Further to my earlier post on cupcakes, Mike Peska & the Diet Detective are blowing the lid off the caloric and fat content of cupcakes. You can listen to the NPR segment which aired yesterday on Day to Day. They're taking all of the fun out of eating a cupcake!

When did cupcakes become the new big thing? (I guess I'm behind the times!) Pittsburgh is a small to medium-size retail market yet it boasts not one but two cupcake "cafes"-- CoCo Cupcake Cafe in Shadyside and Dozen Cupcakes in Squirrel Hill. The two pictured above are from CoCo Cupcakes -- the one on the right is a flavor of the day "lavender" and has been devoured despite having only a mild