Saturday Night Live’s recent “Lazy Sunday” short film has given me an intense craving for cupcakes. The ones featured, from New York City’s Magnolia Bakery, brought to mind the following question: where can you find high-quality cupcakes in D.C.?
“I don’t think this cupcake thing is at its height,” a bakery owner told New York magazine this past fall. With our northern neighbor’s Buttercup Bakery in the process of franchising nationally and Warren Brown’s outfit hogging the spotlight in a new cake-themed show, there’s no question that this “cupcake thing” has yet to peak. And given that the frosted mini-cakes are featured everywhere from Urban Outfitters T-shirts to a ubiquitous SNL sketch, we’re just not going to get that gooey sweetness out of our heads anytime soon.
