New Cupcake Shop on the Block

They say a new cupcake shop opens up every 7 minutes in New York. Okay, that statistic may or might be true, but I'm fairly positive it's pretty damn close.  On a recent night out in the West Village, after a pitcher (or 3) of sangria, we were en route to the bars.  We said NO to dessert at dinner. We were on a mission - Saturday night out! We had no time for dessert. Alcohol was on the mind!
Until we walked down 7th Avenue South and stumbled (literally) across the House of Cupcakes.  We never heard of it before, but it looks glorious from the outside (and, let's face it, who doesn't like a drunk cupcake) so in we went.

When we walked in, we were overwhelmed by the enormous selection of cupcakes - each and every one sounded absolutely amazing.  We spent at least 15 minutes debating which flavors to try, since we were going to have to carry them into a bar and clearly couldn't try one of each of the 30 flavors!

Summarized list of the best flavors here:
Chocolate cheesecake brownie
Espresso brownie
Hazelnut crepe
Espresso brownie
Dulce de leche
S'mores
Snowball, chocolate OR vanilla
Salted Caramel
Candy Cup
Chocolate chip cookie dough
+ gluten-free & sugar free options

Full list here: House of Cupcakes menu

The House of Cupcakes is originally from Princeton, NJ, and were winners of Cupcake Wars on the Food Network.  I really need to start watching this show!
You can order cupcakes online and customize them for events - anything from birthdays to weddings to client gifts.

We tried the chocolate chip cookie dough and the vanilla snowball.  The cookie dough was probably my favorite cupcake ever.  I mean, raw cookie dough in the middle and a vanilla cream frosting with specks of cookie throughout - how can you go wrong!  I was less enthused with the vanilla snowball, but more because I was hoping it would taste just like the Hostess snowballs from my youth.  We want to come back here once a week until we've tried every cupcake they make.

They also have a wide selection of gigantic freshly baked cookies that looked equally amazing.  While the West Village is cluttered with an exorbitant amount of bakeries, this is one you shouldn't miss!

101 7th Avenue South

Open Sunday-Friday 10am-11pm
Friday-Saturday open until midnight

To conclude, a lovely picture of Miss Joselyn digging into the cupcake in her car - we just couldn't wait until we got home :)