A bakery in Bay Ridge is celebrating nearly 15 years of business, and its signature chocolate cake continues to be a big hit. At Little Cupcake Bakeshop all the cakes are handmade. "No machines are making anything here," says head baker Salvatore Lobuglio.Lobuglio says he and his family used childhood memories as inspiration to open the Bay Ridge shop.

"We grew up eating all Italian foods, Italian pastries and this was a novelty in my family. We didn't have this type of food where we grew up," says Lobuglio. "When we had this, we were like 'wow, this is like a treat,' we wanted to bring people together the way these desserts brought us together at the dinner table when we were kids." Lobuglio says the shop's most popular item is the Brooklyn Blackout cake.