What Leslie Feinberg and Brooke Siem of NYC’s Prohibition Bakery find most fun about baking amazingly delicious alcohol-laden cupcakes is doing something that makes people happy. “There’s very few people who are incorporating boozy cupcakes into a sad occasion, Feinberg says with a laugh. “It’s always a good time. It’s always a positive experience.”

Leslie Feinberg sampling the good stuff. Photo credit PMc

Their magical cupcakes even helped to bring Leslie Feinberg and her boyfriend together. “He was actually one of our first customers,” she shares.

Before they started dating, in the early days of Prohibition Bakery, Feinberg delivered to her now-boyfriend’s job. “He knew that if we delivered cupcakes I would have to hang out with him, she chortles. “So I delivered to his job and I told everybody that it was his birthday, which it was not. They all sang to him and it was wonderful.”

In retrospect, Feinberg remembers it as a pretty adorable moment. “One of his co-workers said, “Dude, she definitely likes you, she says. “I would say within weeks we were dating.”

Now isn’t that sugar and spice, and everything nice!

Click on link below to find out more about this boozy baker’s most prized fashion items after the jump.

Jacqueline Colette Prosper, @yummicoco

Hoodie

 Oddly enough, this hoodie is kind of one of my favorite things. I got this at an event when I was still bar tending, in the very early days of the bakery. I was working at a terrible gastropub in Murray Hill, and I went to a Jameson event, where they gave out these hoodies. It’s so comfortable. I cant stop wearing it to this day. I mean it’s been five years and I still wear it all the time!

That’s definitely one of my favorites—kind of indicative of my general style. I’m a pretty comfy person. I wear a lot of jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, boots, that kind of a thing. You don’t see me in mini dresses very often. People are really confused when they see me in a dress and heels, ‘cause it doesn’t happen.

Jeans

I have pair of really ripped-up old jeans from my bartending days that I never wear anymore but I cannot throw away for some reason. I’ve taken them with me to three different apartments. I don’t even know the last time that I wore them. They still fit! But I just can’t let go of them, and they’re a very iconic item to me.

I think there are just those items that make someone feel in control and powerful. I think for some women, it’s a really great dress. For some people, it’s a great pair of shoes, and for some reason those jeans always had that effect on me.

Boots

I have a pair of knee-high leather boots that are flats. I’ve walked all over the world in those boots. I’ve taken them to so many different countries, cities. Everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve just worn them to death. I’ve had them fixed probably six times, and they’re my absolute favorites.

There’s actually a guy up on Delancey and Clinton, right off the bridge, who is an amazing shoe repair guy. When we opened [Prohibition Bakery], I first had to get them fixed. I asked a regular who told me that he was amazing. I took them to him, and he did a great job. Through no fault of his own, I’ve had to have them repaired since then because I won’t stop wearing them, and then walking ten miles.

I walk a lot. I would rather walk twenty blocks than to walk six blocks to take a train two stops, and then walk six. I just walk everywhere, basically. Today, I had an errand in Chelsea Market today and I had another errand on 25^th and 6^th so I just walked it. It was easier. And then when you walk it, you realize that it’s about a mile. The city is real workout like that.