Boston’s Sweet

Cupcakes from Sweet in Boston, MA

It was a gorgeous day yesterday. Warm enough to walk around in a light sweater bright and sunny. If fall is your thing you could not have been unhappy with a day like that in New England. My daughter, assistant cupcake tester extraordinaire and I headed north on our quest for one of the two  Sweet cupcake shops in Boston. Traffic was light conversation was snappy a fast trip down the Mass. Pike and we were in the city. We drove by the first Sweet shop in Back Bay, very easy to miss if you were not paying attention, so keep your eyes on the store signs. We headed over the bridge to Harvard Square after the typical challenge with parking we were finally on foot and enjoying the scenery. Crowded streets, music playing, a lot of people sitting outside, families, couples and students mulling about everywhere.

What shall we try next?

We walked through the square visiting a few fun shops, browsed some books while in the Harvard Coop. (The Ace of Cakes Book looked much better to read than I imagined, a fun book to skim through). Upon leaving the Coop we bought some sandwiches and ate outside, then decided to walk off lunch marching through beautiful Harvard yard. After that we were ready to attempt a glorious sugar overload. Once we spotted our Sweet destination we jumped in the door and were quick to scan the glass cases. The young girls working there were very helpful, friendly and quick to smile. The prices were $3.25 a regular size cupcake or four for $12.00, four sounded perfect for our tasting extravaganza. The pumpkin pie I wanted to try was all gone, so I am convinced it must have been wonderful. I would not let my assistant pick vanilla or chocolate she had to go for the seasonal cakes, actually it ended up not to be a problem she was immediately drawn to the wonderful looking s’more chocolate cupcake with the melted marshmallow on top and the red velvet with cream cheese icing. I chose the caramel apple, which was a vanilla cake with buttercream, drizzled with caramel then dressed up with a wooden candy apple stick and the molasses ginger, molasses cake with ginger buttercream and topped with a ginger crumble.

My assistant hard at work

We found a window seat and dove into our newly acquired treasures. The s’more was fun, the marshmallow on top with the chocolate cake was such a good taste combination and  the surprise was the graham cracker bottom. The frostings were delicious.  The candied apple cupcake had apple preserves in the center of the cake just as their apple pie cupcake does. The apple preserves were scrumptious. The caramel drizzle and caramel buttercream so very good and the wooden stick for a decoration was fun. The molasses and ginger together were also a classic and another dreamy tasting combination the ginger crumble on top just added that little extra something. We could not pick our favorite each cupcake was wonderful in its own way. We were in a silly sugar-induced stupor as we stumbled out of the shop back onto the very busy, sunny street leaving behind a fun experience and a shop full of what looks to be devoted Sweet cupcake fans.