Off the Record: Cupcake Freebies

My cupcake bounty from Georgetown Cupcake:
L-R: Strawberry Lava Fudge & Pink Ribbon Vanilla cupcake

Who doesn't love sweet cupcake goodness? How much sweeter when the cupcake bounty is au gratis? Several area cupcake shops offer daily, weekly and monthly freebies with the cost of admission being a driver's license, a correct answer, or a Facebook account. I've compiled a list of where to get your cupcake-fix for FREE! 

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 Georgetown Cupcake offers one FREE specialty cupcake flavor per day, per person for the first 100 people to request it by name. To claim, follow them on Twitter @GtownCupcake or on Facebook where they usually announce the flavor of the day between 9-10 AM. This deal is open to all of their retail locations.

Sprinkles Cherry Blossom, Praline and Strawberry Cupcakes
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Sprinkles

Sprinkles offers up to 50 Cupcake Lovers per day, one FREE cupcake when you mention the word of the day. Follow them on Twitter @SprinklesDC or on Facebook to see the morning announcement. You can also download the Sprinkles app for more freebies or join the birthday club for a special b-day surprise. Also, look out for their daily BoGo deals and trivia questions to win a dozen cupcakes.

Delectable Cakery's Signature Sweet Potato Cupcakes

Delectable Cakery 
Delectable Cakery in Landover, MD offer FREE cupcakes for birthdays. Simply walk-up, show your driver's license and get your freebies! Also, sign-up for their weekly newsletter and get their weekly buy one dozen get one dozen FREE cupcake deals. So easy...

Frosting Cupcakery in Chevy Chase
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Frosting Cupcakery 
Frosting Cupcakery offers daily freebies based upon your name. Follow them on Facebook and Twitter @FrostingDC to see a series of names and if yours is one of the names chosen, you can collect your freebies. 

Duncan Hines Frosting Creations

Photo Courtesy of Duncan Hines/Pinnacle Foods Group, LLC

Okay...okay...I know what you are saying to yourself, "The Critic HATES boxed-cake mix!!" And I do- when someone is making me pay for cupcakes that I could have made myself with the help of Misters Duncan and Hines. However, seeing as though The Critic is an avid purveyor of boxed cake mixes,  and several of my readers are culinary-challenged, I thought that this was a cool new product to share with you all. 


Frosting Creations is a new product from Duncan Hines. Basically, you purchase a starter kit which includes a tub of plain frosting and several flavor packets that you stir in to make a particular creation. Flavor packets include: strawberry, mint chocolate chip, bubble gum, cherry vanilla, caramel, white chocolate raspberry and cinnamon roll to name a few. Click here to see a video of how it works! Their website also features some cool recipes!


Happy Eating!

Frosting

Location: Frosting 1 Wisconsin Circle Chevy Chase, MD

Flavors: Choc-a-lot, happy!birthday!, REDiculous, Cheesecake

Price: $2.75 each/$15.50 for a half-dozen/$29.50 for a dozen

Score: 4



                   

                 Frosting Marquee (Photos courtesy of Curvy CEO)







Frosting is a delightful little bakery tucked away on Wisconsin Circle in Chevy Chase, right next to all of the high end shopping and restaurants. While I’d seen the sign for the shop many, many times, I’d never gone in there. I do have to admit, actually getting there by car was a little tricky because the parking lot is behind the shops in the Circle. It took a phone call and two wrong turns before I found the shop. So, if at all possible, you should try to take the metro to get there – it’s right across from the Friendship Heights stop.



So many cupcakes to choose from! (Photos courtesy of Curvy CEO)

Now, once I did arrive, I was pleasantly greeted – not only by the sweet smell of baked goods, but also by the lovely décor. I don’t know much about interior design, but as soon as I walked in I felt like I was transported into a lovely little French café, what with the crystal chandelier and checkerboard tiles on the floor. They had a mixture of tallboy tables and chairs with a little alcove in the corner with cozy benches. There was even a cute little sitting area outside for customers. (If it weren’t nighttime in December, I might have given it a try.) Oh, and apparently the owners’ love story was featured in both the Washington Post and the subject of a romantic novelization of their love story.

WaPo article featuring Frosting the owners (Photos courtesy of Curvy CEO)

But, wait, this is supposed to be about cupcakes. Quite simply, they’re scrumptious.

Lovely display case filled with cupcakes! (Photos courtesy of Curvy CEO)

When I looked at the display they all looked so amazing, I sampled more than I wanted to . . . but they were worth it. The cake itself was buttery, light and fluffy. The frosting was supersweet . . . and to me, that’s a good thing. My absolute favorite was the mini-cheesecake.

Mini Cheesecake (Photos courtesy of Curvy CEO)

Let me say that again. Mini. Cheesecake.

*Homer-Simpson-drool*

This was absolutely FANTASTIC. Even though it was a “cupcake” for all intents and purposes, it really was a mini-cheesecake. A really good, rich, creamy mini-cheesecake. It really hit the spot. When you find yourself having a Golden Girls moment I highly recommend you visit Frosting. You won’t regret it.                         

Guest Blogger Curvy CEO : Curvy CEO is a lawyer and government relations professional in Washington, D.C. When she’s not pounding the pavement on Capitol Hill, you will usually find her pouring over fashion magazines or glued to the Style Network (which is pretty much her only reason for continuing to pay for “the good cable” during these tough economic times).