Yummy Cupcakes

By far the most favorite cupcake in LA! Not TOO sweet like some of the other places (ehem), but perfectly rich and creamy. They recently seemed to have raised the prices a bit, but still the best cupcakes in town.

CLOSED.
Yummy indeed, but this location is closed. Head to the Brentwood location for the tasties.

Their vegan cupcakes not only have an impressive selection but are surprisingly moist and delicious. Wow. Unprecedented where I’m from so kind of made my life.
I had the Chocolate Espresso and tried my friend’s Blueberry Pancake. Both were spiffing. Heartily recommended.

One of my Top Ten Best Gift Moments has to be opening the door to a delivery box of six classic gourmet treats from Yummy Cupcakes in Santa Monica! The thought, the surprise, the love and the cakes made an unforgettable gift combination.
Between you and me, I’d much rather enjoy a slice of apple pie or Entenmann’s chocolate cake, but a gift’s a gift, and I’d have to be made out of digestive stone (which I’m not) to be able to resist Yummy’s Peanut Butter Cup, Black Forest, Chocolate Ganache, Strawberry Cream, Divine Divinity, and Fluffernutter flavors — six incredibly scrumptious reasons to celebrate an anniversary, special occasion, commercial holiday, or very merry unbirthday, in top hat and cupcake style!
Share and eat them all at once, or have that shrieking cupcake fight you’ve always wanted to have, because these babies won’t keep well over time (what preservative free, fresh baked goodies do?). We all know cupcake calories don’t count* anyway, so go ahead and let your sugar freak flags fly!
A quick note to the married, common law, and using-my-parents’-or-best-friend’s-credit-card Unilocalers only: make sure you hit the ATMs first so that you can impress your loved ones without leaving behind a very sobering transaction trail to find later on, e.g. «Those cupcakes cost HOW MUCH?!»
* They actually do.

This is the third cupcake spot of the four we visited in the Santa Monica/​Beverly Hills areas. Yummy cupcakes have a better cupcake selection than some.
I was excited to see they had three vegan cupcake flavors. However… when I asked what ingredients they used to make the cupcakes vegan… (esp for the frosting)… the lady behind the counter wanted to roll her eyes and hesitated, but she eventually admitted they use margarine (Smart Balance) in the frosting. Hmmm… think we need to reassess if these cupcakes are truly vegan. False advertisement is no bueno! For those uptight vegans like I am (most of the time), here’s FYI on Smart Butter ingredients —
. As you can see, they are mostly GMOs and chemicals. Why couldn’t they use organic coconut butter instead?
Anyways, I bought the three flavors available: Brown Sugar Cinnamon, Buttered Popcorn and the Chocolate Oreo. I tried a bite of the buttered popcorn cupcake and was very disappointed. This cupcake tasted very greasy (I think they used lots of margarine). I took the brown sugar cinnamon home so my kids can taste, but gave the Chocolate Oreo to my best friend.
Will move on to the last spot for our cupcake tasting. I think Yummy Cupcakes should stick to regular cupcakes.

Prices are a bit steep for how unimaginative their cupcakes, ambience, and service were. Nothing was remarkably off-​putting here, but my experience was so bland. I thought I’d feel more cheery picking up four different types of cupcakes ($ 13, no tip) for a birthday celebrant, but I felt quite bored honestly and don’t expect to ever return to the storefront.
The birthday celebrant at least enjoyed the chocolate ones but didn’t finish most of the other ones. The half eaten ones only inspired her to bake her own treats at home rather than inspiring her to visit Yummy Cupcakes to try more goodies. Sad reaction really.

One of the major perks of visiting my friends who now reside in SoCal — the FOOD!!! I am fortunate that they are foodies and each time I visit them I am introduced to new places with great food.
We were going to play mah-​jong that evening and wanted a snack between games and we were in Santa Monica. We love our sweets and was advised I just gotta try this place.
As I walked into this store, it was cozy and immediately drawn into the showcase of various cupcakes. It was hard to decide but opted for unusual flavors rather then your usual vanilla, red velvet or chocolate cupcakes.
Ended up getting an assorted box of 6 (butter popcorn, mint chocolate chip, maple syrup w/​fried bacon, blue hawaii, frozen banana and lemon drop). We pretty much cut up each cupcake into smaller pieces so we could all try the different flavors and they were good. My favorite ended up the maple w/​bacon. I mean how can you turn down PIG??? I am also a mint fan and enjoyed the mint chocolate chip.
I did find the cake consistency not up to par as a couple of them were on the dry side. For that, I had to minus a star so this place gets 4-​stars from me.
Overall, a great experience.

