Just Baked

You’d think with all controversy over this company, they’d put out a better product to at least try to improve their reputation. We had their cupcakes for our daughter’s 15^th birthday at the beginning of the month. My wife and I could’ve saved quite a few dollars using Duncan Hines mix and making our own. But the worst part was the icing. Which seemed to be about a week old. It was almost crunchy on the outside. We ended up running over to Kroger and buying more cupcakes there. They were pretty good. Go to Kroger before you go to this place. Heck, go to your local gas station before Just Baked.

Big Surprise, I thought I’d try them for my daughters birthday. I ordered a dozen cupcakes, because it’s easier to take to a tail gate! I placed the order a week prior, and picked out specific flavors. The day I went to pick them up, the girl had no idea where the cupcakes were, then she found the order and realized she didn’t fill the order! The ones she had in the glass display didn’t look fresh. So I ask for a refund, and guess what will NEVER go there again.

Looking for a great cupcake/​sweets bakery in Farmington Hills, and this one takes the cake. The vanilla cupcake and chocolate cupcake were beautifully simple and delicious. The frosting-​to-​cake ratio is spot on, in my opinion (nice, tall cupcake, not overly frosted). Definitely a go-​to for your cupcake needs. Haven’t tried anything else other than 6 different flavored cupcakes: Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, Lemon, Peanut butter + chocolate, and I can’t remember the sixth right now… but they were all very, very good.

So we went to the store to order my son’s 1^st birthday party cake. My friend recommended the place but she ordered their cake few years back from another location. My initial thought was to try their cupcakes first before ordering. Due to time, fussy baby, etc my husband said to just order it. I did and I still bought 3 cupcakes for later. Well few hours after leaving, we finally had time to eat them… my older son and I hated ours! He got Grumpy cupcake and I got the Red Velvet. They both were VERY dry and crumbly. My husband liked his but I think he was being biased so he didn’t have to admit he was wrong in rushing me. I am calling them tomorrow and asking if that is how the cake will be… truly debating canceling the order. Two cents to small businesses who have blips of volume… take the hit and THROW away any food that maybe partially stale/​old. You risk losing new potential customers by saving a penny. Then it becomes a downward spiral when they don’t comeback and further impact your business through social media and/​or tell folks verbally to stay away.

Phenomenal cupcakes. Friendly staff and clean environment. I have to save the red velvet is my favorite but I’ll be back soon to try more since there’s so many choices.

OMG — I haven’t reviewed this place yet; what the heck is wrong with me?! I’ve been here so many times and customer service is very nice. You can’t go wrong with any selection of cupcakes — sugar coma afterwards (YES!). I won’t knock this place down for being a little pricy but I have had inexpensive cupcake and I came running back here — hoping the cupcake gods would forgive me. Lol! I’m also ran in other business not having a wide variety to choose from but here you get to pick from up to 15 different cupcakes. If you’re looking for that fake whipped icing then stick to ur local cheap grocery store — but you want a tasty explosion of sweetest in ur mouth (that sounds a little nasty) then come here.
Happy Eating!!!

Great variety, somewhat reasonably priced.
We did our wedding cupcakes with them and overall had a great experience. We went to their main office to discuss prices, flavored, set up, and whether or not we would want them delivered or to pick them up ourselves. We decided to pick them up ourselves to save on costs.
After leaving we were instructed to go pick up some trials from the store to help in our selection. The girls at the store were very friendly, we did have a short wait but there were customers before us and they weren’t rushing them.

I was looking for a place to order a Graduation cake for my son and found Chocolate, strawberry and Fat Elvis Oh My What an absolutely delightful place. The staff was very helpful and the samples were… lets just say I wanted to take the tray. Wide variety to choose from which is just what I was looking for. Thank you Alice for all your help. Can’t wait to get my son’s cake.

I ordered a custom cake for my son’s 6^th birthday party. It was AWESOME!
Literally, it was edible art. My son’s birthday was Power Rangers Super Samurai. When I called to order, I told them the theme and asked that they get creative with it (I am NOT a visionary).
I was thrilled to see what they did with it! So detailed and creative.
The cake was marble inside and tasted so good. It served 20 (generous portions) and cost $ 80.
Well worth it! I’ll be a lifetime customer.

Kind of expensive… I went in here on Fat Tuesday and the girl didn’t really know what she was doing. almost charged me 16 bucks for 6 paczkis. The cupcakes look expensive but they looked good. I might be back, who knows.

