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Top Five …. Cupcakes!!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CUPCAKES ARE HOTTER THAN HOTCAKES: and red velvet tops my list…
Photo: Joey Ivansco/AJC staff
How wonderful to open this month’s Bon Appetit to find Buttersweet Bakery in Hapeville featured.
The little bakery that could, Buttersweet owner Charlita Varner’s Key lime cupcake with cream cheese frosting is featured in a piece that’s all about the best of the bake shops across the United States. Atlanta is home to lots of “cupcakeries,” where smallish is best and flavors from funky monkey to plain old vanilla will make every day seem like your birthday.
Here are five spots that bake up cupcakes better than best:
Buttersweet Bakery’s red velvet cupcake is the moistest, reddest, most luscious version of this Southern favorite ever.
Little Cake Bakery in Buckhead’s chocolate cupcake with sweet chocolate frosting has the old-fashioned buttery goodness of something homemade, but with pretty, fat swirls of chocolate frosting and fairy-like sprinkles.
Sweet Pockets Cupcakes’ (Old Fourth Ward) lemon cupcake with velvety lemon frosting is a hands-down best alternative to chocolate and vanilla.
Atlanta Cupcake Factory makes a mean “sugar cookie dulce de leche” that’s sweet enough to make your teeth hurt. My only complaint about this place is that every time I go by, they’re never open. Dang.
Order Sugar Mama’s toasted coconut cupcake filled with vanilla cream and expect to get a creamy, dreamy sugar rush.
Who bakes your favorite cupcake? (and don’t say your mom…)
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By TC
August 27, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this
I visited Buttersweet Bakery about 2 weeks ago on a Saturday afternoon and was not at all impressed with the cupcakes. I purchased the vanilla/vanilla, vanilla/chocolate and the chocolate/chocolate. They were all very dry. However, I was very impressed with the ambience of the store and found the employees to be very friendly and helpful. I am relocating back to Atlanta in the next couple of months and will give them another try before I write them off.
By Kelly
August 28, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this
My favorite is at CAFE AROMAS BAKERY in historic DOWNTOWN LAWRENCEVILLE. You must try their cupcakes!
By stepherson81
August 28, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
I would like to respectfully disagree with the comment/review posted for the Atlanta Cupcake Factory. I am a frequent visitor to this shop and I have tried all of their flavors. I would describe their Dulce de Leche’ frosting as not so sweet but as extremely rich. “Make your teeth hurt” seems a bit extreme for such a delicious experience. They told me it takes 3 hours to make that frosting. WOW! It has a sweetness to it for sure, but is not what I would call “sugary”. In my opinion the most “sweet” of their frostings would have to be their Chocolate Buttercream, which reminds me of my grandmother’s chocolate frosting.
When in doubt readers, go check them out for yourself.
Also, they are open for retail Thursday through Sunday and they do special orders through out the week (I have done both). It’s all on the website too.
By Uptight dillweed
August 28, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
The finest cupcakes I know of are those that I bake in my own kitchen.
By th
August 28, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
Little European Bakery in Sandy Springs has great cupcakes.
By DYJ
August 28, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
I have to go with Buttersweet Bakery. I work close by and have learned to go by the baekery before 2 pm or all my favorites are gone. The key lime cupcake is yummmy, yummy!
By Cleopatra Jones
August 29, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this
I absolutely LOVE Sweet Pockets!!!!!! Fresh and sweet, the right amount of flavor, not too overpowering!!!!
A delectable treat for anytime you have a sweet tooth!!
Nice, courteous staff and a great atmophere!!! Highly recommended by me and others!!!