Alanna's: Cupcakes, Bondi Junction (14 Oct 2009)

Shop 2, Royal Arcade

175-181 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction NSW 2022

Cupcakes make me smile :-)

Does anybody else feel like a kid in a candy store when they see cupcakes? This is my second visit to Alanna's for half-sized cupcakes as a treat to share with the family. All cupcakes are $2 and the Banana Cupcake (pictured above) is my favourite today. It seems to be a banana cake base with banana flavoured icing and a banana candy on top. The Snowman is pretty generous on the icing which seems to taste mostly of coconut. So many choices — so little time!

Other visits to Alanna's:
• 14 Oct 2009 - Banana, Mango, Strawberry, Snowman, Lemon Meringue

• 20 Sept 2009 - Tiramisu, Date pudding, Dark Chocolate, Lemon Meringue

Mango cupcake $2

Lemon Meringue cupcake $2

Strawberry cupcake $2

Snowman cupcake $2

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Alanna's: Cupcakes, Bondi Junction (20 Sept 2009)

Shop 2, Royal Arcade

175-181 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction NSW 2022

Sweet tooth tapas

Here's another place to add to the fierce cupcake competition that seems to be sweeping Sydney — we are certainly spoilt for choice. It's a relatively new comer and has only been opened for about 6 weeks I believe when I visited. When confronted with so many choices I'm usually overwhelmed with which one to pick, I want to try them all! I liked the taste of the Tiramisu cupcake ($2) pictured above out of the choices today. I estimate the size of these cupcakes are about half of a normal sized cupcake. I found the cupcake base was maybe a little drier than hoped. I think it would be hard to find a cupcake which is light, moist and fluffy after it's already been sitting in a cabinet for longer than freshly baked and topped.

Date pudding cupcake $2

Dark chocolate cupcake $2

Lemon meringue cupcake $2

Take away packaging

The cupcakes

Cupcake display

Bread display

Cakes display

The cupcake menu

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