My Little Cupcake

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suprised it took this long.

You’re kidding me right…
I ran in here when I needed a sugar fix and quickly inhaled a red velvet and some generic cupcake.
It’s disgusting.
Their cupcakes are like a week old or something. Totally dry and unpalatable.
Oh yeah, I was the only customer in there and the man was a total arse. He barely acknowledged me the entire time I was there and didn’t even make eye contact when I was paying. How they stay in business, I don’t know.

I figured I’d «celebrate» my newfound singleness with cupcakes, much in the way that some of the female persuasion celebrate it with pints of Haagen-​Dazs. But just how dating feels like repeating the same story over and over with different girls, My Little Cupcake hits on the same story I’ve had with so many bakeries.
Frosting: Yes, Cake: No… What’s more, it’s a no in the same way it always seems to be a no (again, like dating). The cake was dry and boring like regular cake, and in this case very slightly tough (not so much like dating). On the other hand, the chocolate covered marshmallow topping on one of my cupcakes was absolutely mouthwatering — a soft, messy heap of sweetness (I’ll be quiet about the dating thing here).
On some taste-​unrelated notes, the menu is dominated by the cupcakes, so there’s just a little candy and cookies besides that. There are about 8 types out at a time. The guy I had working the counter was very businesslike and helpful. They have two small counters with stool seating indoors, and two small tables outdoors. The credit card charges don’t have any minimums, or at least none that I hit.

Simple review for a simple place, my husband saw this place and stopped the car immediately, told me to run in and check it out…
Down to the straight point:
Not a terribly big selection, but enough choices, about 6 or 7 I would say.
Friendly service not really– it was like a tweener-​you know. not mean but not overly friendly. answered my questions and that was enough.
The place was clean, smelled like a dream and had fun «stuff» candles, cupcake holders etc.
AND THEN, I saw her, lil miss strawberry cupcake muffin thing… I could see the chunks of REAL (that’s right real) strawberry in the cupcake it self I could see it right threw the lining mm hmm, decision made, packed with care (tissue paper so it would not fall over in the lil bitty box) It was fab, I will be back…

Mike and I were in the SFV which is somewhere we usually don’t venture to but we came across My Little Cupcake so we had to give it a try. We tried the Opera cupcake and the blueberry cupcake. The opera cupcake had great flavor although it was just a little bit dry. The blueberry cupcake was also pretty good but the frosting didn’t complement it that well.
All in all, we would give this place a 2.5, pretty decent if you were in the mood for a cupcake but nothing to die for =)

I have debated about telling my story for several months b/​c the owner sort-​of rectified the problem but she was rude about it and I worry others may be in my situation. .. but I am getting ahead of myself.
When this place first opened, it was awesome. Was. Too bad. The past year-​ish the cupcakes weren’t as good. They were dry and stale. I would go in occasionally to see if they had gotten any better. Than my out-​of-​state friend got me a $ 30 gift card for my B-​Day! He had purchased it over the phone, and told me there would be a present at the store for me. When I arrived, the g/​c was there. I purchased 2 cupcakes, leaving $ 24 on my card. That was mid-​September.
I didn’t make it over again until around Thanksgiving w/​my parents. I wanted to use up the card b/​c they were always so slow and the cupcakes not good that I thought they could go out of business any day. When I went to use the g/​c, the guy said their machine was down and he couldn’t process the g/​c. (I guess it was a 3^rd party service who manages their g/​c) He said if I paid w/​a credit card he would refund my money and use the card when the machine was working the next day.
It was so busy w/​the holidays, I didn’t make it back until Feb. When I went to pay w/​my g/​c, the guy said the company managing the g/​c went out of business and he had no way to verify how much was on the card so I was just out of luck. I said that was not acceptable, and he said I could call the owner later. (He was also super-​rude!)
I called the owner, and at first she was all trying to blame the g/​c company. I told them she was responsible, it’s not like I was asking for her to give me cash, and she should just trust me and give me my 8 cupcakes. She tried to offer me 2 cupcakes, but since I had $ 24 left on the card (8 cupcakes) that was not acceptable. She said if I could prove the original amount of the card she would «see what she could do.» I called my friend who purchased the g/​c, which was so EMBARRASSING. He promptly got his creditcard statement online and emailed it to me.
When I called her back and told her I had it she got really nice. She said, «I don’t want to lose you as a customer, so I will trust you and honor it.» I immediately drove over to get all 8 cupcakes before she changed her mind. When I got there and introduced myself, she started messing around w/​the credit card machine. After about 5 minutes, she got my cupcakes. As I selected each one, she let out a sigh of exasperation. She made me feel like crap, when all I was doing was getting product my friend had already paid for. So much for not wanting to lose me as a customer!
When I got home, the cupcakes were so gross and dry, I ended up throwing away 2 and half of them! Not only are they rude, they are gross cupcakes. Plus, the cupcakes are out in the air all day which is unsanitary! (I once left after seeing a fly landing on one!) They have bad business practices, and I will not be sad when this awful company goes under.
I tried to be cool about the situation, give them a chance to rectify it, but I don’t know why she bothered giving me the cupcakes if she was going to make me feel bad about it!

