Best Dessert

IN LAKEWOOD - EAST DALLAS

And the winner is …

Smallcakes Cupcakery

Sometimes you’ll find more than just sweets inside a bakery. Smallcakes Cupcakery in Mockingbird Station (5331 E. Mockingbird, Suite 140) is one such shop. Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate readers took notice, voting Smallcakes as the best dessert spot in the neighborhood. Sure, owner Latricia Green sells some of the tastiest cupcakes around she says people began ordering cupcakes online before her store even opened earlier this year — but she also has a passion for people that is contagious. “I tell everybody that they will not walk out the same way they came in,” Green says. “You will feel like you are 5 years old again. You’ll want to play jacks and Twister.” A sure bet is the moist red velvet cupcake, but Green says the strawberry was so popular that customers insisted she include it on the daily menu, which features 13 cupcake flavors and a few additions such as pecan pie and lemon poppy, depending on the day. Upon learning the results of the Advocate contest, Green says, she was brought to tears. “God has blessed me to be able to open this shop,” she says. She dedicated the business to her daughter, who passed away during childbirth. “I wanted to show my grandchildren that they can do anything they want to if they put their mind to it,” she says. —Whitney Thompson

Runner up: Annie’s Culinary Creations

Third place: Unrefined Bakery

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