Best cupcakes in Park Slope

[brooklynmasala]

I am looking for the best chocolate cupcakes in Park Slope - even better would be a cupcake version of a black & white cookie. I went to Tempo Presto because I remembered reading their cupcakes were good but the problem is their chocolate cupcakes are stored very close to their peanut butter cupcakes and I am VERY allergic to peanuts. TIA

[libraryhound]

Downtown Atlantic in Boerum Hill (Atlantic Ave betw. bond and hoyt) has good cupcakes, but they also have a cupcake with peanuts on it stored near the other varieties. If the fake hostess cupcake is a safe distance away from peanuts, i recommend that one- it has good chocolate flavor, and an extremely satisfying cream center.

[eeee]

I've had some delicious little cupcakes at Blue Apron on Union and 7th. Not eat-in, obviously.

[redgirl]

i believe that those are from 'baked' in red hook. i had one of their oatmeal cookies with chips the other day...omg,they were amazing!

[Lauren]

Baked has to be my favorite bakery in NYC and i haven't ever been to the real bakery! Simply based on the incredible cupcakes & cookies i've bought at Blue Apron, I think it outshines any of the others (Buttercup/Sugarsweet, Two Red Hens, Downtown Atlantic, Bouchon Bakery - though different thing, but I liked Baked's cookies better, etc etc etc)

[eldayo]

The Chocolate Room on 5th Ave in Park Slope has the best Cupcakes in The Slope

[JessicaSophia]

If your chocolate cupcake yen is ongoing, you might watch for the opening of Joyce bakeshop in Prospect Heights (Vanderbilt and Park). Judging from the Web site, she'll have cupcakes as well.

Supposedly it's opening at the end of the month-- and, living a block away, I can't wait!!

Link: http://www.joycebakeshop.com/about.html

[parkslopemama]

Unfortunately, the problem is not just where the cupcakes are stored, but whether peanut molecules get mixed into the cupcakes while they are being made in the kitchen. For example, Two Little Red Hens makes their cupcakes in the same kitchen as their peanut butter cookies, and they can't promise that stray peanut butter didn't touch the same counter or whatever.

A friend of mine whose son has a life-threatening peanut allergy says, basically, that she cannot buy him anything from commercial bakeries because there is always some risk of contamination from peanuts, peanut butter and/or peanut oil.

Sorry to be a bearer of bad news, brooklynmasala, but I really don't want a fellow chowhound to get sick!

[Zoelee]

Brooklyn Blackout cupcake at Ladybird Bakery (8 ave and 12th St) is delicious!!

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Ladybird Bakery
1112 8th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

[Miss Needle]

Ladybird's got a new pink velvet cupcake which is very delicious (and cute!). It's similar to red velvet except they use less red coloring, has a very flavorful strawberry jam center and topped with pink cream cheese frosting.

[cazique]

Now I know what I'll be picking up on my way to dinner w/friends on 12th street this weekend - yum.

(Now that I think about it - maybe I'll even get something for them too.)