….cupcake, that is!  (I ought to get some fun google searches off that title, don’t you think?)

On Tuesday, after a fun morning at the pool with friends, Abigail & I headed downtown to try out Oh Snap! Cupcakes.  I was so excited to find out that Pensacola finally, finally has a cupcake shop!  The shop is in a little unassuming storefront.  The inside is decorated with a few tables and beautiful pictures of….dragonflies!  Abigail was immediately impressed and said, “Mama, we’ve taken those pictures!  ‘Member when we went dragonfly hunting?”  (When we were at my grandfather’s earlier this summer…she and I took my camera with my macro lens and my grandfather’s golf cart and roamed his property looking for dragonflies to photograph…I definitely need to post some of those pictures).  I was impressed, too; the pictures adorning the walls are gorgeous!  But, we weren’t there for the decor or anything to do with photography.   We were there for the cupcakes!

It smelled delicious, absolutely delicious!  We walked up to the counter and saw a beautiful array of cupcakes, both regular-sized (well, actually I think they’re a little larger than regular-sized) and mini.  I wanted to get four cupcakes (one for each of us) and take them home to have for a treat after dinner.  Abigail picked out two Dalmation cupcakes:  one for her and one for Gracie.  I picked a Lemon Blueberry for me and a Vanilla Vanilla Bean for Steve.  They boxed them up for us, I paid ($10.75 for four cupcakes, which I think is really reasonable), and we started to leave. I thought we were leaving….Abigail had different plans.  “Please, Mommy!  Can I eat mine here?  Please? Please? Please?”

This is an easy-going week for us…just hanging out before she starts preschool.  We had nowhere that we had to be and what difference did it make if she had her treat then or later?  So, we sat down at one of the tables to let her eat her Dalmation cupcake.  I’m so glad I had my camera with me!

Here’s how to eat a Dalmation Cupcake, Abigail-style

Step One:  Pull off the spots

Step Two:  Eat the spots

Repeat Steps 1 & 2 until you’re left with a spotless Dalmation

Step 4:  Remove the wrapper, split in half and start working on the frosting

Step 5:   Take a huge bite

Step 6:  Savor the moment

Step 7:  Repeat & repeat again

And that’s the way to eat a Dalmation if you’re three and love cupcakes!

Not to be outdone by the preschooler, here’s a shot of the Vanilla Vanilla Bean cupcake that Steve devoured later in much the same manner.  I scooped it out of its box while we were still in the store and took a picture of it…

Yum!!!!  I want to print this out larger-than-life and hang it on my kitchen wall

And the answer to the all important question:  how did they taste?  Well, delicious doesn’t even come close.  I tasted Abigail’s and it was divine.  Steve said his Vanilla Vanilla Bean was wonderful and my Lemon Blueberry…well, let’s just say I’m having dreams about it!

Now, as often happens, Abigail’s ideas end up being much better than I think they are.  I really, really wanted to take some pictures of the cupcakes, because they were so pretty and in case you haven’t noticed, I’m kind of into taking pictures .   If we had waited until we got home to take the pictures, I

wouldn’t have been able to take them.  Because, these cupcakes are all-natural and made with butter – no shortening at all.  Which means the buttercream frosting melts….quickly!  So by the time we made it home, the remaining three cupcakes were kind of melty and also, they may or may not have been marred by someone (ummm…me) running their finger through the frosting on the way home….