A cupcake that is more cake than frosting…
Twenty Five Main Cafe & Cupcake Parlor is one cupcake location in Utah that I don’t give near enough attention to on this blog. Yet, I often find myself craving their vanilla strawberry cupcake on occasion and then proceed to justify a trip down to St. George to satisfy the call.
I’ve had nothing but pleasant experiences at Twenty Five Main. I adored the owners and the unique atmosphere they created at Twenty Five, I loved breakfast and lunch…try anything they recommend, but most of all I loved that darn vanilla-strawberry cupcake.
Joey Dye, one of the owners of Twenty Five Main, says that they didn’t try to reinvent wheel with their cupcakes. They stick to classics and just make them good. So you won’t find any crazy, frilly, over-the-top flavors…you’ll just find classics that are done well.
The biggest thing that stood out to me when trying their cupcakes was Twenty Five Main’s approach to frosting. Take a look! There is not a lot of frosting. This is seriously uncommon in the cupcake world. Like really uncommon. And as a frosting-lover I usually turn my back on a cupcake that doesn’t have at least a 2:1 frosting to cupcake ratio. After all, you can’t ever have too much frosting, right?
Wrong.
At least in Twenty Five Main’s case. It just works for them. My honest-to-goodness, first reaction was that this (Vanilla Strawberry) cupcake was just that, really good cake that had been made in muffin tins. For some reason I imagined a seasoned wedding cake maker that had leftover batter and didn’t want to waste it. Maybe that would explain the controlled amount of frosting. Who knows. Their vanilla cake is moist and much lighter than most cupcakes. It had a very delicate flavor. (It must have more egg whites.) The frosting was pure and fresh and used real strawberries.
When your neck of the woods in Utah starts to get cold or you get a hankering to get away for a weekend to St. George, make sure you head over to Twenty Five Main in St. George. I highly recommend the Vanilla-Strawberry, Vanilla-Raspberry or plain Vanilla cupcake. You’ll enjoy it.
Twenty Five Main Cafe and Cupcakes
Mon – Thurs 8am to 9pm
Friday and Saturday 8am to 10pm
25 N. Main Street – St. George, UT 84770
435-628-7110
contact@twentyfivemain.com
http://twitter.com/twentyfivemain
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hi. my name is becky.
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I want to try them again because my first experience there was so bad. I’m the opposite person though, I like more frosting than that. That was one of my complaints. Hopefully I can give them a try on my winter trip to Salt Lake.
Comment by Cupcake Activist | October 22, 2010
Yeah, I think you should give it another try. Like I said, 99% of the time I need a lot more frosting…but for some reason this just really worked. The vanilla cake outshines their chocolate by leaps and bounds…so I’d start with a vanilla cake first.
What other Utah cupcake places are you hoping to hit up this winter. I really want you to try Cakes de Fleur.
Comment by beckyols | October 22, 2010
I like frosting, but this looks like just the right amount if you ask me. Most cupcakes I have had were overloaded with frosting that overpowered the cake part. Will have to give this spot a try if we are down that way.
Comment by Aimee @ A happy healthy life | October 22, 2010
I stopped there this summer on my way home from CA. I really liked that they didn’t have tons of frosting on their cupcakes. I usually end up scraping most of the frosting off. I loved the cafe too. It’d be a great place to hang out.
Comment by kamaile | October 24, 2010
Kamaile,
I loved their cafe too! Such a fun atmosphere…and the food is really good. I love the paninis and we also tried banana pancakes one time. They were awesome!
Thanks for stopping by Utah Loves Cupcakes!
Becky
Comment by beckyols | October 24, 2010