House of Cupcakes

Delicious cupcakes. We did a 6 pack for $ 12 and picked a variety of cupcakes including dulce de leche, rainbow (cookie), chocolate cheesecake, and carrot cake. We had the Mexican hot chocolate cupcake that has a spicy kick to it. Everything was moist, each flavor was unique and true to its name. Would highly recommend this place if you visit the Princeton area!

Love the cupcakes here! Always fresh always delish. On this trip we ordered my favorite. The salted caramel as well as the Oreo the vanilla peanut butter and the German chocolate. The caramel frosting is the best I’ve ever tasted. The cakes are just the right size not overly huge and sugary like that other cupcake chain. But delicious creamy and fresh. Can’t wait to get back again!!!

My favorite cupcake place around! Like many others, I checked them out for the first time years ago after watching them flawlessly win Cupcake Wars. I did not regret it! Every cupcake I try is delicious. Their caramel frosting on the salted caramel cupcake is the most delicious thing I’ve ever tasted.

Delicious, fresh, moist cupcakes and a real treat to find them open at 9 pm on a Sunday evening!

I loved their vanilla cake, it was tasty! The cupcakes were visually delightful but there was about 1″ too much buttercream icing on them. The icing was so heavy that the cupcakes fell over once I took them out of the 6-​pack holder. I would enjoy these more if they offered Italian buttercream icing.
Tried their decorated sugar cookies, chocolate covered pretzels & was pleased with both.

House of Cupcakes is hitting on the cupcake trend; they recently opened next to their former location and the space is much larger. Without a doubt there are some enticing flavors and the cupcakes are visually appealing. I find that they are way too sweet. Any of the cupcakes that have filling inside them (like the chocolate raspberry) is about 60% frosting. Since I like the cake part, that’s just too much. The cupcakes are lovely to look at, but overrated in taste.

What a fun place. Amazing selection of cupcakes. I was happy that the cupcakes weren’t those «as big as my head» variety. That just seems gratuitous and so unhealthy that you’d only buy them for the comedic value of a massive ball of sugar. But House of Cupcake made the perfect size cupcakes. I can’t recall all the ones we bought — Dulce de leche, Boston Crème, Salted Caramel, Mint Oreo, worms in dirt,… I bought a big selection for my daughter’s birthday and I’m sure her roommates at school devoured them all in a glycemic rush. I’ll be back for sure but need to work off the calories first!

Amazingly life saving. Have to give credit when credit is due. Last minute delivery for a special birthday and the customer services was OUTSTANDING! Thank you she loved it! And said they are delicious still able to celebrate her day even from out of state
Grateful mother

Save your calories for another cupcake shop! I’m talking about Two Little Red Hens in NYC or any Kara’s in San Francisco. Yes, these are faraway cities, but those are life-​changing cupcakes. Cupcake wars don’t mean much to me personally.
I was disappointed by House of Cupcake’s lackluster counter service and weak Green Mountain coffee. I tried the cookies and crumbs cupcake and some chocolate one– not all that different from each other. There are visually exciting walls of cupcakes, but quantity doesn’t guarantee freshness.

We were glad to see that the location was open. Right off the bat we must admit the cupcakes are very pretty. The service could use some work. Our staff member was not that hot. I asked her how long have they been open. She shrugged and finally mumbled that she didn’t know. I tried to «get her enthused» commenting on the cupcakes and how many to choose from. This didn’t work. I was working harder at customer service than she was. Wow! No smile, no enthusiasm, no eye contact, just standing there like she didn’t want to be here. So now to the cupcakes, the reason we walked over here from campus. I had the key lime, other family had the German Chocolate and the Oreo. They were good. Not sure we would return. With the lack of perky and friendly service, we may keep walking.

Discovered the House of Cupcakes while visiting Princeton and walking around the town. They have a few different types of cupcakes, however the base or the frosting is similar across many of them. We bought a box of 6 cupcakes and a couple were very good, but the rest were very much repetitive with little twists.
One major, major issue in this place — in order to get to the bathroom, customers have to pass through behind the cash register and walk through this room where they keep the food. There were many containers of food just right outside the bathroom door! They really need to reorganize/​remodel that part because food and bathroom should not be next to each other!!!
It’s more of deli-​style place. It could be much nicer if they upgraded the décor.

