When Taressa Neal was selling candles for a living, she baked cupcakes for clients as gifts. She called them “burning” cupcakes.
The cupcakes lasted, the candles didn’t. The name stuck.
Last Saturday, Neal opened Burning Cupcakes in a small, low-slung building near Sixth Avenue and Stevens in the space that formerly housed Kitchen2Kitchen, a meals ready/catering outfit. Neal opened Burning Cupcakes with business partner JoAnn McCullon, who handles the operation side of the business while Neal is chief baker.
Burning Cupcakes aims to be a full-service dessert bakery with
tarts, brownies and myriad treats beyond just cupcakes. …