Whenever I go to Santa Monica, my first stop is Yummy Cupcakes. I get 1 or 2 cupcakes, a carton of milk, and kick back and relax. Always check their on-​line calendar to see the flavors of the day, as they do change daily.
On this trip, I wanted to try their Mocha Latte cupcake, which was excellent. My favorite flavor of all-​time is probably Hot Tamale (like the cinammon candies). They definitely have a great variety, and have vegan options offered daily as well.
Check this place out. Just a short walk from Third Street Promenade.

There are plenty of dessert and cupcake options in Los Angeles, and while Yummy Cupcakes has a decent selection, an unusual atmosphere and some over-​the-​top options provides customers with an experience that’s easily trumped by the nearby competition. (see:
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Star 1: How was the service and atmosphere?
While the service was good, the atmosphere of Yummy Cupcakes is a bit unusual. The super high ceilings give way to a lot of awkward empty and industrial space, resulting in a real loss of «bakery» atmosphere. It’s not enough to take away of star since my experience was pleasant, but it was a bit unusual.
Star 2: How were the portions relative to the cost?
Somewhere along the road, $ 2.00-$ 8.00 became the norm for specialty cupcakes. At $ 3.50 per? Yummy Cupcakes is pretty reasonable. Star Granted.
Stars 3 and 4: How was the food?
And with that? It all fell apart. Feeling a bit ambitious, I opted to go for «The King», which is an Elvis-​inspired Peanut Butter Bacon cupcake. While I thought I would be a fan, this was truly a disgusting cupcake. A bad choice on my part? Maybe, but it wasn’t just the flavor here that took away from the dessert. The cupcake was dry and the frosting a bit runny. Not good guys. No Stars Granted.
Star 5: Would you eat here every day if you could?
With Vanilla Bake Shop right next door? No. No Star Granted.

They are known as the place with «corn bread with frosting» to all my friends in Santa Monica. Their frosting is delicious, but overly sweet to a point that it’ll make you sick and the cake part is always seeping with grease. It’s kind of nasty.
They do a lot of different things, but the quality is just not up to par. The place is often dirty and it’s always so dark in there. Can they afford better lights? More importantly, all the employees hate working there. I swear everytime i go there, the employee always tells me how much they hate working there. The turnover rate always high here, that tells you a lot about this place.

So the location is conveniently located at the end of 3^rd St Promenade on Wilshire right next to Dragon Herbs, and parking is free for 90 minutes at the public garage behind the bakery on 4^th St. Obviously, if you’re on some kind of calorie-​counting regimen, or in an extremely health-​conscious phase (i.e. strict RAW organic foodists) — this isn’t the place for you… ;-)
As a vegan desserts connoisseur, I had to check this place out — especially because it’s ironically in between my workplace (the Getty Villa) and school (Santa Monica College). I’ve been craving something devilishly sweet in spirit of Halloween, and sometimes the RAW desserts don’t quite cut it for me. And thus, I’ve been indulging in vegan cupcakes the past week or so, hitting up places like Babycakes NYC in DTLA & Sprinkles in Beverly Hills — and truth be told (as far as cupcakes), I personally prefer Yummy over the aforementioned. My favorite flavors so far are PB&J, chocolate vanilla, chocolate oreo & red velvet. The texture and taste combination were so perfectly balanced on every cupcake — it’s hard not to devour these guys instantly! (although, I do have to say there is a heavy amount of oil being used)
And it’s awesome that they always have two vegan flavors available everyday. If you’re curious as to what flavors they’re serving up — the have a calendar online indicating their menu.
What’s even better is that their vegan cupcakes aren’t priced much more than the regular ones, at $ 3.50 a pop (compared to the premiums you pay at Babycakes or Sprinkles). Now I’m not sure why they’re that inexpensive, but I’m gonna guess that most of the ingredients aren’t really «organic,» which I hope to confirm soon.
Service-​wise, I felt the ladies there were sweethearts — which I didn’t expect based on these previous reviews. Maybe Santa Monica residents have abnormally high expectations and prefer over-​the-​top bubbly enthusiasm (which might seem fitting for this kind of establishment… lol), but I much prefer the down-​to-​Earth attitudes I observed. ;-)
Overall — I’m giving this place 4 stars because I think it’s a fantastic place for vegans (and non) to have their guilty fix. Besides the sugar-​free Tuesdays & Thursdays (IIRC) I hope they include more consciously healthy options in the future (kinda like Babycakes with their gluten-​free, agave-​free offerings).

