Batson's Blog

After a somewhat disappointing stop at Suarez Bakery last week, I gave Tizzerts a try this week. The two bakeries share a home at the Park Road Shopping Center. The display case was filled with delicious looking cupcakes. I bought three different cupcakes from Tizzerts. Strawberry Swizzle This one looked appealing. With pink white-chocolate shavings sprinkled on top of the pink frosting, it looks like a designer cupcake. It's a chocolate cupcake that's filled with strawberry pastry cream. The cupcake wasn't bad. It wasn't extremely moist, but it was soft and tasty. The frosting had a little bit of flavor to it, but what I particularly noticed is that it was the most silky smooth, creamy frosting I've ever had. If Cool Whip got together with butter and a little bit of pink food coloring, the Strawberry Swizzle frosting at Tizzerts would be the result. Salted Caramel Cupcake The cupcake was really, really savory. It was so good you could prob...

After a break from the sweetness last week, I'm back, sampling a few more of Charlotte's cupcakes. I went to Pineville and on the way back, driving North on Park Road, so I stopped in at Suarez Bakery . It's located in a strip mall at the Park Road Shopping Center. It's actually kind of hard to find because it blends in. I parked right in front of it, but had to look around for a while to find it. The name on the sign is a little bit faded, which doesn't help. The location is easy enough to get too, but from my experiences with the Park Road Shopping Center, it can be pretty crowded at times, so you may have to park and then walk a little to get to the shop. Suarez shares the shop with Tizzerts (can you guess which cupcake shop I'm going to try next week?). The Tizzert cupcakes do have a more artistic look than the Suarez cupcakes, but in case you can't tell which is which, they have signs in the display cases, indicating which bakery made the ...