a sweet manhattan corner: cupcake cafe on the west side

those cakes and donuts just look delicous!

man, looking at this when hungry is not good. the way the light comes in the windows makes everything feel so...classic (for lack of a better word). what time of day was that?

sugar rushhhhhhhhhhhh. i was bouncing off the walls after eating just half of a cupcake

early afternoon... just after sunday brunch.

Personally, I like Magnolia Bakery on 401 Bleecker St. But, any cupcakes are better than none.

Oh, if I did not live in New York, your photographs would probably really want me to move here. This particular series feels as if it were a recording of the memories of the girl in the second picture. We all remember some of the great moments of our childhood, and I have the feeling that she might remember this moment in that store on the corner... you know... remember?... back in the day, when there was this not even animated coca-cola sticker on the door, when people still used handwriting to tell the price, back in the day, before sugar was banned and donuts outlawed... wait, this might actually never happen... ; )

My wife and I love Cupcake Cafe so much that we ordered our wedding cake from them and had a cousin drive it three hours up to Massachusetts where were getting married. It was wonderful. That said, I think their cupcakes are the one really disappointing thing there. Oddly, they gave us cupcakes in lieu of letting us taste their different cakes. If we had been making the decision based on those cupcakes (rather than the ten or so wonderful birthday cakes we've had from there) we would have looked elsewhere. They were very dry. They lacked the butteriness of their full-sized cakes. Flavor was kind of weak too. IMHO - get your nromal cakes there any day, buy donuts, go have a nice bowl of soup for lunch while you're down there, but skip the cupcakes.

P.S. An odd combination that I really liked from them was lemon-poppy cake with maple icing. I could use a slice just about now. Sigh...

we get our cakes for employees birthdays there, sometimes we get the cupcakes too. I think they vary, sometimes they are heavenly, sometimes a little dry.

I enjoyed your Cupcake Cafe pics. I work for Alan Boss Enterprises. Alan owns several small businesses, including Hell's Kitchen Flea Market at West 39th and 9th...right by Cupcake! It's an outdoor weekend market literally on the street. It re-opens the first weekend in April. I hope you will come by sometime and take some photographs. :) Alan also owns the more well-known antiques makrets on 25th and 26th Streets and 6th Avenue. Good photo ops there, too, perhaps.

Did you hear that Sebastian Junger, the novelist and journalist, has just purchased a place in Hell's Kitchen? I believe on West 39th Street. Document the neighborhood before it's uber-gentrified! :)

see: http://www.hellskitchenfleamarket.com and http://www.annexantiques.com

Regards,
Scott

i think it's awfully disingenuous to use the comment section of someone else's blog to plug your business or your site... even if polite and full of smilies.

:)

http://stephanieklein.blogs.com/greek_tragedy/
2004/03/cupcake_bouncer.html
I think the cupcakes at cupcake cafe taste like muffins, not cupcakes. The cake part is too dense... not a good time. I say, go for Magnolia Bakery. Period. My link above shows my images of their cupcakes.