Not Just Another Cupcakery - Cupcakes A GoGo

Our love affair with Cupcakes a GoGo started about three months ago when we attended our First Friday in Venice event. For those of you that don’t know what that is, on the first Friday of every month, all the stores located on Abbot Kinney stay open late and a bunch of food trucks park along it to sell their gourmet wares. As we were strolling along the street taking in all the gastronomic possibilities, we saw a bright white truck with pink vertical stripes with a cupcake in a black, French baroque frame painted on the side. Let me tell you, it caught my attention. 

When we approached the truck, we were greeted by a huge display of cupcakes. They are individually packaged in white Chinese take-out containers, with the Cupcakes a GoGo label on the side, tied with different colored ribbons to help tell the cupcakes flavors apart. The inside of the truck is padded with black tufted vinyl and pink buttons. Visions of a vintage soda shop come to mind. And keeping with the theme, the owner was decked out in a 1940s or 1950s dress, bright red lipstick and a flower in her hair.

I decided to try the strawberry cupcake. It is a light strawberry cake topped with a strawberry puree cream cheese frosting. The cupcake was moist and I was greeted with the fragrance of sweet strawberries. But it’s the frosting that takes the cake for me. The frosting is super smooth and isn’t too sweet. The flavor was just like strawberries and cream. Many bakeries put too much powdered sugar in their cream cheese frosting, which gets hard and dry when exposed to air and often overpowers the flavor of the cake. Cupcakes a GoGo has perfected their cream cheese frosting and expertly proportioned their cake to frosting ratio.

Strawberry

My husband, Jason ordered the Cookies and Cream cupcake. It was a chocolate cupcake with Oreo cookie pieces folded into the frosting and topped with an Oreo cookie. Even using a butter cream frosting, Cupcakes a GoGo, was able to make this rich frosting with an airiness that allows you to consume the delicious morsel without guilt or fear of cardiac arrest.

Cookies and Cream

We have been back to First Friday in Venice for three consecutive months and each time I eagerly await the chance to try another cupcake flavor. We have since sampled their Banana Peanut Butter, Mint Chocolate Chip and Red Velvet. Each as good as the last.  We have yet to try one that we didn’t like.

Banana Peanut Butter

Mint Chocolate Chip

Red Velvet

I know that cupcake bakeries seem to be coming out of the woodwork, all hoping to capitalize on the success of Candace Nelson’s Sprinkles chain but don’t be fooled, not all cupcakes are made the same. I encourage you to visit Cupcakes a GoGo for their light, refreshing approach to cupcakes, or just maybe, they’ll be rolling up to a curb near you.


And YES, they should compete on next season's Cupcake Wars!

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Good Food, Isn't Complicated - @theTacoDawg

That is the main theme at the @theTacoDawg and they nailed it! Dang, I really love food trucks. Food trucks are all the rage these days. Some people wonder and some people get in line and dive in. I am lucky enough that more and more food trucks are coming to Orange County.

Today I was able to sneak over to @theTacoDawg. I tried a number of delicious items (some would say I pigged out!). The Beach Comber taco, comes with your choice of meat, cheese, savory citrus slaw (w/mandarin oranges), and chipotle cream. I chose chicken for my taco and it was awesome. It has a soft corn shell with tender chicken, cabbage and all the rest of the trimmings. It was light but full of flavor.

The Beach Comber

The Texan has choice of meat (I got beef), cheese, bacon, lettuce, tangy Tex Mex and BBQ sauce on a soft corn tortilla. Once again a masterpiece! The meat was perfectly seasoned, the lettuce crisp and the sauce added a nice punch of flavor to the taco.

The Texan

The Dirty Dawg, was an all beef hot dog, smothered in homemade chili, nacho cheese (YES!), crumbled potato chips and onions. TASTY! The dog itself had a nice texture to it. They must be quality dogs or they are cooked perfect, or both. In addition, the chili was a perfect accessory and the cheese was just what you would picture…ooey gooey. I really enjoyed the Dirty Dawg.

The Dirty Dawg

Are you full yet? I was, but I trekked on to the Deep Fried Mac & Cheese! Picture a square serving of delicious mac and cheese about inch and a half thick, then rolled in breadcrumbs and deep fried to a nice, golden brown. Now break it apart and dip it into some ranch dressing. Doesn’t that sound like artery-clogging goodness? Well, it is better than that! You have to try this.

Deep Fried Mac & Cheese

Oh yeah, I cannot forget the seasoned fries. Think curly seasoned fries from a drive thru but not curly and cooked perfectly.

It was an interesting experience because they were also filming for some sort of show. It was fun watching it. With all of that going on they still served up killer food. On top of that the people were really friendly so all around it was fun. This was a very good lunch. I will visit these guys again!

If you have still not been to a food truck, make a point to go. If you need help finding trucks, please let us know and we will point you in the right direction!

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