Houston Cupcake Round-Up, The Sequel

It's been five years since I last did a cupcake round-up for Houston. It's hard to believe that I ended back up in Houston with a different job and am now finding myself moving from the city again. I had a great two years back in the Bayou City and explored a whole new batch of cupcake bakeries.

Some Thoughts:

• 13 bakeries were visited in the past two years. 19 were visited on my last Houston hunt 6 years ago.
• the average price of a cupcake was a little over $3
• since the last Houston cupcake hunting from 2011-2012, 6 of the bakeries have closed down, including my favorite cupcake at Sugarbaby's Cupcake Boutique
• half of the cupcakes I sampled were great! (that seems like a good percentage to me)
• I revisited (but didn't blog about it) Crave Cupcakes, and they are now more fantastic than they were when I first sampled their cupcakes 6 years ago. 

Chung's Best Cupcakes in Houston

Best Frosting:

Strawberry Ganache from The Sweet Boutique

Best Looking Cupcake:

Chunky Monkey from Treat!

Most Unique Flavor:

Cannoli from Drew's Pastry Place

Cheapest Cupcake:

Dessert Gallery had the cheapest at $2.75

Most Expensive Cupcake:

A tie at $4 from Thankful Cupcakes and Oooh LaLa Elite Cupcakes

Worst Cupcake:

The Ultimate Chocolate from Ooh La La Sweets suffered from a strange smell and bad flavor. 

Best Cupcake:

Tiramisu from Tout Suite was so flavorful, moist, fluffy and not too sweet---all I could ever ask for in a cupcake!

Runner Up:

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough from The Cupcake Cowgirls was a combo of several desserts in one and all the flavors worked together to create a not-too-sweet, tasty cake.