Frostings

I tried the humming hits cupcake and it was amazing. That is my favorite cake to bake from scratch and they did me proud! I will definitely be back to try more cupcake flavors and cakes. The cupcake was moist great combination of flavor and texture from all of the ingredients. If your trying gratings for the first time or want to try a new flavor I definitely recommend the hummingbird!

After several trips, here’s the punchline for my assessment of Frostings: they do some things AMAZINGLY well (e.g. French Toast, Oatmeal Cream Pie), the rest of the menu is just «Meh» and they don’t offer the truly amazing ones nearly often enough.
The aforementioned French Toast (vanilla bean cake, maple cream cheese frosting, homemade caramel, cinnamon sugar) is one of my favorite cupcakes anywhere! The cake is dense and holds up well to the maple frosting and caramel without being sickeningly sweet.
Oatmeal Cream Pie (oatmeal molasses cupcake is topped with a marshmallow frosting and a homemade oatmeal cookie) is equally amazing, and probably my favorite that Frostings offers; sadly, I haven’t seen it on the menu in weeks! The cake is soft and sweet and the rich molasses is balanced perfectly with the light, marshmallow frosting.
The Cookies & Cream has been disappointment on two occasions now with really dry and crumbly cake and overly-​dense (almost pasty) frosting. Bummer.
The Chocolate Hazelnut was promising in description (I mean, who doesn’t love Nutella?), but was hampered by the same dry, crumbly chocolate cake as the Cookies & Cream. Very disappointing.
From a value perspective, I feel that Frostings’ cupcakes are appropriately sized and priced ($ 2.85), but there is just no telling what you are going to get from week to week, and their very limited everyday flavors (Vanilla, Chocolate, Red Velvet) are not good enough, IMHO, to bring me in on their own. I’ll continue to keep an eye out for my favorites, and visit Small Cakes in the meantime.

Cute interior and no trouble finding parking because the store is in a shopping plaza unlike other cupcake shops that have street parking. The designs and taste of the cupcakes are similar to Georgetown cupcakes! You can see the bakers designing the cupcakes right behind the cash register which is pretty cool too.

We absolutely love frostings! Their cupcakes are rich in flavor without being overwhelming, their flavor combinations are innovative and their staff is very friendly.

Third and final review of Frostings, and they’re still a solid 3 stars – not awful, but not incredible.
The cake is still dense and not moist. The icing is still not sweet. If I’m going to eat dessert, I want it to be sweet. I had the Samoa thinking it was going to be amazing. It wasn’t.
The packaging is pink and attractive. The pricing is okay. The employees are less than enthusiastic.
Just okay.

YUM! I have had this place bookmarked for months, finally got to stop by and pick up some cupcakes for a co-​workers birthday and they were awesome!
So I am not normally a fan of icing, it’s my least favorite part of the cupcake, but Frostings, they do it right. Rich, cream cheese icing was on the cupcake that I had and it was so delicious. I got half-​dozen and all were super sweet, moist, very flavorful, and oh so filling! My favorite was the red velvet which apparently is their most popular flavor and I can see why!

MY GO-​TO FOR GF CUPCAKES
Awesome cupcake flavors. I love the rotating flavors and you can always check out what is being served by the online menu.
The staff is very friendly and accommodating to those with diet restrictions, offering both dairy free icing and gluten free cupcakes everyday at no extra cost, allowing customers to mix and match a gluten free base with whatever icing they would like from the featured flavors.

They keep changing their flavors every week. Even on the Gluten free they change. They keep the vanilla and Chocolate standard for the GF and Regular cupcakes every week but they are always changing flavors so you are always wanting more. They are so moist!!! The frosting is so creamy. I have not found a Gluten Free Cupcake that compares to this one. This is the only place I go to get my cupcakes for any event or even just for my own enjoyment.

