Georgetown Cupcakes: Honest Review?
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Anonymous
| Love Crumbs! |
Anonymous
| I like them but I generally like a lot of frosting. My son doesn't like them, and he doesn't like a lot of frosting. I don't wait in line for them, though. |
Anonymous
| Overpriced, small, rude staff. My go to I'd Sprinkles (she started this cupcake craze), then Baked and Wired, then Crumbs |
Anonymous
| Baked and wired is so delicious. So delicious. |
Anonymous
| Dry with too sweet frosting. Totally unoriginal. Baked and Wired is the best. |
Anonymous
| They like obamacare, makes me like them even less |
Anonymous
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Way, way, way too dry. Kind of gross tasting.
I think Crumbs is just meh. The two sizes do nothing for me, and they kind of taste bland in that from-a-box way. Sprinkles is okay. Red Velvet is okay. It just depends on the flavors. The best cupcakes are certainly not in DC, that is for sure. |
Anonymous
| Hello cupcake is better than gtc. |
Anonymous
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Maybe not for the cupcake snobs out there, but for the money, the Columbia Heights Giant has the best cupcakes around. Always dozens in stock. Great when you need 2 dozen for your kid's class. That or homemade, I will never pay over $3 for one cupcake. Ever. |
Anonymous
| Another huge Baked and Wired fan here. Their cupcakes rock! The Karen's Birthday cupcake is the best! |
Anonymous
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I love Georgetown Cupcakes. I've been to just about every other place, including many in Manhattan, and GC are just the best.
I think the staff is lovely, by the way. Always so sweet to my children - and patient while we change our order several times. But I love the Giant poster - I go to Safeway when I need 2 dozen for my children's classes. No way am I paying more than necessary! |
Anonymous
Ugh. Stale and ugly. |
Anonymous
Isn't GTC $2.75 for a cupcake? I like GTC but like another poster I love frosting. love the spice ones, salted caramel, coconut, choc lava fudge. Definitely dont find them dry but they do dry out after a day or two - are the posters reporting them to be dry eating them same day? |
Anonymous
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Cupcake preferences depend on frosting preferences. I don't like buttercream at all, which means I dislike most cupcake shops. I do love a good ganache or cream cheese frosting, and GC does those well, so I love GC. (GC's buttercream is indeed too sweet, but so is every other cupcakery's, in my experience.)
I'm also confused by the comments about GC's cake being dry. I've had a lot of their cupcakes, and I can't think of any dry ones - if anything, the occasional misses have been on the side of underbaked/too wet. Generally their cake is tender but not dense. I'm guessing "tender" vs "dense" is an individual preference thing as well - I find Baked and Wired too dense and heavy. Anyway, if you want to try GC, here are my favorites: Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip, Chocolate^2, Maple, Pumpkin Spice, Key Lime. If you want plainer, stick to the cream cheese frostings (Chocolate & Vanilla or Vanilla & Chocolate, or Vanilla^2 for crazy chocolate haters). There is something wretched-tasting in the colored sprinkles on the "Birthday" series, which are the buttercream ones. Oh, and even though Red Velvet is hyped and I recall it was good when they first opened, then they got on the red dye train like every other cake shop and the flavor suffered. Ignore, get a Chocolate [cake] & Vanilla [cream cheese frosting] instead, it's what Red Velvet should be when not ruined by dye. I... have devoted too much brain space to this. Oh, and as for rudeness, I haven't encountered any at the Bethesda shop, unless you mean from customers. (Pro tip: the time to call your friend and debate flavor choices at length is *before* you get to the front of the line.) |
Anonymous
| Baked and wired are a zillion times better. GTCC tastes like a sawdust ball with Crisco on top. |