Whenever I want cupcakes, I usually come to My Little Cupcake. Yeah the lady/​owner isn’t fawning over me. I don’t want her to, I want a cupcake! Give it to me now.
I’ve had every flavor here and I’ll tell you right now, The Opera and The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcakes are to die for. Red Velvet is so 2006, I never want to eat one again so I won’t comment on it. If I eat any more I will get sick and whoever fed it to me will surely suffer.
Obviously with any cupcake shop, the earlier you go the fresher the cupcake = the moister it will be. I’ve had Sprinkles and Vanilla, and found theirs’ much drier. Also, they run out of the mini cupcakes earlier in the day so the sooner you get there the better. My favorite thing to do is to get 3 mini cupcakes so I don’t have to try to decide on just one flavor or feel guilty for eating 2 full sized cupcakes in one sitting. Which I’ve done. Many times.

One word: YUCK. I bought two cupcakes last week for my expecting friend and her husband, and took two home for myself and my husband. It wasn’t until that evening when my husband and I tasted our cupcakes that I realized the gift I gave to my friends was such an embarrassment. These cupcakes were GROSS. Not only were they clearly not fresh (hard, dry, etc), but they had no flavor and even my husband, who normally inhales anything chocolate, was choking. We tried the Peanut Butter Cup and the Chocolate/​Chocolate and neither one tasting anything like the name.
The other thing worth mentioning is the owner. She was sort of eh herself. She hardly cracked a smile and as I asked her opinion on the two flavors I was deciding between, she seemed totally annoyed at my presence.
THUMBS DOWN.

ok this place needs help can i tell you… starters :
The menu is a pinned up tarp that’s hard to read hahaha anyways…
When I went in with my girlfriend it was dead silent, and there was a nice looking old lady (not what i was expecting) there to help us. Too bad she wasn’t nice … we were deciding what to get since we just walked by and she stared at us with eyes saying «buy something or else» so we ended up buying a marshmallow covered cupcake…
BLEH not good at all
so we didnt even finish it… it really wasn’t good especially when you’ve tasted the likes of «crumbs» and «sprinkles» … so we fed some hungry birds

I wanted to enjoy a cupcake for my birthday. I was extremely disappointed. I could have made a better cupcake at home with Betty Crocker cake mix. The cake was DRY and the lady that helped me at the counter was distant and unhelpful. She couldn’t even ring me up properly.
Think twice before stopping here because a dry cupcake and rude service is definitely not worth 3 dollars.

