Follow your nose and your sweet cravings and you’ll end up at this quaint sweet shop located on the ground floor of Bencam Building in Garapan.
Push the glass door, pause for a moment and savor the glorious aroma emanating through the cup-cake shaped peepholes on the door to the kitchen before proceeding to the shelves where the most glorious array of cupcakes awaits.
Buttercups opened its doors in August to share with sweet lovers the best in cupcakes, cookies and cakes this island has to offer.
For $1.75, you can have a French toast cupcake with maple butter-cream frosting topped with bits of bacon (yes, bacon!), double mint chocolate cupcake which is mint chocolate ganache and mint butter cream topped with chocolate chips, or the apple caramel drizzle cupcake which is made of light caramel drizzle dopped with pecans.
For samplers, you can start with the mini cupcakes at $1 a piece to decide which you want best before settling for a real feast.
For more treats, go for the filled cupcakes at $2.50 each. You’ll get more sweet surprises with the delightful fillings. Try the Black Forest cupcake and delight in the filling of sweet cherries with a vanilla cream frosting. Enjoy Cookies n’ Cream cupcake and its dreamy filling of vanilla-Oreo cream topped with an Oreo cookie, or the strawberry butter-cream, topped with fresh strawberries when you order a Chocolate-Strawberry cupcake.
Sweet lovers at Buttercups can enjoy the comfortable revolving stool bars and round tables in front of the shelves and watch TV or simply indulge in your sweet weakness. A wall filled with transparent jars displaying cookies of various shapes and flavors can tempt a saint.
Sunlight pouring through huge glass windows in the late afternoon adds to the cozy ambiance of the place.
The regular cupcakes can be ordered or bought at $18 a dozen, or $25 a dozen for the filled cupcakes. Buttercups also bakes special cake orders for special occasions or no-occasion occasions using your favorite flavors.
Norisa Camacho, who runs the place, studied at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Las Vegas.
“I learned a lot at Cordon Bleu but I decided to concentrate on cupcakes and satisfy the sweet cravings of the people here first,” she told the Variety.
Filled cupcakes are not available in mini-cakes. Camacho said orders can be placed at least 24 hours before pick-up.
Bencam Building is located behind the Mobil gas station on Middle Road Garapan.
Buttercups is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. Only cash is accepted for now. For inquiries/reservations, call 989-7010 or email buttercups_cupcake_2011@yahoo.com.{jcomments off}
