[Photograph: Kathy YL Chan]

Meet the Kissable Cupcake from Sugar Sweet Sunshine. The chocolate-peppermint cupcake base topped with cream cheese frosting and a bright smatter of green sprinkles brings cheer to the end of the work week, and for $1.50 you can't go wrong. Although this kissable cupcake is a fun break from the usual, Sugar Sweet Sunshine's pistachio remains my favorite cupcake flavor at this Lower East Side haunt. But don't forget: Puddings (banana, chocolate-chocolate, and strawberry-lemon) should be given first priority on your visits here.

Sugar Sweet Sunshine

126 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002 (b/n Essex and Norfolk; map)
212-995-1960; sugarsweetsunshine.com