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A savory vegetable cupcake with whipped goat cheese spread.

There are plenty of spots downtown that cater to workers’ whims. Last month, one opened that will be hard to top. To celebrate its second location, in the site of a former news kiosk at the foot of Winthrop Lane off Devonshire Street, Lulu’s Sweet Shoppe has created a breakfast cupcake, a savory brioche-and-French bread pudding in cupcake form ($1.50 to $2.75), filled with vegetables or bacon and topped with feta or goat cheese “frosting” on request. The cupcakes debuted last month and so far, “the people who have bought them loved them,” says owner Sandy Russo. “Some of them even ate them in the kiosk.”

Russo is exploring other breakfast options, such as scones, but that’s not to say that the store has abandoned its sweet cupcakes, like banana and caramel, red velvet, and the signature Lulu, a fresh-baked take on Hostess. On her third visit in as many days recently, Kathleen Barton chose a Nutella cupcake. Having Lulu’s right downstairs makes it hard to resist temptation, says Barton, who works at an investment marketing firm, “But I’ll try to limit it to once a day.”  Lulu’s Sweet Shoppe, 20 Winthrop Square (behind 85-93 Franklin St.), Boston, 857-250-4946, www.lulu
boston.com.  LUCIA HUNTINGTON