Mrs. Beasley's

Color me surprised. Before today, I had never actually been in a real Mrs. Beasley's retail store, I just oogled the catalogue and waited for some gift baskets to magically appear in the office kitchen. But on a hot day, the sign advertising new frozen yogurt lured us inside after a Kay N Dave's lunch. What a treat this turned out to be. The store was small, clean, well-organized, well-lit, and well-stocked. The counter girl was all smiles and offered us up heaping samples of the yogs (strawberry was today's flavor, yum). I eventually settled on getting one of their mini Cupcake Poppers, cute lil cupcakes in the same flavors as their big, serious cupcakes. To my great cupcake satisfaction, it was DAMN GOOD. Like surprisingly rich and delicious. The Popper was the perfect size. Hurray, cupcakes!

AWFUL!!

Got the mini muffin (which was way too oily!) and mini cupcake w my friend b/c I wanted something sweet after Barney's. The cupcake was HARD and COLD! Eww! They were out of about half of the flavors, too.
Even though I hate to complain, I sent it back and the next one was almost just as bad.

No, No..I will not be going here again!

Would it be weird to ask a fictional cupcake baking character to marry me, or at least come to my house and bake for me? I'm thinking about doing so. I picture Mrs. Beasley as a white-haired, wire-rimmed glass wearing, white-apron clad old lady. She keeps fancilly decorated jars of sugar and sprinkles and the like. I have room in my life for someone like her. I got the box with the "Popper" mini-cupcakes. It was a really great way to sample the different flavors. I liked the mocha the best, which I was not expecting to have happen.