Last Friday night Jeremy and I visited one of the two new cupcakes places (yes TWO) that opened up this week in Springfield, MO. GiGi’s is a franchise based out of Nashville, TN and I had heard good things about them so I was pretty excited to visit. The place is cute, simple and clean inside. No frills. And quite frankly they don’t need frills because the cupcakes are gorgeous! At three dollars apiece, they are good-sized and well worth the money. And the frosting…OMG don’t even get me started on the frosting on top of these cupcakes. The minute we stepped inside the doors and my eyes fell upon the mountain of frosting piped on top of the cupcakes, I was mesmerized and drooling. I’m a frosting girl all the way!
Since it was their opening night and they had been giving away free cupcakes all day to all their fans on Facebook, they were down to some basic flavors but still a good variety. I would have LOVED to have tried the Tiramisu or Red Velvet but they were out of those so we went with Wedding Cake (my choice), Midnight Magic (Jeremy’s choice) and Chocolate Salted Caramel.
The Chocolate Salted Caramel consisted of a yummy super dark chocolate cake with caramel buttercream topped with chocolate ganache and a sprinkle of sea salt. It was very good and I loved the salt and chocolate combination but the caramel buttercream was just a tad too sweet for both of us. Somehow we still managed to eat most of it though…how did that happen?!
My choice, the Wedding Cake, was vanilla cake topped with vanilla buttercream. The cake was on the denser side and not so light and fluffy and the buttercream was very thick, creamy and smooth, not greasy at all and had a wonderful vanilla flavor. I really enjoyed it, especially the frosting.
Jeremy’s choice, the Midnight Magic, was our favorite. It was a rich chocolate cake topped with an absolutely delicious cream cheese frosting and mini chocolate chips. We ate the whole thing and loved every bite.
I’m really looking forward to going back and trying more cupcakes. And I will go back! I can’t stop thinking about the frosting…and the Tiramisu cupcake…and the Miss Princess (strawberry) cupcake…and the Red Velvet cupcake..and the frosting..and the Kentucky Bourbon Pie cupcake…and the…
P.S. Check out all GiGi’s offerings here!
P.S.S. After linking to her page, I read her story of how she started and it is totally inspiring! Check it out!
