Girl with the Rosebuds: Twelve Cupcakes

Take a seat everybody, this is gonna take a while because there is going to be a long story until we reach the Twelve Cupcakes outlet. You can just skip this to the photos but NO! STAY BECAUSE I AM PUTTING MY HEART INTO THIS POST!

Lets start from the beginning when i first read an 8 days article of the now popular cupcake shop which has 12 outlets already opened throughout Singapore. It talked about the celebrity couple, Daniel Ong and Jamie's journey of opening a cupcake shop that begun back in 2011.

8 days article

I loved how they decided to name their cupcake shop, 'Twelve Cupcakes'-that to them, is a lucky number, what with 12 signs in a zodiac, 12 holes in a baking tray, 12 numbers on the clock and the list goes on. It kinda made me believe so too because look where it has gotten them now, 12 outlets already opened in less than 2 years! Well, of course there's the hard work in producing the countless number of freshly baked cupcakes every single day.

Fast forward to 2013 March of 28th when i just came back from Sentosa to Vivo City and stumbled upon the 'twelve cupcakes' shop. I was thinking "The name seems so familiar... " and then it came back to me like a wave, THIS IS DANIEL AND JAMIE'S CUPCAKE SHOP! And i looked at the dainty and elegant looking cupcakes for quite some time, considering whether i should really spend 3 freaking dollars on a measly cupcake so small that i could probably finish in 2 or 3 bites. So i decided, screw it! YOLO and what what not, i am going to try this and if it's going to be nice then it is money well spent! And so i bought a cupcake that had my two loves in life combined together, Chocolate and Peanut Butter, called PB Chocolate, what a chic name! i thought :)

Once i got my hands on it, it was simply delightful, i couldn't help but moan how good it was, how moist and fluffy the cupcake was and how soft and unlike many other cupcakes the icing was. And the flavours were a perfect combination, the peanut butter wasn't too strong and you could definitely taste a hint of chocolate. LOVE IT!

After going home happy, i searched the net and found that there was another outlet that was closer to my house which was IMM and decided to go there after my trip to the science centre with my sister, Rin, yesterday. It was a disaster.

Firstly, we had to search for the shuttle bus that would bring us to the IMM so we walked all the way to Jurong East MRT which was originally where the shuttle bus service would be 3 years back. Now, after a recent renovation, the road was closed and many things were changed. So we thought maybe it was at the other road opposite us and we climbed an overhead bridge to a bus stop where we sat for 20 minutes in the sweltering hot sun for a bus that never came. It did have the word 'Shuttle Bus Service' so of course we sat there! When i couldn't take it any longer, i phoned the IMM bus service and found to my dismay that the shuttle service was moved elsewhere, no longer at the damned bus stop my sister and i were sitting at. And she couldn't stop complaining that we should just go home and it's not worth it for a stupid cupcake so i told her "you know what? You can just go home, i'll just walk there," and walked away but a few seconds later, i realised that i was going the opposite direction and made an embarrassing U-turn towards her. I should just tell you that going out with my sister yesterday has been the most frustrating thing. She has been treating me like one of the kids she has been taking care of at her day care centre, kept on chiding me and oh so much have i been patient with her. I'm just 11 months younger than her for your information. Sooner or later, i'm going to have to throw a bucket of water at her and scream 'GROW UP!'

My sister decided to just follow me then to the correct pick up point to get to the shuttle bus service and yes, i can officially tell you, we arrived at the right place and off we went in the nice air conditioned bus to IMM. But then, there was another obstacle, we had to find the outlet in the mass of shops which then prompted my sister to doubt whether the outlet was really here. And so we searched high and low for the shops directory and when we found it, started scanning the map. The map was another thing, we found the shop number 01-124 but the usual red dot that depicts where we are at the current moment was nowhere to be found so we had to turn around and look at the names of our surrounding shops. I looked a shop named 'Spectacle Hut' and turned back to the map searching for that the shop that could possibly give us an inkling to our current location. Then suddenly my sister said 'You're stupid!' oh damn, her and her PMSing again =_= and i looked at her with my NOW WHAT? face, readying myself to give a counter attack when she pointed at something right behind us and i saw it. The white washed wall with the chic sign 'Twelve Cupcakes.' IT WAS RIGHT BEHIND US THE WHOLE TIME WE WERE LOOKING AT THE DIRECTORY. And off we took it that direction.

Once we arrived at the outlet, a group of people probably having a meeting of some sort at one of the tables caught my eye and i squeezed my sister's arm and whispered as loud as i could to her "oh my gawd!!! thats Daniel Ong and Jamie!!!! oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god!!!" but she wasn't as awestruck as me though, she just smiled. And i was thinking, 'Singapore is seriously small!' Too bad i couldn't get a photo with them though, it wouldn't be nice if i budged in on their conversation with 2 other people and unabashedly asked for a photo. Oh well. I just proceeded to buy my cupcake and as we left i kept asking my sister to turn back and see whether the other 2 people Daniel and Jamie were talking to were celebrities as well but she didn't so i did. I couldn't see who the other 2 were but i caught a glimpse of Daniel Ong again and as we turned a corner, i kept jumping with joy while Rin just smiled. I think she has issues, how could someone not be ecstatic to be in the presence of a celebrity? and mind you, it's an effing celebrity couple!! The perfect couple in my opinion who has everything!

ANYWAYS! Here are the photos!

Isn't it such a cute bag? I finally got the cupcakes i wanted! Got the Red Velvet, Chocolate Chocolate and Vanilla Chocolate. Rin just can't stop saying how wasted it was to buy such expensive cupcakes and i finally couldn't take it anymore and shut her up with the following statement: "I think life's too short to miss out on the small things that makes us happy. I know you don't like the taste but i do and if i like it, i'll buy it, it's my money, not yours i'm wasting so let me spend mine the way i want to. I know it's expensive, i also think so but it's not like i buy them everyday."

I love the packaging, all these customised packaging must cost a lot, no wonder the price of the cupcakes >.<

Chocolate Chocolate and Red Velvet

Unfortunately, my Vanilla Chocolate was 'murdered,' I tried to scoop up the icing but it was so soft that it became an ugly mashed up lump when i put it back on my moist cupcake. I simply adore how they promise to serve moist and fluffy cupcakes and true to their words, kept that promise!