Everyone loves cupcakes. From vanilla to chocolate to banana cake (yes, they make that here) everyone has their flavor. After my mom decided to buy a dozen cupcakes valued at $30 for $15 (yeah, best believe we get down like that) from Butter Lane in the lower east side, I immediately went to their website to check out the flavors. Although initially overwhelming because I have a hard time choosing from menus, I decided that I wouldn't make it a birthday surprise as originally planned but ask Maren to choose what flavors she wanted.
With three different cakes to choose from and several frosting, Butter Lane makes it both easy and hard on their customers. A counter lady who looks (tattoos included) and acts like Amy Winehouse does not help either. With the exception of one of the cupcakes, she decided on vanilla and chocolate for the cake and a few of the frosting in addition to: peanut butter, espresso, coconut, raspberry, and burnt caramel.
We both agreed that the chocolate cake, although good, was on the dry side. My personal favorite was the peanut butter frosting which was more peanut buttery than a Reese's and the espresso. I'm not a big coffee person but this flavor was truly great and the little coffee bean on the frosting provided a soft crunch and small, intense flavor. Unfortunately we didn't get to try the raspberry but it looked really good especially with the raspberry placed on top. The burnt caramel (not pictured) carried a unique flavor as well partly due to the fact that a single piece of popcorn was placed on top of the frosting.
I recommend Butter Lane but at $3 a cupcake I would say go to Sugar Sweet Sunshine in Soho. Better price and taste.
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