{"id":669965,"date":"2010-02-19T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/2010\/02\/wsj-reviews-mail-order-cupcake-companies\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:30:51","slug":"wsj-reviews-mail-order-cupcake-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669965","title":{"rendered":"WSJ reviews mail order cupcake companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bakingbites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cupcakesmail.JPG?w=780\" alt=\"Mail Order Cupcakes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing better than <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/category\/recipes\/cupcakes\/\">a batch of homemade cupcakes<\/a>, but a dozen or so from a favorite bakery can come in at a close second &#8211; and can actually take the first place spot for those who don&#8217;t bake. Cupcake shops are still more popular than ever (especially here in LA), but that doesn&#8217;t mean that you can find one as easily as you might find a Starbucks. The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Cranky Consumer column, which rates mail-order products, took on the oh-so-difficult task of taste-testing a variety of mail order cupcakes that promise to deliver a gourmet bakery-quality cupcake to your door.<\/p>\n<p>They compared cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake, Dean &amp; Deluca and Godiva, all of which came via overnight shopping with cupcakes frozen for freshness, as well as cupcakes from Crumbs, a bakery which had a nearby NYC location and was able to deliver locally(although they ship overnight, as well). They compared these cakes to a batch of cupcakes made with a cake mix and looked for both flavor and freshness in the finished cake.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/2010\/02\/wsj-reviews-mail-order-cupcake-companies\/#more-4292\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing better than a batch of homemade cupcakes, but a dozen or so from a favorite bakery can come in at a close second &#8211; and can actually take the first place spot for those who don&#8217;t bake. Cupcake shops are still more popular than ever (especially here in LA), but that doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OhT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}