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Battle Cupcake: Frosting On Top On Top

The poll numbers reflect the common dialogue in the community. If you need a cupcake, Frosting On Top is the cupcake to have.

The people have sampled, and the people have spoken. When it comes to a moist cupcake, one that satisfies and satiates, Frosting On Top is the cupcake of choice in Rancho Santa Margarita.

By an overwhelming margin, —available at —finished ahead of several other businesses that offered cupcakes in Patch's search for the city's best cupcake.

In stories over the past two weeks about the cupcake challenge, Frosting On Top was commonly the subject of comments. It not only dominated the debate, but the poll as well. It garnered 63 percent of the votes, and the margin of victory over second-place represented 44.5 percent of total votes cast.

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In short, it was a frosting-covered landslide.

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Frosting On Top is the business of Robinson Ranch resident Tina Trisler. She doesn't have a storefront, so the only place to walk in and get a cupcake is at , which offers her mini cupcakes on its dessert menu. However, orders can be placed online at Trisler's website, FrostingOnTop.com.

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The minis are $12 per dozen, and regular sized cupcakes are $24 per dozen. Trisler, who services California and Nevada, works out of the kitchen at .

Cupcake flavors are unique and include red velvet, strawberry lemonade, peanut butter and jelly, raspberry cheesecake, pumpkin cream cheese, banana cream pie, and double chocolate cream cheese, which is the most popular. However, her caramel cheesecake seems to be the one that generates the most discussion.

Cinderella Cakes received 19 percent of the votes. and tied for third place in the poll with 7 percent.


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