcake at AK but they were sold out.
(don't mind the french onion soup)
My first thought here is that they're actually fairly big cupcakes and you pretty much need a knife and fork to eat them. If you pick them up like you normally would a cupcake, it would be all over you and crumbs and chunks dropping, etc. My DD18 and I shared a few on our last visit and each time we had plates, knives, forks and we split each one because they're so big. I haven't a clue how that would work out while on a cruise.
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