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Sorry about the lack of posts, we were getting fat. And we've been busy working on our SOCALCUPCAKES CREW gang signs. BRB with sexy reviews of Susie Cakes in Newport Beach, Five Sweets in Costa Mesa, Zov's in Newport Coast, baking-at-home adventures and MORE! Just a preview of what's to come:


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SOCALCUPCAKES CREW

French's Cupcake Bakery Costa Mesa: Wowza

Get stoked ...

*French's Cupcake Bakery*
273 E 17th St.
Costa Mesa, Ca 92627
(949) 642-0571
frenchsbakery.com

This is not your mother’s French’s Bakery (your mother’s French’s Bakery being the one at 1170 Baker St, Costa Mesa – we’ll get there, don’t worry!) – This is more like your Italian Grandma’s French’s Bakery. Which means it’s homey, old-world and delicious (and confusing ... ), has everything from anise cookies to deli sandwiches ready-to-serve, and lets you eat 3 cupcakes in one sitting without telling your mom. Here are the top 5 things that rule about French’s Cupcake Bakery:

1. Their cupcakes are half the price of most cupcakeries
2. They have twice the flavor-variety you would expect, everything from German Chocolate to Lemon Blueberry to Chocolate Ganache Happy Mouth Explosion (or Killer Chocolate, as they call it)
3. Apparently they make this cake sometimes:(image from their website)
4. It’s easy to find and is in a center with plenty of parking. Need directions?
   
5. There’s indoor and outdoor seating, so you can munch your cupcakes while gazing at display case to decide what you’re going to taste next, and daydreaming about being adopted by the nice woman behind the counter.

You should probably stop reading now and just goooo!!!!

Wonderland Bakery: Take 2 (cupcakes in yr mouth at a time)

Our new motto is "frosting is thicker than water," (feel free to quote us) and with that sentiment, we're going to consider our disappointing first visit to Wonderland Bakery water under the bridge and focus on the frosting.

*Wonderland Bakery*
Bluffs Shopping Center
1314 Bison @ Mac Arthur
Newport Beach, CA 92660
888-WB-COOKIE
http://wonderlandbakery.com/

The frosting at Wonderland is tasty, especially the cool, silky cream cheese frosting swirled on bright Red Velvet cakes. But the bakery is focused just as much, if not more, on the delicious and pink cupcake-loving lifestyle and Wonderland-branded swag.
Think Disneyland: Where you spend 2-minutes on the ride (in this case, the cupcake eating adventure), and 25-minutes in the gift shop connected to the exit.

This shop is a GLITTER-EXPLOSION, right down to the sparkling silver floor reflecting multi-colored gleaming trinkets on shelves stretching up tall walls. Other than a few chocolate bars, all the edible merchandise is at the rear of the store. Scratch that: the display case that you order edibles from is at the rear of the store. The actual edibles are behind a curtain -- after you place your order and pay, the cashier exits through the curtain to prepare your order.
What's in that secret room?
Should we even ask?
It's a mystery I'm not entirely comfortable with.
Whatever's back there, the cashier reappeared less than 10 minutes later with 8 freshly frosted and sprinkled cakes and it was time to eat them all.

We're just going to review the Razzle Dazzle for now, because it's the most important:
Pretty pink frosting drizzled with chocolate, on a chocolate cake. Frosting was pleasantly grainy, with bits of real raspberry throughout - no seeds, thankfully. The addition of fresh fruit could be the reason the frosting melted in the car ride home - although it was an awfully hot day, the vanilla and chocolate-frosted cupcakes remained solid. The chocolate cake was moist and fudgy, with plenty of air bubbles, making it chewy and not too heavy.

Overall: Wonderland is an experience for sure, and the cupcakes are pretty good ... but there's something missing ... LIKE A SOUL!!! Sealing the deal on this sentiment: their little girl model on the brochures, etc. is a dead ringer for JonBenet Ramsey

Too soon Wonderland, too soon.