Smallcakes

I feel like I’m missing something. Went into get a cupcake and this place doesn’t sell cupcakes. New location is 135^th and metcalf and it’s just a glorified fro-​yo place but yet named small CAKES. Three stars for bad marketing.

Very tasty little cakes! I think they are a bit pricy but really yummy. I had the peanut butter cake and it was soo so good.

Eh– this place is fine. Nothing amazing. They just opened up a location on 39^th street in Volker. They have pretty normal cupcake flavors– nothing special. My main problem is paying over 7 dollars for 2 cupcakes. Seriously. We’re not in NYC. Dial it down a bit. Also, PLEASE USE GLOVES WHEN HANDLING FOOD!!!

I had heard very good things about Smallcakes, including a ranking on the Daily Meal for one of the best cupcake places. Unfortunately, Smallcakes failed to deliver. I bought both a Caramel Crunch and a Red Velvet. The Caramel Crunch tasted stale and the pretzel on top most certainly was as well. The Red Velvet cake left a lot too be desired as well. The icing was a total miss in both texture and taste. Most importantly I found the service lacking. The server was at best dismissive, wanting to get back to whatever she was doing before rather than serve me. If you want a great cupcake and good service, this is not the place.

I have gone to Smallcakes as a last-​minute option a couple of times before. Honestly, the quality is hit or miss. Sometimes I’ll get a fantastic, moist product and other times it’s a dried out piece of dookie. The customer service is never, ever great, unfortunately. It’s never been horrid but let’s just say they don’t go out of the way to make one feel welcome, and that’s too bad. It always seems very dark inside as well. Their only saving grace is that they are open later than my favorite cupcake shop and so they do get a few of our dollars now and then when we are in a pinch. If it’s a toss-​up between Smallcakes and somewhere else, I’d just go somewhere else or save your money and buy a box mix!

Delicious cupcakes (lemon & drumstick are top notch) with rich flavors. Offer cupcake milkshakes for same price as cupcake — awesome & a steal of deal! Would give 5 stars based on cupcakes alone, but ambiance not that great. Get it to go — yummy!

Love it — always have a proper amount of icing with moist cakes. YUM!

I was so excited to try this place! I am a huge cupcake fan and this is just around the corner from where I live, but this place was a bit of a let down.
The cupcakes were decent with several different flavors, but I thought a little overpriced for the quality.
The ambiance, or rather lack of ambiance is what turned me off about this shop. I felt like a had walked to to someone workshop that just happened to have a glass case with cupcakes.

My wife received a tip from her yoga buddies about this place; so the wife, 8 year old son and I dropped in on a Friday evening to sample the wares…
I think the 8 year old said it best, «Dad, these cupcakes taste cheap!!»…
A damning review for a $ 4 cup cake, and he was right… These cupcakes taste like something you could whip up with a plastic jar of Betty Crocker icing and cupcake mix at home…
Do yourself a favor and scoot north to Cupcake Ala Mode at 115^th and Nall. The cupcakes there are unique and definitely do not taste like anything that I have ever seen whipped up at home…

I thought my first time here would be a really nice and sweet experience. I was WRONG! This place had no customers, was really dark and gloomy inside and the girl that helped me out was not friendly, nice, or helpful! I will have to get my cupcakes elsewhere.

I upped the stars because my mom got more cupcakes for my birthday this year. God, they were even better than the first time. You need to come try these cupcakes, they will make you sing.

I have been emailing back and forth with a coworker about the very serious topic of cupcakes :) We were discussing places we’ve tried and she is convinced that Smallcakes is heaven on Earth. This cupcakery has been on my list of places to visit for many months. I have heard mixed reviews, but once she told me that she couldn’t remember how many cupcakes she ate because everything was a (happy) blur after the first bite I knew I needed to get more serious about putting a check mark next to Smallcakes on my list. Lucky for me she surprised me and sent her husband on a mission to get me my very own $ 3 piece of heaven.
My review is based on 1 cupcake, and it was the following day before I got to eat it. I had the peanut butter cup cupcake; a chocolate cake topped with peanut butter frosting and (homemade?) peanut butter cup crumbles. The cake was a nice rich chocolate and still very moist even after 24 hours. I was prepared to be a little lenient when judging the moistness, but there was no need to leniency here! The frosting was smooth and creamy, but a little sweeter than I was expecting.
This was an amazing cupcake. It will remain on my list of places to visit so that I can take my husband; plus now that I know that they are still moist the following day I will be able to get some to save for later. Watch out Smallcakes, here I come!

