The Cupcake Bakery
459 Collins St, Melbourne

We were super excited when the sign Cupcake Bakery was posted in one of the vacant shops in Intercontinental Hotel- after all, who doesn’t love cupcakes?  Finally, one sunny day in July, the Cupcake Bakery opened-lines and lines of colourful cupcakes were displayed proudly in the shop window: choc-choc, choc mint, strawberry swirl, lemon & poppy seed, carrot cupcakes… and they are the normal ones!

Women like us swarmed the shop, and by lunch time, most of the exotic ones are sold out- no more tiramisu cupcakes, lemon meringue cupcakes and molton choc cupcakes

So all I could try is the vanilla swirl and the lemon and poppy seed cupcake- they are quite nice, but to be honest, they look nicer than they tasted…they are slightly dry.  I would much prefer a moist, crabapple cupcake than the one in Cupcake Bakery.

Does anyone also notice that the cupcake craze is sweeping over Melbourne?  First there’s Little Cupcakes, then there’s Cupcake Bakery, then there’s one that’s opening up in QV.  Let’s see how that one fares with Crabapple, shall we?