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Doubling the Fun with a New Billy’s Bakery Location


Over the past few years, the pastel-colored, buttercream frosted cupcake at Billy’s Bakery in Chelsea (NYC) has been my standard of the cupcake-to-beat.  Theirs are what all cupcakes get compared to.  To be quite honest, the cake part is actually just the tiniest bit dry, but the frosting more than forgives any moistness sins.  And […]

Sprinkles Cupcakes from Your Kitchen Oven


The cupcakes from the Beverly Hills bakery Sprinkles are quite well known, and especially popular amongst the actors and actresses (like Katie Holmes) in celebrity jet set crowd.  Unfortunately not all of us in near enough the Beverly Hill location to stop in to get our sweet fix on, nor do we have the bank […]

Cupcakes at Starbucks


To say I have a healthy obsession with cupcakes would be an understatement.  We frequently head off on the weekends in search of a new bakery and undiscovered cupcake territory, so when I spied cupcakes at our local Starbucks, my insides did a little flip.
They have a few different flavors available, but they’re not available […]

For the Cupcake Obsessed


Do you know someone who is obsessed with cupcakes?  Who just can’t get enough of them?  Then you may want to check out The Cupcake Deck, an offering from the folks at Chronicle Books.
Using recipes from Elinor Klivans popular cookbook, Cupcakes!, you’ll find 25 cupcake recipe cards inside this handy storage case.  Whether it’s Vanilla […]

Icing on the Cake


Cupcakes have been a timeless tradition, alongside cakes, for birthdays and baby showers. There is something about the icing on top of a petite circle of goodness and licking the icing off of your lip. Depending on the cupcake, one may not be enough. But then I tried Sprinkles Cupcakes, when it first opened here […]