This Monday, I wandered into the Beverly Hills location of Sprinkles, the original cupcake bakery, after a fruitless purse-less shopping adventure on Rodeo. Well, I can’t really call it wandering; I purposefully waited in line to try their new cupcake flavors: Peanut Butter Banana and German Chocolate.

But alas, I didn’t do my homework. There were no round, wooden signs engraved “peanut butter banana” and “German chocolate.” I pouted a bit and picked out four cupcakes for the family: two dark chocolates (have you had the chocolate sprinkles from France?!), dark chocolate banana, and mocha. I thought to myself, “wouldn’t it be nice if I read a dessert blog prior to this trek, informing me of the flavors of the month and release dates?”

You get the point. As I disclosed, there are two new flavors arriving to your local Sprinkles cupcakery in January 2011. Here’s the gist of each flavor:

The King: gift someone a gold star!

Peanut Butter Banana [Jan. 7 - 9]

Head to Sprinkles this weekend only for “the King” to commemorate Elvis’ 76th birthday with peanut butter and banana! The cupcake features a fresh banana cake topped with creamy peanut butter frosting. Apparently, “all you’ll be missing is pair of blue suede shoes.” That being said, I’d love to try the King’s grilled peanut butter-banana-bacon sandwich when I’m up for a heart attack!

Two German chocolate cupcakes, please!

German Chocolate [Jan. 14 -  30]

Sprinkles’ German chocolate cake sounds divine: a topping of golden caramel, grated coconut, and pecans mounts a light chocolate cake. A sticky disaster worth the trek? Sure, why not! You’re in luck ’cause this cupcake will be in stores for a whole two weeks!

I love German chocolate cake. When my boyfriend reads this post, he’ll probably comment:

This one time, I brought home a store-bought German chocolate cake to Anisha and she looked at it in disgust. Over the next week, she ate 80% of it.

In my defense, it was finals week and I forgot how much I adore the combo of chocolate and coconut.

Anyway, very happy cupcaking and don’t forget to order hot drinking chocolate before March 31 — it’s perfect for the cool weather we’re having in LA and is topped with a vanilla bean marshmallow!

The Giveaway

I’m so thrilled that my first giveaway is pretty frosting awesome — Sprinkles is sponsoring my blog to give you a dozen signature cupcakes! You lucky readers, you! Good luck!

Entries:

There is only one mandatory entry (1) to be eligible to win a dozen Sprinkles cupcakes! However, if you’d like additional entries, complete steps (2+3+4).

1. [required] Comment on this post: Share your first Sprinkles experience. Do you remember you first flavor? If you haven’t had Sprinkles yet, what flavors are you dying to try?
   
2. Follow @sprinkles on Twitter and leave a comment on this post that you’ve done so w/ your Twitter handle.
   
3. Follow @52desserts on Twitter and leave a comment on this post that you’ve done so w/ your Twitter handle.
4. Retweet the following:

“@52desserts is giving away one dozen @sprinkles cupcakes! Enter to win by 1/9 at 9PM: http://bit.ly/dGrq2z #giveaway #cupcakes“

Rules: You have until Sunday, January 9th, 2011 at 9pm, PST to enter this giveaway. The winner will be chosen using a random number generator and announced on Monday, January 10th at 10pm, PST via email provided. If the winner does not respond to me by January 11th at 11pm, I’ll randomly choose and contact the second eligible winner via email! This giveaway is open to US residents only.

Tags: cupcakes, desserts, giveaway, new flavors, Sprinkles