Vanilla Bean Bakery

Recently ordered a doll cake for our daughters birthday. On top of the cake being beautiful and delicious, the staff was super flexible with ordering and even threw in some complimentary mini cupcakes with our order. We won’t go anywhere else.

An incredibly friendly place! Just walking inside makes me happy. They have beautiful displays. The prices are a little high, but wow do you get what you pay for. Their strawberry cupcakes are so light and fruity, I think I could eat a dozen. And they have more exotic flavors like Boston cream pie (which my mother said was extremely rich and delicious). I came right before closing on a holiday weekend, so the owner was gracious enough to throw in a few extra cupcakes for me. I mentioned that I was buying all local items for a gift, so he took extra time to find a label to put on one of the unlabeled sweets I purchased.

Not my favorite cupcake place in town… And lord knows I’ve tried about every place here in Indy. To me there was nothing unique about their cupcakes. Although easy to just drop in and buy a cupcake for a simple craving… Don’t get your hopes up for anything spectacular.

I purchased my parent’s 50^th wedding anniversary cake, 12 cupcakes, and 2 dozen cake pops from VBB. My parents chose the vanilla cake with raspberry filling, and it was amazing. The cupcakes were also moist and delicious. I didn’t get a cake pop, but the kids loved them. The service was wonderful, and they kept in touch with me as I planned this important event for my parents. I highly recommend them.

So throughly surprised by this bakery! The cupcakes are iced to order so you get extremely fresh, extremely delicious sweetness! I had the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake today and it was so moist and delicious. The frosting was honestly perfect.
They have chocolate covered Oreos as well that caught me eye — I’ll be coming back for those!

Call ahead and order the Best Doggie Treats! This bakery has delicious treats for you as well! I love their cupcakes!

I am a huge fan of their cake truffles; like cake pops without the stick! These things are amazingly yummy! Their cupcakes are ok, but no one can top their cake pops! And they have yummy smelling doggie treats that my dog loves loves loves!

No matter the reason… you’re dropping in for a cupcake a truffle or you order a special order cake, this is by far the best bakery in Indy!

Excellent cup cakes. Absolutely the best in the area. Very Friendly. For my last birthday we got one dozen red velvet and a dozen chocolate. I could not decide what one I like the best, so I ate more of both. Skip the new grocery in the area unless you want 50 different kinds of taffy. VBB is the place for cake.

I love cupcakes. My obsession has almost become a disorder. Tonight when my husband suggested I handle things on the dessert front, I immediately headed to Vanilla Bean Bakery.
I’ve been intending to try these cupcakes for a long while now, but somehow this place always managed to slip my mind. I’ve read all about their amazing truffles, but opted for just cupcakes on this trip. We tried the Butterscotch, Boston Cream, and a Vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting — the best measure of any cupcake purveyor, in my humble opinion.
I wanted to love these. I tried to love these. I just don’t love these. The Vanilla cupcake could have easily come from a grocery store bakery. The Butterscotch was somehow both bland and overly sweet. The Boston Cream was just ick. I couldn’t eat more than two bites of any if them.
The service was simply wonderful, and is the reason for the second star. I hope to have a different experience when I talk myself into giving this place another shot.

We headed back to VBB to see if the buttercream was a fluke. We purchased 4 kinds of cupcakes this time: chocolate, malted milk ball, lemon, and Boston cream.
We also picked up more cake truffles. The truffles definitely get a ‘5’. The cookie dough and carrot are amazing. The peanut butter cup us also a new favorite. It had a nice texture in the middle — not too mushy — and great peanut butter flavor,
The cupcakes? Well… So far, only the lemon has been eaten, the cake was tender, the curd in the middle was nicely tangy, but the buttercream… the buttercream issues persist. It really through off the flavor of the entire cupcake and really didn’t taste like buttercream,
I would go back for the cake truffles, but skip the cupcakes,

The staff here was very friendly. They made us a custom cupcake order with short notice and they turned out beautifully. The store itself had a good selection of pre-​made items to choose from. There was a dozen or so cake ball flavors to choose from as well as various cupcakes. The cake balls were very good. Of the different varieties we tried, pink champagne was our favorite. The cupcakes were equally as good. The cake itself was moist and decorated well with ample frosting. For my particular taste, the frosting was a bit too sweet and slightly more granular than I prefer. However, they may very well have other frosting types to choose from. We just told them to put on whatever they had readily available. Overall, it was a good bakery. Price and quality were on par with what I’ve come to expect from a quality bakery. I would recommend stopping by here to try some of their desserts the next time you have a craving for something sweet.

Stopped in today to get a cupcake or two for my daughters birthday. Usually when you go to a cupcake shop late in the day, their inventory is tapped out. Not here, their shelves were still really stacked, and not that end of the day look. They looked fresh. Another thing, my wife mentioned to the owner that they had a groupon. He smiled and gladly offered us a better deal than the groupon. I know as a business owner how those deal sites can tap you out. Pretty cool. We’ll definitely be back

Stopped in today to check out this place since I was in the area and had a couple friends coming over tonight so I purchased some treats. The store is cute and the service was wonderful.
We tried the lemon, chocolate raspberry and chocolate heath truffles. Lemon is good but not as moist as I prefer and the white chocolate separated from the cake immediately. The chocolate raspberry was probably the best of the three. I had expected overwhelming lemon flavor the way the owner described the lemon truffles.
I thought they were good but not enough to drive ½ hour to purchase. If I’m in the area I might try the other flavors of truffles and a cupcake for a fair review. So I guess, yes, go but if you’re looking for truffles/​cake balls, in my opinion, Star Bucks still are the best I’ve had and theirs and 1.50 each.

