Downtown Chip Brown: Big Men Bake Too
Cupcake baker is probably the last career you'd imagine for Chip Brown. A towering 6 feet 5 inches, Brown has the physique of a football star--and the culinary sensibility of a pastry chef. Or your elderly aunt. A New York City native, Brown baked cakes for co-workers and for the catering business he started while working in politics, medicine, programming and web start-ups. That is, until he finally decided to quit his day job and start his own bakery.
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At Big Man Bakes, which opened on Main Street downtown nine weeks ago, there are XL cupcakes ($3.25) and mini cupcakes ($1), but only a few flavors at a time, including Brown's signature carrot cupcakes and red velvet cupcakes. Frosting is important, says Brown, although he can't stand top heavy cupcakes--small, dense cakes burdened by inches of thick frosting. When asked to name a cupcake bakery in Los Angeles that he admires, Brown can't think of one, but he appreciates the competition: "I think there's room in the cupcake game for everyone."
Big Man Bakes: 413 S. Main St., Los Angeles; (213) 500-4351.
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