Sift Dessert Bar

I kept on seeing all these woman going in and coming out with boxes, so I decided to go in and see what is all the fuss. Spoke to the owner and noticed that they won Cupcake Wars on the Food Network. I bought a variety of cupcakes and macarrons. I ended up spending $ 60. To make it short and simple the cupcake is delicious. The macarrons, no thank you! Don’t do it. You’ve been warned.

Every time I am in Napa I always stop by here to grab cupcakes! My sister introduced me to this place years ago and every month I come back. It’s so delicious. I go in the store for one cupcake and I walk out with a dozen + macaroons! You will not be disappointed after you indulge yourself in sweet sweet cupcakes! Can’t judge a cupcake by the sweetness afterall that is exactly what you crave for when you visit sift cupcakes!

YUM! We had a Battle Royal… All about the cookie… lemon and the champagne. HANDS DOWN the Battle Royale was the best!!! Only complaint is the cupakes are served cold and needed to be brought to room temp for optimal taste. I would DEFINITELY go back to try some other flavors but for now the Battle Royale is the WINNER! Also the owner was super nice.

Cute little shopping center. Never had their cupcakes before. The Samoa and Berry Cheesecake cupcakes are delicious! Also the peppermint ice cream! Good customer service. My mom never tried their lavender macaroon before so the worker gave my mom a cracked one to try.

Sift looked like any other cupcake shop. Cute and happy with a display of beautifully frosted desserts. Little did I know, I would find the BEST cupcake I have ever had in my life. I never thought of myself as a picky cupcake eater, but Sift really showed me what it meant to have a great cupcake. They may have even surpassed my favorite dessert of donuts *gasp*.
I ordered the Battle Royale due to its reputation for winning Cupcake Wars. Also, the description sounded absolutely mouthwatering. «Almond cake with a blueberry tequila filling, topped with acai berry cream cheese frosting» I received my cupcake and almost forgot to grab my change for it!
The cupcake was moist, it had a nice blueberry surprise in the center, and it just hit my taste buds in all the right spots. I raved about that little cake for a solid 10 minutes after I ate it.
When I came home, I discovered that they have a VERY well put together website:
. You can order these bad boys online and they will ship it to you overnight! It’s $ 9 and I don’t live that far so I probably won’t do it… but if I ever move, then Sift’s website may have to compete with my amazon shopping.
The best part about this place was that they were friendly and the service was great. It seemed like there weren’t that many cakes and it was still early in the day, but when we asked about a flavor they were missing, they said «we’ll make that for you right now» and they did. I don’t know how they did it so fast or what they keep prepped, but I wish I had that magic power.
Anyways, I’ll be «grocery shopping» in that plaza more often just to get a cupcake to take home!

We saw them on Cupcake Wars (we had Been cheering them on to win — they did) and so made it a point to stop in when in Napa on business — and so glad I did!
The staff is friendly and fun; cupcake selection is very good, we got lemon, red velvet, the award winning blueberry tequila, pink champagne and vanilla … Then after sampling some of their cake pop sized treats (can’t remember the name) oh my gosh those are awesome. Favorites were pink champagne and red velvet.
All of the regular sized cupcakes were very good — but their «cupcake war» winning blueberry tequila is out of this world!
Must say they are one of the most pricey cupcakes I have purchased … But would definitely come back and buy them again — they are among the best specialty cupcakes I’ve had.

LOVE their cupcakes! Tried this place last week and immediately came back the next day! I definitely recommend the coconut, snicker doodle, and the pumpkin! I also tried their macarons and it’s comparable to many famous macaron bakeries like the financier! Back in 2013 I thought I already found my favorite cupcake place (Casey’s cupcakes), but I had this and it definitely changed my mind!

My girlfriend is a huge American Horror Story fan so for her birthday I ordered custom made cupcakes. I sent the decorator a few pictures of what I wanted along with some descriptions. She did an AMAZING job! Not only did they look just like the pictures or better but they also tasted delicious. My girlfriend loved them!
If you’re looking to have cupcakes made for a special occasion this is the place.

