Frosting Bake Shop

Again, a cupcake place that suffers by comparison and location. This one would have been a solid three, even maybe a four star in San Diego. I agree that the salted caramel macchiato is wickedly good. I felt guilty for days after eating that one. But the other flavors I tried were disappointing and lacked flavor. At least the cakes were not dry as was my experience with almost every cupcake shop down in San Diego.
I would still recommend a visit here if only for their salted caramel macchiato.

I love me some cupcakes, and one of the best single cupcakes out there is Frosting Bake Shop’s salted caramel macchiato. OMG. This is not for the weak. It’s seriously rich, with moist chocolate cake, gooey caramel center, and espresso-​infused ganache topping, drizzled with caramel, sprinkled with fleur du sel, and accented with a little chocolate coffee bean. It’s messy, so a fork is definitely required. But it’s worth every last sinfully delicious bite. [See my photo!]
Other Frosting favorites include the chocolate obsession, mocha, and cookies and cream. And the mocha whoopie pie. This place shines when handling bold flavors. However, the more plain cupcakes – standard vanilla, chocolate – aren’t at the same level. Check out the variety of truffle-​like cake bites: cake and frosting blended together for a creamy center covered in solid chocolate. I’ve picked up a few boxes of these as host/​hostess gifts – as well as a mocha cake bite or two for Broadway Plaza shopping fuel!

We ordered 1 banana cake bite, 1 coconut cake bite, 1 red velvet cake bite, 1 vanilla cake bite, and 1 peanut butter bliss cupcake.
So there’s no complaining about the price because we all know these «specialty» bake shops are overpriced by nature. No biggie there.
HOWEVER, if I’m paying «real fruit» prices, I expect «real fruit» taste. The coconut bite had such an overpowering taste of coconut extract (you know, that super-​phony taste). It wasn’t even like an Almond Joy kind of coconut, but more like an overdose of coconut emulsion. Yuck. And that taste stayed in my mouth the entire way back home to Livermore! I broke the diet for THAT?!
The banana bite also had an overpoweringly phony taste of banana extract. It was so bad, I spit out the bite of cake bite I had. Ick. Not worth the calories.
I liked the red velvet cake bite well enough but found the vanilla to be nothing special.
The peanut butter bliss ALMOST made up for the disappointment of the cake bites. Hubby was a big fan of the light and fluffy p.b. frosting, and the choc. cake was moist and tasty, too. But it didn’t make us close our eyes in utter appreciation and food-​tasticness and say «mmmmm ymmmmm».
For the price, I think me and Martha Stewart’s recipe book can do better.

This was one of the first cupcake shops I saw pop up in the CoCo area, and it is still my number one fave! The shop is adorable and the staff is always nice, and most importantly, their cupcakes are the BEST. Their Peanut Butter Cup cupcake is the most delicious cupcake I have ever tasted, no exaggeration. I even had two of my friends who aren’t big peanut butter fans taste it, and it was love at first bite :)
I highly suggest visiting this cupcake shop to give it a try!

I was very excited when I stumbled upon this place while strolling through Broadway Plaza. I was actually just on my way to get Kara’s cupcakes, but decided to try this cute place instead. Unfortunately, the cupcakes weren’t as cute looking as the shop was.
The red velvet was eh. Not enough cocoa flavor, and too crumbly. The cream cheese frosting overshadowed it.
The salted caramel macchiato cupcake was pretty good. Very strong coffee flavor when you first bite into it. The caramel is sticky so it can get messy a bit. Soft and not crumbly. Not bad.
Service could’ve been better. Also, wasn’t pleased with the $ 3.00 cupcake when it says on the sign in big letters (or numbers) $ 2.75 for a cupcake.

Tried the Black Bottom Cupcake, which is chocolate with cream cheese filling, via suggestion by the cashier.
Meh.
The chocolate was good, but the cupcake overall was dried. The cream cheese wasn’t that great? Not flavorful… and needed an extra something.
Nice try, Frosting Bake Shop. Please work harder – just because you’re located in a boutique area, it doesn’t qualify you as gourmet.

