BebeCakes Cupcakery *****

OBSERVATION. SCRAPS OF GIRLY PINK CLOUDS STREWN ACROSS A BABY BLUE SKY. A newborn day greets me.

INSPIRATION. ABRAHAM-HICKS CALENDAR QUOTE (please buy one at Abraham-Hicks.com > Store > Calendars > Planning Calendar/Workbook). TIME OF AWAKENING. This is one of the most remarkable times of physical man being physically focused and Non-physically intertwined. It's the reason we call it time of awakening. So let's begin by saying, you wouldn't have missed it for anything. Every Non-physical Energy of good report, praiseworthy and eager to be of value to the Universe and to the All-That-Is, is present in some form or other on this planet at this time. We don't know of any intense Energy that is not represented by one of you. In other words, we are here in all of our fanfare and all of our glory to experience the remarkable planet Earth experience."

I love knowing there's a party going on here and that we've all been invited. The question is:  Did you show up and what did you bring?

WHILE I WAS IN PALO ALTO RECENTLY, I STUMBLED UPON A TINY CUPCAKERY (don't you just love saying that word?) called BebeCakes. They're across the street from the Stanford Theater and at the front of the Paper Whirl (stationery store) at 230 University Avenue, 650-722-9528, BebeCakesCupcakery.com

The cupcakes are soooo pretty and the descriptions are enticing. I was trying to decide between the:

--  VaVaVoom:  Intense chocolate cake, filled with cream cheese & chocolate chips, topped with a cream cheese frosting and Belgian chocolate straws.

--  Pink Lady:  Moist white cake, a Bavarian cream filling, topped with a pink champagne frosting, finished with white chocolate shavings.

--  Drama Queen:  Tropical coconut cake, coconut buttercream frosting, and fresh coconut shavings.

Decisions. Decisions.

I finally chose the Drama Queen since coconut is not a flavor most bakeries carry. AMAZING. Moist. Flavorful. Delish.

I was chatting with Johann Machado, the creator of Bebe Cakes. She asked if I was a lemon person. OH, YEAH! So she gave me one for free because she had so many. Not just any old lemon cupcake, mind you. That would be Pucker Up, a lightly scented lemon cake, filled with a tart lemon curd, and topped with lemon cream cheese frosting. Oh, be still my heart!

Seems Johann is a former fashion designer. In fact, her handbag line was featured by Lucky Magazine as the "it" bag. She thanks her grandfather, a NYC baker, for introducing her to the world of sweet goodies from the oven. BebeCakes started from a family recipe, which she expanded into 14 different flavors (lucky us).

These cupcakes are moist and flavorful. For about $3.25 each, they're a bargain.

And for those of you on a diet, you can have your cake and eat it too by ordering a Mini for just $2.00.

I hope she's wildly successful.

When you finish your movie at the Stanford Theater, walk across the street and end your night on a sweet note with a luscious BebeCakes cupcake.

May sweetness surround you,

Catherine