The Cupcake Factory – Drummoyne
Published 23 June 2009If you want cupcakes that are worth driving through torrential rain for, then The Cupcake Factory is your place.
Leigh and I have been drooling at the web site for months (literally) and we finally made the pilgrimage on a sopping wet Saturday to downtown Drummoyne for cupcake goodness.
The shopfront is small with barely enough room for 2 adults and 3 kids to huddle aroud the display window trying to decide which cupcakes to take home. There are at least 15 flavours to choose from and the shop is decorated in heaps of cupcake-themed goodies. They even have a cupcake bouquet made out of mini-cupcakes – really wished I’d snapped a photo of it so I can try to make something similar.
The service was friendly and very accommodating of wide-eyed cupcake fanatics! There really were SO MANY flavours to choose from: chocolate drizzle, malteser, strawberry, white chocolate, passionfruit, double chocolate, rocky road, vanilla, caramel, cookies and cream, jaffa and so many more than I can remember.
And look at the cupcake/icing ratio!
That is the most amazing cupcake/icing ratio I’ve seen outside of my kitchen.
Here’s the cookies and cream cupcake, one of the few that sat still long enough for me to photograph it:
Cupcakes are $3.00 to $4.00 and mini cupcakes are available for $1.00. You can get a box of a dozen mini cupakes for $12.00.
The cakes themselves taste home-made and the icing is the most amazing icing I have ever experienced in a retail cupcake. Most of the flavours are very rich – I could only eat half a cupcake at a time – but stunning. Presentation is spot-on, too!
The Cupcake Factory
Shop 5, 147 Victoria Road (Entrance on Edwin Street)
Drummoyne
Phone: (02) 9719 8737
Don’t forget to check out our list of Australian cupcake bakeries!
Grumbling in the direction of Marrickville Council
Published 22 June 2009I was driving down our street tonight looking for a parking spot – something that sucks as a general rule because we’ve chosen to live in a congested area of Sydney’s inner west. Tonight there are workmen blocking off empty parking spaces with witches hats. There were parking spots as far as the eye could see, but they were all blocked off by damned witches hats
Turns out they’re doing line marking. Because the kerb isn’t enough of an indicator on where to park, apparently.
I try to park in a spot anyway and get waved away by one of the overall-clad blokes and decide to suss out WTF is going on
Me: So where do I park if I actually live here?
Him: Yih, moite thir is sum spots up an’ ’round in (names street 3 blocks away)
Me: *blank stare*
Him: Yih, I fink they done a letterbox drop an’ that
Me: Well, they never made it to my letterbox
Him: Awww shoite!
Me: So this is Marrickville Council’s doing, yeah?
Him: Yih!!
Me: Well, at least I’ll know who to send the memo to if I get mugged!
We both chortled* and he continued blocking available parking spots with witches hats while I drove off to the next suburb to find somewhere to park my car.
Mental note: wear walking shoes in the morning.
* I can’t believe I actually said typed the word “chortle”. I am getting old.
Got your tongue!
Published 21 June 2009Do you know how hard it is to get a photo of a cat with its tongue out?
I was trying to get a photo of Bear adoring my Slanket as much as I do, but got his tongue instead.
Did you ever
Published 20 June 2009Did you ever play the Fantales game?
Where you try to guess the celebrity whose name is missing from the wrapper?
We used to always play the game when I was little, when we would have our family nights on Thursday night because it was mum and dad’s only night off from the Drive In.
I love eating Fantales. Except when they get stuck in my teeth.
I think this celebrity is Gwynneth Paltrow.
Are you there, internet? I'm still here
Published 17 June 2009All I’m really only capable of this week is dot points:
- Turning 31 is turning out to be not so bad, it was just the first week that really sucked
- I’m hanging out for the iPhone 3G S to be released at the end of this month – but can I afford it?
- My hands are really really cold
- My fly was undone this afternoon and I caught the bus and now I know why so many people were staring at me (yes, I was wearing knickers. And thermals)
- I miss my car. Talyn’s at the smash repairer, hence the public transport. Have you heard that it’s been raining in Sydney this week? I have renewed respect for public transport users, I have it so good with driving to work.
- I have gone back to 1997 and am now wearing sneakers to work and changing into my work shoes at my desk. I’m office/sporty spice all over again:
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