Longform history of Sprinkles Cupcakes on the occasion of the cupcakery's sudden closure in December 2025.
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The intersection of ‘Dear New York, I Love You’ and Magnolia Bakery
Artist Ria Sim, author of Dear New York, I Love You, draws 11th and Bleecker Streets in Greenwich Village. Sim's caption serendipitously connects the artwork to the legends of Magnolia Bakery and Sex and the City.
Keystone State cupcakes
Consuming cupcakes and American history at 2023 VegFest in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
First festival of cupcakes
Reporting from the K104.7 Cupcake Festival in New York's Hudson Valley, May 2023.
Finding hospitality at the House of Cupcakes
National Give Someone a Cupcake Day fieldwork at the House of Cupcakes during the 2023 Bayonne, N.J., Food Truck Festival.
Cupcakes in your grocery cart
Once associated with upscale boutiques, brand-name cupcakes are retailing at grocery stores. Cookies and/or cupcakes from the Original Crumbs Bake Shop and Magnolia Bakery are landing on grocery store shelves in the northeast and beyond.
Coconut cake for President Biden
Presidents Day 2023 requires cake. Pres. Biden is a coconut cake fan. AMERICAN CAKE author Anne Byrn narrates the history of coconut cake in the U.S.
Cupcakeries in the cities
Fact checking a cupcake tweet by Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell. Surveying new American cupcake shops that opened in February 2023.
2023: Year of Cupcake Nation
Author and cupcakologist Andrea Adleman names 2023 the Year of Cupcake Nation.
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