First time trying this place. She’s very Nice, used my check in with no problems and she had me fill out for my birthday to get a discount for my birthday too :). Lots of frosting looked like too much to me, but it isn’t. It’s all butter cream too, I hate butter cream, but they actually make me like it which surprised me. I was expecting not to like it for that one reason. The cupcakes aren’t the most most, but the frosting makes up for that. Except the Samoa one, that was most and very good. They have free samples they set out. Today is Samoa and upside down pineapple cake. Definitely have to get that on my birthday this month!

We ordered a sheet cake for our holiday party– it was delicious and almost too beautiful to eat! The design was cute and much more detailed than we had expected.

My friends are fans of this place. Actually of this chain. On my last trip to Detroit, we came to Just Baked twice, out of their love for it.
I believe my friends’ enchantment with this place is genuine. I just don’t share it. My first cupcake from this place was the Samoa — a supposed homage to the Girl Scouts’ Samoa cookie. It was awful. The vanilla cake was very dry, it went way too heavy on the coconut on top, too light on the chocolate ganache (instead of a layer, it was more of a squiggle), and is there supposed to be caramel somewhere? Because there is on the cookie.
Okay, so the first try was a strikeout. Apparently, I was just so excited about it at the time, my friends didn’t want to mention that it was not a good flavor. I was convinced that I had simply made a poor cupcake selection. The next day, we tried it again. This time, I went for a Black Forest Cheesecake. All agreed it was a better choice.
Let’s stick with the baseball metaphors and just say they made solid contact but the fly ball stayed in the park for an out. It was certainly more moist and all around a tastier cupcake, but the «dollop» of cheesecake in the devils food cake didn’t come through as «cheesecake». Also, again they went too light on the ganache. More moist — still dry. The best part were the parts where I could pair the cake with the cherries, because the glaze acted as a moistener.
Prices were about right for a boutique cupcakery. Staff wasn’t exactly friendly though. Also, I would advise avoiding the Henrik Zetterberg Swedish snowballs. Vanilla fluff covered in chocolate and coconut. They sound interesting until you try them. Then not so much.

I LOVE Just Baked! I’ve been here a few times & yet to have the same cupcake twice & so far my favorite is the Black Forest. Having the cherries in the cupcake batter keeps it so moist it’s ridiculous… I ate it 3 days after buying it & it was still moist!
I will say that normally their chocolate cakes tend to be a little bit dry, perhaps it’s because I never make it in before 5 PM but still, they could stand to be a little more moist, especially those without filling inside because otherwise you have to have milk with it. The yellow/​red/​other cakes don’t seem to have an issue in the moist department though. Don’t get me wrong, I almost always get a chocolate cake of sorts so they aren’t dry enough to deter me but I know I have to eat those same day. The only other thing I don’t like is the marshmallow topped cupcakes because they are too hard to eat… you bite in & the whole top comes off because the marshmallow is like a sticky rock so unless it’s fresh out of the oven I’d avoid the marshmallow topped ones.
They have such a huge selection you can certainly find whatever you want/​need/​could imagine in the store but at 5 they definitely are picked over & running out though I can’t say I’ve ever left her cupcakeless & disappointed :)
Oh, I should also note that the driveway is off the side street, there isn’t a driveway facing 7 Mile so I always pass the place & have to come back around.

$ ¹²⁄₆ pack.
Since my pants are too big, I figure cupcakes are cheaper than a belt. I ventured here at least 2x a week while working near here for the month. For starters, when you turn down 7 mile, you will see the old establishment that tells you to do a quick left to get to the new place across the street. They REALLY need to take down the other sign.
I had everything — almost. The one thing I didn’t have were the Faygo cupcakes — they come in 6 packs /​3 flavors only because of some weird agreement with Faygo. They were a little too bright for me to even think they would be appealing…
Most people seem to complain about the lack of frosting — but I don’t really get it. I think it’s perfect — you just need a knife. Slab off half the frosting on top, eat the top, spread the other half on the left over stump. But then again, I’m not a huge frosting person either. They make some really light fantastical frostings. Their cakes are moist and delicious. Service is fine. I just wish they had a cappuccino maker and some place to sit down to scarf your tasty treats.
My favorites:
1. Red velvet cheesecake — cream cheese frosting on top of a red velvet cake with a dollop of cheesecake on top.
2. Drumstick — tastes like the ice cream version! Really fantastic cupcake.
3. Fat Elvis — I thought the idea of banana cake was going to be gross — but damn, I can see why this is a popular cupcake. Surprisingly delightful.
4. Chocolate malt — cherry buttercream is OUTSTANDING, great malt flavor. This one is for the adventurer.
5. Black forest — very similar to the Chocolate malt but more chocolatey
6. Regular red velvet — they seriously make one of the best red velvet cakes I’ve ever had. Perfect.
Not so much:
1. Chocolate hazelnut — I figure Nutella = win, but this cupcake wasn’t memorable.
2. Cobbler cupcakes — meh. Boring.
3. Carrot cupcake — also meh, boring.
4. Grasshoppper — I LOVE mint chocolate as a food combination. But the idea of eating mint buttercream made me think I was eating buttercreamed toothpaste. It’s the green. It’s toothpaste green.
5. Tiramisu — nice attempt, but the frosting didn’t have the airyness I like in tiramisu, and the coffee soaked part was overpowering.
6. Grumpy cake — Bumpy cake is a Michigan thing, this was just meh to me. I gotta feeling some of you bumpy cake addicts out there would really love it though.

