The Perfect Cupcake - Volume 1

My new obsession is cupcakes. I am a plain Jane when it comes to flavors. I just like vanilla with a light frosting. But it must be moist, fluffy and very vanilla-like to my taste buds(if that makes sense), lol. So, there was this write-up in yahoo buzz log yesterday about cupcakes and people started talking about their favorite cupcake places in different cities.

In New York, there were four recommendations. One was "Sugar Sweet Sunshine" on Rivington in the LES. I went and um - yuck! First of all, the front counter guy was rude to me. Second, the cupcake tasted like it came from a very mediocre batch of Duncan Hines - very bland and tasteless. I do not recommend them at all. I mean, the place does get points for being cute. It was nice enough that I would have stayed, read my WSJ and eaten my lone vanilla cupcake had the aforementioned dude not been so rude to me. I could give them another shot, but why? Every batch of cupcake should be bedazzling and this, simply, was not.

I am the quest to find the perfect cupcake. The winner so far (and I am ashamed to admit it) is this vanilla cupcake that Starbucks sells with lilac frosting -- so good!! I will go to and review the rest of the recommendations in the next few days. Next stop - Buttercup.