After seeing the reviews on this place which were hit and miss, I decided to check it out for myself since I pass by it all the time on my way home from work.
Yesterday I ordered the Red Velvet Cupcake and was utterly sad. The bottom of it was squished so it wasn’t pretty except for the frosting which looked yummy. The reason I gave it two stars was for the tasty frosting and how pretty it was, but the taste of the cupcake was awful. It was so dry with no sign of moistness. It crumbled all over me like flakes. The only reason it even held up was because of the frosting.
No wonder there’s a cupcake special between 5pm-​6pm (they close at 6pm) because no one is buying them. The special is: Buy 15 cupcakes and get 8 free. It’s not even worth it at $ 3 a pop. I’ll pay the 25 cents extra and go to Famous Cupcakes instead.

Yikes! Ok I’ve only been here once and that was plen-​ty let me tell you. I was on Ventura and craving Sprinkles, but that is a schlep and a half. So I ventured into this little semi-​cute store. Not the best idea I’ve ever had.
The woman at the counter was less than friendly, the place was empty. I ordered a vanilla cupcake to go. Have you ever had one of those awkward moments when you’re the only person in an establishment and it is taking for-​e-​ver for her to wrap up your purchase? Ya that’s the one lol
The cupcake was very average, frosting sucked and was nothing as good as I had expected. Needless to say I haven’t been back :(

i will give this little cupcake place we happened upon this weekend a three star review. why you ask? here are the reasons.
they had red velvet, so automatically they get a star.
the frosting was yummy and thick and gooey.
the size was pretty great, the service was alright (could have been a bit more personable… maybe offer us one of those cupcake point card things that get you freebies when you come in so often), the sprinkles looked like celophane… that was cool.
the bad? the cake was not moist at all. in fact, it was dry.
the taste of the cake near the middle of the cupcake was off. not sure what it was exactly.
would i return? yeah… maybe earlier in the day to see if the cupcake is moist and fresh!
oh…a friend had the pb cupcake and he loved it. and he finished mine and my other friend’s. :)

«My little cupcake, lovely cupcake, I want to eat you all day long…»
I sang to it. I lovely unwrapped one side of the paper, and ate it slowly and with a fork, so that I’d get an even amount of frosting on each bite. It was a peanut butter cupcake, and I luuuuv peanut butter in a way only my Chow mix can understand.
And I loved my little cupcake. I thought he was delicious! The grumpy lady behind the counter, well, I chalked her up to her apparently Russian heritage. I’m half Russian, but we’ve been in the US for a hundred years and therefore use our stanch meanness for writing reviews of Sushi Dan and muttering at SUVs in traffic.
No honestly, I don’t know what these people are so upset about. She’s not a nice lady, and she’s proud of her cupcakes, she’s not going to say that one of them is better than another. The business seemed to be a little slow, so maybe that’s the real reason that she chooses to sport those cranky pants of her’s.
The Reese’s cupcake was outstanding, and it’s hard to find a peanut butter cupcake, let alone a well made, moist one. My Little Cupcake’s was. Many of these other reviewers had the Red Velvet, which is the sort of cupcake that tends to polarize people– the either love it or hate it, and fifty percent of the time it comes down to how sweet you’d like the frosting to be. Personally I’m in the less sweet camp.
It’s also wise to keep in mind when dealing with a bakery that baking is a science while regular cooking is an art form. When you bake, margins of error are minuscule and there’s no correcting a mistake, if you can even spot a mistake. A good bakery should do a lot of quality control to be sure the product is good, in my case it was, so I’m leaving my four stars blazing there for all to see.

2.5 stars
I went here after lunch at Jumpin Java. The bitter old lady behind the counter had a little bit of an attitude. She seemed to get a little too riled up when my friend said that she never noticed the shop before. She went on about her cupcakes being «THE» best.
It was fun to look at all of them and read the menu describing all those sweet goodies. But i didnt see half the menu on display. I was only after the peanut butter cupcake anyways and she did have that. But for some reason i couldnt finish it. It wasn’t that great, there was too much stuff going on inside the cupcake with fillings, candy and frostings. It was too messy to eat too. I still like to look and kill time waiting for my table at Jumpin Java tho.

