The Super Sized Cupcake

I never realized how big a cupcake could really be until yesterday.

In Tampa, there are gourmet cupcake shops all over town and they all charge about $2.50 for a tiny little cupcake. I was always impressed with the architecture of these particular tiny cupcakes. They are made from scratch in a variety of flavors and super delicious.

However, my tiny cupcake infatuation came to a screeching halt when I was introduced to a cupcake from Crumbs Bake Shop in NYC.

En route to London yesterday, my sister-in-law (who lives in NYC) was gracious enough to meet me at JFK for my 4 hour lay over.

She has been talking about Crumbs Bake Shop for months and every time she mentioned it my mouth began to water. I didn't want to miss this perfect opportunity to jam a giant cupcake down my throat so I enlisted my sister-in-law to bring me a variety of cupcakes to the airport for us to enjoy during my layover.

When I asked her to bring more than one I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. I wrongly assumed they were the same size as the tiny Tampa cupcakes. Wow was I wrong.

She met me with a giant bag full of three enormous cupcakes that were each the size of a softball. Inside was a BaBa Booey (pictured above) it's a chocolate cupcake filled with peanut butter icing with peanut butter/chocolate icing on top and peanut butter chips, a Red Velvet cupcake, and one not on the daily menu called Half Baked which was a vanilla cupcake with cookies crumbed on top and filling in the middle.

These cupcakes were so giant I had to come at them with a knife - and since this was basically a one chance opportunity (I couldn't take them on the flight with me) my sister-in-law ate all three. They were absolutely phenomenal. It puts every other cupcake I have tried to shame. They were big, sweet, fluffy, tasty and completely satisfying. The Baba Booey in particular soothed my soul....the peanut butter filling was light and not too sweet.

Feel free to keep enjoying your local cupcake shop because they still are good, but keep hoping for more. If you want true cupcake satisfaction it can only happen at one place: Crumbs.