Australian’s love affair with cupcakes have been increasingly growing right from the time when moms started to make arrangements to throw a birthday party for their children in schools. But sweet toothed Australians and bakers agree over one thing that what was thought to be yummy sweet treats have now become an obsession at national level. Initially, the craze of cupcake was believed to be the trend but now it has become a mainstream industry throughout the nation.
The bakeries that make cupcakes have popped up throughout Australia over the last few years. ‘Sex and the City’, the HBO series, is however to be credited for introducing the cupcakes. From Western Australia to South Australia, specialty cupcake bakeries come up with their typical flavours of sweet petite delicacy.
Cupcake industry does not settle for good old vanilla cupcake with the chocolate icing. The bakers all over the nation experiment with the different flavours and the ingredients, which deliver the cupcakes, which aren’t only sugary but zesty and savoury as well.
Here are some unique flavours of cupcakes that have been found at the different bakeries across Australia.
The chocolate covered potato chip cupcake is an ideal mix of savoury and sweet, combining chocolate cake with the choco butter cream icing and topped up with the potato chip flakes & chocolate covered potato chip.
Having all-natural and organic alternatives that are free form allergens wheat, diary, gluten, eggs and casein, there are some cupcakes in Brisbane that stands out. These cakes are usually overflowing with sugar and flour in Brisbane bakery market. These are typically vanilla cupcakes with zesty lemon icing, which is dairy, egg, gluten & soy free.
The chocolate ganache cupcake is very much loved by cupcake lovers in Australia. It comes up with a Callebaut chocolate ganache icing and is basically topped with fondant flower. This sweet dessert item has created a special place in hearts of cupcake fanatics.
Fat Elvis cupcake is also quite popular. It is a banana chocolate chip pound cake that’s topped up with sweet/salty peanut butter fudge & finished with single banana chip.
The guinness cupcake is mainly for adult cupcake lovers. Beer is the most important ingredient for making this cake. It is topped with Irish cream frosting and tastes simply awesome.
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