Cupcake Cagematch Results: BEST VANILLA CUPCAKE in NYC!

After sampling over 26 different types of vanilla cupcakes, our judges have come up with the best vanilla cupcake in NYC: SWEET REVENGE! With a nearly perfect score (4.7/5.0), Sweet Revenge beat out 25 other hopefuls. Here are the full results: Now, you may be wondering why Sweet Revenge’s vanilla cupcakes beat out all of […]

Happy birthday, Dorren!

Today, I just found out, is Dorren’s birthday! We were discussing the cupcake cagematch and he mentioned that he got a free cupcake from CC’s Cafe today because it was his birthday: (insert candle, birthday hat, and streamers) Dorren and I are good buddies from work and he is probably the nicest guy I’ve ever […]

Gracenotes NYC’s Cupcake Cagematch: The Sweetest Battle EVER

On August 1st, David and I hosted the first (and probably only) cupcake cagematch. What is a cupcake cagematch, do you ask? Well, it’s a cupcake competition – a serious event of pitting bakery against bakery to find the best vanilla, chocolate, red velvet, and wildcard cupcake in New York. Do you think I’m kidding […]

Aerogarden: Week 2

It’s been a full week since I plugged in my Aerogarden and I’m VERY excited to write about the progress of my herbs. The pictures below were taken on Saturday (August 1st) but since then, I’ve seen little sprouts from almost all of them (the only one that doesn’t have any growth is the dill, […]

Aerogarden: Week 1

One of my favorite things about my mom’s house in North Carolina is her herb garden. She grows rosemary and mint in her little courtyard and there’s always so much of it that we can use them year-round (I love making chai tea with mint, mint chocolate chip truffles, and drinking water with a couple […]


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