Now I know why I have a bump around my midsection.
I love the bumpy cupcake. I first tried this at the Unilocal’s Art Attack at the CAID! Then my daughter brings another one home for me. SHAME on her (but thanks again). Since I am not a sweets person I must admit, that these cupcakes are awesome. Definitely worth a third or a fourth one some time soon. Maybe with some frozen yogurt or ice cream next time…

A surprise amongst a street of strip malls. We walked into Just Baked hoping for baskets of flaky, bakery items, but stumbled across shelves of cupcakes. Of the twenty or more sweet combinations, we selected their Fat Elvis. The Fat Elvis can best be described as a taste bud’s wet dream. It was moist and not cloyingly sweet. The Fat Elvis is really a banana cake, with peanut butter butter cream, topped with chocolate ganache a couple of crush peanuts. It wasn’t the best of all cupcakes we’ve ever tasted, but we left wanting more.

VERY GOOD CUPCAKES!!! They have so many varieties but you really just want to know what makes them diff then any other place? normal sized puffy cupcake that is not heavy and you actually want to finish it opposed to just eating the top of the cupcake. ALSO… the frosting is just not on the top but they frost it so the middle of the cupcake still has frosting. YUM
They have tons of different flavors: peach cobblers, chocolate bumper road (super sweet top with chocolate cupcake). i had a snickers bar looking cupcake, coconut almond one, smores, etc. My other friend had a mint chocolate chip and one had red velvet. This doesn’t even begin to list the other kinds they had. It was awesome!!!
I def recommend getting a cupcake tree for a wedding or event from here since it really is impressive and the taste is the same.

I’d actually give it a 3 ½. I agree about the some of the cupcakes and the lack of frosting. I need frosting or a really moist filling or forget it.
They also do not always stock all the varieties featured on their website. It is a pain when you have a list of options from someone to bring back and none of choices on their list is there. My mom could not get her request for white chocolate raspberry, grasshopper or chocolate malt, even her backup choices of carrot cake and creamsicle were gone. This was not end of day or anything either.
I did like the banana split, the fat Elvis, chocolate stuffed, vanilla stuffed, tiramisu, lemon and the bumpy cake cupcakes.
Not a fan of s’mores, Samoa, rocky road, cinnamon doughnut, oreo or pineapple upside down.
As you can tell we got a dozen and had a tasting party with my parents.
Basically stick with anything frosted, the rest taste like dry muffins.

Ahhh… I really had SUCH high hopes. Sadly my dreams about fabulous cupcakes in Michigan did not come true today.
If you have read my reviews in the past you have to know that I am somewhat of a cupcake whore (yes…thats right I am calling myself a whore… but its in relation to cupcakes so its ok). I traveled the US with my husband for work and in every city we sampled the local cupcakary’s. It always made me so sad that Michigan did not have a place to call its own.
Today I thought was the day that every thing turned around…
The husband and I ordered up 4 cupcakes. A stuffed cupcake, a peach cobbler cupcake, a bumpy cake cupcake and a raspberry white chocolate cupcake. Even before the woman behind the counter closed the top of the box I stole a bite of frosting… I could not control myself… sadly…I was not that impressed.
You see… frosting is so important on a cupcake! If the frosting is bad it ruins everything. Its hard to explain what I thought this frosting tasted like… it was almost as if the frosting had been in the refrigerator and had taken on the taste of the smells in the fridge (does that make sense??). Anyways… I was not that happy with it.
The cake… well…the cake was great! It was very moist and flavorful. No complaints there.
So…if this was just a review about the cake part I would probably give them 4 stars. BUT since the toppings on a cupcake (i.e. frosting) make up half of this tasty treat my review really needs to be knocked down a few points.
I will say the prices were great. I am so use to paying $ 3+ per cupcake… paying 14 bucks for 8 cupcakes was a welcome surprise.
Final Judgment: If you are in the area stop by and judge for yourself… but I would not go out of my way to go here.