While shopping in downtown Walnut Creek, I was excited to come upon a new cupcake bakery!
My bf and I tried the red velvet and the special of the day: Root beer topped with a cherry! The red velvet was good, the cake was not as moist as I usually like it but otherwise it was not bad. The whipped cream cheese frosting was nice and light, not too rich.
Cupcakes were cheaper than what I am used to paying ($ 2.75) but they had a nice selection. Service here was also friendly.
I wouldn’t mind returning again to try another flavor if I am in the area, I also love their motto! Peace/​Love/​and Cupcakes!

Kara’s just opened down the street and its going to kick Frosting’s butt.
Thats all have to say.

I love red velvet cupcakes and when i saw they had them i had to go in…
i like the cupcakes but the customer service was a bit lacking. Out of the 2 ladies working there only 1 was somewhat nice. The other woman seemed to be the owner… was just there… as the store got full she didn’t think to help anyone… she just stared at everyone like we were all disrupting her quite time… i wouldn’t go back

The customer service here is nonexistent. I walked in, and both of the people working kept on conversing with each other, instead of acknowledging my presence. The choices were few, and cupcakes rather messily made. I pay a lot of attention to the aesthetics of cupcakes. Not only that, when I tried them at home they were pretty average. The icing on the carrot cake was nice, but it all just started tasting the same after the first bite. Not a winner. Also, it looked like those cupcakes were sitting in the display window for quite a while.
When I tried to inquire more information about their cupcakes I did not get very much response. It seemed that the workers were not making an effort to tell me how their cupcakes are different from others. Why should I buy here instead of somewhere else? This lenient approach to selling sets up for failure. So Frosting, you have to remember that your customer always comes first.
Cute shop, okay cupcakes, but awful service. You’d be better off traveling 15 miles west and visiting Republic of Cake. Trust me, it’s worth it.

This is a cute little shop and I absolutely love the chocolate one with the cream cheese frosting. The PB one is good too, though the frosting is a tad too sweet for my taste.
I’ve recently tried the vanilla, red velvet and the one with the cheesecake in it. The vanilla one honestly tasted like something you’d get at safeway. Kinda flavorless and heavy. And the frosting was hard. The cake of the red velvet was really dry and tastless to me. The cream cheese frosting was alright though. The one with the cheesecake in it was good, but I didn’t feel like it was a cupcake (no frosting) and more like a muffin, though it was moist. Also it had some hard drizzle type shell thing on the top and it just wasn’t good, it distracted from the cupcake. I also tried one of the cake bites a few weeks ago (the milk chocolate one) and its way too sweet and the texture of the hard chocolate shell with the mushy cupcake inside is off to me. I really don’t mean to be rude, just my honest opinion about those things.
Also I have to agree that about half the time the salespeople are rather unfriendly. They seem like high school girls at an afterschool job they’d rather not be at (but so do the girls at Yogurt Park). Once one was sitting at the table scooping batter into a tin and the one ringing people up never stopped their conversation about complaining about having to work on the weekend. I had an afterschool job in high school, it sucks to work on the weekend but thats the price you pay for a paycheck girls. Trust me as an adult you’ll look back fondly on this cupcake job and wish your grown up job was that easy.

I’ve never noticed this place before but apparently it’s been open for about 5 months. Frosting isn’t new to the cupcake business, they have 3 years of experience as they’ve had a shop in Mill Valley.
A small and colorful store, Frosting sells cupcakes, cookies, whoopie pies, dessert kebabs and also themed cupcake decorating kits.
I tried their PB Bliss (chocolate cake w/​peanut butter frosting) and the 24 Carrot cupcakes. Both the chocolate and carrot cakes were moist and full of flavor. Quite delicious, I must say. However, the frosting was waaaay too sweet for my taste. If you love a sweet frosting, you’re sure to enjoy the ones here. I had to scrape off most of the frosting to avoid the sugar high.

