Yesterday was my first visit to SusieCakes Cupcakes. Everything about this small bakery is inviting. Outside a heart-dotted logo welcomes visitors like a neon hug from grandma. Inside a rainbow row of jellybean jars draws your eye to a glass case of uniformly frosted cupcakes, fresh-baked cookies and glossy single-serving cheesecakes. The room is bright, the staff is friendly, and the sweetly scented air is either hand-whipped buttercream, or your favorite childhood memories of frosting birthday cakes with mom. 
My companions for this visit were veteran SusieCake customers and ordered up their favorite flavors with confidence and vigor. I stared at a chorus line of confetti-topped temptation with pained concentration and eventually ended up leaving with four cupcakes (lemon, coconut, peanut butter and mint), and a Whoopie pie. I was a Whoopie pie virgin and we weren’t even out the door before I was tearing off bites for the three curious mouths I came with. Imagine if you will, the softest, spongiest, warm-from-the-oven chocolate cookie. Now imagine two and slather them generously with buttercream. Buttery like Babs buttah-creaaaaam. When my eight-year old niece took a bite, her eyes rolled up into her head and a gentle sigh passed through her lips. Out of the mouth of babes… 
In addition to their incredible cupcakes (after sampling the four we brought home, my husband and I agreed that we would order each flavor again, but that the Whoopie pie and mint cupcake deserved an honorable mention for their excessive yumminess), SusieCakes also does wedding cakes, birthday cakes, pies, bars, mini cupcakes and cookies. They use recycled paper products, make everything from scratch, and give back to the community with annual donations. With four locations around Los Angeles and two in the Bay area, SusieCakes is a small, but accessible bakery worth a visit. See ya soon SusieCakes!
My companions for this visit were veteran SusieCake customers and ordered up their favorite flavors with confidence and vigor. I stared at a chorus line of confetti-topped temptation with pained concentration and eventually ended up leaving with four cupcakes (lemon, coconut, peanut butter and mint), and a Whoopie pie. I was a Whoopie pie virgin and we weren’t even out the door before I was tearing off bites for the three curious mouths I came with. Imagine if you will, the softest, spongiest, warm-from-the-oven chocolate cookie. Now imagine two and slather them generously with buttercream. Buttery like Babs buttah-creaaaaam. When my eight-year old niece took a bite, her eyes rolled up into her head and a gentle sigh passed through her lips. Out of the mouth of babes… In addition to their incredible cupcakes (after sampling the four we brought home, my husband and I agreed that we would order each flavor again, but that the Whoopie pie and mint cupcake deserved an honorable mention for their excessive yumminess), SusieCakes also does wedding cakes, birthday cakes, pies, bars, mini cupcakes and cookies. They use recycled paper products, make everything from scratch, and give back to the community with annual donations. With four locations around Los Angeles and two in the Bay area, SusieCakes is a small, but accessible bakery worth a visit. See ya soon SusieCakes!
sounds delic! let’s go there when i visit you next!
It’s a date!!