Cake Prinzessin, Berlin Germany

We were wandering through the Mauer Park Flea Market one Sunday and saw a sign for Cake Prinzessin with vegan cupcakes so we of course had to stop and try one. They had a few flavors but the choco-chai called to me. The icing was actually really tasty, and usually I am not a huge icing fan (usually it is too sweet). The cake however was really dry and just not very good. Disappointing.

Overall - The cupcake was not very good. The cake was dry and just not tasty, though the frosting was delicious.

Petunia's Pies & Pastries, Portland OR

On a weekend trip to Portland we started off our morning by hitting up the Farmers market to see what treats we could find. Petunia's Pies & Pastries caught my eye for some delicious looking treats.


We tried the chocolate peanut butter banana cupcake which was tasty. The frosting wasn't way too sweet like it can sometimes be for me. We also tried a peanut butter bar which was like a peanut butter rice crispy treat with chocolate on top. Delicious! Who needs marshmallows when you can have peanut butter?

Overall - They are apparently opening a storefront early next year and I will be excited to try out some more of their baked goods. If you are at the farmers market why not stop and pick up a treat?

Cupcake Royale, Seattle WA

Before becoming vegan I was very much into cupcakes. I remember trying one from Cupcake Royale and thinking I have no idea how people eat these. They are dry and crumbly and the icing is WAY too sweet for me. I could hardly eat it even though there was only a thin smear of frosting on the cupcake. I was very disappointed. I recently found out though that they have a vegan cupcake option so I had to try that out and see if it was any better. The only vegan flavor they have is chocolate, but boy is it tasty! The cake was moist and flavorful and the frosting was light and pretty sweet, but not too sweet for me. I was amazed. I stopped in here with my mom while she was visiting and she got one of their other cupcakes, but tried mine and totally though the vegan one was WAY better. Score for better vegan treats! They are still pricey, but that is what you get when you buy fancy cupcakes.

Overall - Definitely stop in and pick up a vegan cupcake. They are one of the better cupcakes I have had and are pretty tasty.

Edible Flours, Vancouver BC

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I was very excited for Edible Flours – they have cupcakes with filling and different flavors and more than your average vegan cupcake which is exciting for me. When we walked in the cupcakes looked amazing! We tried the Cookie Crumble cupcake – this was so good! The vanilla cake was very moist, the frosting however was almost too sweet, though very light and whipped. The cookie pieces were delicious!

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We also tried a stuffed chocolate caramel cupcake. I think I liked this one slightly more than the last. It was filled with caramel and had caramels on top as well. The chocolate cake itself was also very moist and amazing! The frosting was the same as the other one – almost too sweet, but light and fluffy.

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Finally we had a brownie cookie sandwich – this was amazing!! Like really amazing. The frosting inside I did not like – way too sweet for me (I don’t really like frosting in general – it has to be REALLY good like Red Velvet in Washington, DC for me to love it). The brownie however – unbelievable! Probably my favorite vegan brownie…well it is close to the brownie from Rise Above in St Catherin’s Canada.

Overall – If you want sweet then stop by Edible Flours in Vancouver BC. The cupcakes are fun flavors, the brownies are incredible…everything is delicious!

Sweet Cherubim, Vancouver BC

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I had wanted to check out the co-op and found a ton of organic and vegan places in the same area. I had looked up Sweet Cherubim, but decided against putting it on the list as we had already had too many places to go to and nothing shouted out to me as have to try. We wandered into the store though and then the restaurant just to spy since we were there and found a case full of vegan treats. They all looked amazing! We tried the Chocolate carrot cake cupcake which looked really good (and was a different flavor than plain chocolate or vanilla). This was…just not very good. I tried to eat it, but immediately spit out my first bite it was that bad. I couldn’t do it.

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We also tried an oatmeal raisin cookie which I could eat, but it really wasn’t that good. It looked amazing, but I don’t know why it didn’t taste fantastic…we threw out most of it.

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And last but not least we tried a chocolate shortbread bliss cookie. This was the only thing that I enjoyed that we ordered. It was like a shortbread cookie with some chocolate inside. Really crunchy and good.

Overall – I would not go to Sweet Cherubim. Most of the baked goods were disgusting, the lady was not at all happy or pleasant to us (we asked for the goods to go as we wanted to sit outside since it was sunny, and she just threw them in a bag with the cupcake upside down so the frosting was all smashed on one side and it was just very unnecessary). There are much better places to get food in Vancouver.

Fairy Cakes Cupcakes, Vancouver BC

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All vegan cupcake bakery? Yes please! We had to try out Fairy Cakes Cupcakes while we were in Vancouver. We tried the blueberry chocolate cupcake which was…not that good. The cake was dry, the frosting did not taste like blueberry….it just wasn’t good. We also had a chocolate chip cookie which was…alright but nothing special. I make better chocolate chip cookies at home.

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And we tried a key lime cupcake as I love lime. This was citrusy, but the frosting was almost too sweet and the cake was way too oily. It was just not good. I was sooo disappointed as I would not go back here for baked goods. They just were not that good.

Overall – I would not recommend going here. The cupcakes were not very good, the cookie was just alright. I love supporting vegan places, but unfortunately this would not be a place I would stop by again, even if I were in the neighborhood and wanted a treat. The treats were just not good which makes me very sad.

Hello Cupcake, Washington DC

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On our super tour of the Washington DC area the last cupcake place we tried was Hello Cupcake.

