Nurturing my inner... double dessert

While on the treadmill at the gym this morning for four, long, boring and more boring miles, my mind began to wander.  (Well, they only seem to show guy-oriented sports and news programs.  *Yawnfest.*  Not what I'd be watching at home!  Um, not that I don't watch the news.  I'm intelligent, relevant and informed.  Some days.)  So, my thoughts turned to food.  As it mostly does.

What would happen if you took two desserts you loved and morphed them into one?  Pure awesomeness, that's what.  Julia's Bakery, Orange, CT.  Place of fine baked goods fusion.  (And why has my family not taken me to this place sooner?)

What color is that brick? Mauve?

One small set of doors opened up quite a good-sized bakery.  There were a dozen glass-covered cabinets full of sweet treats.  Sugar shock!  I didn't know where to look first.

Cake slices of all kinds.

I looked over the Italian cookie trays, that went on for miles, and then saw these magic words: Fun Filled Cupcakes.  Who doesn't like the promise of fun in a single-sized, self indulgent serving?

I wanted to taste test the entire cabinet.

I could tell you right off which cupcake I decided on, but then how else would I build the sugary tension?  So here is the box first.

Old fashioned bakery style box.

Okay, enough wait.  I love cupcakes and I love canoli, so I got the canoli cupcake!  Obvious choice.  Plus, I have never seen a canoli cupcake anywhere else.  Must be the Italian influence up North.  (I love those New England bakers who bring my heritage into all things edible.)

Yes, I do realize you see that mini canoli in
there as well. I can't help myself!

So, you know what a canoli is, right, but what is a canoli cupcake?  It is a golden, moist cupcake with a Marachino cherry juice and traditional creamy, canoli-filled cavern, topped with light and airy whipped cream and sprinkled with chocolate chips.  Topped with a cherry too!  Scrumptious.

Nope, not sharing. Get your own!

Might I recommend the banana chocolate chip cupcake... and the red velvet cupcake... and the carrot cake cupcake... and the chocolate canoli cupcake.... okay, just get them all.  And promise yourself you'll only eat one a day and then run on the treadmill for half an hour.  Or just eat one while running on the treadmill.  (Now there is some fusion for you!)  Gives you incentive and makes the round and round, yet going nowhere, less boring.