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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…