Again there was only the option of vanilla or chocolate cake and a few different frosting flavors. I really don’t know why cupcake places cannot figure out how to make a vegan flavored cupcake. I mean they had normal cupcakes in fun flavors like chai, and caramel apple. Is it really that hard to put some chai flavor in your vegan batter? I mean I make them at home so it is not that difficult…it is like vegans can only have chocolate or vanilla. I often joke how I should start a bakery so vegans can have better options (even the all vegan bakeries don’t have fun flavors like Sticky Fingers! Disappointing). Anyways we tried the peanut butter chocolate cupcake. It was alright. Not the best and not anything I would make a trip for.  The frosting was good – light with a light peanut butter flavor.

Overall – Another cupcake place that has the standard so so cake with different flavors of frosting. If I were in the area I would rather got to Red Velvet or Bakeshop (even though they are farther away from downtown)

Red Velvet Cupcakery, Washington DC

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Red Velvet Cupcakery is one of a variety of places to get a vegan cupcake while in Washington DC. After the very disappointing cupcakes from Sticky Fingers, an all vegan bakery, I did not have high hopes that Red Velvet would have a good cupcake. They make a lot of non-vegan varieties, but always have a white velvet (vanilla) and black velvet (chocolate) which are both gluten free as well. Raymond is particular about gluten free baked goods - he usually finds them too grainy and won't eat most of them. These cupcakes however were great! The White Velvet was very moist and full of flavor. The frosting however was way too sweet for me and a very buttery butter cream. Raymond enjoyed it, but I am particular with frosting - I don't like most frostings. The Black Velvet was super moist as well and the frosting....the frosting was amazing!! Very light and fluffy with a light chocolate flavor and I could eat a bowl of it! I've always heard of people who will just eat a container of frosting with a spoon and it always made me cringe, but if it were this frosting....I would definitely go for it! It was like a whipped mousse and just amazingly delicious. Both cakes are amazing, and you would never know they are gluten free.

Overall - definitely stop by here for a Black Velvet Cupcake. The frosting itself is worth the price.

Bakeshop, Arlington VA

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Bakeshop is a cute little bakery in Arlington VA (off of the orange at the Clarendon Station stop). We walked in and I was really excited as they had tons of unique flavors of cupcakes like nerds and sprite...but they were not vegan. Unfortunately the vegan cake flavors were just chocolate and vanilla  - that is my one complain about this bakery and every other bakery in the area - why can you not add different flavors to the vegan batter like you do with the non-vegan ones? It makes no sense to me....however they did have other tasty treats and I really loved it. Bakeshop is run by a cute couple with a few employees and everyone was super super friendly.

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We did try one of their chocolate peanut butter cupcakes and it was delicious! WAY better than the Sticky Fingers one we had. The cake was really moist and the frosting was light and whipped and very peanut buttery and amazing. So much better than the dry lackluster Sticky Finger peanut butter cupcake we had....

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They also had a vegan Oreo Chocolate Chip Bar. This was soooo good! It was cookie dough sandwiching Oreo cookie layers....it was not like they just wrapped the cookie dough around the Oreo - they were too big for that and no round Oreo edges. Somehow they made a layer of Oreo in between the layers of cookie dough. Amazing. And really really tasty. The chocolate chip cookie tasted a lot like the ones  I make which I love so it was good. I am definitely going to have to make this at home! They were so good that on our last day we stop just to get more (and bought them out!) so we had some once we got home.

Overall - definitely stop in at Bakeshop and pick up an Oreo Chocolate Chip Bar!

Sticky Fingers Bakery, Washington DC

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I was very excited to try out the baked goods at Sticky Fingers Bakery. I mean they won cupcake wars so the cupcakes have to be good right? Unfotunately not. We ordered a bunch of treats to try a little bit of everything. We got a slice of the chocolate mousse cake, Cookies & Cake Cupcake, and a Peanut Butter Fudge Cupcake. The cake...well the mousse was really good, creamy and delicious. The cake itself was very dry and just blah. The cupcakes...the cakes were very dry and just not good. The frosting's were not very good either. The peanut butter one had a bad aftertaste, the cookie one was better, but still not good. If this is the caliber of cakes they make how in the world did they win Cupcake Wars? They were not even close to the best baked goods we have had. I could make better. Definitely not worth the price tag.

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We also ordered a Sweet & Salty Cookie and Jenny's Brownie. The brownie was also dry and way too cake like, not gooey and fudgy and chewy like it should be. The cookie however was really good. The best baked good we got there. I would try another one. I liked the salty chocolate chip cookie - I will have to try it at home.

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The last thing we ordered was the mac & cheese. I always try mac & cheese if it is an option just because there are so many different ways to make it. This was probably the best vegan mac & cheese I have ever had. I loved it! It was similar to the ones at Hillside Quickie and Bang Bang Cafe in Seattle, but not nearly as greasy and just was better. No commercial fake cheese used, I wish I knew how they made it!

Overall - Skip the cakes. They are dry and just not good. The cookies were tasty. Definitely try the mac and cheese as it was delicious!

Boulder Baked, Boulder CO

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Our last stop for in our full day exploring Boulder was Boulder Baked. I had heard that they had vegan cupcakes and they did, but only one kind - gluten free pumpkin spice. Even though there was only one option, that one option was amazing! The cake was nice and moist, the frosting not too sweet. All in all delicious. The perfect small treat after a day of eating and exploring.