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Cupcakes by Melissa opens shop on the Upper West Side.
Chef Renee concocted these cupcakes, sure to please Mom on her special day. Combine with a gift certificate to a day spa, and you’ll have one happy mother.
Orange, Pecan and Toasted Coconut Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 350°F.
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
pinch salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup coarsely ground pecans (don’t overprocess, [...]
Not able to resist an apparently unstoppable trend, New Yorker’s continue to wolf down cupcakes. In fact,the Upper West Side branch of Crumbs has moved into shiny new digs. And the chain is expanding nationwide.
In a recent story, the Wall Street Journal, wrote about New Yorkers’ obsession with the little frosted cakes. Personally, I don’t [...]
My friend Charles and I have a longstanding tradition of ordering red velvet cake when we go out to lunch at Duke’s, the sports bar in Gramercy and Chelsea in New York. I think this all started when Charles helped me successfully pitch the Times a few years ago; we celebrated with huge slices of [...]
