Volunteering to make cupcakes for your little brother’s bar mitzvah seemed like a really good idea at the time.

Until you realized that the only pastry recipes you know are for the Easy-Bake oven. And that’s no way to treat family.

Instead, take them all down to Tart’s new cupcake bar, where they can get customized chocolate or vanilla treats with sweet cream or fudge frosting and toppings  like bits of candy bars, sprinkles, cookies, peppermint, marshmallow, and coconut.

Just walk up to the bar and tell the chefs exactly what you want. They’ll whip up the icing just the way you like it and spread it on like the experts that they are. Perfect every time.

Something that could never be said about your toy oven experiments.

Tart, 5219 West Lovers Lane,  Lovers at Inwood (469-335-8919). Call ahead for orders of six or more.