iPhone app cake pops

We've posted plenty of iPhone cupcakes over the years, but I think these are the first iPhone app cake pops we've posted. They're by San Francisco's Sweet Lauren Cakes for the Four Seasons F&B Conference, via their Facebok page. Contact them at info at sweetlaurencakes.com or 415-371-9380, or visit their website at sweetlaurencakes.com/.

Lemon Buttermilk Cupcakes

San Francisco based Angel Cakes made these lemon buttermilk cupcakes for a summer Sunday wedding.

Is $33 a lot for a dozen cupcakes?

Cupcake prices have come up here before, and I will fully admit that I often pay $3.50-$3.75 in New York and other cities for a cupcake, but when I'm buying one or two at a time, it doesn't seem so high. Yesterday I bought two dozen cupcakes from Let's Cupcake SF at 2255 Judah Street in San Francisco and I guess I had a bit of sticker shock at the $66 price. What do you think?

I did not get to try such unusual cupcake flavors of theirs as pear, so I can't speak to that one, but I will be trying more soon, but I will say that the people I was bringing them to devoured them and seemed very happy. I tried a cookies and cream one that had a graham cracker bottom that was a bit crumbly but was otherwise delicious, with a very moist and sweet cake, very good frosting and a few M and Ms embedded in the frosting. I also like the name and turning "cupcake" into a verb! I found them through Yelp and had never heard of them; I didn't stay long, but it looked like a spacious local bakery and had some interesting flavors, though they also had staples like chocolate and red velvet, but more of an emphasis on more creative flavors.

I had been planning to go to Mission Minis but they are closed on Mondays (closed bakeries when I need cupcakes make me sad, but I understand needing a day off). I'm hoping to try more of their cupcakes and other Bay Area cupcakes while I'm in town this week before I head back to Seattle for CupcakeCamp Seattle. You can visit Let's Cupcake SF on Facebook and reach them at 415-702-9649.

San Francisco map made of cupcakes!

I love when art and cupcakes combine, and Cups and Cakes Bakery in San Francisco has shown some major city pride by creating a map of San Francisco with cupcakes! WOW. Love that the 7 mile by 7 mile city is represented by 49 cupcakes too. What an incredible and fun project. Congratulations! From their blog post: "We wanted to do something cool for a local mapping group in San Francisco that meets everytime this year for WhereCamp. Instead of just making regular cupcakes, we made cupcakes in the style of MAPTILES." They're located at 451 9th Street and can be reached at 415-437-2877 or order at cupsandcakesbakery.com and you can find out more at cupsandcakesbakery.com and on Facebook. They tell us:

Data by Open Street Map (CC BY 3.0)
Maptiles by Stamen Design (CC BY SA)
Cupcakes by Cups and Cakes Bakery (EATEN BY 1PM)