Tiny Cupcake Alert!

On a very windy Saturday in New York, Collin Murray and I took a very long stroll around the city and discovered a number of fun new places to delight in. Now, the bakery that I am going to talk about today was a recommendation from a friend of mine at culinary school and neither of us were disappointed. Baked by Melissa is a cupcake store in New York that has two teeny tiny locations around the city. We visited the Union Square location but there is also one in Soho if you are so inclined.

The store itself is tiny and probably no bigger than most peoples' spare rooms and it is also very sparse. It's not kitschy or colorful -- actually, it is kind of austere but the taste of the bite-sized cupcakes more than makes up for it. There are only nine flavours of cupcakes and they are really and truly no bigger than a quarter but they pack a mean taste punch. We purchased a sampler pack of twelve because it really wasn't possible to share one of the cupcakes as they are really just one-biters. In our sample pack was everything from mint chocolate chip to peanut butter and jelly and the cupcakes were remarkably moist and the icing was tremendously flavourful...and the cupcakes were cheap too!


The store front of Baked by Melissa near Union Square -- see how sparse it is inside?


The selection of cupcakes we tried -- cookies and cream, peanut butter and jelly, cookies dough, mint chocolate chip, cinnamon, smore and red velvet (in no particular order).


Collin Murray demonstrating how tiny the cupcakes are