Sooooo good. Best cupcakes I’ve ever had. It’s a good thing I live on the other end of town or I would be stopping by way too often! Must have. My favorite is the carrot cake!

Sift is a nice place tucked in the plaza of Target and Whole Foods. I was unaware of the Food Network star and merely came to this place due to its dedication to purely desserts (in Napa Valley at least). Nice place, clean, and friendly/​cheery service. Macaroons were delicious albeit on the sugar sweet side. I prefer my macaroons to be sweet. The cupcakes looked great but we were in the mood for macaroons and were not disappointed with a variety of flavors. I love lavender macaroons and they did not disappoint. The pumpkin flavor was very unique and nice spin on the traditional sweet!

SIFT is our favorite cupcake shop… it was an honor to have them be a part of our wedding providing our dessert cupcake table. We rec’d compliments left and right and I could not be happier. We were not looking to have a standard cake for our wedding, and SIFT had a 6 inch round cake that we could cut. (It’s super adorable by the way, the frosting had flower/​rose designs– I will update as soon As I get my photos from our photographer). The rest were cupcakes, macaroons, crisply treats, cruffles and whoopie pies. THEY WERE ALL YUMMY and the presentation was beautiful! Thank you!!! Leyla is wonderful to work with from the tasting to answering all of our questions! Can’t wait to visit you guys again!!! Flavors used: Stud Muffin, Lemon, red velvet, pink champagne, all for the cookie, earl grey and vanilla

thanks to publicity on the food network on the show cupcake wars, this has been my favourite cupcake bakery in the bay area for years! unfortunately, there isn’t a location close to where i live, so whenever i’m in sf or napa, i have to stop by and pick up a few treats for my sweet tooth!
it had been a while since i visited sift, and like all of its competitors, they have been forced to raise their prices! cupcakes are now $ 3.50 each, and specialty flavours are slightly more, at $ 3.85 each! that’s probably the most i’ve paid for a single cupcake to date!
i chose these two for hubby and i to share:
1. battle royale (one of their winning cupcake wars flavours) — this was an almond cake filled with blueberry tequila, frosted with acai berry cream cheese, and garnished with sliced almonds. ever since i saw this flavour on cupcake wars, i had to purchase at least once per visit! the almond and blueberry flavours were very prominent, not sure i could taste the tequila, but this was certainly a very creative combination of flavours that i’d never seen at any other bakery!
2. bananas foster (september flavour of the month) — this was a brown sugar cake filled with banana pastry cream, frosted with rum-​infused whipped cream, drizzled witha rum-​caramel sauce. i absolutely loved the texture of the whipped cream frosting as i just swirled my tongue into this over and over again… ahh, cupcake-​gasm! the banana and caramel sauce blended together perfectly to make this a delicious dessert in a little cupcake!
while i loved the flavour combos of both cupcakes, i wasn’t pleased with the fact that both cakes were on the cold side. i am accustomed to having room temperature cupcakes, but these cakes were a bit chilled which affected the texture of the frosting on the battle royale as it was a bit thick and dense, instead of soft, creamy, and silky, as i would have expected. guess i should have let them thaw a bit in my hot car, but i didn’t think that would be necessary.
a bit on the expensive side, but you definitely get some creative flavours and beautifully decorated cupcakes that you won’t find anywhere else!
i sure hope sift will consider opening a storefront further south, perhaps in peninsula or south bay so that i can become a more frequent customer!

These were freaking awesome! Not the best cupcake I’ve had… but that just reminds me of how great my fave Crave in Houston, TX is. Sift is a very close runner up. These cupcakes from sift were soft and moist. I loved the flavor combo. I also bought a macaroon… OMG. Slap yo mama good! If in the Napa area again I will go back.

