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Let me make this clear. I looove cupcakes. I live cupcakes. I’d like to be reincarnated as a cupcake.
(Um, how sweet are these cupcake cars from the Maker’s Faire?
With matching cupcake helmets? I’d trade my wheels for these any day.)
NYC has Magnolia’s, which does have all da bomb frostins (and even better banana pudding). Boston has Kick Ass Cupcakes, which has a mojito cupcake that is dreamy. Our wedding, however, is in LA, so while I was out there this week I had the task of finding a delicious cupcakery to provide the baked goodies for our wedding. It was hard work, but someone had to do it.
This is how my mom and I ended up with this heavenly view: a dozen delectable “cupcake babies” from Vanilla Bake Shop. Out of the dozen, we chose four flavors for our cupcake tower: the banana chocolate chip, which has the moistest, yummiest cake; the Meyer lemon raspberry, which has a tart lemon curd filling; the red velvet, with a cream cheese icing that is to die for; and a classic vanilla, which will have purple sprinkles to go with our wedding colors.
LA has a ton of cupcakeries, including the big players Sprinkles, Crumbs, and Susiecakes. But what I love about Vanilla Bake Shop is that along with the quality baked goods, you get quality, highly personalized service. How cute is owner and baker Amy Berman?!
Image Source: Vanilla Bake Shop
And if cupcakes and cakes aren’t your thing (what’s wrong with you?!), VBS also makes French macarons, cookies and tarts, and their signature “icebox dessert shots”. Drool.
What’s your favorite cupcake flavor? And will you be doing special desserts for your wedding?
Oh, you temptress! Not only do I want to drive around in a cupcake, I want to eat them all! Love the flavors you chose, we are thinking of doing a lemon raspberry combinations for one of our cake tiers. Yum!
I love babycakes in New York too. How in the world do they make their cupcakes so tasty without sugar?
it’s gotta be red velvet. i live a block away from magnolia’s and eat their red velvet and banana pudding all the time. i don’t LOVE their cupcakes, but their red velvet is very light and fluffy. i’m on a diet and one kill for one right now.
I have been DYING to try out Kickass Cupcakes - I just haven’t made the drive yet. Luckily… my bday is fast approaching and Mr. rasgoola has promised me a visit 
I can’t wait for our traditional SuperBowl food. The past few years, my fiance and I have gotten takeout from Namaskar and cupcakes from Kick Ass. Oh, heaven.
Oh wow. Each of them is like a work of art! I love carrot cake flavors, and anything tasting like tiramisu.
OMG those all look delicious and now I want to go home and make some!
the mojito cupcakes at kickass are dangerously good. they actually inspired my desire for a lime-icing wedding cake (which my mom’s making–so we’ve been having lots of fun “sampling”)
i live minutes from kickass cupcakes and still haven’t been… that’s probably a crime.
Anything involving Meyer Lemon is pretty high on my list. Sounds divine!
are you having a wedding cake too? I sort of don’t want to do a wedding cake and just cupcakes or cookies. Is that totally wrong?
I love Gosling… I mean cupcakes too. Those are adorable.
Haha! I love the title of your post…I love Rachael McAdams and Ryan Gosling…and I love cupcakes!
We didn’t have cupcakes, but our flavors were black chocolate (infused with coffee) and green tea (infused with matcha green tea) (we loved the bright green color and it was yummy!)
Those cupcakes look delicious! I love the variety of flavors that you chose. I might go out and bake a few of my own tonight to satisfy this craving from looking at your pictures.
my favorite cupcake flavor is cupcake. yum, i love them all!
well, except anything with coconut. i don’t love the coconut.
@nyc1234: that’s not totally wrong at all! i plan on serving cupcakes with only a small tier to cut into for pictures. i think cupcakes and cookies would be great! and i’m sure i’d leave with some extras in my hand. i’m kind of bold like that. lol. can’t risk breaking the cookies in my purse now.
There’s a place in Austin called Hey Cupcake! that serves a “Michael Jackson”–chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. Not my fave flavor, but the best name for a cupcake ever!
@Indie B: I don’t even like cream cheese frosting, but would eat that cup cake for the name alone!
Lets be clear I too LOOOOOVE Cupcakes! For our wedding cake I wanted to do one BIG cupcake and a bunch of tiny cupcakes… but I got veto’d 
My favorite cupcake flavor is Red Velvet (Wonderland or Susiecakes) OR Dark Chocolate Banana (Sprinkles). YUMM-MERS!
I want to do cupcakes but I am having a hard time finding a baker. I would love to find a chocolate peanut butter cupcake
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Mrs. Hot Cocoa, Boston/Los Angeles Age and Occupation: 31, JD/PhD Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, Medical Student Engagement Date: May 30, 2008 Wedding Date: March, 2009 Blogging Since: April, 2008 Venue: Ritz Carlton, Marina Del Rey About Me: I am a professional student by day and an amateur cupcake taster, bargain shopper, and wedding planner by night. I am obsessed with NPR, the Food Network, paper, dance shows, Anthropologie, post-structuralist theory, Weddingbee!, "The Office," and celebrity gossip. When not procrastinating from my dissertation, I spend time catering to Jellyby, our overly anxious shih tzu, and getting to know Mr. Hot Cocoa. We have only been dating for fifteen years, so it's like I'm in love with a stranger! From the East Coast, we are planning a Jewish-Chinese Extravaganza in L.A., where we both grew up.
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