I definitely owe Frostings an update. It’s no secret that I was never impressed with their cupcakes (until recently!). Friends used to rave about this place and I didn’t understand, but now I have changed my tune. Perhaps they have made some changes recently or maybe I had just previously gone on bad days. Whatever the case, there’s no question that cupcakes in Richmond are a thing. They’ve pretty much been a thing for the past few years. People are serious about their cupcakes and there is a very stark division among Unilocalers on who has the best in Richmond. No matter which shop you align yourself with, break your loyalty for half a second and check out Frostings whenever you’re in the area. They have a great frosting-​to-​cupcake ratio, moist cake, and tons of delicious flavors. I’ve had a s’more flavored cupcake before and it was uh-​may-​zing.
So, if you’re in the short pump area and you got a hankering for something sweet, you can’t go wrong with Frostings!

Got the Groupon for almost ½ of a dozen. Great deal! They were all delicious, esp Strawberry Shortcake! I will be back!

Very yummy! Great prices, awesome selection. Went there for Valentines Desert it was super good!

I have driven by Frostings many times but have never tried it. After my husband requested a cupcake from here, I decided to go in and give it a try myself.
This is plain and simple a cupcake shop at its core. Frostings is not trying a be a café, a hip place to hang out but rather come get your cupcakes and enjoy them.
I got the red velvet cupcake. It was delicious. The cake was perfectly moist and spongy. The frosting was good as well, a little much for me but I am not the biggest fan of frosting as is.
Frostings also has cakes to order starting at $ 40. I can imagine this would be great for a nice party. I am looking forward to going back to try more flavors.

Holy Yumtasticness! I’ve been looking forward to going to Frostings for month. I finally did with a friend of mine after dinner. I got 6 cupcakes… beacuse, why not. I will say they were all delicious! The Tiramisu was fantastic! As well as the Mexican Hot Chocolate. I can’t wait to go back!

Very yummy cupcakes here! They’re cute and very moist and there’s also a decent selection in the case. For me though they’re extremely sweet, which can be a good or bad thing depending on your tastes (or mood). This is a very popular location so you just might like it.

The shopping center as a whole is a threat to me in many ways, but Frosting, such a short walk from that perennial favorite Trader Joe’s, is worse than the rest. Just one! My id wheedles whenever I near that stretch of Broad. Half of one! You can freeze the rest. You’ll never stop at half, but you can pretend, right up until you pay…
No but truly. The cupcakes are invariably quite tasty, and often come in delightful and inventive flavors… though there’s always something relatively calm for the less adventurous. I have yet to be disappointed in my purchases here save when they run out of something I wanted.

I may be slightly blinded to the best cupcakes in Richmond, being that I live in the West End and literally 2 miles from Frostings, but I LOVE a Frostings cupcake. They always have great flavors, are never sold out when I get there, and the staff are always so nice! I don’t think I have ever had a bad cupcake from Frostings; they are always moist and dense, and the icing is amazing. I also love when they make specialty cupcakes, my personal flavor being the Butterbeer (come on, who wouldn’t love anything Harry Potter). I am always sure to stop by when Butterbeer is on the menu!
I also love to get Frostings cupcakes for gifts for my son’s teachers. They always say how much the love it. They have boxes for 2 cupcakes, which is the perfect size, and you can throw in a little giftcard to somewhere else if you want to beef up the gift size.

There are several cupcake places in RVA but I completely 100% agree with fellow Unilocaler, Katie B., this place has the BEST cupcakes in all of Richmond. I have actually been going here for about three maybe four years now and realized I haven’t written a review yet. so here it goes!
This place is nestled in the Trader Joes shopping center so parking can be a bit of hassle, especially on weekends. They have a classic staple menu in which there are several flavors they carry every day: Vanilla, chocolate, and red velvet. They of course also have seasonal and weekly special cupcakes so make sure to look out for those.
I ALWAYS get cupcakes with cream cheese frosting; it is not only the best type of frosting but should be the only type of frosting to top that cupcake goodness. The cupcakes here are outrageously good: the cupcake itself is moist and doesn’t fall apart and is never over baked. The frosting is sweet but not overly sweet. My favorite types of flavors are: milk and cookies, red velvet, and the chocolate mocha. The service is pretty quick and they almost always have the flavors I want. But I am sure they either run out or are in the process of baking them at peak hours.
$ 2.85 each per cupcake which is about average. If you only one want or two just to snack on, don’t worry, they offer little milk cartons here. Go here for your sweet tooth desires and you will not be disappointed.

