Seattleites recognize Cupcake Royale and Trophy Cupcakes as two of the premier dessert joints in the city. But what sets them apart?

Sure, Starbucks didn’t really make the cupcake, they brought them in from a bakery, but at $1.85 apiece are these mass produced beauties of baked goods as good as they look? Appearance It’s pretty all right. The cake looks moist, the frosting is shiny and bountiful and shavings of white chocolate crown the whipped top. [...]

The aptly named blog “Cupcakes Take the Cake” is having a contest where readers are submitting their all time favorite chocolate cupcakes (store bought or homemade) and the photos are amazing. Warning, don’t look unless you are OK with needing to visit a bakery later today… If you’ve got a favorite to enter, you’ve got [...]