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Two pretty, perky girls as cute as ’50s pinups, Michelle Parparian and
Amanda Watkins, have transformed a 1920s Florida cottage into a vintage
clothing store with a cupcakery in their tiny rear kitchen — a
kitchen known to turn out a thousand cupcakes at a pop for local
events. But they’re not too busy stocking bridal showers and tea
parties to tend to your sweet tooth. Shop for party frocks, beaded
purses, and wrist bangles first, then head to the back of the house for
rejuvenation in the form of chocolate or vanilla cupcakes ($1.75 each)
swirled with the dreamiest pink icing ever whipped up in a vintage
mixing bowl. Along with these deliriously cloudlike cupcakes, they
produce small, dense, heart-shaped brownies ($1 each) and vanilla sugar
cookies with royal icing in dozens of different shapes and themes. For
now, it’s best to call ahead if you want specialty cupcakes like Black
Forest, Red Velvet, carrot, chocolate mint, strawberry shortcake,
lemondrop, or orange creamsicle. But these marvelous mavens plan to
open a full-service café this summer, so all gratifications will
soon be instantaneous.
