I
was scheduled a 10 hour layover in Las Vegas landing around 7:30 PM. I
frantically googled cupcakes within walking distance from our hotel and
found Jean-Philippe Chocolates and Pastries at the Bellagio.
I
introduced my cupcaking world to Lorena, one of the other flight
attendants working with me, and invited her to make the short trek to the Bellagio.
In the two blocks we walked, we passed vagrants, stray dogs, a vagrant
with a pet cat (that's a new site for me), limos, limos with people
sitting out the window screaming and many street performers. I had been to Vegas briefly two times before on the way to Hawaii, but I never seen
the street performers. I had an epiphany!
Wouldn't it be cool if I got my picture taken with Bumblebee from the
transformers. I handed my camera to Lorena and said take a pic. I
walked up to the bumblebee dude and he literally stepped away from me
and said "I work for money". At that moment, I was totally mortified! I
can be so small town sometimes! I had no idea that you had to pay
people to get your picture taken with them. I could understand paying
street performers, ya know the kind that play the saxophone beautifully,
or the dancers that are so awesome they make it on the show "So You
Think You Can Dance", but he was just standing there! At
least street performers have a tip jar so you know they want money! So
anyway Lorena and I walked away with no picture of Bumblebee. When we arrived
at the Jean-Philippe Chocolates at the Bellagio, there was a crowd of
people at the entrance taking pictures of a huge display. The display was the
worlds largest chocolate fountain. The fountain stands 27 feet high and
circulates 2,100 pounds of chocolate (120 quarts) a minute. It's quite
impressive.
Everything
at Jean-Philippe Patisserie looked wonderfully delicious! There were
even little mini wedding cakes just in case you had one of those quickie
Vegas weddings for $20 bucks a pop. | |||
| Photo by foodspotting.com |
We
looked at all the delicious desserts and finally came upon the cupcake
section. There were only 3 to choose from but I had a feeling no matter
which one we picked, they were going to be fabulous. I, of course,
picked the Triple Chocolate cupcake and Lorena picked a Red Velvet
cupcake.
Our
cupcakes were so pretty we didn't want to eat them. Both our cupcakes
were super fabulous. I had never tasted a cupcake quite like it. The
frosting on each cupcake was more like a rich chocolate mousse and the
cake was just so incredibly moist. Next time I am in Vegas I am going to
try this little set up called a Sweet Trio. It has a rose macaroon, a
mini creme brulee, and a peanut cake pop.
.
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| Photo by vanfoods.com |
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