Yummy Cupcakes vs. Sprinkles

At last! As mentioned before, I finally had a chance to try L.A.'s competitor to Sprinkles Cupcakes, Yummy Cupcakes. Ideally, if this were a true cupcake face-off, I would have had both side by side, taken lots of photos for the blog, done a blind taste test with friends... but a) I had no time to go to both places today, one being in Beverly Hills, the other in Burbank; and b) I was hungry and the cupcakes were far too distracting to report about properly.

So this was basically a scouting mission. (One with a glass of milk and lots of napkins.)

But I can say that you can't go wrong with these cupcakes. Cheaper, perhaps slightly less fancy or boutique-ified than Sprinkles, but larger and to my palette just as delicious. My foodie friend Jenny, her fiancé Jason (who wrote the Apple iPhone's manual!) and I sampled the Peanut Butter, Red Velvet, and Chocolate varieties. Besides that, we saw Snickerdoodle, Blood Orange (sold out just as I got there), and quite a few other kinds. The Peanut Butter was amazing... rich, peanut buttery, smooth, luscious. The Red Velvet was delicious, comparable to the Sprinkles version (but it would have been nice to have them side-to-side.) The Chocolate had a nice cream interior, much more subtle a cupcake than the Peanut Butter.

Obviously more research needs to be conducted... by me, with a gallon of milk.

(Just found out there's a Yummy Cupcakes in Santa Monica now too, so a side-to-side comparison should be much easier.)