After selling Sprinkles in the early 2010s, Candace Nelson and her husband launched a new culinary venture that takes a different approach to a classic dish.

The store’s private equity owner, which bought the chain in 2012 to help it expand, isn’t saying why it is shutting all stores nationwide.

The boutique chain’s co-founder, Candace Nelson, said that the business had ceased operations at year’s end. It was sold to a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sprinkles Cupcakes, a chain of scratch-made gourmet cupcakes, cookies and cakes that got its start in Beverly Hills and was later bought by a private equity ...