Bee Sweet Cupcakes

What is not to love about this place? The name says it all. It serves delicious cupcakes and some drinks to provide the perfect snack while strolling down Magazine Street. Sure you can find cheaper desserts at other places, but why would you want to go someplace else that does dozens of other things. This place does one thing and does it well.

After trying cakes and cupcakes all over town for my wedding on 12÷12÷12. I could not find a place that was not too sweet. I don’t eat icing because of the overload of sugar, so I read reviews about this place and decided to give it a try, without tasting. They delivered them to my hotel, I ordered a variety of flavors, red velvet, brownie, praline & wedding cake flavor. I and my guests could not believe the flavor, and how moist. We all ate the icing, it was just right, not too sweet and very light not thick like most cupcakes! I fell in love with cupcakes again! The pecan Praline. my fav! Reasonably priced!

Bee Sweet Cupcakes apparently went under an ownership change, and now all the items are vegan and gluten-​free. However, the cupcakes are still great! To be honest, I was really suspicious at first because as someone who enjoys baked goods I know that a lot of times vegan and gluten-​free products taste no where near as good as the real thing.
That being said, these cupcakes definitely are still worth a try. In particular, I found it amazing that the icing was so good.
On occasional days, you will find items like donuts or other pastries.

I was walking my doggie down Magazine St. and wanted something sweet. Decided to stop in this little shop, since I have driven/​walked past it a billion times and had never gone in.
The girl working there was so sweet (no pun intended) and answered all of my stupid questions, and even explained some stuff that I didn’t think to ask about. Great service from start to finish. Apparently, on this particular day all of the cupcakes were vegan AND gluten free. I am neither of these things, but it made me feel kind of better about what I was about to eat. Hah!
I ended up getting a strawberry cupcake for my fiancé, and a turtle donut for myself, as well as an iced coffee. Another thing to note, vegans: they have soy milk, coconut milk, and agave syrup available.
Now, the taste. I did not get a chance to taste my fiancé’s cupcake, but HOLY HELL was my donut good. OMGOMGOMG. I think I ate it in about a minute. It was sweet, but not too sweet, with complex flavors and a nice mix of textures (moist donut, smooth frosting, and crunchy walnuts). Just… perfect. The one word that kept coming to mind was «divine». Seriously.
My iced coffee was good as well, especially with the coconut milk and agave! Yumm.
The only downside? My total came to just over $ 8, which is a wee bit pricy for me, but understandable for a small business. Next time I want to splurge on some sweets, I’ll definitely come here.

Nice and moist, great flavors!

I love it here! After living in New Orleans since August, toad was my first time going. My sister, her husband, and I were having the who is going to stay outside with the dog so the other two can go in conversation when the owner or work inside said we could bring my pup inside. No one else was there so I guess he knew we wouldn’t disturb anyone. This thrilled me as I would go in to many a store and purchase on my Magazine Street walks if they allowed my dog in too! Excellent service.
Once inside it was magical! I got a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting. I loved the sugar flower touch to it! Cute! The size was perfect. I find Sucre’s cupcakes (although delicious) to be too massive to eat on the go and even not on the go, they are quite large. This was the perfect cupcake size with the perfect frosting to cake ratio. The frosting wasn’t too sweet. The perfect buttercream. The cake was moist and delicious.
I also found out that they have pup cakes for the doggies. My baby is already salivating.
Can’t wait to go back and try more flavors!

Found this place on Magazine St in New Orleans. It was this super small cupcake place on the corner. You go in and it is pretty hot. Unlike most cupcake places I’ve gone to with air condition to keep their cupcakes nice, cool and fresh… this place had the icing melting off the cupcake.
I was almost scared to try a cupcake, but figured I was already there and I wanted to review a new place so I bought one. I only bought one because they ran out of all the other flavors they had. The only thing left an hour before they closed was a Red Velvet and a Vegan.
Well the end result was that even in it’s harsh environment, the cupcake was really good. Super sweet like most of the baked goods I’ve found in New Orleans, but still really good. I guess you can’t judge a book by its cover. If they cut back on the sugar and actually have some cupcakes to sell, they might be able to hold their own with the local cupcake shops in Los Angeles. God knows they charge Los Angeles prices for their product.

Some of the best cupcakes in town! The chocolate with mint frosting, the coconut and the Oreo cupcakes are my favorites. They also have a great red velvet, it’s just not my favorite one in town.
Another good thing is that the cupcakes aren’t gigantic. That seems to be the case with a lot of the trendier cupcake places (Crumbs).
I’m addicted to their cupcakes and I’ve only had one that let me down: the Bananas Foster. The cake itself was too dense, heavy and dry for my taste, but I know that can happen when cooking with bananas so maybe it was just a bad batch.
They also close relatively early on weekdays, but offer a great happy hour if you get there later in the day.
Definitely, a perfect dessert solution!