Two guys at work had put a lot of time and effort in preparing a safety-​related presentation to the troops. As part of the meeting, they asked that cupcakes and milk be served. One had already done some on-​line research on the Frosting Bake Shop, so I went down to Broadway Plaza yesterday to pick up a couple dozen and onwards to Target to pick up the milk. A $ 3 each, that may seem a bit pricey, but it was well worth it for all the time and trouble this particular work program required.
The cupcakes were a huge hit, especially with one particular manager who hasn’t met a calorie he didn’t like. I enjoyed a Chocolate Obsession, while our coworkers chowed down on Red Velvet, Carrot Cake, and other varieties. I’m usually a frosting type of guy, but was impressed on how moist the cake part was. I had also followed their advice of not putting the cupcakes in the refrigerator prior to the meeting, as they would dry out more.
A $ 3 each, the cupcakes seemed a bit pricey. However, it was a small price to pay to appreciate and say thank you for all the time and trouble that this particular work effort required.

Came here for my first time today.
The store itself is hypnotizing and we originally came in just to look at it. Everything about this place is cute and eye catching, especially the cupcakes themselves. I got the red velvet cupcake since the lady just made them.
Service: Great.
Store appearance: Cute.
Cupcakes presentation: eye catching. Cupcake taste: Super sweet! Too sweet for even myself. I wasn’t too fond of the cream cheese frosting, but the cupcake was moist which was good. $ 3 wasn’t too worth it.
I will definitely come by again.

I got the cupcake mash-​up, which is a pretty original idea, but I must admit I felt a little silly ordering it because it’s basically a crumbled up cupcake in a glass that you eat with a spoon… so you look stupid eating it, but at the same time the mash up is easier to than a regular cupcake.
The regular cupcakes were rather small, like the ones you can make at home with a regular muffin pan, so I didn’t think the price was that great compared to A Sweet Affair in WC or Republic of Cake in Orinda. Definitely a cute place to check out, but expect to spend a few… I will come back for the mash-​up and I would like to try the sushi roll cupcake.

This place definitely does not compare to Kara’s Cupcakes. Such a disappointment. The store is small so when there’s about 4 customers in line, you feel like you’re touching the person next to you.
We tired the cupcake bites and they are not something I would want to try again. Instead of getting the full sized cupcake, I opted for the bites to just have a taste before making my decision and I’m glad I went that route instead.
I decided on the Cookies & Cream and Red Velvet. I bit into it and BLAH, gross. It was hard shell chocolate on the outside and mushy, overly sweet batter on the inside. I took a bit of each and had to toss the rest. It tasted nothing like Cookies and Cream or Red Velvet. What a waste of $ 4…

I just recently discovered this place. So being it was my mother’s birthday, I had the perfect excuse to go pick up some cupcakes.
Located in Broadway Plaza next to Banana Republic, It’s a cute little place with a limited selection of cupcakes, whoopie pie cookies, some chocolate treats and a display of one of there Giant Cupcake Cakes as well as other little items for sale.
My Mother loves Carrot Cake so I got 1 Carrot Cake, 1 Red Velvet, 1 Chocolate Cream Cheese and a little Chocolate treat to go.
My little bite size chocolate was very good — Almost like a chocolate covered brownie, flavor was nice and the inside of chocolate was rich, moist and very flavorful.
As for Red Velvet? All I have to say is the Frosting is TO DIE FOR!!! A little to soft I will have to say, but as far as taste goes? Fan flippen tastic! The cake was moist however, it was not quite the best tasting.
My mom LOVED her Carrot Cake, she said it was the best frosting she’s had (my mother does not get excited over things like this and seeing her devour it like a kid having a cupcake for the fist time was quite amusing)
And finally the Chocolate Cream Cheese, again the frosting was fantastic however, the cake was slightly dry.
Ahh…with frosting as heavenly as that, you would only wish the cake would match. That was my only star knocker. I also agree with some other Unilocalers on the fact that they really should have a special cupcake holder to take to go such as Starbucks has.
The service was friendly, nothing above and beyond though, nice. The cupcakes (to me) appeared more cheap looking however, it was the complete opposite and they are a little pricey considering $ 2.75 to $ 3.00 per cupcake. I actually prefer there cupcakes over The Teacake Bake shop in Lafayette though, I think they could use a little improvement.

