Cirque du Sweet Day

Hello everyone!

A few weeks back a little shop with cute cupcake cutouts out front opened up. I (Rose) imediately became excited over seeing a new sweet shop open their doors. The first thing I did was grab my friends and head on over. As I walked in, the first thing I wanted to say was ahhhhhhhh. There were black and white tiles on the floor and small decorative tables to eat at. It looked so French.

My friends and I followed the yummy smell of baked goods to the glass counter in the corner. I looked down and was a bit shocked at the small selection they had. There were four different kinds of cupcakes and some cookies. I shrugged (in my head) and decided that perhaps, the cupcakes were their specialty. (I mean they did look delicious.) I ordered the cupcake with white icing and chocolate cake and they gave it to me in a small gift bag (for to go). My friends ordered some other type of cupcakes. Now, onto the trying part (my favorite part). The cake part of the cupcake was a bit dry and bland. The frosting was really (really, really) sweet and it is the kind of frosting where you can still taste the sugar particles. Now, some people might not like a bland cake part, but after tasting the very sweet frosting, I understand why the cake had to be that way. If there was any sweetness in the cake, it would have only been possible to eat one bite. The bland part kept the sweet part in check. In the end the though, I was pretty disapointed that my cupcake dreams were not fulfilled. My friends did not like their cupcakes either. They agreed with my dry and sweet review.

Since going to Cirque du Sweet Day, it has shut down with the promise to re-open soon. This is pretty unusual considering the shop had only been open for one week when I went. Perhaps, the owners had a test trial and they are redoing their recipes (a mental shrug). Anyway, to keep you all up to date, I will go back when they re-open and see if their cupcakes have become heroes.

I give them 1 out of 5 cupcakes.


***UPDATE***

I finally went back to Cirque du Sweet Day after missing opening hours for about a month. The decorations inside were still very cute and I think some delicate looking chairs and tables were added. (As I do have a big butt, I declined to eat in the shop and ate at home because I did not want to risk humilation of falling on the floor in the delicate chair.)

When I arrived home, I opened my cupcake gift. I had picked out the tropical cupcake which was made up of bananas, cocunut and oranges and white cake. The frosting consisted of vanilla icing with toasted cocnut on top. I licked some frosting first, wary that the sweetness of the cupcake I ate before (Please refernence back to the original review) would overcome me. It was a bit of a suprise when my tongue did not go into a diabetic shock. The frosting had a touch of sweetness that paired well with the toasted coconut. Excited, I bit down into the cake, only to be disapointed by its blandness. It didn't taste like anything. I have to say that my mouth was a bit sad that it didn't get to experience the tropical party it was promised. The only tropical thing about the cupcake was the toasted coconut on top.

All in all, I have to say Cirque du Sweet has improved their frosting, but not their cake.

I revise my rating ti 1 and 1/2 out of 5 cupcakes.