Arizona Republic cupcake shoutout

You know cupcakes have really taken over the world when you start getting emails about cupcake bakeries opening in South Africa. (check out their boobs and bra concoction!)

Our blog gets a mention in "Creamy, dreamy cupcakes" by Jaimee Rose in The Arizona Republic:

Nationally, this frosting frenzy has been mounting for ages. New York went cupcake crazy about four years ago after Carrie and Miranda gobbled Magnolia Bakery's confections on Sex and the City. Sprinkles opened in Beverly Hills in 2005, and customers still wait in line for 30 minutes to buy a single red velvet cupcake heaped with cream cheese icing.

Oprah passed them out on her TV show. Tyra Banks confessed to being obsessed.

Now you can buy Sprinkles mixes at Williams-Sonoma, and the country has reached critical cupcake mass. There are a cupcake blog (cupcakestakethe cake.blogspot.com), a cutesy "cuppycake" song circulating on YouTube and even Starbucks offering two-packs to take home.

Come September, when Sprinkles opens at Scottsdale and Camelback roads, we'll have our turn to wait in line for cake.