The sweetest art in small doses.
CUPCAKE MADRID
At number 126 of the street Velazquez we found a cozy bakery with sweets that take away the senses. This is Cupcake Madrid, a family business launched by Marta Hidalgo and her mother in January 2010, although it was much earlier when they both began to practice with the pastry bag. “We started six years ago making cakes at home, for family and friends birthdays. We had always liked confectionery and seeing the success we had, we continue practicing”, Marta tells us. Surfing the Internet, they discovered the fashion for cupcakes in the United States and began to make them at home, until they finally decided to open a store.
Their mini tarts are true gourmet delights: they triumph Good morning (double vanilla), the Sancho Panza (double chocolate), the Oreo and the classic Red Velvet, red cake. The secret of its success is in the fresh ingredients : Bourbon vanilla from Madagascar, Belgian chocolate and real butter bring the best flavor to your pastries. Every day of the week they make six different flavors, as well as brownies, cookies, decorated cakes and minicupcakes (on request). There are also cupcakes despues de Eight, Kit Kat and Banana Split . Irresistible.
Sweets that take away the senses.
Creativity at the order of the pastry bag
SWEET ILLUSIONS
Apple with cinnamon, Brownie and Lemon. These are the three cupcakes that we are recommended to try at Dulces Ilusiones, a store in Valdemoro dedicated to the most creative confectionery. Natalia Boccassi, responsible for this sweet adventure, tells us that since childhood she lived surrounded by sugar and cakes, that her dream had always been to dedicate herself to confectionery (despite having studied architecture). This Argentine admits to being very impulsive, but also detail oriented and perfectionist . And that we see is her little works of art where she unleashes her creativity. At the end of May, Dulces Ilusiones will open new stores in the Madrid neighborhood of Las Tablas and in Soria.
HAPPY DAY BAKERY
A few steps from the subway Court is Happy Day Bakery , a charming pastry shop with a naif decoration, which reminds us of a doll house . Esther, her owner, hadn't heard of cupcakes until she compared her vintage Lolina Café bar to New York's famous Magnolia Bakery. And that's where it all started. Esther was fascinated by these little cakes, also known as fairy cakes. This was four years ago, when they opened the first cupcake shop in Spain. Their best-selling mini tarts are the Red Velvet, carrot and chocolate with blue vanilla, although they also offer other delicacies such as carrot with dulce de leche, cappuccino, piña colada and even chocolate cupcakes. Coke . In addition to pastries, they have an American mini-supermarket where you can buy dough to make pancakes, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter...
A patisserie with a naive appearance
Here confectionery becomes art.
SINGLUTENTATIONS
Gabriela Marchesotti opened her store Singlutentaciones exactly a year ago, near the neighborhood of Chamartin . Her pastry is special: she works all her sweets gluten free . “I have experienced first-hand the ordeal of celebrating a family event and that my daughter, who has been diagnosed with celiac disease since she was 18 months old, cannot eat the same as everyone else,” explains this entrepreneurial mother. To prevent celiac children from always carrying "the lunch box" to all birthday parties, Gabriela, who left her career as a manager in a multinational company, prepares in her own business a designer bakery for all . "We have many customers who are not celiac but say that gluten-free pastries feel better and gain less weight. There is so much demand, that we are even preparing lactose-free or egg-free sweets ”, She details. Gabriela recommends us to try the cupcake lemon pie (lemon with lemon filling and meringue coverage), the Berries (vanilla with delicious raspberry cream) and the Banoffi (dark chocolate with sweet milk and banana) . The latter is a real bomb for those with a sweet tooth.
SWEETNESS
The crisis has not stopped the dreams of Paula Martín and her sister Patricia de Ella, who opened their small Dulcidea store in 2012, in Leganes . "Our passion for cupcakes began a couple of years ago, when creative pastries began to appear in Spain and were already a success in cities like London either New York . Now, every time we travel to other countries, we visit bakeries to get inspired by new recipes”, explains Paula. In Dulcidea they also sell cookies, cakepops and cakes, all of which are designer. “We also have workshops in our establishment where we teach how to make this type of dessert. In the courses, each student makes and decorates six cupcakes with different techniques and different flavors that they take home,” explains this young woman. Here you learn to create true works of art for the palate.
Small works of art for the palate
CREAM BAKERY
Cream Bakery is another of the cupcake temples that we can find in Madrid. Located in the Paseo de la Castellana , this store makes us salivate as soon as we walk through the door. Their display cases are filled with cupcakes, biscuits, cookies, brownies and blondies. All fresh and of great quality. Only high-end ingredients are used here: free-range eggs, real butter, high-quality cocoa and organic vanilla from our own production. And that is certainly noticeable in the result. The best place to enjoy one of these mini cakes is in its cozy tea room.
OH MY CUP BAKERY
It has only been open for four months and has already become one of the favorite places for those with a sweet tooth in the neighborhood of Saint Eugenie . Norberto and Patricia are two lifelong friends who, crazy about this type of pastry, created their own pastry shop, first online and now physically: Oh my cup Bakery. Both lived for a time in the United States where they learned the secrets of the sweetest American tradition. Their specialties are the Red Velvet Cupcake, the Carrot Cupcake and the intensely flavored cupcakes. pure chocolate. The mini chocolate tarts with vanilla buttercream are also delicious, the one with Airing , the one with mint chocolate and another white chocolate with buttercream from Bailey's . Hard choise!
A temple of cupcakes in Santa Eugenia
COSMEN & KEILESS
In the neighborhood Alonzo Martinez, we found another elegant patisserie with a very American flavor: Cosmen & Keiless. Known for its excellent variety of breads, this bakery prepares delicious American pastries in its ovens, including cupcakes. It is impossible not to look at the windows awash in the colors of these little cupcakes. The North American Kay Hespen and her husband José Suárez are the owners of this charming place, where the premise is to do things well and with the necessary time. The result goes into it. In Madrid, we find up to eight Cosmen & Keiless stores.
PANELA & CO.
In Lopez de Hoyos we come across a space full of charm with a London facade and a New York heart: Panela & Co. In this deli-cafe-restaurant they prepare daily cupcakes in an artisanal way. “Everything is homemade, from the muffin to the frosting and decorations. We make them every day in our kitchen, and they are addicting! ”, explains Bárbara Rodriguez, one of its founders. Panela & Co's star cupcakes are the Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting, the Devils Fodd Cupcake with nutella and the Carrot Cake with cream cheese. "We want the client to feel like in his living room," says Bárbara. A fantastic place to accompany our cupcake with a good coffee and good music.
Here the star cupcake is the Red Velvet
Panela & Co: cupcakes with a New York heart
KEDULCE BAKERY
Kedulce is another bakery that offers delicious homemade sweets. Opened a year ago in Villaviciosa de Odón, this small store offers everything from classic cupcakes such as Red Velvet or carrot cupcakes, to seasonal flavors, such as mini strawberry tarts. For Silvia Saavedra , her owner, her concern for feeding her children and the desire to surprise them, led her to rethink her life and create this small business with which she reconciles her work life with the family her. Silvia encourages us to try a fresh rose cupcake, another made from canary banana and one special honey and Greek yogurt. And all homemade, with natural ingredients and without saturated fats. Other specialties such as macarons, cookies of different flavors and shapes, Petit Fours, chocolates and many more sweets are also cooked in their ovens.
Kedulce offers cupcakes and healthy pastries