There was a great article in the New York last month that a friend sent me: Gramercy Tavern’s Nancy Olson Rates New York’s Cupcakes We’ve been to Magnolia’s many a time and I agree that they overdose on the frosting. So Robo and I visited ChikaLicious (which btw is dangerously close to our apartment) and ordered the Smores, Mocha, Red Velvet, and Black & White cupcakes. They were smallish, about the size of home-made cupcakes, but so worth it! EDIT: We went back with cupcake fanatics Gen & sis today and here’s the final rundown:
- Smores – the marshmallow frosting/topping was actually burnt/toasted so you could taste the carmelized marshallow
- Mocha – good but the espresso-chocolate ganache filling wasn’t gooey enough – if it were warmed up it’d be excellent
- Red Velvet – Robo’s favorite
the cream cheese frosting was to die for…had just the right amount of cream cheese and sugar to make it light but yumyumyummy! - Black and White – solid, no complaints there, just a great cupcake.
- Caramel – the sweetest of them all, beware: the cake was nearly saturated with caramel sugar
- Coconut – fragrant with the toasted coconut on top, but only so-so
- Triple Chocolate – deefinitely a must for a chocoholic, the chocolate frosting wasn’t overly sweet and you could taste the dark cocoa in the cake
We finally got pictures – sorry about the poor lighting 
