Atlanta - May 16, 2007

La Sweet Petite

Atlanta Cupcake Factory

Things used to be simpler. Leave your bike out in the rain, no TV for a week. Forget to beat the street lights home, make it two. Still, one handmade macaroni necklace later, all was forgiven.

But times have changed. So when string and pasta fail you, try Atlanta Cupcake Factory.

The brainchild of Morningside mommies Jamie Fahey and Lori Glover, the little venture cranks out and delivers homemade cupcakes in more than 24 flavors — from basic (sugar cookie vanilla, carrot cake, chocolate) to premium (chocolate Baileys, banana brown sugar).

Fantastic toppings like chocolate espresso beans, gourmet mint balls, miniature horses, and candy straws bump up the wow factor, making forgiveness as easy as one, two, three.

Or twelve.

Atlanta Cupcake Factory (678-358-9195 or atlantacupcakefactory.com). Also available at MetroFresh, 931 Monroe Drive, Midtown (404-724-0155).