Walt Disney World's Marble Cupcake Review

If you find yourself in Disney's Hollywood Studios and fancy a snack, head on over to the Starring Rolls cafe and choose from their selection of savoury and bakery items. If you want something that's big enough to share and won't disappoint go for the Marble Cupcake. My first reaction when my boyfriend brought this cupcake out of the cafe, was that it was huge and I thought I'm glad he only bought one.

On top of the moist vanilla and chocolate cake are three large swirls of heavy vanilla frosting, it is very sweet and filling, so I suggest you share this cupcake with a friend. In the middle of the frosting swirl is a hidden gem of fudge. The cupcake has been rolled in chocolate sprinkles, not those artificial flavoured plastic sprinkles you buy from the store, but actual chocolate sprinkles. They have a nice flavour that gives you a slight bitter hint while eating through the frosting. The mickey sprinkles on top are a nice touch, they make sure you know you are eating a Disney cupcake and give the cupcake an aesthetic appeal when you are looking in the bakery case.

Cross section view of the Marble Cupcake.

The vanilla cake part of the marble cake was my favourite. It was very soft and had a mellow vanilla flavour that made me want an entire cake made just out of the vanilla cake. I enjoyed the chocolate cake too, it was slightly less sweet than the vanilla cake, which was a nice contrast of flavours when eaten together. I found the flavour of the cake was slightly lost when eaten with the frosting and fudge on top, but this is just because I really loved the vanilla cake. Overall this cake is amazing, one that should only be a treat after a long day walking around the parks, but then again you are on holiday so you shouldn't really count the calories.

Walt Disney World Butterfinger Cupcake Review

My first review on this blog had to be a Walt Disney World cupcake. If you ever go to Walt Disney World in Florida and enter the Hollywood Studios, you might notice a small eatery called the Starring Rolls Cafe on your way to the Hollywood Tower Hotel. The Starring Rolls Cafe is a nice little shop offering a variety of baked goods. Here is one of the best descriptions of the Cafe from the Disney Food Blog, I could spend hours on that blog reading different articles about food in the Disney parks. Ever since reading the description of a butterfinger cupcake I knew I wanted to try one. So on my most recent trip to Walt Disney world with my boyfriend and family, I headed straight to the Starring Rolls Cafe to get one.

Mine and my boyfriend's Butterfinger Cupcake before we started eating it. When we bought the cupcake is 2011 it cost $3.99 plus tax. But as you can see the price is defiantly worth it, its a massive chocolate cupcake, with a mound of frosting on top covered in Buterfinger crumbs.To any non-Americans like myself a Butterfinger is an American candy bar, that tastes like peanut butter, it has a golden crunchy caramel like centre covered with chocolate.

You first dive into the vanilla buttercream on top of the cupcake, this is what is covered in Butterfinger crumbs. It is a very sweet and light buttercream, which cuts through the rich-ness of the chocolate cake. The chocolate cake is moist and very moreish. It wasn't dry at all, maybe this was helped by the vanilla buttercream and sticky fudge buttercream centre. I found the fudge buttercream centre tasty but very dense, it came out of our cupcake in one lump, which was quite hard to separate so we could both have some. Its strong chocolate flavour did complement the vanilla buttercream, and overall didn't take away from the amazing cupcake. I really enjoyed this cupcake, it was even more impressive in person than in the photos I had seen. I couldn't eat more than one in a holiday because I dread to think how many calories are in them, but then I could walk around Epcot twice to burn the calories off. But I might find myself walking into the Boardwalk Bakery and then the problem starts all over again. So if you love cupcakes, chocolate, buttercream and Butterfinger candy bars, this is certainly the cupcake for you.

I was going to take a photograph of a cross section of the cupcake, but when I remembered we had already finished the entire thing. Just shows how good it tasted.