With boutique cupcake shops sprinkled generously all around town – especially Lincoln Park, home of the Cupcake à la Pricey – you can find virtually any flavor to make your stomach smile. My personal fave was Adam's Cupcakes, but it closed shortly after I discovered it when it was written up as America's Best Cupcakes on MSN.com. How dare they? Now I'm pretty much in love with More in the Gold Coast, where I bought The Fella some sweet, little cuppy cakes for our third wedding anniversary. OK, OK, not so little at all.
Anyhoo. I'm currently obsessed with the newest concept in town – the mobile Flirty Cupcakes truck! Finally, the East slash West Coast phenomenon of food trucks comes to the Midwest. It's about time to polish my stalking shoes. With the convenience of social media feeds, I always know when the Flirty Cupcakes truck will be in my neighborhood.
You can imagine my disappointment when the truck sold out of the goodies by the time it was scheduled for Wicker Park two nights ago, but you better believe I followed its every move until it stopped in River North near my work today!
(From top, clockwise) Today's Signature Special, a Vanilla Cupcake with Fresh Blackberry Filling and White Chocolate Frosting; The Curious George, a Banana Chocolate Cupcake with a Lightly Salted Caramel, Italian Buttercream Frosting; and No Plain Jane, a Vanilla Cupcake with Italian Vanilla Buttercream Frosting.
After an evening of Happy Hour at Devon Seafood Grill and polishing off Flirty Cupcakes, the night ended with an analysis of two grandiose inventions by The Fella: #1 being a free, express shuttle bus offered by premier bars to help drunken patrons get home; #2 being a Cuptini, a delicious vanilla cupcake filled with a semi-solid martini mixture. But the true Great Invention is really a combination of these ideas piggy-backing off one another: Cuptinis sold on the shuttle bus, turning a great big profit for the bar. Ta-da!
It's amazing what a bunch of sugar and alcohol will do for ya!
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