1. Yummy Cupcakes (Santa Monica) - With 140 cupcake flavors, Yummy offers a rotating daily menu in jumbo, classic, and mini sizes; recent specials include cupcake biscotti and cupcake-in-a-jar for Valentine’s Day. 2. Famous Cupcakes (Hollywood) - Start your day off right with Famous’ Good Morning Cupcake with vanilla beans and a sprinkled blend of brown sugar, cinnamon, and graham crackers. Custom cupcake bouquets cover everything from weddings to Jewish holidays. 3. Sprinkles Cupcakes (Beverly Hills) - Possibly the most popular cupcake in the class with ingredients including bittersweet Belgian chocolate, pure Madagascar Bourbon vanilla, and natural citrus zests. Sprinkles made the cupcake trendy again; their “modern dots” on flavors -- including mocha, pumpkin, and red velvet -- make them the leader of the pack.

4. Crumbs Bake Shop (Beverly Hills) - “Made by Hand. Baked With Love,” Crumbs' cupcake menu features gourmet cupcakes like the Heath bar, blueberry swirl, and pistachio, while vanilla-, strawberry-, and chocolate-frosted cupcakes are among the classic offerings. 5. Vanilla Bake Shop (Santa Monica) Like most of the others, Vanilla has daily rotating specials -- Tuesday’s peanut butter cake with milk chocolate frosting is delectable -- while the daily dose of standards like Mom’s Birthday Cake features All-American yellow cake and milk chocolate frosting. Cupcakes are available stuffed or unstuffed and run a reasonable $3.25, with three cupcake babies for $5. 6. Big Sugar Bakeshop (San Fernando Valley) - Boasting Belgian chocolate, red velvet and chococcino -- chocolate cake with cappuccino buttercream -- Big Sugar also provides a one-stop shop for gifts as well with a solid selection of cards and other tasty treats to make for a perfect basket of trouble. 7. Dots Cupcakes (Pasadena) - With a daily schedule of mouth-watering blends -- chocolate mint and almond coconut are a few -- Dots also gives back to the community, donating cupcakes to groups “that strive to make a difference.” 8. Mrs. Beasley’s Cupcakes (Beverly Hills) - Dubbed Hollywood’s favorite bakery, Mrs. B’s cupcakes are topped with three inches -- that’s right, three inches -- of frosting as well as candy, sprinkles, and other various goodies. Flavors include chocolate ganache and apple pie. 9. Kiss My Bundt (West Hollywood) - Specializing in bundt cakes and offering “mini bundts” at a very cupcake-like price of $2.50 a pop, their Daily 8 selections include the Luscious Lemon Drop Cake, featuring a house-made lemon syrup and lemon glaze. 10. Polkatots Cupcakes (Pasadena) - Cupcake cakes! Individually, they’re amazing, but together they form a cupcake cake -- and look like a work of art -- with 30 individual cupcakes forming one cake that's custom designed for any occasion, for all ages.