With a recent trip to The Cup (St. Louis) and having BabyCakes and Cupcake a la Mode in town as contenders, my opinion of Smallcakes is that it’s really just A-​OK. They serve jumbo-​sized cupcakes at $ 3.23 each (tax included). Though they produce a pretty tasty cupcake that I would never turn down, the cupcakes lack refinement.
Two friends and I stopped in for a post-​lunch treat on Saturday. I agree with Sara D., the lighting was oddly dim/​dark. Even with the candy pink walls, there was just not enough lighting throughout and the back half of the space seemed like dead, unwanted space. It felt cold.
Among the three of us, we had French Toast, Key Lime, Pink Vanilla, and Red Velvet. All of the cupcakes had one thing in common: they fell apart as soon as the wrapper came off. It was weird and annoying. They tasted good and was in no way dry, but the cake just crumbled between your fingers. You couldn’t eat this cupcake in the conventional style and it was definitely impossible to do so in my «cupcake sandwich» style. I guess it’s a new breed of cupcake — the fork and spoon cupcake. (Actually, it’s just as difficult with a fork, you just might need a spoon, because they really just fall to pieces.)
French Toast — aside from the crumbly consistency, the combination of vanilla cake with cinnamon frosting with cream cheese filling was actually pretty good. The cinnamon is not too «hot», but the cream cheese is what made this cupcake. It wouldn’t be a cupcake worth mentioning without the filling.
Key Lime — a good cupcake, lightly tart as key limes should be. Yes, also crumbled.
Pink Vanilla — slight south of my expectations. The cake was, again, not at all dry but oddly fell apart as I tried to cut the cupcake in half (see photo). The vanilla flavor in the cake was somewhat muted and I yearned for more flavor (like the wedding cake-​like bliss I had at The Cup). The frosting made the cupcake top-​heavy and the crumbly cake could not hold up. As for the ratio, since the frosting was a little too sugary sweet and dense, it was too much for the amount of cake served.
Red Velvet — I will give Smallcakes credit for nailing flavors (all of the above except for the Vanilla); they got the decadence of red velvet cake down. Now, the consistency was, well, consistent with the others! It was just as fall-​apart-​crumbly.
I don’t think it’s too much to expect for a cupcake to be able to hold its own shape without its paper girdle. So that would be the «refinement» I would suggest Smallcakes to work on.

Smallcakes was a horrid disappointment.
My mom and I decided to have a Overland Park food outing for her birthday. As we were roaming around Overland Park, we passed SmallCakes and my mom had a near heart attack from excitement. We decided to give them a try.
The lighting was dim/​dark. When I walk into a cupcake store, the atmosphere should be perky and bright! I felt like I was walking into a dark cave.
The girl was somber. Serving cupcakes should be fun!
Their menu was boring. There were maybe 6 cupcakes to choose from and the icing/​decorations were plain and something I could have made at home (and I’m no acclaimed chef!)
I bought one cupcake. She put it in a giant to go box with a sticker covering the opening. Excuse me, but maybe I wanted to eat my cupcake NOW.
My biggest issue: She used her bare hands to grab my cupcake out of the case. She continued to use her bare hands to place my cupcake in a box and set it into its special holder in the box. Consequently, her hand was above the icing as she set it down. I watched her very, very closely and I’m very positive that her hand touched my icing! That same hand that had been handing money all day long. Nonetheless, I ate my poor, germ infected cupcake :(and just like everyone else said, it tasted store bought.
Shame on you, Smallcakes.

I was completely disappointed by this place. I go out of my way to find new bakeries and I was not happy I found this one. Lets also be concerned that they have managed to open 2 stores (Olathe and Overland Park).
The cupcakes tasted like something I could make at home with a box mix and the frosting tasted just greasy (best word I could come up with. I was so very underimpressed and likely insulted since I was paying $ 3.00 a cupcake.