Wow. I was really excited to try this place. Who wouldn’t be excited to eat a sweet little cupcake?
First of all, the selection was quite small.
We bought three that looked decent. Presentation wasn’t that great but, hey, maybe they tasted better than they looked.
Got the coconut, lemon, and strawberry.
The lemon tasted like it was at least a week old. TERRIBLE. It was the most dry, stale, tasteless piece of cake ever.
The coconut at least tasted a little better and was probably about 3 days old give or take. TERRIBLE.
The other two made the strawberry actually taste good… might have been only a day old.
In conclusion, I will never step foot in here again and only go to Yummy Cupcakes from now on. Yummy would never sell old, stale cupcakes.

Having to chose cupcake vendors for a party, I’ve purchased trial cupcakes from My Little Cupcake and also from Big Sugar Bakeshop (several blocks down). With a side by side taste test of the red velvet cake, we’ve come to the conclusion that My Little Cupcakes has better frosting and the better tasting red velvet flavor. The store isn’t fancy on the outside nor cute like Leda’s Bakeshop or Big Sugar and as I drove by, I was skeptical I’d like this place but yes I do like it.
**I’d have to admit there were a few flavors that tasted like «fresh cupcakes from yesterday». The frosting was a bit crusty on some edges and dry. I have mixed feelings about this place but I give it four stars because I liked the red velvet.

My Little Cupcake is one of the larger cupcakeries I’ve visited, and in a somewhat unusual twist it has aligned itself to be your «baby shower headquarters», complete with decorating supplies and planning information. Even the color scheme of the store matches that message, making heavy use of baby blue with pink accents. My Little Cupcake makes a variety of cupcakes, all with very cute toppings. There are a few tables both inside and outside of the store for patrons, but the space in the store is largely underutilized.
I had the White & Black, a beautiful vanilla cake topped with chocolate buttercream and three delicate sugar flowers. Unfortunately the sophisticated décor of this cupcake was a pretty egregious case of false advertising. The vanilla cake was extremely rough, dry, and chewy and the chocolate frosting tasted exactly like Duncan Hines’ Dark Chocolate Fudge.

My Little Cupcake attempts to latch on to the latest LA trend with a garish bright pink and blue interior which will make you feel like you’re in a cartoon.
The girl behind the counter was of no help. When I asked which flavors she would recommend, she just pointed to the large menu on the wall. Thanks, I didn’t see it before — it’s only the sole piece of what might be categorized as décor. I was disappointed with the overpriced cupcakes, which somehow managed to be greasy and dry at the same time. My red velvet tasted as though it had been sitting out for several days. The surface of the white frosting even had hardened and yellowed edges! The chocolate cupcake was not great — it had a slight chemical taste and was way too sweet.
Save your money people, and enjoy 6 fresh cupcakes at Vons’ bakery for the same price. A new fad does not a good cupcake make.

Eh. Cute little shop with a pink awning and a big poster inside with their flavors and typos. I was excited that there were itty bitty cupcakes for 75 cents, even if I didn’t buy one.
Vanilla cake/​vanilla frosting: Weird decorations that looked like beads/​something I would have been nuts about when I was six. Cake was a little oily and dry. The frosting was allegedly vanilla bean, but tasted a little cream cheesy, and overwhelmed the cake.
Lemon meringue: Meringue was in a nice mound on top of the cupcake; a little gritty, but good. Lemon injection was very lemony and tart. Lemon is one of my favorite flavors for baked goods… this one was just ok.
Red velvet: Bad frosting presentation, but excellently cream cheesy. However, I thought the cupcake smelled like chlorine and tasted somewhat like cardboard.
Reese’s PB cup: Chocolate cupcake had a great density, and wasn’t overly sweet or overpowering. I thought the PB frosting was a little weak, but the layer of PB cream was great. Eaten together, good!
Opera cake: This was my favorite. Vanilla cake with a coffee extract injection that wasn’t too heavy or bitter, yummy cream on top, and then the top was also dipped in chocolate. If you’re going to My Little Cupcake, definitely get this one. Otherwise, drive a few miles west and go to Leda’s.