Category: Lemon Cake

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Today, we went to an NC State game and got Howling Cow Strawberry Ice Cream. At the game, NC State was playing against Duke, and it was a women’s basketball game and we found out that there was Howling Cow Ice cream. The flavors were strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla. We got all three of them…

How to choose the first one on our 2024 dessert quest? Easy. You ask the 8-year-old. After Rory was thinking donuts one weekend in January, we looked around town for places that had things like eclairs, crullers, and donuts. We stumbled on a shop that we’ve never been to in Burney’s Sweets and More. The…