photo by Eliot Kamenitz/The Times-Picayune
Brett Anderson at The Times-Picayune looks at "cupcake mania" in New Orleans, and relates a funny story about bakery Bee Sweet Cupcakes:
Bee Sweet's menu is a fixed selection of 11 cupcakes enhanced by daily and monthly specials, running from moist versions of traditional recipes such as Kickin' it Old School (moist vanilla cake spread with chocolate butter-cream frosting) to bursts of imagination, such as I Heart Bananas Foster (fresh-fruit banana cake and banana frosting drizzled with caramel sauce).
A chocolate cupcake whose vanilla icing is dotted with M & Ms stars in a story that best illustrates the chord Bee Sweet has struck in New Orleans. It is called The Drew Bees, and on a recent Saturday two customers who coveted it approached the counter to discover only one remained.
"We had a gentleman and a woman fight over the last Drew Bees, " Devall explained. "Me and my sister were like, 'You have to be patient. We can't make any more.' They were screaming at each other. There was a line out the door, and people were like, 'What's going on?' "
Devall's sister, Amanda Peoples, left a career in social work to join her kin at Bee Sweet. Devall credits Peoples' experience as a therapist for defusing the Drew Bees situation.
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