Lovefest: Babycakes NYC

Babycakes is such an inspiring success story. Owner Erin McKenna has racked up an impressive trail of publicity and celebrity affiliation through the years. Her baked creations–vegan, gluten-free and with no refined sugars–are a breath of fresh air to New York City’s vegan sweets market. I remember my first visit soon after they opened their doors in 2005. Had I been food-blogging then I would have declared this then: Babycakes sells the best cupcakes in New York City. Clean, unhydrogenated, delicious and oh-so pretty. I’m proud to be a long time, pre-Martha Stewart customer… even though I mostly now sneak in around closing to gratiously collect less-than-fresh surplus goodies from the generous counterfolk. This last visit we scored 4 extra cupcake tops and a huge slice of banana bread!I ♥ Babycakes.

Not to be confused with this Baby Cakes, who I kinda love too: