review

The Cupcake Field

The best cure for a mediocre week is to indulge in a few of these delicious morsels. At least 6, to be exact! ;)

Amy Field, who started the cleverly named The Cupcake Field in 2017, was ever so kind to give us a platter of her favourite flavours to taste:

Strawberries & Vanilla, Salted Caramel, Choc Chip Cookie, Red Velvet, Maltesser, Mint Choc Chip

They obviously didn’t last very long in this household. 

Most of the cupcakes had a yellow cake base, which is cooked al dente style with a moist, medium crumb that wholly complimented the generous pile of buttercream icing which, much to our relief, wasn’t tooth achingly sweet nor tasted like a block of fat. The two chocolate-based cakes were excellently fudgey. 

The Strawberries & Vanilla was lovely with strawberry jam mixed in, and the Mint Choc Chip was like eating an After Eight.

In a clever turn in the flavour department, the Cookie and Malteser was a combo I’ve never had in Darwin before. I think I might have been dreaming, but I could have sworn that the cookie one had cookie dough in the cake base with chocolate chips in the mix. How cute is it?!

The Malteser was great, with a bits of chocolate mixed into the icing. I did wish it had more of a malt finish like you’d find in a thick shake, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying the cupcake. 

Hint

for optimum deliciousness, let your cupcakes rest at room temperature for 10 mins before face stuffing

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Ah, the almost overrated red velvet.

I’ve had my share of red velvets in my time and there’s always that niggling thought of how much colouring is used – some recipes call for a half bottle of the dye and most of the time the chocolate flavour is lacking.

I was pleasantly surprised with how much of a chocolate kick The Cupcake Field’s one was, and I appreciated that it wasn’t an oversaturated shade of blood red.  And that perfectly tangy cream cheese rosette… mmm-mmm!

Beautifully executed and easily my favourite cupcake of the lot.

Salted caramel and lemon cheesecake I hear is one of the best sellers and I can totally see why - the caramel to icing to cupcake ratio is perfect and there’s a surprise stash of caramel in the cake! 

Overall experience: You absolutely have to grab a cupcake or two from Mosko’s Market (Palmerston Library) or Nico’s Coffee (Gateway) where they’re currently stocked, or you can get in touch via their Facebook page to make a custom cake order.

 

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P.S. Custom Pinterest-worthy cakes 

Nothing much for me to say here. I mean, just look at that fantastic fondant art!!! 

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