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Cupcakes ready made - where's a good place to go?
I'm just not in the baking mood and I need to pick up cupcakes for a birthday. I have Thursday off and wanted to find a bakery with some different flavors already made that I can just choose from.
Anyone have any suggestions for me? Minneapolis area or north would be great.
Re: Cupcakes ready made - where's a good place to go?
CUPCAKE!
Delish!
While Cupcake has yummy flavors, the quality, IMO, is hit and miss. I've had great cupcakes from there, but I've also had horribly dry cupcakes from there that crumbled when I removed the wrapper.
I've heard great things about the Cake Eater Bakery http://cakeeaterbakery.com/
I am a huge fan of YUM! in St. Louis Park, but most of their cupcakes are huge.
Yelp.com has a lot of places with great reviews:
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Cupcakes&ns=1&find_loc=Minneapolis,+MN
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On the flip side I had a dry crumbly cupcake at Yum! once. :-( I had another that was great though. Weird.
I'm not impressed with Cupcake. I've been there twice, and the cupcakes were dry and bland.
Sweets Bakeshop has interesting flavors, but they're in St. Paul.
http://www.sweetsbakeshop.com/
I also was disappointed with Cupcake, which is extra sad because they're really close to where I live. A friend picked up a bunch of them for a dinner, and I thought they were too dense, heavy, dry, and bland. I didn't think it was possible to screw up a cupcake so badly...and then make a business out of it!
But maybe they're worth another shot?? I've been meaning to try them again, because they really are so close to me.
We got my son's birthday cupcakes from Cupcake and they were fine. Cake Eater Bakery doesn't thrill me though. They never have very many flavors when I go there.
My highest recommendations go to Sweets Bake Shop in St. Paul and Cocoa and Fig in DT Mpls.
I went to Cupcake last year for my bday and while our cupcakes were good (nothing that I was thrilled with though) I wasn't wow'd by the mouse that nearly ran into the restaurant because of an open patio door. I saw that and we packed up and left. That gave me the heebee jeebes.
We recently went to YUM in SLP and I loved their banana butterscotch cupcake. I tried the Yum original (sort of looks like a hostess cupcake with the chocolate frosting and white swirl of frosting) and was dissappointed in that one. DH had the banana butterscotch cupcake and it was SO good.
I'm craving a cupcake now...at 7:50am
I have a Yum! gift card... if my office was closer I think I'd have cupcakes for lunch :-)
DH and I have tomorrow off for Veteran's Day. I told him that we're doing a cupcake tour.
He wasn't as excited as I was. I plan on hitting a bunch of stores up. Thanks for all the ideas!