Cupcake Wars

Cupcake Battle: Bleeding Heart Bakery’s New Book vs. Magnolia Bakery’s New Cupcake

Hometown Pride
Hometown Pride Photo: Bleeding Heart Bakery/GSChi Flickr Pool

So, here’s the difference between New York and Chicago, at least when it comes to cupcakes. In New York right now, Magnolia Bakery (yes, that one) is honestly making a Carrie Bradshaw cupcake in honor of Sex and the City 2. It’s frilly and pink, and bound to make the horrible lines at the cupcake shop even longer. In Chicago, Michelle and Vinny Garcia from Bleeding Heart Bakery are releasing a book called Who You Callin’ Cupcake?: 75 In-Your-Face Recipes that Reinvent the Cupcake, which features such flavors as barbecue pork, bananas foster, white chocolate wasabi, and Chicago-style pizza. We are not sure if a better indicator of which city you should live in has ever been devised.

Cupcake Battle: Bleeding Heart Bakery’s New Book vs. Magnolia Bakery’s New