TWELVE CUPCAKES AT BUGIS JUNCTION

Being a girl, I always make sure after eating my main course, I would still have room for a little treat. Who could ever go home without a dessert to finish off the meal??? HONESTLY??? 

With such a love for those little sweetie sinful devils, I decided my first blog entry must be about DESSERT! And here we are, of course, talking about my most loved cutie cupcakes! *blink blink*

You could say I am on the quest to find where has the best cupcakes in town. This time, my adventure stopped at Twelve Cupcakes at Bugis Junction. 

Located at Basement 1 of busy and crowded shopping mall Bugis Junction, Twelve Cupcakes does not have dining area for their customers. It is a take-away kind of shop. You come, you eye your favorite cupcake, you purchase and you go somewhere to indulge. 

That's what I don't like, mind you. 

But still, those cupcakes have the better of me... I can't go away easily once I have seen what they have in-store!  

As the name says it all, the place has twelve daily flavors. From the world-famous like Red Velvet to simple flavors like Chocolate Vanilla, Chocolate Chocolate or Rainbow Vanilla. It's a pretty impressively wide range of choices, knowing they still carry 3 daily-special flavors, in addition. That makes 15 types of cupcakes in total! Can you believe it!??? I don't know how on earth one can choose what to buy, but I couldn't....

Since the choices are too many, I decided I should go for something famous but never-could-go-wrong, Red Velvet was the one. 

I'm no food critic but as much as I love dessert, I have no feeling for sugary-ish stuff. The sponge of this red velvet was moist enough to satisfy me. I still could tell that there is coco powder in the recipe. However, the icing was too sweet. I couldn't really taste the cream cheese. The huge amount of sugar was way too much that made the frosting taste like normal buttercream frosting. Should it be the way? N-O. NO!!!!! 

Second cupcake I order was the Chocolate Chip.

The sponge was vanilla with milk chocolate chip. Frosting was milk chocolate buttercream. To summarize what I want to say about this cupcake: I don't hate it but I don't love it either. 

I have been to quite a number of cupcakes shop. I always have this habit of ordering more than one cupcake to satisfy my craving. However, if I order two flavors, I expect the two to be distinct from each other. That is definitely not what I found in Twelve Cupcakes.

Name it vanilla or chocolate, cream cheese or buttercream, they are all the same here, in Twelve Cupcakes. Perhaps to make the price affordable ($3 each, $17 for half a dozen), the recipes and flavors are simple, too simple to make each of the flavor stand out from the rest. 

My friends ordered a few other flavors, they all said good things about the cakes. I guess I was being too picky there. I mean, which cupcake-fans ain't choosy in their superstars? RIGHT? :(

Anyway, don't judge the shop based solely on my opinion. There are others who absolutely love the cakes!!! <3 Let's see what others may say, k? :D

Clock-wise: salted caramel, strawberry vanilla, cookies and cream

1. Strawberry Vanilla Cupcake
   
   
   
   
   "Normally I don’t like eating cupcakes, mostly because I can’t stand the portions of cream that come with it, but TwelveCupcake’s Strawberry Vanilla cupcake really surprised me! The cupcake was neither too big nor too small, and the amount cream that was put on it was of acceptable portions.
   
   
   The strawberry cream had a pleasant aroma and the right level of sweetness, its flavour blended beautifully with the subtle taste of vanilla cake. The cupcake itself had the perfect balance of both firmness and softness; soft enough to enjoy taking a bite out of, and firm enough that the cupcake doesn’t lose its shape easily.
   
   
   Overall, the cupcake was a joy to eat, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a snack to share with friends and family."

     2. Cookies and Cream

"Visually, the presentation of their range of cupcakes looks absolutely fantastic and appetising and i could not make a decision on that appeal so i picked the cookies and cream because i fancy something with cookies that day. 

First impression on this cupcake was "wow, this is a pretty well-made cupcake." 

Firstly, the buttercream was generously and evenly filled with oreo crumbs. Creamy and not overpowering. 

Secondly the cake itself was great; the aftertaste of the rich chocolate flavour really lingers in the mouth. Although the cake itself is slightly dry for my liking, the oreo buttercream quickly kicks in to complement the chocolatey aftertaste, providing an all round sumptuous and smooth cupcake for the palette. 

Overall, i would give this cupcake a 4.5/5. I would definitely go back to try out more flavors they have to offer." 

3. Salted Caramel

"I have to admit that this is my first time tasting the Salted Caramel flavored cupcake so I was expecting the frosting of the salted caramel to be really sweet but it turns out that it was well-balanced with the vanilla base. 

Also the frosting was not too buttery unlike some other cupcakes that I've tried in the past. Overall Twelve Cupcakes has a great variety of cupcakes, and the overall service is pretty fast as well. I would return to Twelve Cupcakes to satisfy my cupcake cravings!"

4. Chocolate Chocolate 

"The chocolate cream cheese was elegant when paired with the velvety moist chocolate centre. It was perfect match made in chocolate cupcake heaven"

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Food reviews could be so subjective, as it seems. You never know if you would love a place based solely on what you read on the internet. What I could advise is: 

"Go and try it for yourself".

However if you ask me if I would ever come back to Twelve Cupcakes after knowing all the above things, I would say: I'm going with the flow. 

Twelve Cupcakes is one of the front-runner cupcake shops in Singapore now. They have branches in almost every areas of the island. When you have to travel all the way to Holland Village for Plain Vanilla or to Orchard for Marmalade Pantry, you have Twelve Cupcakes in your heartland areas. Their cakes are not so bad. 

Thus, if my friends say go, why should I say no? But perhaps, next time I'm just gonna buy one flavor and secretly go to another shop to satisfy my unfinished craving.

Overal Rating (Personal): 6/10

Overal Rating (General): 8.5/10

Twelve Cupcakes

Bugis Junction B1-03B

10am - 10pm

www.twelvecupcakes.com

PS. Since it's our first blog entry, ain't you curious about who is talking to you? Here is a funny pic we took while we were at Bugis, trying our cupcakes. At least you know the faces! <3

Left to right: Jia Jun, Natalie, Nancy, Alloy and Sherman