Butter Lane

Well, eating for two has created some nice opportunities to expand my gastronomic horizons, which works out great until I have to face the scale at each doctor's appointment. I just block out those 2 minutes of my life every 4 weeks.

The latest find, an East Village bakery called Butter Lane.


I know people are claiming they are over the cupcake craze, and I get that. But, we tried this place last night (thanks to a steal of a deal on Groupon) and we were not disappointed. In fact, I might even go so far as to say Butter Lane's vanilla vanilla cupcake is better than Magnolia's. WHAT?? I know. It is that good.

Their schtick is they make 3 kinds of cupcakes a day (we had our choice of vanilla cake, chocolate cake, or banana cake) and then they have about 20 different frostings. When you order, you tell them the type of cake and the type of frosting, and they frost each cupcake right there in front of you. They have French buttercream as well as normal buttercream frostings, and their French buttercream is great for people who don't normally love frosting (I do love frosting, so I will take either, but that's just me). Definitely worth a visit--I recommend the banana cupcake with either cream cheese frosting or hazelnut chocolate frosting. Or the vanilla cupcake with French buttercream frosting.