When I was visiting her a few weeks ago, my friend Jackie asked: Why aren’t donuts more popular than cupcakes? Jackie is passionate about her sweets, and she’s been known to down a cupcake or three.
The growing popularity of cupcakes -- a frosted cake in the shape of a muffin -- is evidenced by several indicators and a prediction of a 20 percent rise in sales in the US over the next five years.
All right, we should have seen this coming, especially after Mister Donut Japan came out with original croissant doughnuts earlier this year. But that doesn’t mean we’re any less thrilled with the ...
When Taressa Neal was selling candles for a living, she baked cupcakes for clients as gifts. She called them “burning” cupcakes. The cupcakes lasted, the candles didn’t. The name stuck. Last Saturday, ...
When Union Square Donuts’ giant, fluffy pastries first landed on the Somerville scene a few years back, co-owner Josh Danoff says their problem was never having enough doughnuts to go around. But ...
Donut and cupcakes are coming together under one new bakery in Fishers. Kate Bova Drury, owner of The Flying Cupcake and The Dancing Donut, is combining the two businesses at a new store–possibly to ...
Cutesy cupcakes are as outdated as truffle oil. All over the country, these ubiquitous mini-cakes are being supplanted in popularity by the donut. Yes, the humble donut is receiving a gourmet makeover ...