Georgetown Cupcake recently won the Washington Post's contest to find the best cupcakes in the city.
Back in November, I blogged about my interest in a chocolate wedding cake and our readers had lots of great comments – including a couple of suggestions encouraging me to to think about cupcakes. About a month later, I celebrated my birthday which happens to be the same day as International Cupcake Day. About a week after that, Susan S., Tori and I were lucky enough to sample some cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcakes in Washington, DC. (and, yes, we brought one home for Carl).
I felt like the stars were aligned and telling me to go for cupcakes. Luckily, the fiance agreed.
I knew I wanted to include a chocolate shell on the top of each cupcake, and the folks over at Georgetown Cupcake readily agreed to place them for us. We’re using these beautiful chocolate praline shells from Guylian chocolate. I loved the white and milk chocolate marbled effect. Our shells will be used in place of the decor the cupcakery normally puts on the top of the shells (like that cute heart on this red velvet cupcake here).
Next we had to pick flavors. Originally, I wanted a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting, a vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting and one other signature flavor. We were leaning toward lemon, but then I realized that it didn’t look as good with the marbled chocolate shells, so I think we’re back to the basics with chocolate / vanilla and vanilla / chocolate.
Our wedding venue has a tower for cupcakes that will (hopefully) hold enough for all our guests. Our friends Martha and Libby will pick up the cupcakes for us the morning of the wedding (we’re getting married three hours away so reliable friends who can deliver the cupcakes were critical to the success of our plan). Libby is lucky enough to live around the corner from Georgetown Cupcake.
I’ll post pictures of the final product. In the meantime, if you live in the Washington, DC area or are planning a visit, be sure to drop in on the folks over at Georgetown Cupcake and see what the fuss is all about.
Georgetown Cupcake
1209 Potomac Street NW (at the corner of M Street and Potomac Street)
Washington, DC
red velvet by aliciagriffin
10:00 am on April 16th, 2009
Oh congrats on the wedding!
2:52 pm on April 16th, 2009
Thanks, Laura!
5:56 pm on April 16th, 2009
Wow!!! Yes, congrats on the wedding and what a fantastic idea about the cupcakes!! (That picture totally makes my mouth water!!!)
9:52 am on June 11th, 2009
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