St Patty’s day 2021

 

It has been 10 years since I last posted about a St Patrick’s cupcake adventure.  Today I went back to Sprinkles... to the place that started it all.  I haven’t had a St Patty’s day cupcake from Sprinkles in quite a few years.  If I’ve had a St Patty’s day cupcake it would have been from Susie Cakes.  I didn’t not have one last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. LA shut down a year ago and we entered the safer at home order. So I did just that.  A year later I was able to order a cupcake and I decided to go return to Sprinkles.

This year, Sprinkles was promoting an Irish Coffee cupcake.  It actually called Irish Coffee by Writers Tears Whiskey.  The website doesn’t give additional information about the cupcake.  So let’s dive into my initial thoughts.

I took off the logo and cut the cupcake in half. To my surprise it had a filling.  The filling was a marshmallow filling... and I didn’t have an additional flavor to it.  I was curious if the filling was whiskey infused. The answer was no.  Up next I took a small bite out of the cake.  That wasn’t infused with whiskey either.  I had a few more bites and I didn’t get a coffee taste.  It smelled and tasted like chocolate. The cake wasn’t rich... I honestly expected more from the cake and hoping I would have gotten a rich coffee flavor.

We finally move on to the green frosting.  The frosting was definitely sweet, too sweet for my liking. It’s a buttercream frosting and I was able to take the whiskey that was infused. It was not overpowering, I got more of a sugary taste with a hint of whiskey.  I finally took a bite of all three layers: cake, marshmallow filling, and frosting... it was ok... wasn’t extraordinary.  

Now, I glad I was a able to try this new cupcake, but having tried it... I would not run back to a second Irish coffee cupcake.  I guess I’ll have to wait and see what they come up with next year.

Stay tuned for a review of the green velvet cupcake review.