Cupcake Boom: Is a Bubble in the Works?

Beltway locals know Baked and Wired as the edgy cupcakery in tony Georgetown. The menu boasts confections like the 'Chocolate Cupcake of Doom' and provocative graphic art blankets the bakery walls. Their popular strawberry cupcakes have bleeding fresh berries folded into yellow cake batter. Baked and Wired has even turned the idea of cutesy cupcakes on its head by baking giant cupcakes by special order, massive enough to feed six. (Courtesy Iwan Bagus)