Happy Cakes Cafe
Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookie
Red Velvet Cupcake
Carrot Cake Cupcake
Cloud 8 Bar
Oreo Bar
Cinnamon Vanilla Scone
Self proclaimed as the first place to popularize cupcakes in Colorado and now offering a range of bars, scones, cookies, and signature flavors near gate C24 at Denver International Airport it was straight to Happy Cakes Cafe that I walked after stepping off an early flight from Las Vegas and although I wish I could say the goods changed my opinion of ‘airport food’ in general the fact of the matter is that the cupcakes are actually quite dreadful while other items fared relatively well.
Obviously not the original location, but just stocked with freshly baked goods that morning according to a clerk, it was after brief perusal that a half-dozen selections were made and taking the bags to a nearby seating area it was almost immediately on unpacking that I knew disappointment awaited, the miniature $3.75 rounds dense, heavy and ice cold.
Beginning with a “scone” that eats more like a muffin than the traditional British variety before transitioning to a lightly salted cookie that featured a crisp rim and soft center the first impressive bites from Happy Cakes Cafe were presented in the form of two bars, the Oreo version a spot-on representation of cookie’s famous flavor while the Cloud 8 saw butterscotch and chocolate chips married to coconut atop a crumbly graham cracker base.
Moving onto the cupcakes, two of the four available selected, suffice it to say that calling either of them “two-bites” would be questionably appropriate as the average adult mouth could undoubtedly handle a whole one at a time, and although the cream cheese frosting was both as sweet and tangy as expected the cakes themselves were dense and not particularly flavorful, the carrot especially noteworthy as it lacked any real spice or bold flavor at all.
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