128 E 4th Street, East Village
This place is a little hole in the wall that can be easily missed if you are not looking for it. At first glance, there’s an adorable cupcake sign sprawling up and down the door (see above). When you step in, you are immediately faced with a wide array of baked goodies. I was having trouble deciding between the red velvet cupcake and the rainbow cupcake. Decisions, decisions. The one employee behind the counter was of no help. He insisted that they were both equally delicious (soon after, I discovered said employee is a bad judge of cupcake character). I decided to be adventurous and chose the rainbow cupcake. First impressions were great. The cupcake had layers of fun colors with a chocolate glaze frosting. It was a pretty large cupcake for $3.50. I then proceeded to take a bite of the multicolored cupcake. It turns out adventure should NOT be my middle name. I didn’t realize that the cupcake would taste very much like Italian rainbow cookies. Now I know most people love those cookies, but I for one loathe them. The cupcake had a weird taste and was quite chewy-frosting included. I don’t care what type of taste you’re going for, frosting should not be chewy. It just wasn’t the type of consistency I look for in a cupcake. With that said, I would still give this place another shot-but next time, I will play it safe and get vanilla/vanilla.
peace, love, and cupcakes
Michy
