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cupcakes

  • Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

    Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

    Finding out someone’s favorite color doesn’t do much for me. “Oh teal? How interesting,” I say as I fall asleep standing up, collapsing into a heap and waiting for someone to kick me awake. But finding out someone’s favorite flavors is a different story. For my friend Michael’s birthday dinner, this past weekend, I texted…

  • Café Sabarsky, Company (Pizza) & Billy’s Bakery

    Café Sabarsky, Company (Pizza) & Billy’s Bakery

    I don’t have a fast answer to the question “what’s your favorite restaurant?” (it’s a tie, at this point, between Blue Hill Stone Barns & Prune) but I do have an immediate suggestion when someone is coming to New York for the first time and wants to know where to go: “Cafe Sabarasky,” I almost…

  • Elvie’s Turo-Turo & Butter Lane

    Elvie’s Turo-Turo & Butter Lane

    I’m getting a little rusty in my old age. In the early days of the blog, I was the one dragging my friends to obscure hole-in-the-wall joints in the East Village–now I’m perfectly happy to go to Grand Sichuan over and over again. But Mark and Diana have my number, both literally and figuratively. We…

  • Katy’s Reindeer Cupcakes

    Katy’s Reindeer Cupcakes

    My friend Katy is this blog’s godmother: she and her husband Josh were the ones who inspired me to start it five years ago. Just today, I noticed something awesome: Katy made reindeer cupcakes and posted them on her Facebook profile. Ironically, Katy–the food blog inspirer–does not have a food blog of her own so…