Cupcakes:
I'm back with another silly quest: the search for my favorite cupcake! I love cupcakes more than regular cakes they're just so cute and perfectly portioned ❤️ there are quite a few places in the bay area that only do cupcakes or are bakeries that are known for their cupcakes and I aim to find my favorite one this year!
I feel like cupcakes are a little bit simpler to break down than afternoon tea which has a lot of components. Cupcakes will be evaluated on: Cake, Frosting, and Aesthetics (with bonus points if the bakery or packaging is cute but won't technically factor into the main rating)
I've discovered I can eat exactly two cupcakes in one sitting so in an effort of fairness I think I'm going to get two from each place. One will always be vanilla with vanilla frosting (if possible) as a kind of control, then I will ask the person taking my order what the most popular other flavor is and get that as my second choice.
Listed below are the non exhaustive list of places currently on my list:
- The Cupcake Shoppe
- James & the Giant Cupcake
- Cupcakin Bake Shop
- Frost Cupcake Factory
- C'est Si Bon Bakery
- Alexander's Patisserie
- Sprinkles Palo Alto
- The Cake Shop
- Sibby's Cupcakery
- Noe Valley Bakery
- Cupcakin' Bake Shop
- SusieCakes - San Carlos
- Kara’s Cupcakes Palo Alto
- Miette
- La Luna Cupcakes
- Mission Minis
If I've missed your favorite cupcake place please let me know!! I'll add it to the list for quest purposes. I'm excited to go on this journey and hope you'll have some fun and maybe find a favorite cupcake place of your own!
Bookstores:
In addition to cupcakes I am going to start visiting and doing little blurbs about independent book stores in the Bay Area. There are actually quite a lot of them! This is less of a yearly challenge and more of a when I'm able to get to them. However I want to make a point to go to maybe one a month in the coming year/years. This will give me an excuse to get dressed up and go on a quest! Some are quite close together so I may make a few in one post. For this independent bookstore tour I'll be lifting my self imposed book buying low-buy and so if I see something I like from these local businesses I'll get it. Bookstores won't be rated in the same way afternoon tea or cupcakes will be- more like on a scale of 'probably won't stop by again' to 'I will actively go out of my way to visit again' and if there are any standouts of the ones I've visited that particular year that I would recommend.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of the stores I plan to visit at some point in this journey:
- Recycle Bookstore/Recycle Bookstore West
- Friends Bookstore
- Dark Carnival Imaginative Fiction Bookstore
- Walden Pond Books
- Towne Center Books
- Bookshop Santa Cruz
- Banter Bookshop
- Leigh's Favorite Books
- Christopher's Books
- Fabulosa Books
- Dog Eared Books
- Recycle Bookstore
- B Street Books
- Encore Books on the Square
- Books on B
- Marcus Books
- Pegasus Books
- Book Passage
- Kinokuniya San Francisco
- Comix Experience
- Amazing Fantasy
- Russian Hill Bookstore
- Green Apple Books
- Books Inc (various locations)
- Bound Together Bookstore
- Borderlands Books
- Mechanics' Institute
- City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
- Reach and Teach
- Read Between the Lynes (Woodstock, IL)
Again if I've missed your favorite bookstore please let me know and I'll add it to the list!
I hope that as I post information that some of you might also find a new favorite bakery or indie bookstore 💖
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