oh BROWN BETTY - how do i love thee...

... let me count the ways:

• i love thee freely, as your deluxe rich frosting bursts with flavor
• i love thee purely, as your perfectly moist poundcake melts with each bite
• i love thee with passion put to use to whip that buttercream into its heavenly state
• i love thee gladly for having the savvy to extend 2 locations in our fair city

GO GET CUPCAKES at BROWN BETTY's or BROWN BETTY'S PETITES. you'll love it too! 

:: brown betty dessert boutique :: 

address: a) 1000 north 2nd st, b) 269 south 20th st, philly

what we ate: chocolate peanut butter, fruit-filled, betty's buttermilk, strawberry cupcakes

i lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove brown betty's desserts. i have only had their cupcakes and their cakes, but i suspect that all of their sweet delicious offerings are wonderful and unforgettable. to give you an idea of it's awesomeness, the first thing i ever ate from brown betty's was a chocolate red velvet cupcake, which generally i loathe. i did not choose to try this, but rather, was forced to take a bite of the rich chocolate-y cake and its perfectly sweetened cream cheese frosting, and ....  * HEAVEN * 

okay, i don't want to play these up too much, but honestly, these are the best cupcakes. last week, i tried another round of flavors: 

• hattie don't play variation: chocolate cake + chocolate frosting + peanut butter
• strawberry letter: strawberry poundcake + frosting
• betty's buttermilk: lemon poundcake + lemon buttercream
• sallie's fruit filled pound: vanilla poundcake+ lemon filling

i'll admit that they're not that pretty. but the upside is that part of the reason they're not that pretty is that they are wide and even wider at the top, providing more area for the frosting. my favorite of the bunch was definitely the chocolate peanut butter cupcake. it was the perfect balance of chocolate to creamy peanut butter and the cake was so deliciously moist.  

if you like lemon curd, you'd enjoy the fruit filled cupcake for sure. the frosting was refreshing and the lemon curd at the center of the cake base was sweet and tart and creamy. 

the strawberry letter was just okay. i'd pass on this next time, but then again, i'm not a huge strawberry fan. the poundcake had distinctive but not too overwhelming strawberry flavor, but the frosting was a bit on the bland side. 

anyway, GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO. and don't forget to bring me back some!