When you live in the oldest town in Tennessee, it is just a bit too easy to fly across the rolling green hills, and sneak off to The Crazy Cupcake. Driving into our historic, quaint little town, with American flags fluttering gently in the breeze, antique brick buildings, and a stately Southern courthouse always makes me feel sheer happiness! Jonesborough, TN is one of the prettiest small towns in America, and we live here!
And they had to go stick a cupcake place in the middle of town....which calls our name....over and over....we just won't tell you how often!
Nestled in an ancient brick storefront, this historic cupcake shop brings you a blend of the old and new. Take a step down from colorful Main Street, into the lovely shop and immediately into the presence of cupcakes galore! The Crazy Cupcake is passionate about baking from scratch daily, making every single item by hand, with a hand mixer. Baking in small batches keeps the flavors clean and true. They have also nailed the technique of baking with less sugar, and using less sugar in the frosting, making all of their cupcakes have a superb, not-overly-sugared flavor that is refreshing. In the South, it is easy to get over-sugared.
Raspberry & Cream
Any time vanilla flecks are observed in a cupcake, it is necessary to get one. Period. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, just buy the vanilla flecked cupcake and no one will get hurt! Raspberry and Cream screams this, mesmerizing, inviting you to just try it. Not being a huge raspberry fan, this cupcake is a total shock to the system - it is good! Same golden yellow cake as the strawberry, with a river of raspberries baked inside, topped with a creamy dollop of vanilla flecked frosting. What is so good about it? Not intensely sweet, the raspberries temper down the sugar shock taste and what you really savor is the flavor of FRESH raspberries! Delish!
Strawberry White Chip
Creamy white swirl of frosting on top, with a strawberry sliver on top of a golden yellow cake flecked with pieces of real vanilla bean. White chocolate frosting tastes creamily delicious, not really sugary, delicately like white chocolate, with no greasy taste. Bite into the white cake and enjoy the crunch of the white chocolate chunks throughout and a smattering of real strawberries. Now get a bite of everything blended, not too sweet, rather subtle and all together yummy. The Crazy Cupcake has rendered an unusually grown up, yet kid pleasing strawberry cupcake without any of the nasty fake strawberry color/smell/goo of other places! Yum!
So, the next time you head out to Jonesborough for the myriad of activities going on in this small town, take time for The Crazy Cupcake!
The Crazy Cupcake, 135 E. Main Street, Jonesborough, TN 37659. Phone 423.753.7335
