Sparkle Cupcakery Gets Ever So Sexy

Leading up to the release of Sex and The City 2, and available right through June, Sparkle Cupcakery has let loose the sexiest cupcakes to hit Sydney City. A strawberry pink velvet cupcake with chunks of real berry, coated in cream cheese frosting and, in true Carrie Bradshaw style, decorated with a silver stiletto!

It’s hard to believe that once upon a time cupcakes were merely the food of children’s birthday parties and the kid’s treat when mum stopped in for a coffee. Now, this has all changed thanks to the like of Sparkle, the swish Cupcakery on Foveaux Street, Surry Hills.

Bored of the usual chocolate and vanilla varieties popular in New York, Sparkle owner, Kathryn, treats Sydney to far more adventurous flavours such as “Green Tea & Bubbles”, a maccha cake filled with tapioca bubbles and lime frosting, and “Lavender & Honey” a soft scented lavender cake with honey frosting. With their more mature selection and fully licensed premises, Sparkle Cupcakery has redefined cupcakes for the adult market.

When asked which her favourite was, Kathryn maintained that it changed daily based on her mood but she always loves the coconut and the white chocolate and strawberry; especially when they’re a couple of minutes out of the oven - hot and without frosting. “I’m not a frosting girl” she insists.

The Sparkle Kathryn says was inspired by Sydney itself. She’d been travelling for 10 years and returned to the sparkle of Sydney Harbour and the mardi gras, “Sydney is a sparkly city” she says. At Sparkle, the sparkle is carried through from the décor, with its bright lights and reflective surfaces and the cupcake patties, a metallic silver, to the shine in your eyes as you bite into a Sparkle cupcake for that much deserved sugar hit.

Available in both the standard size and increasingly popular mini-cupcake, each Sparkle cupcake is marked by a coloured dot to identify its flavour. Of the sixteen flavours that Sparkle produces, 12 are available each day. I was lucky enough to sample the white chocolate and strawberry, and the pure sparkle cupcakes.

White Choc & Strawberry is a sure treat; a sweet white chocolate cupcake with slivers of fresh strawberry baked through the cake. The cupcake is topped with a generous layer of icing and the telltale pink dot. Yum! Sometimes cupcakes, especially larger ones like Sparkle’s standard size, can be slightly dry in the cake department but the strawberry pieces provide that extra moisture.

Pure Sparkle is a vanilla cupcake, once again topped with a thick layer of icing and this time, a silver spot. The vanilla flavour is not too overpowering, which is nice and the cupcake works as simple treat when you’re not in the mood for anything too fancy when it comes to flavour.

Sparkle Cupcakery allows you to enjoy their cupcakes in store, at cafe style tables – a warmer environment than say Cupcakes on Pitt offers. Further, you can purchase a hot beverage or a glass of bubbly to complement your four bite indulgence. In this sense, Sparkle Cupcakery is less of a take-away cupcake store and more of a cupcake break experience.

Lastly, Sparkle offers a bake class! This is truly something unique to the cupcakeries that have popped up all over Sydney in recent years. You’re invited in to Sparkle kitchens (a behind the scenes look at how they’re made) for a group cooking class where you’ll leave with your own batch of freshly baked cupcakes.

Where

132 Foveaux St, Surry Hills

Pricing

Classic - Standard Sized Cupcakes: $4.50 each, $25.00 ½ dozen, $50.00 dozen

Mini Me - Mini Cupcakes: $2.50 each, $15.00 ½ dozen, $30.00 dozen

Cupcake baking classes: 2.5 hours $89.00 adults, $65.00 kids

Which includes the baking, a short bubbles break, an icing class, your own box of cupcakes and a Sparkle apron.

Individuals can join one of Sparkle’s already organised themed classes (Mothers Day, Valentine’s Day, SATC 2 etc) or can do a private party for a minimum of eight people. The area can take up to 20 people. Private classes are great for companies or a bit of girly fun.