Eating Melbourne

Being a food blogger is by and large a labour of love, not to mention an expensive hobby. That said, every now again it has its perks, such as getting invited to fun stuff like the recent cupcake tasting by Sugadeaux Cupcakes, at the Martin St Cafe and Providore in Brighton.

The gorgeous Jess from Sugadeaux had cooked up eight new flavours, and invited a bunch of foodies from Twitter and the blogosphere to road test them. Cupcakes for dinner! YAY!

Without further ado, let us commence the cupcake porn.

Raspberry and white chocolate – a vanilla cake with white chocolate chunks, raspberry frosting:

Strawberry shortcake – vanilla cake with strawberry puree frosting:

Toffee apple – caramel cupcake (tasted like sticky date pudding) with green apple frosting and red toffee bits:

Caramel popcorn – my favourite! Butter flavoured frosting (think butter-flavoured microwave popcorn) and caramel popcorn pieces on a caramel cupcake:

Licorice – ooh a close second to the caramel popcorn – vanilla cake with a delicious licorice frosting – tasted sort of like a licorice allsort:

Milo – vanilla cake (to represent the glass of milk) with Milo mixed into the vanilla frosting, and then a crunchy coating of Milo:

Chocolate Crackle – a light chocolate cake with a scoop of buttercream frosting with bits of Crunch chocolate mixed in:

Toblerone – oh boy, this was intense. Chocolate mud cake with nougat bits mixed through, topped with a big scoop of evil choc frosting and a piece of chocolate covered nougat:

Before you ask: no, I did not eat eight whole cupcakes. We divided each one into quarters and shared it between four people. It was still a whole lotta cupcake though, so kids, don’t try this at home. (I was so wired after the sugar high that I had some VERY weird dreams that night.)

Big thanks to Jess for a very fun night! Shout-outs to the lovely bloggers and tweeps I met on the night – Penny from Addictive & Consuming, Jane from Deep Dish Dreams, Claire from Melbourne Gastronome and Leticia from Sweet Libertine Cakes.