Something Sweet

A new lovely, homey bakery has opened up right across from the best pizza in D.C. (2 Amys, obviously). The bakery is pink, green, and endlessly cute. Their treats taste homemade and very good. The menus and even the store hours sign are hand-written. The staff are actually helpful and seem happy to have you there.

Something Sweet has several sweet things that they will put into handy-dandy single serving containers for takeaway: frozen treats, cookies, tarts, brownies and 6 or 7 flavors of cupcakes.

This shop is doing big flavors and plenty of sugar. All the usual cupcakes are reminiscent of old favorites that your mom made. The vanilla cake was a bit wet, and the M&Ms on top of the chocolate frosting were a little cutesy, but the chocolate buttercream itself was wonderful. The chocolate cake is very chocolate-y, and the vanilla buttercream while slightly gritty is a meringue-like fluff of vanilla goodness. I haven't been there while they've had an orange flavored cupcake, but a friend of mine assures me it is like biting into a sweet and juicy orange that just happens to have the texture of cake and buttercream.

So grab a friend, have some pizza, buy a cupcake, and eat it on a bench on the beautiful National Cathedral grounds. It's a nice way to spend an afternoon.

Heather's Pick: Red Velvet
This is the real deal! The red velvet cake is dense and tangy and the cream cheese frosting is extraordinarily creamy and sweeter than I usually go for, but not unpleasantly so. I meant to leave half the red velvet for my husband, truly I did.