Pittsburgh's best cupcakes

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigates the best cupcakes in Pittsburgh:

Close your eyes for a moment and engage in a culinary past-life regression. Imagine the moist, crumby sweetness of your first, simple cupcake, the finger-lickin' goodness of that first magical morsel of yellow, white or chocolate cake with chocolate or vanilla icing.

Everyone has a favorite flavor combination from childhood. Yellow cake with fudge icing. Cherry cake with vanilla icing.

Cupcakes are trendy these days, with cupcake specialty shops cropping up nationwide, including two new ones in the Pittsburgh area -- CoCo's Cupcake Cafe in Shadyside and Dozen Cupcakes in Squirrel Hill.


Read on to see how they scored the various cupcake offerings

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