Technically, Chef Huascar Aquino won the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, the first New Yorker to do so.  (The episode is here). But I feel like I won the Cupcake War personally, after last night. After a grueling week I thought I deserved a cupcake from his H Bake Shop around the corner from my apartmen...

Obviously, Shakespeare had parting and not cupcakes in mind (probably) when he wrote that line, and it was indeed very sad to drive Adrian to the airport last night after our awesome week together in San Francisco. Anyone who knows me at all, knows I love a good cupcake, and just before we left we found th...

Anyone who knows me, knows I love cupcakes. Directly underneath my writing office there’s a tiny storefront –– not even that really, it’s like a booth with two shutters –– which seems to have no set hours and which sells ONLY cupcakes.  (And I mean the “only” as “exclusively&#...