Kupcakes Etc

The cupckaes are always delicious and fresh! Their chocolate cakes and chocolate frostings are my favorties — esp the boston cream pie and mint chocolate. This place is a mom-​and-​pop establishment and, and the owner is SUPER nice and accomodating. The shop is definitely a great addition to this cute neighborhood. Even though there’s not lots of seating inside, we prefer to eat the cupcakes at the playground across the street, where we lick the sticky goodness off our fingers and feel like kids again :)

Best Cupcakes ever! I’m loving the Mini’s! xoxo

Very cute place just a few blocks from the Canal Street ferry. It’s small and comfy and everything is homemade. It is a local gem and part of the undeniable charm of this corner of NoLa, Algiers Point.
The cupcakes are delicious, and I was struck by the moistness of the cake. I haven’t been able to find moist cake in NYC cupcake shops AT ALL. In fact, the best cupcakes I’ve had have been in the south. It must be… the humidity? Or that good southern cooks and bakers put extra love in everything they make?
I have a special message for Armani, the boy who made the frosting for my maple bacon cupcakes: Don’t fall in with the wrong crowd, always be a good man and keep perfecting the art of the cupcake. You most definitely have a spot in the cupcake game. Remember to always put that much bacon in the frosting. Always.
Service was efficient and kind (the lady at the counter gladly heat up my bf’s homemade pop tart and was delightful in general), and again, this is a locally-​owned and homegrown spot, so please support it and the food and drink they offer.

breakfast food 4 stars
coffee 1 star (really, a breakfast place needs good coffee. may i suggest a keurig/​verissmo machine at least, if not some quality pourover or espresso?)
cupcakes meh — 3 (not my thing)
but what really brings this place down to 0 stars is the fact that despite Unilocal’s explicit written warning to the business owner to «not impose additional conditions at redemption», they would not accept my Unilocal deal unless i used it for cupcakes. but i go there for breakfast… and I see I’m not the only one who experienced this and took the time to write about it.
i would very much like this place to thrive since i live a few blocks away. for now it is one star (2 with the added pity/​neighborly-​star) though.

The Kupcakes may be king, but the Etc., breakfast, in this case, bombed.
Decent food, fair prices, mediocre service (friendly, but 5+ minute wait between our three meals) and so-​so coffee (1% milk is not cream). Shouldn’t great coffee (with cream & sugar) be mandatory for any restaurant serving breakfast?
I may be back for cupcakes, but you’ll find me down the block and across the street, for breakfast.

Good strawberry lemonade! Nice place– cute place just a short walk down from the ferry.

Sometimes, things are right with the world. An amazing family-​run business, a very polite, well-​dressed young man serving food, a beautiful day. Not much better than a delicious gourmet cupcake and a smile.
Not surprised that the Groupon people are the only ones complaining. Have a small locally-​owned business give you free food, then complain. Sweet! (= Cupcake pun!)

I used a Groupon to purchase a dozen cupcakes and while they were good I don’t feel that they were worth the $ 30 they would have cost at normal price. I called early in the afternoon and had them set aside a mixed box for me and when I was running late they had no problems staying open a little past their closing time.
The dozen I got had 2 Lemon, 3 Pecan Praline, 1 Devil’s Food, 2 Wedding Cake, 2 Pumpkin and 2 Pink Pride strawberry. The Lemon and Pecan Praline were great but I was less impressed with the rest. The pumpkin had only a faint taste of pumpkin and were distinguishable only by the pumpkin sprinkles on top. The Strawberry seemed very much like they were from a boxed mix and not a made from scratch mix I would expect from a gourmet cupcake shop. The frosting on the Wedding cake was way too sweet and made it hard to finish.
Overall they were good but not great and at $ 30 a dozen I expect great. If you can take advantage of their special offer like 2 for 1 on Wednesday afternoons or the others they announce on their Twitter feed it would be worth the trip.

I got a Groupon to try the cupcakes here and got the Red Velvet, Strawberry, and Wedding Cake. I was sort of disappointed. The first cupcake I tried was the strawberry; the icing on is was AMAZING because it had strawberry pieces mixed in and it wasn’t too sweet. The cake however, tasted like the ones I usually make from a Betty Crocker box, and that goes for the other cupcakes as well. The icing on the other two were TOOO sweet, so I did have to take most of it off. The cake itself was moist enough, but there was nothing that stood out to me. They literally taste like the ones you make out of a commercial brand box. There also wasn’t a good variety to choose from. When I went they only had wedding cake, red velvet, strawberry, birthday cake, and german chocolate. You can definitely find better places in NOLA.

Great flavors. The owners are lovely and really friendly. My only complaint is that the cakes are a bit small. I hope they are very successful!

Kupcakes Etc. has a great location right next to Confetti Park in the Pernt so it makes for a fun and easy afternoon if you hit up both locations. There were red velvet, birthday cake, chocolate with buttercream frosting and chocolate with cream cheese frosting cupcakes available. We got the chocolate and cream cheese and red velvet ones and we were not disappointed! A lot of cupcake places in this city taste like they’re made from scratch but still have a mass-​produced feel about them. These tasted like they were made by your talented grandma. The store has several cupcake-​themed toddler dresses for sale (I want the smocked one for my daughter… hands off!) and bevvies to quench your thirst. This place got docked a star because there was only one table and it was occupied. After walking in the heat for a mile with 2 kiddos we wanted to plop down and eat our cupcakes in the AC. However, we had to eat them on the walk home with the frosting dripping down our fingers :(Hopefully there will be more tables and seats in the future!