For myself, I’d prefer the ingenuity and craftsmanship fueling local bakeries. However, I’m guessing they will do well…chain restaurants never seem to be hurting for patrons. With the plethora of local bakeries we have here in Little Rock, it would be difficult for me to forsake them and overspend again on cupcakes at Gigi’s.
GG CUPCAKE CRACKER
The graham cracker crust was delicate and complimented the cheesecake and cherry well. The new OpenType format gives us the possibility to have multiple versions of each letter, and thats exactly. The cheesecake was light and creamy, and thankfully, not overwhelmingly sweet. The Lobster font took a different approach. I chose the cherry-topped cheesecake and found this to be surprisingly pleasant. Wrapped up and packaged like a standard cupcake, the cheesecakes come in a handful of flavors including chocolate, cookies and cream, raspberry and cherry. Lastly, I sampled one of Gigi’s mini cheesecakes. I found each, despite their dramatically different appearances, to be fairly similar in flavor, all reeking of excess sugar. While there are clearly a large variety of flavor combinations offered at Gigi’s, of the three I selected (white wedding cake, chocolate-chip cookie dough, and red velvet) none were so distinct as to make a lasting impression on my palate.
Without the excessively sweet crown of frosting, it was clear that these were not cakes that could carry Gigi’s products to greatness. In general, I found the cake portion to be rather bland and dry. I get the feeling that this excess of frosting is attempting to cover up a rather sub-standard, lackluster cake underneath. The frosting is intensely sweet, thick, and ends with a slightly bitter aftertaste with each bite, again not so unlike some of the grocery store cakes you may have sampled in the past. If so, you have some sense of what it’s like to eat a Gigi’s cupcake. Rather than do the reasonable thing and scrape some of it off before eating, perhaps you decided to go commando and bite through the entire thing.
Perhaps you’ve had the even greater misfortune of being served the slice that included the four-inch-high artificially colored frosting flower. I’m sure you’ve had the misfortune of eating one of those grocery store birthday cakes at least once in your life.
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