Edgy Mama

One of the hottest trends in food has finally hit Ashvegas, and if you haven’t been by the Cupcake Corner on Pack Square, you’re missing out.

The Cupcake Corner comes to us courtesy of the Sisters McMullen, bakery owners with a track record of knowing how to please. The cupcake shop opened up recently in the space formerly occupied by Bonnie’s Little Corner on the square in downtown.

We stopped by on Saturday and found the place slammed with tourists packed into the tiny shop. It’s a space not really suited to crushing crowds, but that’s what the cupcake folks were dealing with as downtown buzzed with tourists/shoppers and people just out and about enjoying nearly 70-degree weather.

The pastry case brimmed with gingerbread men and cookies of various sorts and, of course, wonderfully fluffy cupcakes of all kinds. Customers were literally gobbling them up.

The cupcake trend is one of the hottest trends in food these days, having conquered New York, L.A., Detroit and now, apparently, Ashvegas. According to this Detroit Free Press story, the craze can be traced back to 2000, when an episode of “Sex and the City” featured Carrie and Miranda chowing down on cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich village. Magnolia now reportedly sells 3,000 cupcakes a day.

The trend spread to the West Coast a couple of years ago, according to the story, where the shop Sprinkles in Beverly Hills has taken cupcake chic to new levels.

The cupcake craze has even inspired a new blog.

So, now you’re hip to the cupcake craziness and you can try it yourself. Check out the Cupcake Corner and give us your full report.