New corporate cupcakes in D.C.

Two national corporations are entering the D.C. cupcake market.

Kansas-based Smallcakes is a 200-store chain that opened in July in Arlington, Va.

Pop-culture phenomenon Magnolia Bakery is opening at Union Station in the coming months.

The executive chef points the way.

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The bakery will occupy a high-traffic corner in the country’s second busiest train station.

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It will undoubtedly generate the same level of excitement that marked the Boston store opening this spring, to which customers flocked “like it’s the year 2000.”

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