Month: February 2024
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#6 Carrot Cupcake at The Cupcake Shoppe
The Cupcake Shoppe is a downtown Raleigh staple and has a boutique feel with premium cupcakes and other sweets. We took advantage of some very nice weather to walk down to the shop from the house. We rewarded ourselves with some cupcakes for the long walk, one of them including the Carrot Cupcake. The cake…
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#5 Chocolate Croissant at Boulted Bread
I’ll take any reason to visit Boulted Bread as it’s one of my favorite places on this planet. I knew when we started this list that the chocolate croissant had to be had here and that’s exactly what we did on a Friday morning. (pro-tip: the lines are out the door on the weekends) In…
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#4 French Baguette at Yellow Dog
One of the reasons this challenge is fun is that it takes us to new places and forces us to try new things. In this case, however, it was a return to a place we’d been before — Yellow Dog Bread Co. Downtown Raleigh used to be a bakery desert, until The Year of the…
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#3 Blueberry Bagel at NY Bagel and Deli
We’re not typically “eat breakfast out people” but sacrifices must be made for the Lemon Cake list. We decided to go out on a Sunday morning to NY Bagel and Deli and it was worth it. Rory, for the longest time, was not a fan of bagels for who knows why. It all changed today,…