I definitely vote Frostings as the best cupcakes in Richmond! I’ve been here many times and they are always fresh and flavors are often very unique and themed to the season, (Irish car bomb in March, Thin Mint during Girl Scout cookie season etc). My favorite is the peanut butter cup because I LOVE peanut butter and chocolate! The frosting is definitely heavy but at almost $ 3 a cupcake, I feel that’s a bonus!
I’ve also ordered lots of customized cupcakes from Frostings for my kids birthdays and school events. The staff is always accomodating and you can call in your order and pay over the phone which really works for my schedule!

My Neice has a Birthday coming up and I wanted to check out these Cupcakes at Frostings as part of a gift.
It was easy to find once I checked out directions through Unilocal.
I was very impressed with the shop. It was very clean and getting to see the staff actually work on the cupcakes just behind the counter was fun. I’m not sure if they do this all the time or just during a busy holiday season. I was also very impressed by the staff. The server at the counter was very sweet and took the time to answer my questions regarding their flavors and toppings.
I ended up getting a dozen (Three times what I had planned) because she was so sweet and made the cupcakes sound like they were from heaven.
She boxed them exactly as I asked, however each box had a couple of cupcakes turned on their side and it was messy once I returned home. Those boxes are pretty but the holes are too big to hold the cupcake.
Once we were all eating the cupcakes there were few complaints. They tasted pretty good. However I was hoping to be blown away. The cake portion of the cupcake was not moist and had started to dry out by 3pm. I am willing to bet these cupcakes were baked early morning, so same day they should not taste dry in any way in my opinion. That’s a little thing this time… I’ll just go earlier in the day next time to buy them moist.
Also, a bag would have been nice for my 3 4-​pack boxes after spending over $ 30 on a dozen. But twas not to be.
I ll be back…

I’ve heard some friends living in the Richmond area raving about Frostings’ cupcakes, so I figured when I was visiting the Short Pump area this weekend, I would pay it a quick visit. It’s located in a corner of the shopping center between Omaha Steaks and Five Below.
My friends and I arrived and were greeted immediately by two staffers working the front of the store. We each ordered what we wanted, paid, and were on our way. The staffers helping customers were super friendly and efficient. We could also see a few other staffers back in the baking area decorating cupcakes and organizing special orders.
The shop itself is very open, simple, and modern. I walked to the back of the shop to use the restroom and enjoyed seeing what I assume is the tasting area for customers ordering cupcakes for weddings or other events.
I had two different cupcakes, and couldn’t of been more pleased with my selections:
1) SAMOA: chocolate cake with caramel ganache filling and a toasted coconut custard frosting.
2) RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE: Vanilla bean cake, raspberry purée filling, cream cheese frosting
Both of these cupcakes were by far the moistest cupcakes I have ever had from a cupcake shop (anywhere). I can’t tell you how much I value a moist cake; biggest pet peeve around baking is dry cake.
The Samoa cupcake is gorgeous at first look and tastes just as good. The chocolate taste was yummy but not too rich. The caramel ganache filling is piped about halfway down in the middle of the cake, nice touch. And OMG, the toasted coconut custard frosting is to die for. Final touch is the chocolate drizzle on top of the frosting. A perfect blend of everything delicious that makes up one of my favorite Girl Scout cookies. Only bad news is that the Samoa flavor was a the flavor of the week for 2−24−14 to 3−2−14, but I hope for you that they bring this flavor back again soon!
I ordered the Raspberry Cheesecake cupcake because the vanilla bean cake drew me in. I was not disappointed. The vanilla bean cake had perfect flavor. The raspberry purée filling was more like fresh raspberries piped directly into the cupcake. SO fresh and such a nice surprise. The cream cheese frosting was a bit sweet for my liking but since the cake and filling was so incredibly delectable, I would definitely order this one again. FYI the Raspberry Cheesecake flavor is currently available on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
I definitely urge you if you live in the Richmond area to pay Frostings a visit; I look forward to stopping by again next time I’m in the area. Also, I would definitely use them for parties if I lived in the area too.