Flickr Shot by roboppy All right, no one told New York to stop sending cupcakes over here dammit and now one of their famed cupcakeries, Crumbs Bake Shop, is opening up a scant two blocks down the street from Sprinkles in Beverly Hills. Gasp! Scandalous. I wonder if that 26-person line outside of Sprinkles will…
Category Archives: Cupcakes
Festive & Cute: Fourth of July Cupcake Spectacular
The perfect treat to bring to those bbqs or fireworks spectating parties you’re going to hit this Fourth of July? Sprinkles, SusieCakes and Yummy have special holiday cupcakes just for the occasion. These would also be lovely to bring to the Hollywood Bowl’s Fireworks Spectacular. Sprinkles Cupcakes offers its red velvet cupcake topped with a…
Vanilla Bake Shop: Just What the World Needs, Another Cupcake Store
Many of you have already noticed the beginnings of a cupcake shop on Wilshire in Santa Monica, just a couple of blocks down the street from the Yummy Cupcakes that just opened up earlier this year. Vanilla Bake Shop is its name and its grand opening is July 10. I know, I know, do we…
Santa Monica's Yummy Cupcakes: Death by Frosting
Although I haven’t quite recovered from that Cupcake Challenge earlier this month (and you’re probably sick of hearing me blab about cupcakes), I had to check out the new Santa Monica location of Yummy Cupcakes. Since the original store is all the way in Burbank, I had resigned myself to pining for the Elvis cupcakes…
Cupcake Final Results: And the Winner Is…
Flickr Shot by dotsara Finally! The end. When I first thought up this contest, it sounded like a fun thing to do. I created special evaluation sheets for each store and each cupcake, rating frosting flavor, cupcake attractiveness, cake flavor and moistness, price and size, and even customer service and display at the store. I…
Cupcake Challenger #6: Auntie Em's Kitchen
Flickr Shot by dotsara Taste tester #6: Beth Qualifications: Beth has enjoyed eating ever since she grew her first set of teeth. She makes it a point to eat at yummy restaurants and bakeries all over the world. As an L.A. native, she has eaten a whole lot around this fine city. She also loves…
Cupcake Challenger #5: Sprinkles Cupcakes
Flickr Shot by dotsara Taste tester #5: Donna D. Qualifications: Growing up in the food business, Donna refined her palate at an early age. Her father had a cheesesteak and pizza shop in Philadelphia and her two sisters have a luncheonette they run together in New Jersey. She can spot a bogus cheesesteak pretender a…
Cupcake Challenger #4: Hotcakes Bakes
Flickr Shot by dotsara Taste tester #4: Emilia. Qualifications: Emilia is a “huge fan of cupcakes” and her favorite foods include wasabi, lizano, cholula. “Okay,” she says, “they’re not foods but I love spicy. Oh, and I hate red velvet cakes and mint cupcakes.” Cupcake challenger #4: Hotcakes Bakes in Mar Vista. Emilia kept insisting…
Cupcake Challenger #3: Lucky Devils
Flickr Shot by dotsara Taste tester #3: Valerie. Qualifications: Valerie is the creative genius behind a much lauded remodel of the traditional food pyramid. Her innovative approach favors beer as the primary starch/grain, and incorporates cookies and pie instead of fruits and vegetables (regardless of whether the pies have fruit in them). She attributes her…
Cupcake Challenger #2: SusieCakes
Flickr Shot by dotsara Taste tester #2: dotsara. Qualifications: She likes cupcakes. Cupcake challenger #2: SusieCakes in Brentwood. dotsara said of the cupcake store: “The employees were great! They asked when we would be eating the cupcakes and since it was going to be the next day, they saran-wrapped the box so the cupcakes could…
