Like all abstract things, nostalgia can’t be bottled or bought, but it can be had with a couple of cupcakes from Cupcakes by Sonja, located at the classy Serendra strip at Bonifacio Global City.

Inspired by New York’s Magnolia Bakery (popularized by Sex in the City’s Carrie Bradshaw), Cupcakes stays true to Sonja Ocampo’s vision of taking people back to an era when being on time for meetings and beating deadlines at work were secondary to spending a leisurely evening with the family.

It’s that warm, fuzzy nostalgia that Cupcakes exudes the minute you set foot inside the quaint store. More than a dozen varieties of cupcakes line the glass display case, while the smell of pastries baking wafts from the small kitchen (which, according to Sonja, is open 24 hours a day). The sight of the cupcakes themselves is already a treatâ€