PhDCupcaker

Yes – still catching up… I know, I know, eventually I will be caught up and then who knows how long it will be between posts since I am working on my dissertation! I have already done a few posts from my friend’s wedding way back in October, but here is another one – the last one (I think). So, even though the other two posts were from NYC this one is from a place in Saratoga Springs. That is actually where the wedding was. The reception was at The National Museum of Dance.  We stayed write in Saratoga Springs and could walk from our hotel to the downtown area. Downtown Saratoga Springs in really cute! If you haven’t been there and you are near there it is worth a trip. I don’t know what it is like during race season. Anyway, I had to write about Bettie’s Cakes. This was one of the cutest little cupcakes shops I have been to. It was like an old fashion soda shop or something. I had seen the sign for a cupcake shop earlier in the trip. It was in this little mall-type thing. When we got into the mall we could see this sign…. Perfect…. it was leading us right to Bettie’s!

Woo! Hoo! Straight ahead. I loved that it was called a cupcakery cafe. How cute! Here we are – at Bettie’s yay! I thought it was so cute. The signs and the seating really had a cool retro feeling. If I had a cupcake shop…. this is what I would want it to look like!

Look at those cute little tables and stools  totally cute and even though it was a bit chilly outside since this was a in a little mall you were still inside. So, that was nice.

So, here is what we ended up buying… Yes, that is a lot of cupcakes, but we were going to bring some back to our uncles in Boston – we were not going to eat them all (at least we hoped not….). So, here is the Bettie’s menu. They don’t include all their flavors, but you can get an idea of their prices. In this picture you can see The Carrot Cake, The Milky Way (yep, like the candy!), The Peanut Butter Cup, Red Velvet, and their cute (Halloween inspired) Vampire’s Bite cupcake.

Here’s the two we got to eat right away – Josh got the Carroty Cake and I had to try that Milky Way cupcake – yum! These were both very good. In comparison to Eleni’s in NYC I thought Bettie’s was much better!

One last Bettie’s picture before we hit the road – that’s me with my cupcake. If only I looked like Bettie!

So, what is this about pizza? Well, after we left Bettie’s we went to track down this pizza place, Marino’s Pizza, that our unlce said sold a really good cold pizza – I guess it is called the Tomato Pie. One of his co-workers raved about it. So, we figured we’d bring a one back to Boston with us. When we got there and described what we were looking for they didn’t really seem to know what we meant… A pizza that was meant to be eaten cold, huh? We thought we might have the wrong place, but then we figured out that they did in fact sell the Tomato Pie…. I guess they just don’t sell it as a “cold pie,” but she said it was good if eaten cold… Okaty, one tomato pie coming up… Sorry, no pictures of this one, but it was yummy (and yes, it and all the cupcakes survived the three-hour trip to Boston)!