Me and my sister like to stop in here and pick up little treats when we go visit friends. I absolutely love their lemon cupcakes. They are so good. Their frosting is very good, some of the best I’ve ever had. I have never had a cupcake fall apart on me. They are moist and delicious. I can’t tear myself away from the lemon cupcake (although last time the french toast cupcake was intriguing), but my sister and several of our friends have tried many different flavors and have loved them all.
I’m not a huge cake fan, but these cupcakes are my new favorite treat.

What a disappointment. I saw the Smallcakes storefront on my way to lunch which prompted me to stop in after lunch and get two cupcakes to go. I was not real impressed with the store. Fancy pants high top tables on one side, which my mother would never be able to climb up on. And clever pictures of someone’s kid on the wall enticing you to buy cupcakes. But on the other side, a very small display of the cupcakes offered, a long, cluttered work area and an ice cream freezer at the end. Not much to see. Not a proper bakery case at all.
The cupcakes are very pretty. Very pretty, indeed. I asked the young man behind the counter about the most popular cakes. Instead of giving me a «This is number one. That is number two. If you like chocolate, choose this…» (What I usually get from other bakeries) He pretty much pointed out everything in the case — except the standard white cake with buttercream frosting. If a cupcakery can’t make an excellent white cake with buttercream, they need to close the doors. I had to try it to see. I purchased the white with pink buttercream as well as a key lime cupcake.
I’m not impressed. I can get just as good at the HyVee bakery. I paid $ 3/​cupcake for this? The white cake was standard, and the frosting was way too sweet. I expect a bakery buttercream to have some extra oomph. For $ 3 a pop, I want some fancy vanilla added… something. It shouldn’t taste like my at-​home cupcake.
The key lime cupcake, turns out, is a white cake topped with (I think) cream cheese frosting flavored with lime juice. Not key lime, not that distinct flavor. Just tasted like regular lime. Again, disappointed that the cake itself did not have lime flavor. What an easy fix, flavor the batter. They really need to step it up. The key lime cupcake is garnished with a real lime slice. I don’t care for cupcake garnishes that I don’t get to eat. I can’t imagine sucking on that lime before or after eating my cupcake.
My last issue with this bakery is that it appears that their cupcake menu selection never changes. No rotating cupcake specials. The same cupcakes, visit after visit. For some that may be a reassurance that their favorite will always be there. I prefer to be surprised when I go to my favorite cupcake bakery.
My advice, head to the River Market and get some Baby Cakes.

You know I appreciate any place that specializes in sweets, because I get cravings for cakes and desserts often and grocery store stuff just doesn’t cut it. My problem with these cupcakes is something in their recipe. I have tried about 5 different flavors and every single time as soon as I take off the paper wrapper the cupcake literally wilts into a pile of moist cupcake crumbs with icing sitting on top. I don’t know how they have managed to make these cupcakes too moist –but they have. Granted I appreciate the cupcake not being stale and dry — being overly moist has for me proven to ruin enjoying these cupcakes. For $ 3.22 a pop I want to be able to take the wrapper off my cupcake, sink my teeth in and enjoy, not grab a spoon and a bib. These are definitely not party friendly/​stand and enjoy cupcakes.

This place used to have a bunch of 1-​star & 5-​star reviews which are now gone. They inspired me to pay a visit.
The store itself needs work. My main beef is with the seating, which appears to be a bunch of table sets from World Market or the like. They all have bench-​like seats with no back, which is a no-​go for my toddler daughter. With no high chairs in sight either, we had to get our cupcakes to go. Any places that specializes in dessert and is located in the deep suburbs needs to get kid-​friendly if they want to survive.
The cupcakes themselves were completely meh. They looked nice enough and are bigger than your standard cupcake. But for $ 3 a pop, these things were awful. If I were blind-​folded and given the Cookies & Cream cupcake I ate and a chocolate cupcake from a grocery store, it would be dead even. From the sugary icing to the dry cake, I was left completely unimpressed. It sat like a brick in my stomach for the rest of the evening. My wife was even less impressed.
They have a frequent visitor card, which nets you a free cupcake after you buy 12. Mine is in the trash.