3249 Scott Street (between Lombard and Chestnut)
San Francisco, CA 94133
P 415 563-CAKE
F 415 563 2252 for ordering
hours Daily 10-6
Speaking of Giant Cupcakes, if you didn't already know about Kara's, you need to get on a bus, get in your car, get on your bike (useful to burn off the calories you will eventually be consuming once you get to Kara's) and GO to the best cupcakery in the Bay. Or at least, the only cupcakery in the Bay that I know of.
I fell in love with cupcakes as an adult on my first solo trip to NYC in 2003, when a friend of mine and her roommate took me to the ever-so-famous Magnolia Bakery on Bleecker Street. I had a vanilla cupcake. I was hooked. Since that fateful day, free-standing cupcake shops have gained enormous popularity, like Sprinkles in Los Angeles, and now, Kara's. What's special about Kara's is that they care to use only the best local ingredients, like fruits from the Ferry Building Farmer's Market, Clover Dairy milk (Petaluma, CA) and Scharffenberger Chocolate (Berkeley, CA).
What to order? My favorites are the Fleur de Sel (a moist chocolate cake with a caramel center and chocolate frosting, topped with a tiny bit of Fleur de Sel), the Coconut Vanilla (vanilla cupcake with coconut cream cheese frosting), and my personal favorite, the Buttermilk Vanilla (vanilla cupcake with a Madagascar bourbon vanilla buttercream). They also do a fantastic Meyer Lemon filled cupcake. Prices range from $2.00 (mini cupcakes) to $3.25 (filled cupcakes). A little pricey, but you can't really put a price on a little piece of heaven, now can you?
1 comment:
There's supposedly a "Sibby's" cupcakes down in San Mateo somewhere that's good...we will have to do some investigative cupcake eating to be sure!
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