This place is FABULOUS! Efficient, friendly, helpful, delicious.
I called around 3pm asking about delivery. My dad had forgotten to get cake for my mother’s birthday so, in an effort to stop her crying and salvage a happy occasion, I was trying to locate vegan cupcakes. And delivery. Oh yea, btw, I live in California so I couldn’t do this myself.
Long story short, within maybe 40 minutes they had a dozen vegan cupcakes at my mom’s, a beautiful surprise with a short note, and she’s calling me — still crying, but now tears of joy. I spent the next two days hearing about how delicious they were (and she has sampled tons of vegan goodies out here in SoCal, so her palette is pretty picky.)
Thank you, House of Cupcakes, for saving my mom’s birthday!!!

What could be bad about cupcakes? They even help with gluten free allergy! If you have a sweet tooth for cupcakes go check it out! They even have cupcakes for puppies too! It can be very free for all when ordering but it’s cupcakes and everyone in the area seems nice if you skip or get skipped it seems like they always have more in the back, so not to worry! Cake is so soft and delicious. Check it out!

If you’re in the neighborhood and craving cupcakes, definitely check out House of Cupcakes. They won cupcake wars! I usually go to their beautiful East Brunswick location, but this was the original I believe. They recently revamped it (I think there was a fire.) So many options to satisfy your sweet tooth. I checked on Unilocal and received 10% off an order of 6 cupcakes.
Their cupcake icing is still super sweet, but overall yummy and pretty to look at. I enjoy their chocolate and peanut butter and their new Vegan options.

My kids wanna go here for breakfast. It’s the dentists best friend! All jokes aside: it’s a great place with lots of great deserts and party favors. I try to avoid it cause I’m scared I would over indulge. I mean look at the pictures. Yummy!!!

Looks like the fact they moved literally next door resulted In a new Unilocal profile, my review still stands, recently went back to give them another shot over a year since my last review, sadly the same
Full review here

Since I’m new to Princeton, I have just recently been exposed to the magical world of the House of Cupcakes. I had been hearing over and over about how good it was… but since I’m not a sugar fan I refrained from a visit. That is until my birthday when I decided it was about time to splurge with a «birthday cake» cupcake! It was INCREDIBLE!!! I’ve been dreaming about that cupcake ever since. Seriously! It’s not right, lol.
The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars is because when my husband and I went in to order, the older lady was incredibly blah. Maybe I had waited for the experience for so long that I had high expectations… and that it was my birthday ;)…but I was really disappointed by the service. While the cupcakes are delicious, her service was completely bland. Also, there were two cupcakes in the flavor I wanted. One was smushed in and the other was perfect. Guess which one she gave me? The smushed in one! While normally this wouldn’t be a big deal, since it was my birthday I kinda hoped for something special. And also on my much awaited first visit to this establishment. Anyhow, my husband went back and requested the freshest, most perfect cupcake. So thanks to him I had the most delicious first House of Cupcakes cupcake experience!

Way too many choices and everything looks delicious so it was hard to decide. Prices were reasonable and portions were large.
Got my dog a pupcake which he devoured and seemed to enjoy. I got a chocolate peanut butter cookie dough cupcake!!! Loved that it was stuffed with cookie dough and also had a peanut butter cookie on top. The chocolate icing was light and creamy. Very good. Cupcake itself was a tad dry but I enjoyed it.

I came here for a quick dessert run after dinner. I got a cupcake under a friend’s recommendation. The cupcake (German Chocolate) was exquisite. It was soft, sweet, and smooth. It was a taste of heaven in one bite.
Although it was a bit too sweet for my taste, I was still happy with it. It took me 2 days to finish because I couldn’t have the entire cupcake in one go. If you don’t enjoy eating a lot of sweet desserts all at once, this is not the cupcake for you. There’s so much variety that you can find your match!

Their newly opened (renovated) store is so cute. It’s bright and cheerful looking, with simple décor. There’s a surprising amount of seating for a specialty sweets store.
My friend and I actually decided to try a doughnut instead of a cupcake. We got the s’mores doughnut – a chocolatey doughnut topped with mini marshmallows and chocolate drizzle. We went kind of late so it wasn’t fresh out the oven, but was still pretty good. So I recommend trying a doughnut, but maybe wait for fresh ones because that’ll definitely be delicious.
As for the cupcakes, I’ve had them in the past and found them pretty standard. House of Cupcakes just goes a little overboard with the frosting. Half the cupcake is extremely sweet frosting. If that’s the kind of cupcake you like, their cupcakes are worth a try. If you’re into not-​as-​sweet cupcakes, maybe try their other stuff.
I think it’s very cool that a cupcake place also has a wide selection of other items. They have a wall of different, unique doughnuts, as well as a display case of pastries, cookies and the like. House of Cupcakes also does custom cupcake cakes, and they have pre-​packaged items in cute boxes if you’re looking to gift someone some baked goods.