From Kate Washington's Sacramento News & Review Year in review:
2. The subtle infusion of fresh chocolate and mint in the frosting on the chocolate-mint cupcakes at Babycakes Bakery. Wait, make that the fresh raspberry frosting on the chocolate cupcakes at Capital Cupcakes. I can’t decide!
Here's what she wrote about Babycakes earlier this year:
In case you haven’t noticed, the cupcake trend has hit Sacramento hard. Last week, the most dangerous cupcake shop yet—for me, at least—opened on J Street. I say “dangerous” because the cupcakes are fabulous; the shop is a 10-minute walk from my house, and my frosting-loving 2-year-old knows about it. Babycakes Bakery, the offspring of partners Teresa Urkofsky and Kristine Bertram, has luscious flavors like caramel apple (stuffed with chunks of apples); chocolate mint, with pale green frosting infused with fresh chocolate mint leaves from Del Rio Farm; pretty, simple vanilla (with icing that really tastes like vanilla); and many more—they offer different flavors on alternating days.
SN&R illustration by Mark Stivers
And here's what she wrote about Capital Cupcakes:
Tiny cakes with plenty of frosting are always welcome. But what about when they are delivered to your door? Look out. That’s the mission of Capital Cupcakes, which will bring a dozen (or two) sweet little gems to you. That’s how I found myself staring down a set of sprinkles on a recent Friday morning: I had moist devil's food cupcakes, half with a sweet, pretty-in-pink raspberry buttercream, the other half with a swirl of mild chocolate buttercream. (More flavors—all with first names like the Lucy: lemon cake with lemon curd and toasted meringue; or the Allison, a s'mores theme—are on the Web site.) What’s a girl to do? Eat a cupcake at 9 a.m., that’s what—they go awfully well with coffee. I saved the rest for my birthday the next day, but was that first cupcake ever sweet.
SN&R illustration by Mark Stivers
And here are the respective websites with a photo from each site:
Babycakes Sacramento
Capital Cupcakes (they're selling a giant cupcake cake!)
2. The subtle infusion of fresh chocolate and mint in the frosting on the chocolate-mint cupcakes at Babycakes Bakery. Wait, make that the fresh raspberry frosting on the chocolate cupcakes at Capital Cupcakes. I can’t decide!
Here's what she wrote about Babycakes earlier this year:
In case you haven’t noticed, the cupcake trend has hit Sacramento hard. Last week, the most dangerous cupcake shop yet—for me, at least—opened on J Street. I say “dangerous” because the cupcakes are fabulous; the shop is a 10-minute walk from my house, and my frosting-loving 2-year-old knows about it. Babycakes Bakery, the offspring of partners Teresa Urkofsky and Kristine Bertram, has luscious flavors like caramel apple (stuffed with chunks of apples); chocolate mint, with pale green frosting infused with fresh chocolate mint leaves from Del Rio Farm; pretty, simple vanilla (with icing that really tastes like vanilla); and many more—they offer different flavors on alternating days.
SN&R illustration by Mark Stivers
And here's what she wrote about Capital Cupcakes:
Tiny cakes with plenty of frosting are always welcome. But what about when they are delivered to your door? Look out. That’s the mission of Capital Cupcakes, which will bring a dozen (or two) sweet little gems to you. That’s how I found myself staring down a set of sprinkles on a recent Friday morning: I had moist devil's food cupcakes, half with a sweet, pretty-in-pink raspberry buttercream, the other half with a swirl of mild chocolate buttercream. (More flavors—all with first names like the Lucy: lemon cake with lemon curd and toasted meringue; or the Allison, a s'mores theme—are on the Web site.) What’s a girl to do? Eat a cupcake at 9 a.m., that’s what—they go awfully well with coffee. I saved the rest for my birthday the next day, but was that first cupcake ever sweet.
SN&R illustration by Mark Stivers
And here are the respective websites with a photo from each site:
Babycakes Sacramento
Capital Cupcakes (they're selling a giant cupcake cake!)
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