Adventures in Cupcaketopia, part II

Sunday was a beautiful day and half of the DC-metro area headed to Georgetown to enjoy it. As such, we had to wait on line for a full 30 minutes with a family from Rosslyn and about 100 of our closest friends before we could even darken the doorway of Georgetown Cupcake. And man, was it worth it.

The tiny shop offers a variety of cupcake flavors, some of which you may have never heard of. Key lime cupcake? They got it. Strawberry? They got it. Peanut butter fudge, with melty fudge center? Bernadette got it, all over her face. I tried a red velvet and a key lime, the classic and the crazy. The red velvet cupcake was quite good, but I'll be honest - my mom makes it better. It all comes down to the cream cheese frosting, which wasn't strong enough in my opinion.

So the red velvet was good, and watching Bernadette eat the peanut butter fudge was highly entertaining. But it all pales in comparison to the Key Lime 'cake (KLC). The KLC will go down in history as one of the greatest, most delicious cupcakes I have ever eaten. Really. The cake itself was moist and delicious, offering just the right balance of tarty sweetness. But the icing - how can I describe the icing? Sweet and sugary, holding visible pieces of lime zest and covering the 'cake in perfect proportion. The whole KLC masterpiece was adorably topped with a small lime slice-shaped gummi candy.

Now if you don't like key lime, well, I suppose you can't appreciate how excellent this little cuppy cake was. But if you grew up as I did, receiving boxes of fruit from Floridian grandparents and cracking into a key pie on holidays, then rest a assured: the KLC is everything you hope for. And there's plenty of variety for the rest of you, as well.