Yummy Cupcakes has it going on! I was in need for some sweets and decided to stop by here for some yummy cupcakes. One of the first things that caught my attention was mini-​cupcakes. $ 1.75 each, or 12 for $ 21.00 (one of each flavor for the day). It comes in a fancy box with a window so you can enjoy looking at your cupcakes.
Flavors included:
* Wedding Cookie
* ½ and ½ (red velvet with chocolate cream cheese and regular cream cheese).
* Lemon coconut
* Regular coconut
* Traditional cupcakes with pink and blue frosting.
I also purchased 4 of the regular-​sized cupcakes, which were $ 3.75 each. In all, the cupcakes were good and moist. None that I tried were dry. They had some unique flavors and it was fun to peek thru the glass display to pick out your flavors.
Favorite = Coconut. White cupcake with coconut frosting. YUM.
One of the things that I questioned about my shopping experience was the fact that when I was checking out, the clerk asked me if I wanted to purchase a bag to take home my two boxes of cupcakes. WHAT? PURCHASE A BAG? YES!!! They charge $ 0.60 for a paper bag to take your cupcakes home. They also have a recycle /​reuse bag with the company logo for $ 2.00 each. On one hand, great to save the planet of additional junk. On the other hand, if I’m going to be spending $ 35.00+ on cupcakes, couldn’t you afford a bag to carry out my purchases?
Food Grade: B
Service Grade: B
Worth the Money Grade: B
Overall Impression Grade: B–

We went here 3 times in the 3 days we were in Santa Monica. I believe I have found the best cupcakes EVAH!
The first day we arrived here around 5pm and talk about slim pickins. I think there were literally 4 cupcakes in the case — 3 vegan (almond something) and 1 buttered popcorn. There were 2 peanut butter chocolates in a jar on top of the case and 1 red velvet in a jar in the fridge. That was it. But let me tell you — they were amazing! We had the vegan, the buttered popcorn, peanut butter chocolate in the jar and the red velvet in the jar. OMG! I never knew a vegan cupcake could be so good!
Cupcakes in a jar? Yes! They were so good and what a great idea that I just might have to steal the next time I need to bring cupcakes to a party.
The next day we went back, much earlier in the day and the cases were full of cupcakes in a variety of flavors! I was hoping they would have the almond vegan cupcake again but they did not. We tried several more flavors (can’t remember names) but they were yummy.
The last day we made the trek once again from our hotel to mecca and while it was later in the day (3−4pm) there were still a few varieties to choose from.
I can hardly wait to go back to Santa Monica in order to visit this place again!

WAIT
WHAT…
I’ve could of sworn I wrote a review on this place…
But I didn’t
maybe I did enough vocal raving and reviewing that I thought I committed it somewhere in the official world of reviews.
But clearly I didn’t
Well all I have to do is mutter 4 simple words…“Cupcake in a Jar“
That should be review enough. Like really who wouldn’t want a cupcake placed ohhh so delicately in a mason jar that you can keep. Really tho i loved the Red Velvet Cake cupcake in a jar and I think I would of liked it in a shoe, in a bag, in a vase… it don’t matter just gimme that delicious frosting (it is more frosting than cake in most just try and pick one that has an even or what ever ratio you desire). Yes its a lil expensive but all these hoity-​toity cupcake chains are!
So yes prefer this over a Sprinkles because they are lighter tasting (if that makes sense to anyone) and they place that cake in a mo-​effing jar!
Also they make for super cute gifts!
and stayed fresh for 3 – 4 if it wasn’t opened /​if you place it in the fridge.

After sampling some cupcakes from the neighboring Vanilla Bake Shop, my friends and I decided to hold a taste-​test against treats from Yummy Cupcakes. While Vanilla offered various pastries, this massive café focused on an endless number of cupcake concoctions. In addition to standard cupcakes, they also sold the ingredients layered in small jars and even as sandwich cakes stuffed with frosting and subsequently dipped in chocolate.
We spent quite a while making our flavor selection, but in the end we settled on the Peanut Butter Cup and the Brown Sugar Cinnamon. I ordered a decaffeinated coffee, and we all grabbed a seat at one of the downstairs tables. (There was also a separate room upstairs for cupcake decorating parties.) My coffee was surprisingly bold for not packing any caffeine. However, the cupcakes were just mediocre. The Peanut Butter Cup started with a moist chocolate cake that contained a natural peanut butter center that appeared to be low in sugar. The vanilla frosting, however, made up for any missing sweetness. The Brown Sugar Cinnamon consisted of a dry vanilla bean cupcake that was topped with a perfectly crunchy cinnamon strudel and an overly sweet vanilla buttercream.
While we left Yummy Cupcakes with our sweet cravings fulfilled, the treats did not taste as pure and unprocessed as at the Vanilla Bake Shop. However, since they are only a few blocks apart, feel free to initiate your own tasting and judge for yourself!

I love this little cupcake shop in Santa Monica.
They have a lot of variety with fun seasonal flavors. The cupcakes are pretty big, and they are dense and moist. The frosting is not too dense (which I hate) and it is perfectly sweet without being cloying.
I’m obsessed with their PBJ cupcake and try to get it as often as I can!
Also, there is rarely a long wait like there is at a lot of more famous cupcake shops. However, I’d say the quality of these cupcakes is just as good as those!

