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EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: Iannelli's Vanilla Cupcake

POSTED: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5:00 PM

Filed Under: Eat This Immediately

Photo | Adam Erace

There are two kinds of cupcake people. The lovers of big, dense, luxurious cakes with lavishly shellacked frosting are the beneficiaries of the long-ago-shark-jumped cupcake craze. I am not one of these people. Give me the other kind: cheap box cupcakes, bake-sale cupcakes. Give me a cupcake light enough that I can eat it in one sitting and not feel like a prime rib's sitting on my diaphragm. Give me Duncan Heinz and Betty Crocker. Give me Iannelli's (1155 E. Passyunk Ave.), the recently expanded bakery that, tardiness be damned, is getting its slice of the cupcake action. âGourmet Cupcakes,â advertises the A-frame sign on the sidewalk. âCaution! Highly Addictive!â They ain't kidding. Vince Iannelli's simple vanilla-vanilla is the confection that single-handedly revived whatever fleeting interest survived in the dark recesses of my soul after Food Network premiered Cupcake Wars. His cupcakes are spongy joys, with a fluffy textured yellow cake and not-too-sweet frosting whipped high and sprinkled with round rainbow jimmies. (The turret of icing looked prettier in the bakery case than it does in the shot above â damn wax paper wrap-job.) There's chocolate, too, red velvet, black-and-white and a mint-chip I've heard is just sick. But the plain old vanilla works for me. Eat it immediately.

Gina

Posted 2011-01-19 18:05:41

These are the absolute best cupcakes ever. Look beautiful and taste great. I had them at my daughters birthday and the crowds went wild!!!!  Yummy!!!

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Zee

Posted 2011-01-19 15:39:44

They're sooooooooooooooooooooo good! :D

Michelle

Posted 2011-01-19 13:21:35

Mint chip?! I must try it!

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Posted 2011-02-02 09:47:30

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