Brooklyn’s Best Cupcake!

Cupcakes, like pizza, are a touchy subject for many New Yorkers.  Everyone has their favorites and their reasons behind said favorites are usually unbending to the point of blind rage.

Most people use the cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery as the barometer for cupcake reference.  Most everyone has had a Magnolia cupcake or has heard about it through Sex and the City.

If you’ve never had a Magnolia cupcake; they look exquisite — seriously impeccable looking top — but their taste doesn’t come close to measuring up to the high bar that the presentation makes.

The bottoms of their cupcakes tend to be far too dry for our pallets and their tops aren’t moist or flavorful enough to compensate for the excessively dry bottom.  All in all, Magnolia cupcakes are nothing for us to write home about…and seriously not worth the wait on long line – but try telling that to somebody who thinks Grimaldi’s has the best pizza in the world.

Anyway, for the past several years we’ve gladly lived close to the Little Cupcake Bakeshop in Brooklyn and while their cupcake presentation is nowhere near as fresh, crisp or as ‘Hollywood’ as Magnolia’s are, they sure do taste a heck of a lot better than Magnolia; and taste is all that matters to us.

Little Cupcake Bakeshop had been our Brooklyn cupcake of choice, but things have changed – we tried Robicelli’s and good God they blow the Little Cupcake Bakeshop out of the water!

We picked up a carrotcake cupcake from Robicelli’s and this is how their single to go works:

An upside-down clear solo cup that makes your cupcake appear to be a museum piece.  Yes, it does draw attention to oneself — almost to the point that point that people assume that you are a severely slow adult who was allowed out without having to wear your protective helmet.

The Robicelli’s cupcake has a deliciously moist bottom plus a top that tastes so good that too much saliva gets released which overpowers ones salivary ducts to the point that the first bite hurts a little from too much delicious greatness.

At the end of the day Robicelli’s wins out over Little Cupcake in the Battle of Brooklyn cupcakes, with the cupcakes from the Sade General Store in Long Island City remaining king by way or both great taste, presentation and plump sized cupcakes.