Wink Cupcakes Opens on Queen Anne
The cupcake vendor’s first retail spot will also serve Parfait ice cream.
Posted by: Kaitlin Nunn on Jan 05, 2010 at 09:00AM
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Like Ugg boots and using the word “locavore” a lot, cupcakes are a trend that seem to be sticking around.
Today, January 5th, marks the opening of the first retail space for cupcake caterer Wink Cupcakes, which has been baking from a commercial kitchen in downtown Seattle since 2006. Lisa Gagnon, general manager of Wink, traces the success of cupcakes to our childhood longings. Scarfing down a cute confection, she says, “really brings people back to a time when they were kids.” The store is located at 1817 Queen Anne Avenue, and is open today from 8am to 7pm.
We had the chance to sample some of the cakes, and heartily suggest the mint brownie—one of Wink’s “flavors of the week.” (Order three days in advance to ensure availability, minimum one dozen per order). It looks like a cupcake, but it hits the palate like the slightly gooey bit o’ heaven that you’d expect from a bona fide brownie. The winner from the regular menu was coconut, which appealed with real coconut flakes scattered atop cream cheese icing.
The cupcakery will also be serving Whidbey Island Ice Cream and plans to hook sugar fiends with a buy-one-get-one-half-off afternoon happy hour.
[Photos: Elaine Shelley]
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See the results of Seattle Met’s cupcake smackdown here.
We went to Wink last weekend, and it’s my assessment that there are far better cupcakes in Seattle. Wink cupcakes are $3.00 each for a full-size (Cupcake Royale is less expensive), they are significantly smaller than average, and the ones we saw that day did not have a “muffin top” that rose above the cupcake paper. Biting into them, they were dense and dry, as opposed to being light and moist. They just weren’t appetizing, and I won’t be going back.