I’m over this place. I’ve been a number of times and each time is never anything to write home about. I’ve gone at times and I’m greeted with friendly service and an adequate cupcake. Other times (more often than not) I’m greeted with smug and head-​up-​in-​the-​air-​type service (because we all know that selling $ 3 cupcakes allows a salesperson who makes $ 8 an hour to treat anybody who is a Tulane student and not an exorbitantly wealthy Uptown person as inadequate).
More often than not the cupcakes are dry and taste like the baker went to Rouses, bought a Betty Crocker cupcake mix and… well you do the math.
I absolutely love cupcakes. I absolutely despise a place that tries to posit to be something that they are not, which in this case is a good cupcake baker.

This place ROCKS! My best friend is getting married in a couple weeks and decided to have a huge display of cupcakes instead of a wedding cake.
I remembered that there was a cupcake place near Whole Foods-​so we decided to give it a try (even though we had to walk the plank, because of the road construction currently going on).
It was AMAZING!
We ended up choosing the Banana’s Foster (The Favorie of all of us), I Love Lucy (red velvet), and The Wedding Cake flavor.
I will for sure be back for all my cupcake needs! They even let us sample the flavors we selected before we decided on which to purchase.
Thanks-​Bee Sweet!

I am a cupcake junkie. That’s right, folks, I admit this freely. The only thing better than a cake is a cupcake, because cupcakes are 75% tinier and 82% cuter.
So, with that information in hand, what do you think a gal like me with a LivingSocial coupon for Bee Sweet cupcakes would do? Certainly, she would run, not walk, to the store as soon as she had the coupon in hand to trade it in for delicious, personal-​sized magic!
Not so, my friend! I have been hoarding my coupon, trying to save it for the right moment. Bee Sweet cupcakes are Just That Good.
Bonus: Their store will make you feel like a princess, even if you’re 6’5″ with facial hair that would put Tolstoy to shame.

Like many others, I was turned onto Bee Sweet by the Living Social coupon and got 6 cupcakes for $ 7.
I’ve had cupcakes from the Kupcake factory and I was so disappointed that I didn’t have high hopes for Bee Sweet. Fortunately for them and for my massive sweet tooth, it was love at first bite for me and that delicious red velvet. It was definitely one of the best ones I’ve ever had ever. EVA. The cake was perfectly moist and it tasted slightly more choclatey than other red velvets I’ve had, but this made it so much better. The frosting was good too, but I’ve had better.
I also got the strawberry, the chocolate oreo, the milk chocolate (?), and the chocolate with m&m’s. The strawberry was good because the cake actually tasted like strawberry. It wasn’t a vanilla cake with strawberry frosting, it was an actual strawberry cake. It was good, but the frosting was a little too sweet. My boyfriend ate all the chocolates and really liked them, but I’m telling you — don’t even mess around with any fancy cupcakes with little sugar paste thingies on them — GET THE RED VELVET.

So I had a Living Social perk for a dozen. I went in and got 10 different ones, and they were very cute, and yummy. The frosting was sweet, but that was expected, and the cake, it was so more more than a cake mix, there were real sophisticated flavors in that little paper cup.
They were also cutely decorated with garnishments, candies, and sugar flowers, it was pretty to look at, and delightful to eat. I would go back for them. They will be my birthday treat instead of a cake.

I had a great LivingSocial coupon that I bought for here so I picked up a dozen. All assorted and every one of them were divine. You really do have to come early because yes, they sell out fast! But the cupcakes were moist and flavorful. I think I like this place way better then Kupcake Factory. Anything beats going to that crap service.

I am a major cupcake fan and had been told by several people to check this place out. I went with a friend of mine earlier this week after a late lunch. The staff were very cheery and went over what comprised each cupcake that we showed interest in even though there are helpful little signs in front of each kind of cupcake covering the main ingredients. However, since it was around 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon they were out of a few flavors (which I had been forewarned of), including bananas foster, which was a special that day. So instead I got the Irish stout cupcake– the St. Patrick’s day special cupcake (cupcake + beer, sign me up!), the gimme s’more, and the chubby Elvis for the two of us to try.
Overall, they were pretty okay, but didn’t rock my world. The best one was the Irish stout, well because it’s a chocolate cupcake that sorta tastes like stout, which is just awesome. The chubby Elvis and the gimme s’more were a little disappointing. The chubby Elvis cupcake itself had a slight banana taste, the marshmallow filling was non-​existent (didn’t bother me, but still wasn’t there), and the peanut butter frosting was bland (Kupcake Factory’s fat Elvis is better). The s’mores just didn’t taste like s’mores, it was nondescript really, just chocolate looking cake and sweet, bland icing studded with mini marshmallows and pieces of graham cracker. This is the problem I have with «s’mores» cupcakes in general– they rarely translate into cupcake form well (Cupcake Jones in Portland, Or nails it). My friend’s take on all three were «meh», but she compares all cupcake shops to Sprinkles.
Overall not bad, but not great either. I will try them again because they do have interesting special cupcakes each day and they were tasty enough to have peaked my curiosity for another go. Make sure to go early, because they do run out of flavors around and right after lunch time.

