Hey Cupcake!
The kid and I made, at long last, a pilgramage to Hey Cupcake!, a cupcake vendor working out of the very shiniest AirStream trailer on South Congress. I read about Hey Cupcake! in the paper a few months ago; it's a new business that began selling to students on the UT campus on weekday mornings but is now doing brisk business in a much larger trailer down south. I try to avoid South Congress these days, since we lost our apartment in that area and I'm still sad about that. Still...there were cupcakes involved and we had some extra time today, so off we went.
I took some photos as we stood in line:
Shiny! Also, to have a successful business in Austin, you must have a plexi- or fiberglass representation of your business atop the establishment. Hey Cupcake! takes no chances:
We were not, as a point of fact, underwater at the time. Today was cloudy and my camera phone was confused and shivering, because this is April and why is it 63 degrees out? Crazy cold front. Anyway, the menu is equally simple and compelling:
The kid opted for the Whipper Snapper treatment, in which a shot of whip cream is injected into the center of the cupcake (for free!). These people do NOT fuck around. I had a Vanilla Dream, which I dispatched rapidly to pastry heaven, while the kid had a Double Dose (chocolate/chocolate icing) that was so rich she couldn't even finish it. And I couldn't even finish it for her, so rich was it. Unheard of! So, yeah, we spent $5 on 2 cupcakes (with tip) but damn, they were some intense pastries. The Michael Jackson, by the way, is one of the upper tier, $2.50 cupcakes, with cream cheese on top, chocolate on the bottom. Here's the kid in the midst of her initial attack upon the whipper-snappered Double Dose:
Not missing a trick, even the napkin dispensers are included in the branding (pictured here with both of our cupcakes):
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