urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2010-07-16T15:19:46Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:254605 2010-07-16T15:19:01Z 2010-07-16T15:19:46Z Marla Sokoloff, "Grateful." So I tend to post about things that make me happy (being a generally happy sort of girl), and that means I've mentioned <a href="http://www.cupsandcakesbakery.com/CCB/Home.html">the Cups and Cakes Bakery in San Francisco</a> a time or two. They make awesome cupcakes which thrill and delight; they're easily accessible on foot or via public transit; and they're just generally awesome people, tolerant of my crazy requests and of things like my publisher asking them to let me film while they make a few dozen brain cupcakes. My love for this bakery has been well-earned, and well-justified.<br /><br />Last night, after work, I went by the bakery to pick up a dozen cupcakes. It was my sister Rachel's girlfriend's thirtieth birthday, and we wanted to celebrate. (We wound up celebrating primarily by going to the Old Spaghetti Family, because we are <i>hard-core</i>, yo.) Since the flavors hadn't been posted online before I left the office, I called Rachel from the bakery to list off the cupcakes they had in stock.<br /><br />"Chris said she really wanted Grasshopper* if they had it," she said.<br /><br />"Well, they don't have Grasshopper," I replied, and kept discussing flavors with her, not really registering the fact that the cupcake ladies had gone into bucket-checking overdrive as they dug through the tubes of existing frosting. We finished our phone call. I went to place my order.<br /><br />Jennifer, the owner, held up a tube of green frosting. "We can make you some Grasshoppers, if you want."<br /><br />Yes. The cupcake bakery, <i>without being asked</i>, made my sister's girlfriend her favorite cupcakes on her birthday. Now, they did it because they happened to have the frosting on-hand, but still! How many places will go to that sort of trouble just to make somebody happy? We plied Chris with cupcakes and flowers and balloons and faux-Italian food, and she had about the best birthday of anybody ever, and it was partially due to the wonderful women of Cups and Cakes.<br /><br />And also the cupcakes were delicious.<br /><br />I love awesome people.<br /><br />(*Chocolate cupcakes with peppermint frosting and a Junior Mint on top. They taste like Thin Mints magically transformed into cake, and they are punch-a-Girl Scout delicious.)