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[quote=Anonymous]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.)[/quote]

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