I was visiting Napa and wanted to waste my cheat day on dessert so the wife and I tried sift. I tried my wife cupcake which was good. I just was not a fan of the frosting on top. I’m a big fan of butter cream frosting and I love the sweetness but sift frosting was different. Not saying it wasn’t good but just not what I am used to.
As for the stuffed cookie, well that’s a different story. One word to describe this stuffed cookie YUMMO. The cookie was soft and the filling was good. Keep up the good work Sift.
They have different deserts which makes this a great place to visit.
Thanks Sift. I would come back.

I do like the convenience of this place, but if Kara’s was closer to me I never would go to Sift.
The cupcakes taste old — on the dry side and dense. Their frosting is good and they are generous with it.
I know they don’t bake the cupcakes here and I’m sure that is why the cupcakes don’t taste as fresh as other places. Bummer.
When I get a fresh one, they can be wonderful.

I thought I had written a review for this spot but apparently not!
Now I am a HUGE sugar addict and dessert fanatic. Sweets are my best friend and this place is def. a spot to go to satisfy your sweet tooth.
My go to is getting the delightful huge box of assorted cupcakes because all of the flavors are amazing. My favorite by far has to be between the Pink Champagne and the Tres Leche (flavor of the month) cupcakes. However I also LOVED the red velvet, the Berry Cheesecake one because it has a hidden berry filling, the Stud Muffin (bacon!), and Snickerdoodle. Also check back every month on their website because they have «Flavor of the Month» that is something new. Also if you tried one and don’t see it anymore, you can request it as long as you order a lot of them like a dozen or more I believe.
Another tidbit, they sell Macarons! I got an assortment and was in Heaven. *Le Sigh… this is where diabetes happen but I can’t help it! Their flavors are amazing.,.

How many ways can I compliment Sift?
The staff is friendly, and helpful when your eyes glaze over from seeing all the yummy noms in the case. Which freezes me every time, because–
.favorite! They have delicate floral ones, mighty espresso and delectable pistaccio.
Oh yeah, and a super famous coconut-​girlscout themed one. That I’m sure you saw in other reviews!

Ever since I saw this place appear on the Food Network and found out that it was in Napa, I had to go try it.
My favorites are the Berry Good Cheesecake cupcake which has a graham cracker crust and a filling in the middle. My go to cupcake!
The Samoa cupcake which tastes exactly like the Girl Scout Cookies that we go for every year. It also has a filling of chocolate in the middle.
The Stud Muffin cupcake is also a good cupcake made out of brown sugar beer cake and is complemented by a cayenne dusted piece of bacon. I loved this one with the added bonus of a piece of BACON.
The Snickerdoodle cupcake… well it tastes just like a snickerdoodle cookie. Delicious.
Their salted caramel macaron are to die for! I ended up getting four of these and eating them on the car ride home.
Usually the frosting is overly sweet but for these cupcakes they are not. They are the right amount of sweet for me! I’m coming back for more, Sift Cupcakes!

I am so happy that we were able to find a cupcake bakery close to where we were staying, because after drinking so much wine, the sugar rush was in full effect. When we got there, we weren’t sure what flavors we wanted, so we decided to share the four of them. Here is my take:
Vanilla Cupcake
A little too rich and thick in texture; however, the vanilla sweetness was definitely there and was pretty satisfying.
Cheesecake Cupcake
This was my favorite cupcake due to the crust at the bottom of the cupcake. But, I didn’t love all of the strawberry filling in the middle of the cupcake. The strawberry compote on the top would have been more than enough.
Chocolate Cupcake
This cupcake was moist and chocolaty, but it wasn’t the best I’ve ever had.
Carrot Cake
It had a true carrot cake taste that was good enough to try once.
The cupcakes were all ok. I do think that some of them were a little too rich, which took away the moistness.

We stopped by and picked up a few things from here.
— Whoopie pies usually have a consistency similar to a cake, but here it’s actually real cookies with frosting in between. Not the original way I know it but it’s still delicious — especially the cream… ummm and the cookies too actually ;)
— We also grabbed a few macaroons. I very much enjoyed the lemon raspberry macaroon. So delicious! Their cupcakes are great as well
Unfortunately this is just for take out and no place to sit down and enjoy their deserts. Definitely worth a try if you just want to pick something up.