I’ve had Bee Sweet mini cupcakes at events that were mmmmm but I had never been in the store before!
I walked in here feeling kinda down, I had just bought myself lunch and then completely ruined it. The location is not great– it’s right off Magazine near Whole Foods but there is not great parking and you could miss it if you weren’t looking. Luckily, I was on foot and strolled right in. Both people working (a man and a woman who’s names I don’t recall) were so delightfully friendly. They explained all the flavors to me, even though they are neatly typed out on cards. The kindness seriously adds something to the experience.
I ended up choosing a gorgeous smores cupcake. Seriously, look at the photo I uploaded… chocolate cake, marshmallow center, chocolate frosting, chocolate chips, marshmallows, graham crackers, and a little flower on top. The cake part was moist and rich and great! The frosting was a little overwhelming, kind of gritty, and too much for me to handle. I also wanted it to taste more chocolaty. I ended up literally covered in cupcake all over my face and hands and they were kind enough to give me some wipes :) haha, like baby wipes, except i’m in my late 20s!
I left Bee Sweet feeling cheered up and ready for the rest of my day. I’d still return to try more of their flavors, but i’d attack those things with a fork next time and probably knock off some frosting. $ 3 gets you one cupcake. There are two tiny tables inside and two outside. Each might fit two people. Sitting outside was okay except the exhaust and fumes from cars was pouring over me.
Final note: free cupcake on your birthday! Guess who’s birthday is this month ;)

I’m on a mission to try all of the cupcake stores in NOLA
So I have tried Bee Sweet a few times now.
Go with one of the chocolate cupcakes; they are always moist and delicious. As for the others, not so much.
I really want them to be better because I LOVE cupcakes.
However they continue to disappoint.

«What’s a nice boy like you doing in a cupcake place at all?»
I understand the main complaint with Bee Sweet centers around the frosting, and that just wasn’t a problem for me. I consider the abundance of frosting to be a fact, not a variable. Compared to the frosting at Pralines by Jean (…and Cupcakes, Too), it was a good match for the cakey bits of the cupcake. Our cake wasn’t dry or yuck, either. Maybe we hit a magic day? Both of us had chocolate cake with different frosting and topping options, and we agreed that the flavor profiles worked out well.
The shop itself is this whirlwind of little girl fantasy land, made out of spun sugar and electric pink. My very twee lady loved every single inch of this shop, and she declared it «more awesome than a toy store selling all of my favorite things!» (That was probably the sugar talking.)
Our cupcake guide was a gentleman who attends Loyola and pushes cupcakes in his spare time, such as it is. He was an interesting fit for the shop with his sports jersey (cycling? rugby? sumo wrestling? It wasn’t no Saints jersey, I’ll tell you that.) and come-​hither stubble. He also wasn’t round and fleshy; the only round things in the store were the cupcakes.
For just a quarter more than Jean’s place (the one on St. Charles), we got 50% more cuppycake and 75% more frosting on adorable little plates that were just too damn sweet. The flavors were also more interesting, and the signs actually matched the cupcakes! (Is my bias showing?)
As we noshed, the cupcake dude hummed along with his iPod, sang songs, asked a few questions, made a few jokes, and generally broke up the time nicely. I think he was really bored. Any more chatter and it would have been intrusive; any less and it would have felt creepy. He was comfortable. In such a tiny space, it works well.
I can see how people can walk away feeling like they were sugar-​bombed, but I felt like I got my $ 2.75 out of the cupcake. A joke about loving something like a fat kid loves cake would be appropriate here, because I am a fat kid who loves cake. Bee Sweet makes (cup)cakes that are easy to love and lovely to share.
Accessibility notes: Step up into the shop. High counter in the shop. Can be loud at peak times. No braille menu or signage. Very small shop so mobility and space can be issues.

The location of Bee Sweet seemed like a hole in the wall but inside it is really cute, I like how they have the cupcakes displayed. The cupcakes are adorably decorated, not exactly my style but very appealing. The selection seemed basic, I got a Joe Dirt because it was the only one that stood out from vanilla or chocolate, but even that was just a chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting and cookie crumbles. They didn’t even use the whole gummy worm but sliced it in half! The cupcake was loaded down with frosting. I would say they should make the cupcakes slightly smaller with significantly less frosting and charge a little less for each one.
Cute place but I probably won’t go back.

I’ve never had a cupcake from here that I can complain about. I’m a sucker for red velvet anything and their I Love Lucy cupcake perfectly sates my red velvet desires. The Joe Dirt cupcake is excellent also, it tastes just like a dirt cake (remember those from when you were a kid? With the pudding and the Oreos? Pity on those for whom dirt cake was not a part of their childhoods) and is even topped with a gummy worm.
The cupcakes themselves are little on the big side, which makes them perfect for eating half now and attempting to save the other half for tomorrow/​later on/​ten minutes from now.
My only complaints are that they aren’t open on Sundays and close at 6 every other day. I work in Metairie and there’s no way I’m ever able to make it to this place before it closes during the week. This might just be a boon, however, as it means I can only go there on Saturdays, which I’m sure makes my waistline happy.