Crumbs (none left if I'm eating there) Bake Shop

(Wow!  I'm carrying around a business card for a cupcake joint.  Sign me up for help, please.)

Crumbs is this delightful bake shop I've found.  They have locations in DC, Los Angeles, Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, so it's not some little boutique bake shop tucked away.  It's a chain.  I'd never heard of crumbs, so, despite its spreading across to the East and West coasts, it still felt like a special find to me. 

I started to see people coming in and out of Union Station carrying these little boxes with jester stickers on them, and I thought I need one of those boxes with one of those fun stickers, and I need a belly full of empty calorie goodness.

Crumbs has just about any flavor you can dream up.  For Easter, they have peeps cupcakes.  There's a cosmo, carrot cake, red velvet, happy birthday, good guy (looks like a Hostess cupcake), Artie Lange, Baba Booey, blackout, strawberry, Irish creme, cookies and cream, and the list goes on and on.  I guess you can tell I took a long time making up my mind.  I ended up getting the happy birthday, and it did not disappointment.  The cake was yellow and there were sprinkles baked into the cake.  Get a load of this.

Now, I have an ode to my Crumbs cupcake and all the other cupcakes I've loved before.

Ode to Cupcakes

Corrogated wrapper

Be it foil or paper

Delights me with

Pavlovian desire

as I peel it off.

Be it yellow, white,

or chocolate,

Forever a mound of

Yumness

Capped with frostiness

just like a snowy mount.