Sweet Revenge Pairs Wine & Beer with Vibrantly Flavored, Decadent Cupcakes

Date July 8, 2009

I had to shake my head and smile as I re-read the title to this post.  Beer and wine paired with cupcakes? A revolutionary idea to say the least.  But in the end, how can you really go wrong? Especially when the cupcakes are as ridiculously delicious as the ones at Sweet Revenge.  I tried three of the four sizable Signature cupcakes ($3.50 each) and was blown away by the vibrancy of the flavors and the delicate richness of the frosting and fillings (yes, one cupcake is filled with decadent chocolate ganache).  Read on for some seriously sinful photos…

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Wine, Beer & Cupcake Pairings

Sweet Revenge is the type of place every neighborhood would be happy to have.  Friendly staff, led by stylish owner/founder Marlo Scott, populate the bar and open kitchen where one can witness fine ingredients becoming delicious cupcakes.  Below is the menu for the wine, beer and cupcake pairings, but it’s by no means gospel;  feel free to mix and match at your own risk.  HAPPY HOUR ALERT: Monday to Friday, 4pm to 8pm, $10 gets you a glass of sangria or wine and a cupcake.

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Full Drink Menu

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Signature Cupcakes

“The Sweet Revenge”

Peanut butter cake, chocolate ganache filling, peanut butter buttercream.

This is the best peanut butter cupcake I’ve eaten in this city.

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The decadent peanut buter buttercream is studded with bits of peanut while the super moist, crumbly cake houses a chocolate ganache center begging to be included in every bite.

“Crimson & Cream”

Raspberry red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting

Usually, red velvet cupcakes tend to disappoint, offering a cake that’s merely dyed red and devoid of any actual flavor.  The “Crimson and Cream” is an exception, offering a subtle raspberry flavor.  Despite the fact that the moderately rich cream cheese frosting slightly dilutes the raspberry flavor, this is still a superior red velvet.

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“Dirty”

Valrhona chocolate cake with dark chocolate truffle

It’s Dirty!  Dirty how sinfully and intensely chocolatey this cupcake is.  The flavor of the cake is slightly generic but the chocolate truffle frosting is HARDCORE.

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Full Sweets Menu

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Sweet Revenge

62 Carmine Street between Bedford Street & 7th Ave South
New York, NY 10014
212-242-2240
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23 Responses to “Sweet Revenge Pairs Wine & Beer with Vibrantly Flavored, Decadent Cupcakes”

  1. Bill said:

    NYCFG,

    Sweet Revenge indeed!! That was one of my first stops on my NYC cupcake tour and I really loved that dirty cupcake. I think most cupcakes are served best by a frosting that has it’s own flavor, rather than being masked by a lot of sugar and Sweet Revenge is on point. And they are really moist too. Many places are good in only one respect or another.

  2. maritza said:

    looooooks delicious!!

  3. Laura said:

    The sweet revenge cupcake sounds AWESOME! I’m getting married in a few weeks so I plan on stuffing my face with one or two of these guys after I squeeze in my dress 🙂

  4. 2Kizzle said:

    CORRECCCTTT – THAT LOOKS RIDICULOUS – LAWRENCE IS THE MOST PROFOUND AND WELL VERSED FOOD DISTRIBUTOR OF INFORMATION IN MANHATTAN – HIS APPETITE FOR FINDING THE BEST AND EATING IT ALL IS UNSURPASSED BY ALL – HE IS THE MAN AND HIS SITE ROCKS – ….KEEP IT GOING!!!! COCOCOCOOCOCRRECT

  5. Raj said:

    The red velvet was enough to sell me on this place!

  6. inquirer said:

    2kizzle, what is your damage? tourettes?

  7. gingerspice said:

    Yummmm…do you think I can mainline those peanut butter cupcakes? As usual, top-notch food-porn photography…

  8. michelle said:

    wow those cupcakes are making me horny!!! i mean hungry!!!!

  9. Phil said:

    whoa michelle, easy there 🙂

    great post food guy, will definitely have to check this place out!

    Do you ever do afghani food? There is a great place on 27th and 3rd or something!

  10. Hoss said:

    I like how the cupcakes are half the price of the drinks!

  11. insane-0-man said:

    these cupcakes look incredible, but do you know where i can get some good funnel cake in the city food guy?

  12. cassie said:

    I just woke up and i coiuld totally eat these cupcakes for breakfast right now!

  13. Rachel said:

    Hi Lawrence, You are correct…these cupcakes are delicious. Just had them a couple weeks ago when I was in NYC. I met you randomly in San Diego last summer. I had just been on the news…I was selling pies at the La Jolla Farmer’s Market. Stumbled upon your blog very randomly right now…saw it on someone’s blogroll and remembered you gave me your card. just stopped in to say hi….so, hi.

  14. mrburns952 said:

    Your pictures made these cupcakes look tasty, so we decided to give it a shot. We had the following, in order from best to worst:

    1. Sweet Revenge – This peanut butter cupcake was the best of the 4 we had. It was quite tasty.

    2. Dulce de Leche – Pretty good.

    3. Dirty – It was decent, but for folks who love chocolates, it was not good enough.

    4. Crimson and Cream – This one is was horrific. Bad enough for to put us off from ever visiting this place again. It literally tasted like they dropped a whole stick of butter into this one single cupcake. We weren’t sure if that’s what the recipe called for or if it was just a gross one-time error.

  15. Michelle (Taste As You Go) said:

    I was recently at Sweet Revenge, too. We took advantage of the Happy Hour to celebrate a friend’s birthday: A Sweet Happy Hour at Sweet Revenge.

  16. newyorkstreetfood said:

    I can see this. In my office we used to have cake and champagne for people’s birthdays (before the recession). I thought it was pretty weird at first, but it was really good with the right cake.

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  19. Clemuel said:

    Marlo is simply the most beautiful lady in this city!

  20. DAD ASS said:

    i hate that chicks face!

  21. Janyce said:

    Hello, My friend & I are coming to visit New York city for the first time and we would really like to come to try some of your goodies. How far are you located from the Intercontinental New York x square hotel. Thank you

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