Twelve Cupcakes

Christmas day is gone, but festive foods are still a must! That lovely decoration on the cupcake told me I have to get it. We found their cupcakes relatively less sweet than other big bakeries’. While they might be the right choice for sweet tooths who are avoiding sugar, their frosting and cupcake are not that as good as we expected. The vanilla frosting on the top was kind of thick and dense, almost had a hard consistency. The chocolate cupcake below was also not that moist, a bit dry and crumbly.

Cupcakes are probably one of the prettiest desserts out there. They’re a nice pop of color, cute, and look absolutely delicious. I’ve already established that Sift makes the best cupcakes in HK, but I passed by Twelve Cupcakes at Windsor House the other day and the pretty displays of the cupcakes arranged in their delicate rows were just too cute to pass up.
I ended up dragging my mother, who generally despises all things sweet, into the store to pick out a cupcake. They had all the typical cupcake flavors — red velvet, Oreo, peanut butter chocolate etc. After some heavy consideration, I decided to go with the classic cupcake flavor — red velvet.
For some reason, I find the cupcakes here not as… attractive as others I’ve seen. I think it’s the way the frosting is piled up in the middle of the cupcake rather than being more spread out and filling the entire top if the cupcake. I don’t know, but as they say, don’t judge a book by its cover! And I’m glad I didn’t — because the cupcake was pretty good. The frosting was smooth and creamy, and the cupcake itself was very light and not too dense. However, I found the frosting a little too sweet.
With mid-​autumn festival coming up, Twelve Cupcakes is joining in on the celebrations by having special moon cake cupcakes. I actually just saw them online, but I’m going to make it a point to try one before the festival ends!