Sunday Brunchies and
Crunchies: Guava Cupcake
December 4, 2011
With the Muppets putting
Thanksgiving to a close and the sights and
sounds of Christmas upon us, it is time to
revisit some of my favorite places in Disney
World to see what the Christmastime holiday
season brings. The sweets never seem to end with
Sunday Brunch and today we're taking a quick
look at a new treat offered at the Sunshine
Seasons Food Fair. We've seen the decadently
nostalgic
S'mores
brownie premiere in the summer while the
autumn brought Pumpkin Cheesecake, so as
December flurries upon us, we expect to see
another seasonal treat. The lastest offering in
the oh-so-inviting Dessert cooler at Sunshine
Season actually has very little to do with the
holiday season at all.
Guava is a fruit that comes from
the tropical regions of the world including
Hawaii, the Caribbean, Florida, and South East
Asia. Cuisines all around the world use the
fruit for different things; in my research I
found it odd and inspiring that many countries
choose to eat Guava with a little bit of salt or
pepper, soy sauce, and all sorts of ingredients
one does not typically associate with fruit. For
Sunshine Seasons, the Guava is used in a more
familiar application: as a fruit flavor for
cupcakes.
The Guava cupcake has a cream
cheese frosting garnished with some sort of nut
crunch (probably praline) with a guava cupcake
and guava jam in the middle. The cream cheese
frosting was not overly sweet as if often the
problem with any frosting. In addition to being
delicious, it was portioned properly and did not
tower high above the cupcake as is the issue for
many cupcakes in WDW. The nutty crunch added a
nice contrast to the soft cream as well as a
nutty flavor to balance with the sweet.
The cake part of the cupcake
itself seemed to have a subtle guava or peachy
flavor. It was sweet as well, but not too much
to make the cupcake unfinishable. I had every
last crumb, enjoying the subtly of the flavors
as well as the harmony of the rich cream cheese
frosting and the guava jam. This new dessert is
definitely another win for Sunshine Season's
seasonal desserts. Even though It has barely
anything to do with Christmas, if anything, it
is still worth checking out or trying at home
this holiday season!