Cake love at the National Harbor

Today I used a new test group and brought home 3 cupcakes from  the national harbor. I picked out cherry blossom (were are famous for our cherry blossom trees here in DC), plain vanilla (my back up so if the others are gross I can at-least enjoy one!), and a hot tamale (not the pepper but the candy!). I chose 2 unbiased kids (ages 2 and 5 and very opinionated! That's whats best about tots- they tell it like it is!) I split the first cupcake in 3's so everyone could enjoy! Ben- the 5 year old quickly told me it was gross. The 2 year old ate his and the 5 year old. All he cared about was that it was cake and good. (Eli- how I love you bud!) I was confused by the taste. It had a soda-ish fizz taste. It was super sweet and not bad, but I won't get it again. Cupcake 2 was going to be the hot one but Ben freaked out when I told him what it was so we ate the vanilla. I split it into 2 (Eli was eating all of the cherry blossom "himself") Ben loved the vanilla- he's a very plain cupcake kind of guy. I respect that. He said it was his favorite. I personally have had better vanilla cupcakes. Eli quickly licked his fingers and wanted some of that too. I gave him my piece. I was curious about the hot cupcake and took a bit and save the rest for Ben's parents. It was not bad ( Matt and Dawn liked it too!) But a bit was all I needed. I was cupcaked out and just enjoyed the boys have their faces covered in cake. Cupcakes are $3.25 a pop and the place is small but cute. ( maybe 8 people can fit in there!) The staff was nice but overall I would say way over priced for the experience. The boys would have liked the cheap Safeway ones just as much!