super freak!

So I am admitting to being a SUPER FREAK...in this particular scenario ONLY of course! Sprinkles, the first cupcake shop chain, opened it's most southern shop yet here in San Diego. I have been a sprinkles fan for a few years now and even talked about them in a previous blog posting. My friend Pati and I have long been excited about this since we found out our go to fro-yo shop near Pati's house was being renovated into a Sprinkles! First word was this shop was to be opened in Fall 2010, but Fall came and went and the new date was set to January 13th (apparently due to the early arrival of the owner's baby). To top off the opening we found out that Ali, "the bachelorette", would be at opening day to pass out cupcakes from 11 am -1 pm and her being one of my favorite bachelorette's we were even more all about making opening day a must (although I didn't think that I would even see her cause we were planning to get there at 9 am when they opened and surely we wouldn't still be there by 11, little did I know)! So now you may be on to the whole SUPER FREAK thing... really who goes to the opening day of a cupcake shop, at the time of opening
...oh just ME and hundreds or possibly thousands of other San Diegans (my fellow SUPER FREAKS!)

Store front

So at 9am and I met Pati at her house and together we drove down the road to Sprinkles! We got there and immediately saw a line (as predicted), little did we know at the time that it was actually 4 times as long as what you could see from the parking lot. Pati went to get us coffee while I got in line as we were in for the long haul.

Here we are half way there, still about an hour left.

Looking back at where we started, now half way there.

While waiting in line we got occasional smells of the cupcakes being freshly baked just inside, it was to die for! We also had a little photo shoot with Isaiah (the most well behaved baby EVER...not a peep for 2 hours...seriously an angel!)

All-Natural Faux-Hawk

A little over half way through the line, Candice Olsen, the founder/owner of Sprinkles and judge on Cupcake Wars, came out to talk to everyone in line and take pictures. She was very nice and gracious about everyone waiting to have one of HER cupcakes...talk about an ego booster! About 2/3 of the way through the line, Ali showed up! She was very friendly taking pictures with the Sprinkles die hards and even us! She looked just as pretty and charismatic as she did on the Bachelorette. This excitement helped make the second hour (the one I didn't expect to be there for) pass just a little quicker. Soon Ali was whisked away into the shop to start what she had come to do, a few minutes later her finance Roberto showed up! He looks better in person than on TV, but still had that quite/shy look about to him.

Forgive my early morning hair and workout clothes!

The only downside of seeing Ali was that there was a lot of publicity stuff going on inside the shop just as our turn was coming up to go inside. We waited and watched all the hub-bub going on around us on the warm, beautiful January San Diego day; if we had waited that long another few minutes wasn't going to hurt anyone! Once inside I could barely contain my excitement about which cupcakes to order. At that point I didn't even care which ones I got cause I now they are all delicious and I'm sure the ones I hadn't tried yet would be too! I ordered and while paying I was just a mere foot or two away from Ali and Roberto, they were very cute to watch together. From there we left and I headed to the gym to burn off my calories before I ate them!

Yumm...which ones to get!



Ali and Candice



Ali and Roberto with Candice and Pati in background


After working out and showering I felt like I had deserved a cupcake and had the coconut cupcake (a flavor I had never had before), it was SO GOOD! For later I have vanilla cake with vanilla frosting, vanilla cake and milk chocolate frosting, and dark chocolate cake with vanilla frosting...all simple classic flavors! I put one in the freezer for a later date and the rest I will enjoy this week! This opening day experience was a tad ridiculous/over-the-top, but very fun and memorable!

Clockwise from top: Black & White, Coconut, Vanilla Milk Chocolate, Vanilla