Total weight lost so far : 23.8 pounds

OK, I’m so with my dear friend Chris when I say WTF?  Ok, yes – I went out for Valentine’s Day dinner a bit early this weekend.  Yes, we had dessert.  Yes, we visited Crumbs bakery afterwards and sampled.  But, I did not eat 2.2 pounds of fat this weekend. Oh, did I mention it is that horrible time of the month?  Can PMS add 2.2 pounds to my ass?  I guess we’ll find out next Monday.  More likely it was this:

Cupcakes from Crumbs

Crumbs, one of the more famous New York City bakeries, just opened a location not far from me.  Like any good food blog reader, I had to check it out and do some tasting.  I purchased 5 cupcakes and 1 cookie to the tune of $22.  Yes, $22.  And I totally regret it.  1) the cupcakes were nothing special.  2) I gained 2.2 pounds this week.  We tried the coconut, the caramel apple, the cappuccino, the tiramisu and the red velvet cupcakes.  The coconut cupcake was a yellow cake with plain white frosting and coconut on top.  You could barely taste the coconut.  The caramel apple was the best of the 5.   The cake was very spicy, there was an apple pie-like filling in the middle, and it was drizzled with caramel.  I’m not a frosting person, but the frosting on the cappuccino was great.  Like drinking some sugar with your coffee.  The tiramisu was ok.  It tasted like tiramisu minus the strong coffee flavor.  The red velvet, by far, was the most disappointing.  The cake itself was good, however, the frosting was plain and white.  Cardinal sin #1 on a red velvet cake is too leave off the cream cheese icing.  And thus ended my disappointment….well almost…..right until I got on the scale today.  Needless to say, I’m done with Crumbs.  I have made my first and last visit there.  $22 worth of mediocre cupcakes was SO NOT worth the 2.2 pounds.  Were was Kate Moss when I needed her???