I am very impressed by the countless creative and innovative rotating flavor selections Yummy Cupcakes offers. They seem to have practically every flavor under the sun you can think of on a rotating basis.
However, when it comes to actually eating the cupcakes, they have a very coarse consistency/​texture which reminds me of corn bread. I prefer cake that is finer in texture.
I tried the red velvet, buttered popcorn, Maker Mark’s Bourbon apple pie, and lemon curd flavors. The frosting on each were excellent and very yummy although the layers are quite thick so I scraped some of it off. Dare I say, the frostings seem to outshine the cakes.
I’m not saying that I wouldn’t return to Yummy Cupcakes because their creative flavor offerings are definitely a huge plus… I just wouldn’t rush back.

Let me point out that if this place doesn’t have the wide variety of flavors (I LOVE THEIR MENU!!!), I would probably rate Yummy Cupcakes 3 stars at the most. Yes, I am giving a bunch of credit for creativity on their behalf.
Pros:
— A BUNCH OF ZOMG FLAVORS!!!
— they have daily vegan cupcake flavors (I’m not vegan or anything, but it’s nice to have options for more than just the majority)
— helpful staff members
— cute storefront
— cheaper than soooome other cupcake places
Cons:
— Cake portion can be rather dry
— No box for a single cupcake, and sometimes no box for two cupcakes, so they tend to move around and the frosting tends to stick to the plain paper bag they are stored in. I’m all for their environmental approach (maybe) to cutting costs by offering boxes for bigger cupcake purchases and such, but I’m such a sucker for cute things! Yes, cupcake boxes can be cute (Vanilla Bakeshop gave me a box for just one cupcake).
But yeah, I am super drawn to their wide variety of flavors, and I love looking at their menu (s) online.

Butter cream on my breath.
(OK, it was cream cheese but cream cheese doesn’t read as well.)
WTH, it was frosting but not just any frosting; gossamer, artfully placed atop the best commercial RV cupcake my deprived palate has had to date.
Cake was simultaneously light and dense; near mahogany in color like the furniture in those men only clubs of yesteryear or the henna rinse that didn’t work for me.
Frosting plus cake; harmonious to the last bite!

Cupcakes for bfast is the way to start the day!
I remember Yummy cupcakes from when fellow Unilocaler Jessica A. was on her cupcake craze last year. I can’t recall how they tasted back then so when I found out on Unilocal that there was a Yummy cupcakes near my work in SM I wanted to check them out.
I scoped out their website first (having been looking at it all week) and noticed that they had a monthly calendar that had their daily flavors as well as the Special flavors they would have for the day mapped out for the rest of the month.
BTW…This = genius!
So when browsing at all their daily special flavors I almost screamed with joy when I saw that they made a Pancake n Bacon cupcake and that the next day it would hit the yummy display case would be this Saturday.
Saturday is here and I was on my way to Yummy Cupcakes! I called in advance to double check that the Pancakes n Bacon would be there and hooray for me it would be.
So my cupcake copilot and I walked into cupcakes galore and we were greeted immediately by friendly staff. We started with one Pancakes n Bacon and one Red Velvet to enjoy there. Let’s start with the Red Velvet… I thought the RV was really good. RV is never my first choice for a cupcake and I actually rarely get it or have a desire to try it from places. But since Colleen ordered it I had to try and and WOW it was super good! Cake was super he mois and just melted with every bite. The cream cheese frosting was really good and was not over the top in any way. Good balance between the sweet and cream cheesiness. They also had RV cupcakes with a cocoa cream cheese frosting and another one with both cocoa and regular cream cheese frosting. I ordered the one with the double frosting to take with me (PM update: delish btw… cocoa frosting added extra umph)
And now the Pancakes n Bacon… meh…it was just ok and didn’t steal the show. The cake was a cinnamon type cake (almost like a coffee cake feel and texture). Bacon bits were mixed throughout to add a nice salty crunch. Frosting was a maple flavor lightly whipped and topped with more bits of bacon. I’m a firm believer on everything is better with bacon and I am just in love with bacon in dessert items (and am so happy it has hit the mainstream). But this bacon cupcake didn’t win me over like I was hoping it would.
Staff here is friendly and helpful and don’t hound you as you walk their long display case and snap photos of all their flavors. Prices here are very reasonable for cupcakes. Another cool thing about their cupcakes is that they are taller than the average bear.
They also have Vegan cupcakes but don’t ask me how those taste bc I do not believe in the vegan thing.
2 dozen minimum for walk in orders so if you want more than that order ahead.
PM cupcake take home update:
Happy Day (funfetti style cake with the tease (thought and wished the frosting was strawberry flavor) of pink butter cream frosting) was good. It was a pretty basic cupcake so nothing special.
Saturday Special Coffee: good hint of coffee flavor in the cake but the frosting was too sweet. Needed a richer more coffeesque punch