Cupcakes take the Cake

My new favorite website: Cupcakes take the Cake !   This is the #1 blog about nothing but cupcakes! It talks about cupcakes from many many different bakeries around the world. Several New York shops are focused on. But I love to browse the blog along with randomly browsing the list of links to bakeries in the right column. I just spent about 3-4 hours the other night browsing different bakeries from the list and reading each ones story - what they are all about and what type of feeling they want to portray from their bakery and their products.

Some of my favorites :
http://www.karascupcakes.com/about.html  I like the look and feel of this bakery.. and her pretty packaging. Her "karavan" is very cool and from her photos, to her packaging, to the inside of her bakeries... the look and feel is very elegant. Very clean and fancy. I imagine walking into a bakery and just feeling the elegance and feeling like you are really special being there. Very high quality, rich feel. Having a feeling of elegance/richness, and being given a real treat. It just has a feeling of clean beauty.
http://jillyscupcakebar.com/cupcakes/ - their website has some interesting cupcakes. And really I just like the nice bar at the top of their website with fancy cupcakes, it looks yummy and nice.
http://www.gigiscupcakes.com/index.html
http://www.theyellowleafcupcake.com/  - I like the owners story of how they became the Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company and how they came up with their name.
http://www.happycakesdenver.com/aboutUs.html - I also enjoy their story of how the three ladies came together and why they called their bakery HAPPY CAKES! Cupcakes make people HAPPY! yay! Really they do. Remember being excited about cupcakes when you were a little kid. A small, cute little portion of cake with colorful sprinkles... it was always exciting.
In fact, baked goods have always tended to make me happy. I think cookies, cupcakes, and other goods are just small little things.. but they can really bring happiness to ones busy/stressful/or blue day! Just like little kids when they are grumpy... anyone could be cheered up a tad with some cookies! After a long day at work.. I'd rather have cookies and milk then a glass of beer. hooray!

"Do what makes you happy and life will be good!"