Cupcakes Fit For A Princess. Pastry Princess Cupcakes

Let me live up to my blog name with this sweet, sweet post. :) 

After my baking classes near Camp Crame. My mum and I went to Greenhills Town Center to check out this lovely cupcake shop that is being hyped around the blogsphere.

I was so hungry after making cakes and cupcakes all day. We went to the McDonald's at the foremost part of Greenhills Town Center. I know there's like lots of new places with really good food around here, I wanted to try those too, but I was so hungry that I just wanna eat something fast and familiar. I promise, I will go back and try those new spots there.

Yay! Twister fries! :)

A good ol' plain Quarter Pounder
I don't like condiments and veggies on my burgers. Only the bun, patty, cheese and I'm good to go. I finished my burger and fries, then we head on to the back most line up of restos.

TA-DA!

PASTRY PRINCESS, where all your cupcake cravings are fulfilled. It started as a home based business like most cupcake shops and only opened their store earlier this year. Pastry Princess is a fairly new cupcakery in town, but is already garnering a lot of raves. Can you believe that the owner started this business when she was only 16! How awesome is that!

A dainty little cupcake shop. The small shop gives a homey feel to it and has all those cute pink accents and decorations all over the store. The place really is small but cozy, with only a few seating arrangements inside. 

The Menu

Their cupcake flavors are by schedule. The best sellers are, of course, sold everyday. The more unique flavors are scheduled through out the week. All home made and baked from scratch. Ahhh, home made cupcakes! :3

Decisions, decisions. Can I just buy them all?

Red Velvet

Red Velvet cupcake with Philadelphia cream cheese frosting. Like most of their cupcakes, it is topped with a mini fondant heart. Which reminds me of DC Cupcakes.

Salted Caramel
Caramel cake with salted caramel frosting

Banoffee

Banana with whipped cream frosting

Nutella

To all you Nutella lovers out there! Need I say more?

Choc-Nut

Made with the pinoy favorite, Choc-Nut!

Lemon Blossom

Sorry, I don't know much about this cake, but it's obvie that it's lemon flavored.

They also have other baked goodies like cookies. I was curious about the crinkles, they kinda didn't look like the normal chocolate crinkles.

How cute are these tea cans/tins? They're one of the many decorations and knick-knacks around the store. I am loving that traditional british red phone box can.

Of course, I love this pink one as well. :)

These things just give that homey personalized touch to the shop.

There's a long couch that goes all along the wall. Which are filled with cupcakes, I took a closer look and those cupcakes all over the walls are hand painted. Check out the photo clothesline. :)

Cork board filled with doodles and praises about the cupcakes or the fans' message to Pastry Princess herself.

I was still kinda full from my mirienda at McDonald's so we had the cupcakes to go. Can you guess what flavors I chose?

The place is so cozy that it's a perfect spot to hang out with friends. Like these people. There are also lots of people who drop by the store to grab a cupcake or two and go.

Hindi naman masyadong relaxed si kuya?

I was surprised when my mum ordered lasagna since we were both very full from our snack. But then again, lasagna and pasta dishes are her favorite.

The lasagna was okay. It was a little bit like left-over lasagna though. Some of the lasagna parts were dry, I'm not sure if it dried up or it was uncooked. But I guess if it was made fresh, it would've been a little better. And I really hope they improve the plastic cups and straws that they use, it just doen't go with the whole look of the store, it gave a sort of carinderia feel. The meat sauce was average. It's okay though, I came for the cupcakes!

More seating outside, alfresco!

We went home anxious to try the cupcakes.

Their packaging is cute plus it's pink! <3

My goodies!

Salted Caramel, Nutella, Tiramisu, and of course, Red Velvet!

Don't they just look delightful? 

The mounds of frosting look like sweet little hills.

Up first is the not so red, Red Velvet.

It was more on the brown/copper-ish side than red. But hey, it's all about the taste.

You can tell just by looking at it that it's a really moist cupcake.

Yes, it was! Moist and soft, oh one bite and you will immediately know that it's a good cupcake. It has the perfect Red Velvet flavour! I have a specific taste that I want in Red Velvet and this just won me over. The cream cheese frosting was a little bit tangy, smooth and creamy. There's a good cake and frosting ratio, the frosting did not over power the cake. I love it! More on the vanilla side, but with the right hint of cocoa.

I was excited to try their salted Caramel. Caramel/ Salted Caramel is one of my favorite flvors.

This one is more dense, not as moist as the Red Velvet.

This was my least favorite among the cupcakes. It was too salty if you ask me. I know, Salted Caramel, but it is just plain salty and not really much caramel flavor. The saltiness of the frosting was way too overpowering. The cake was just okay. A little too much salt that day? I could not finish the whole thing. But I'm willing to give it another try next time.

Nutella, I like you, but I'm just not that in to you.

This was great! The cake was moist and its quite good. The frosting was really sweet and you can really taste the Nutella. I liked it enough to finish the whole thing. A pretty good Nutella cupcake, but I'm just not that in to Nutella and chocolate makes me "umay" faster. But this is definitely for all you Nutella lovers!

Tiramisu

Vanilla cupcake drizzled with rum/coffee liqueur opped with cream cheese frosting and dusted with cocoa on top. 

As you can see, it looks like a really good vanilla cupcake and generously drizzled with the flavored liqueur.

