If you go to Davis Square..
Free cupcakes? Yes, it’s true.
If you go to Davis Square, you must swing up onto Highland Ave to get a taste of Kickass Cupcakes. If you are there on the last Monday of the month between 5 and 7, you’ll also be treated to divine miniature cupcakes, gratis.
What I always hate about free food events though, is the inevitable hordes of people that turn out. I just can’t seem to relax and enjoy what it is that I’m eating. (Free sushi is the worst. It’s like everyone is snatching the only HIV medication in the world to save their dying baby brother.)
Thankfully, there wasn’t much of a wait – just a packed shop.
The three course menus
At first, I wasn’t sure what I thought of the concept of “cocktail” themed cupcakes, but I was soon won over.
Some chocolate specimens
Here are the actual cupcakes. The Champagne Bubbly had strawberries and champagne in the center, along with a champagne frosting. The Mai Tai impressed me the least, maybe because the concept of a purposely artificially fruity cupcake doesn’t quite jive. Choc-o-tini was accompanied by its own vodka dipping sauce – a slightly viscous, sweet, alcohol liquid that didn’t add a whole lot to the flavor of the cupcake (the chocolate just overpowers the subtlety), but was fun to sip on its own.
From left: "Bubbly", "Mai tai" "Choc-o-tini" (with vodka dipping sauce in the little plastic cup)
I succumbed to one of these suckers (berry crumbly)... a lot more dense than their other varieties. See the amazing carrot cake cupcakes on the lower shelf.
Then I ended up buying a cupcake anyway…
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