Ladybird Bakery: The First “Go Here” feature!

This pic from Kristy S. on Yelp

This is the first ever “Go Here:” post (a brand spanking new Monday feature) and I chose Ladybird Bakery to start it off since it’s the kind of place I dream of owning one day. This bakery used to be known as Two Little Red Hens until 2006, when the owners amicably parted and the Brooklyn location was kept by one of them who renamed it Ladybird Bakery.

OK, first let me say that I flat out love this place, mmkay? I love the way it looks, with the wood paneling, the trinkets on the walls, the high counters full goodies and I love the regs reading books and chatting to the people behind the counter, so much so that I asked to lady behind the counter to work there.

On my last visit I picked up a Marble cupcake and a mini yellow cupcake with chocolate frosting, the mini cupcake took a bit of a thrashing on the way home, so the frosting is a little smashed.

The Marble cupcake was splendid, the cake was fresh and tasty, not crumbly and the two frostings together were great, the white frosting balanced out the Chocolate frosting that on it’s own is a little too sweet. The mini cupcake was a little dryer than the big one but still good and as I said before the chocolate was good but too sweet for me, and it’s probably just for me, anyways, I’m a bitter chocolate kinda gal.

Make sure to stop by Ladybird if you’re ever in Park Slope, their known for their Brooklyn Blackout cake, that one yelper described as: “the apogee of baked goods: incredibly rich and overwhelmingly chocolate-y. In a word, decadent.” Which, by the way, I haven’t tried yet, I have however had their lemon cloud cupcake and it was brimming (brimming!) with yummy lemon curd.