Surprisingly, I loved this one! I hate coffee, but this is really good. The coffee flavor is not strong at all. Everything just comes together, all the flavors are well balanced. I'm really surprised that this ended up as my favorite along with the Red Velvet. There is a coffee flavor but doesn't give a bitter taste.

Here is their new cupcake schedule. Click!

I love the cupcakes at Pastry Princess! The cupcakes are really delightful, a great sweet fix, though not too sweet, just perfect! I'm coming back for the Vanilla and other flavors. The prices are fair and you can definitely afford to have a cupcake fix everyday! If only I lived near the place haha! If you love cupcakes, you must try Pastry Princess, must! Really good cupcakes with a home made taste and you can tell these are made with love.

click to enlarge the map

Another thing, you really have to give other flavors a try, you'll never know it might end up your favorite haha. And the owner, so inspiring! There is really no restrictions when it comes to your dreams that is fueled with passion.

Pastry Princess

#2 Granada St.

Greenhills Towncenter, Quezon City.

P.S It's not on the Greenhills/Promenade area. Behind the McDonald's and Sumo Sam line of restos at the GH Towncenter.

website

facebook

XXXOOO,

   Les :)

Red Velvet Crinkles From Little Bites Cupcakery

Red Velvet is a real southern treat. A traditional one will taste like it has the right amount of cocoa that sets it apart from a vanilla cupcake, but not too much that would make it a chocolate cupcake. It is originally topped with sexy, velvety smooth cream cheese frosting, some top it with white chocolate frosting, I like mine the traditional way. I really don't like those red velvet cupcakes that are way too chocolatey. Don't get me wrong, it's just that red velvet is supposed to taste like red velvet, otherwise just go and eat a vanilla or a chocolate cupcake.

One of my favorite cupcakes, or even flavor, is red velvet. It is of course, well known in cake and cupcake form. But now there's red velvet ice cream, gelatos, cookies, cheesecake, truffles, etc. Recently, I had the chance to taste red velvet in crinkle form at the Ultimate Taste Test, in fact it's one of my favorites from the event. I've posted about the UTT, here. A few weeks after my first taste of Little Bites Cupcakery's Red Velvet crinkles, I was craving for it like crazy.

 Before we went to our house in Las Piñas, we picked up my order at Cittadella. It was my second time ordering these cute little sweets. I didn't get to take a picture of the first. Blame my mum, she ate most of it, I guess that's just how good these are. We got 8 boxes of Red Velvet Crinkles and a box of half a dozen Cookies N' Cream cupcakes. Whoa! I know what you're thinking, that's quite a lot of crinkles. 6 of those were for Polla, one of those was a gift for my mum, a whole box all to her self. Two for moi. :)

100Php for a pack of red velvet crinkles.

They come in plastic containers to seal in freshness, no one likes stale cookies. Packaging matters, but honestly, it isn't that big of a deal, it's all about the taste.

40Php/piece for the regular flavors like their Cookies N' Cream

Let's start with the crinkles...
There is no denying that I absolutely love their Red Velvet Crinkles!

Two small, thumbprint sized cookies sandwiching the creamy cream cheese frosting.

These are tender to the touch, you can tell that they are moist. They are soft and are not crumbly. Like little pillows in your fingers. The texture and consistency is great, most people would complain that it's too soft or what not, but crinkles aren't like most cookies that are crispy or pact and solid. They are meant to be soft and light, a little chewy too, and these are exactly that.

I must warn you, you can never eat just one! lol I'm telling you, we are so hooked on these.

The Red Velvet Crinkles are divine! Not too sweet and the flavor is just perfect. It's more on the chocolate side, but not too chocolatey. It had the perfect balance. The cream cheese frosting in the middle is my favorite flavor from the whole cookie. It's creamy and light, not too tangy though which is fine, the taste is smooth (lol, yeah! smooth/mild). It complements the taste of the cookie. I understand that too much frosting will cause the cookies to slide off, can't help it, I really wish there was more of the frosting to taste.

What I don't like about the cookies? I don't like the aftertaste, it's a bit bitter. Must be the powdered sugar if not the food coloring.

A few cupcakes were missing. Polla nicked two.

Moving on to the cupcakes...
Presentation wise, it was cute. Swirls of frosting with an Oreo and Oreo crumbs.

The cupcakes were good! Though not like, "Oh wow! That's delicious". The cake was dense, but wasn't dry.

A vanilla cupcake base with a whole Oreo surprise underneath. The frosting was, I think vanilla as well, but it tasted like cream, like the cream filling in Oreo, only a little toned down.

All in all, I think Little Bites Cupcakery has delicious sweets. But their Red Velvet is a best seller for a good reason.

Little Bites is a home based business. Won't be long before they make it big, specially with all the hype they've been getting. They already have quite a huge clientele. Ms. Cham (name above) is the owner and baker, she's nice. I met her at the UTT event, we had the booth next to theirs.

Try their sweets, they're really good! They have quite a lot of cupcake flavors, from the basic vanilla to blueberry, banana split to Ferrero and Bailey's Caramel. They also customize cupcakes and giant cupcakes for any occasion. Anyway, you can tell how good a cupcake shop is by trying their classic cupcake flavors and not just their best sellers.

Little Bites Cupcakery- Las Piñas

Menu

facebook

twitter

They have pick up locations at Las Piñas, SM Makati, and SM Mall of Asia (by schedule)

We picked up our order at their home in Cittadella near Las Piñas Doctors Hospital.

XXXOOO,

   Les :)