Friday Favorites

Chocolate Stout cupcakes from Gigi's Cupcakes on Oberlin Rd. It was (haha delicious past tense) a Chocolate Guinness cake with Bailey's Irish Cream Cheese Frosting! They do a great job using Instagram for marketing and showing off their daily cupcake flavors.

 My dream hair! I might have to take this to the salon...

If you are a fan of HBO Girls, you should check out all of the pins in this Behind the Scenes pinboard from the official Girls Pinterest collection. There are some amazingly insightful articles that go inside the story and characters. 

 Mermaid scale tattoo + mermaid scale metallic leggings!? Yes please. 

Home State Personalized Return Address Stamps from Paper Pastries

Free stuff! Printable anchor gift tags so everyday from Hey Look.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Yelp's Passport to GNO Event: Cupcakes & Canapés @ Café Caturra

I braved the big evening thunderstorm that we had last night in Raleigh and drove downtown to Cameron Village for my second Yelp Event. This event was held at Café Caturra. The cafe has a an intimate atmosphere with low, low lighting, comfy upholstered seating, and a fire place. 

The cafe was serving various canapés and Gigi's was there with a tower of full size cupcakes. It was much more mellow than the event at the chocolate factory, so I am glad that I went to that one first so I already knew a few of the women attending.

I know these photos are not the best, but it is because Cafe Caturra was filled with very low, ambient lighting.

 

I took my cupcake ticket to the Gigi's cupcake table and tried a champagne cupcake with raspberry butter cream "Gigi's Style", which means upsidedown and smashed into the plate. The cupcake was very moist with a lingering almond flavor and the butter cream had a light raspberry flavor and it was rolled in beautiful sugar crystals.