Vanilla Bean Bakery is rather lackluster.
I’ve been twice and each time they’ve had a pretty decent selection of baked goods. There were plenty of cupcakes, cake truffles and cookies to choose from, I will give them that. Service is also very friendly and helpful and their prices are pretty average. However, quality is very lackluster.
The first time I went I bought a half dozen cupcakes and a few cake truffles (cake pops without the stick) for my fiancé and I to share. We got a variety of flavors to choose from and the cupcakes weren’t bad — but they weren’t $ 3 quality. They were dry and very similar to what you would get at a grocery store bakery. The cake truffles, again, weren’t terrible but they were worse than the cupcakes. The candy coating on the outside was very, very hard (especially on the carrot cake) and once you got through it, it separated from the cake itself. Cake flavor was okay depending on which one you got (Spice cake was bad, but the pink champagne and Guinness ones were actually pretty good, all others decent), but at $ 1.25 a piece, I would not buy them again.
All that being said, I did buy them at like 5pm which is pretty close to their close time. Today I was desperately craving a fresh chocolate chip cookie and since Vanilla Bean was on my way home, I figured I’d stop in. It wasn’t quite 11 a.m. and they’d just opened at 10, plus I hadn’t tried their cookies, so I thought I’d give it another go. Upon walking in I see that they have Red Velvet cupcakes today — my favorite — so I thought I would test that out too.
The cookie: Again, not great. I’d actually probably have preferred store bought to this one. It was very pale in color, it wasn’t chewy (actually kind of crumbly) and almost tasted like a thick shortbread cookie with chocolate chips. Not even a hint of that brown sugar goodness that’s typically found in a chocolate chip cookie, which was very disappointing.
The cupcake: Disappointed by my cookie, I decided to leave it and turn to the cupcake for satisfaction. Again, a big fail. Possibly bigger than the cookie if for no other reason than that they use a whipped cream frosting on it. What? I thought it was a red velvet rule to be topped with delicious, decadent cream cheese frosting! It’s my favorite part. That alone ruined the cupcake for me, but to top it off, it was also very dry. The cake flavor was decent but with all the other factors, I didn’t wind up finishing it.
It’s not the worst place, I’m sure, but it’s certainly not on par with Holy Cow, The Flying Cupcake or Parcha Sweets. I think it has potential though, and maybe with some tweaks they could improve their quality, but I probably will not be trying them again.

Vanilla Bean Bakery has a great variety of cupcakes to choose from. Another reviewer was bummed that they have select flavors each day — that’s pretty normal for most bakeries. They do offer a good variety each day, and if you have something specific you want, just call and they can accommodate you.
I agree with some of the other reviewers — the cupcakes are really good, but not the most fantastic cupcakes you’ve ever had. For $ 3, I’m good with that!
I love Holy Cow Cupcakes, but I find myself going to Vanilla Bean Bakery for most of my orders because the owners are the nicest people. They are very helpful and extremely friendly. The physical location of the bakery is much easier for me to get to than Holy Cow Cupcakes or Flying Cupcakes too.
By the way, the absolute best part of Vanilla Bean Bakery? The cake truffles. Oh. My. Goodness. If you want to try the bakery but aren’t sure about the cupcakes — get the cake truffles. They are phenomenal! Seriously, my mouth is watering now just writing about them. You can thank me later.

Like a cupcake, I’ll make this review short and sweet:
Perks:
+Bought a Groupon — which made my purchase pretty cheap!
+Friendly and seemingly family owned!
+They’re cupcakes. Enough said.
Bummers:
+They bake only certain flavors on certain days, if you’re picky its best to call ahead or check the website to see what’s available!
+I like my $ 3 cupcakes to be as cute as a button AND come in a cute box. Mine looked appetizing — but not adorable. ;)
+I got 3 different flavors and the frosting all tasted the same.
+Not sure these are worth the calories. If I’m going to splurge, it better not be forgettable and these kind of were.

This was my first visit. I couldn’t have hoped for better.
I got a chocolate with chocolate buttercream, a purist’s cupcake. First, it was not too sweet. The cake tasted just chocolatey, without being overly so. The cake was light and moist — perfect. The buttercream was not overly chocolatey, either. It was a little bit gritty, but that’s an occupational hazard.
The people working there are very nice, and the owner is very open to new recipe ideas.
Next time I need a fix, I know where I’m going!

Vanilla Bean offers a lovely selection of cupcakes and always has great customer service.
The cupcakes are definately better than grocery store chains, but can error on the dry side…
Recommended if you are in the area.

Delicious heaven in cupcake form? I would say yes sir. I got the chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing and the vanilla cupcake with the chocolate icing.
So good. The cake is moist and fluffy. The reason I gave the place a 4 and not a 5 was that the chocolate icing over powered the delicate vanilla cake. It was still amazing though.
My husband had the boston cream cupcake and the strawberry cupcake. The boston cream was really cool because it had the boston cream filling all the way through the cake. It was really good. The strawberry cupcake tasted like I was biting into a plump strawberry.
We didn’t get one of their cake truffles, but we did sample one. I need to make sure I get some of those the next time we go in. they are heavenly! This place is a welcome addition to the north side!