I’ve had their Cookies and Cream, Peanut Butter Bliss, and Willie Vanillie cupcakes:
Cookies and Cream: 3 Stars. Split this with my sister. The cake was okay and the frosting was better than I’ve had at other cupcake shops.
Peanut Butter Bliss: 2 Stars. Also split this with my sister. The cake was very dry. Speaking of dry cakes my sister said that her red velvet was also very dry.
Willie Vanillie: 2 Stars. I would have given it a 3 but I bit into something hard which made me imagine I was biting into an insect of some sort. It probably wasn’t, but you should not bite into anything hard when you’re eating a cupcake!
Customer Service: 2 Stars. The shop was empty but customer service was practically nonexistent. Nobody asked us if we needed any help or if we had any questions. I’ve definitely gotten better customer service at other cupcake shops, even at places where I told them I was not planning on buying and I was only looking. (I can’t be eating cupcakes all the time now!)
I could get better cupcakes and customer service elsewhere and will not be returning here.

As I’ve said in many other of my bakery/​cupcakery reviews, I am a full fledged follower of the cupcake craze that’s going on. I literally try every single red velvet cupcake I happen to pass by as a tester for the place, so I was excited when I stumbled about Frosting Bake Shop while visiting Broadway Plaza.
My boyfriend and I ordered a red velvet cupcake, a chocolate cream cheese cupcake, and two little cupcake bites, which are basically little balls of cupcakes coated in a frosting shell (more like chocolate).
We agreed to save the cupcakes for after dinner because we were about to go eat, but we ate the cupcake bites right away for a preview. I loved them, even though they don’t really remind me of cupcakes. The «cake» inside the coat is very soft and kind of wet in a way that makes the consistency not so much cakey as more like the inside of a truffle. But I loved both the red velvet and the lemon cupcake bites (lemon was my favorite). The preview was unique and interesting, and it made me excited for the actual cupcake!
Unfortunately, the cupcakes were not as inspiring. The red velvet cake was very dry and crumbly, although the cream cheese frosting was absolutely amazing (of the best I’ve had). I love tart cream cheese frosting that’s not too sweet. Because of love the frosting, I was glad that we got the chocolate with the cream cheese frosting as well, and the chocolate cake was a bit more moist and very rich.
Overall, it was an okay experience, although I would recommend trying a cupcake bite as long as you don’t expect it to taste/​feel like a mini cupcake. However, at $ 1.85-ish each when a whole cupcake is only a dollar more seemed like a little bit of a rip-​off, but I would get them again as guilty pleasures. Overall, this place didn’t impress me much (although it is very cute), but I would like to give other flavors there a chance if I am in the area.

Unilocal removed my review! Bitches.
$ 11 for a cupcake kebab and two cupcakes. I thought the price was right for the kebab but the cupcakes were pricey.
Peanut Butter Cupcake: I love peanut butter but this was just okay. The peanut butter cup melted under the hot sun. Way too much frosting.
Cookies & Cream Cupcake: This one was much more unique. I really liked the oreo at the bottom. Lots of frosting as well.
Kebab: This was awesome. I wish the cupcakes didn’t have wrappers so you could just eat the whole thing off the stick. I thought it was really unique.
Service was friendly. The place was much smaller than I expected but I liked that they had a variety of baked goods. They also sell clothes and other cute cupcake knick knacks.