Old-School Chelsea Cupcakes And A Banana Icebox Cake
Pick up a frosted cupcake and a slice of banana icebox cake at an old-school Chelsea bakery on Ninth Avenue.
🧁 The cupcake case
The counter reads like an American bakery from another decade, with swirled buttercream cupcakes lined up by flavor and layer cakes under glass domes. The item regulars guard is the banana icebox cake, chocolate wafers softened between whipped cream and fresh banana until the whole thing slices like pudding. A vanilla cupcake with a thick cap of buttercream is the low-stakes way in, sweet and unfussy. The Chelsea shop on Ninth Avenue keeps a short menu of classics, and boxes move quickly across the counter on weekend afternoons.
