REVIEW: Cotton Top Tamarin Cupcake Returns Slightly Modified at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Shannen Ace

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REVIEW: Cotton Top Tamarin Cupcake Returns Slightly Modified at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

An old Disney’s Animal Kingdom treat has returned in a fresh form. This Cotton Top Tamarin Cupcake is named for the cotton-top tamarin monkey found in Central America, South America, and Mexico. But you can find this cupcake at Creature Comforts (Starbucks).

Cotton Top Tamarin Cupcake – $5.99

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The cotton-top tamarin is pictured on the top of the cupcake, surrounded by tropical plants.

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This is a caramel-filled chocolate cupcake with huge layers of green frosting and salted caramel buttercream icing, plus a few chocolate pearls.

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The chocolate cake itself was extremely moist and soft. It had a nice, rich chocolate taste. Inside, the caramel ganache filling offered a subtle caramel flavor. It was neither too strong nor too sweet as caramel can sometimes be. It paired nicely with the chocolate cake.

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Where the whole thing fell apart both literally and figuratively was on top. The huge helping of frosting and icing was entirely too much for a standard-sized cupcake. The salted caramel wasn’t distinguishable amidst the excessive green frosting and the basic white chocolate tamarin was too tough to cut with a knife so it had to be eaten separately.

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The chocolate cupcake with caramel filling is nice on it’s own with a limited amount of frosting included in the bite, offering a tender and well-balanced cupcake. Do yourself a favor and skip the overuse of frosting and you’ll enjoy this new iteration of the cupcake.

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