Cupcake Help?

[pearlbluevtx]

Hi-
doing some cupcake research and taking the family out for a cupcake adventure.

Trying to visit as many cupcake joints and taste test all of the cupcakes ...

So far, here's my list of cupcake joints:

• sara saras
• cuppies & joe
• gigis
• Pinkitzel
• Ruth's Sweet Justice
• Cupcakes 2 go go

OTHERS??? This is going to be a TASTE TEST for us so we want as many good ones & shops as possible.

More IDEAS? THANKS

[progressiveboy]

Well if your "really up for an adventure" and want to take a road trip may I suggest "Sprinkles" Cupcakes in Dallas located at Preston Road and Northwest Highway in a shopping center called Preston Center.

[JayhawkTransplant]

I don't know of any more places, but be sure to come back to this thread and post your ratings of each place!

[pearlbluevtx]

adding to my list:

• the cupcake lounge - moore
• jemz cupcakes - norman

Hi-
doing some cupcake research and taking the family out for a cupcake adventure.

Trying to visit as many cupcake joints and taste test all of the cupcakes ...

So far, here's my list of cupcake joints:

• sara saras
• cuppies & joe
• gigis
• Pinkitzel
• Ruth's Sweet Justice
• Cupcakes 2 go go

OTHERS??? This is going to be a TASTE TEST for us so we want as many good ones & shops as possible.

More IDEAS? THANKS

[pearlbluevtx]

haha. would love to do that but our search & destroy mission is only OKC metro in scope!

Well if your "really up for an adventure" and want to take a road trip may I suggest "Sprinkles" Cupcakes in Dallas located at Preston Road and Northwest Highway in a shopping center called Preston Center.

[citizenkane]

Sweet Memories. Try the strawberry cupcakes.

[metro]

There are 3-4 more, but I forget the names right now, it's late.

[Celebrator]

I Second Sweet Memories...but I love their Boston Cream cupcake

[okcisok]

Ingrid's Kitchen
N W 36th and Youngs
YUM

[BBatesokc]

Cafe 501 has a few varieties and the chocolate is one of my favorite in town.

[RadicalModerate]

Valerie's (on N. May up around Britton or Hefner).

Superb.
No: Beyond Superb.

Edited to Add: Here is a link to their website:
http://www.valeriescookies.com/index.html

You will note that they mainly--perhaps exclusively--talk about their cookies.
However, they also make some of the best cupcakes I have ever tasted.
(And I've tasted a cupcake or two . . . truckloads. =)

[Urban Pioneer]

The best Red Velvet cupcake is in Edmond on 2nd street, the Red Velvet Bakery.

They have the best, most dense Red Velvet and Cream Cheese Icing. It is worth the trek up there for it. No one else has been comparable that I have tried with the GF.

[Jesseda]

The cupcake lounge in moore is good, i just had there german chocolate cupcake last night mmmmmmmmm.

[AFwife04]

I have tried Sara Sara and I was not impressed. I thought the cake was a bit dry and the icing was not good. I rather like Cupcakes to gogo. I have tried several cupcakes and they are not dry. However, I found that some of the cake flavors are kind of unremarkable. I am a frosting person and this is where Cupcakes to gogo shines. They are generous with the frosting and it tastes pretty good. They have one chocolate peanut butter cupcake that is to die for! I am not sure of the name, but it is the one with a slice of peanut butter cup on top. It has chocolate cake, a peanut butter ganache topped with dark chocolate frosting. It is my absolute favorite!

[roci28]

There is a place called Green Goodies by Tiffany on Western in Nichols Hills that is pretty small and mostly organic I believe. I prefer Cuppies to this place, but I haven't seen it mentioned on your list yet.

[metro]

Good call, green goodies is very good! Mch better than Cuppies IMO

[ljbab728]

Good call, green goodies is very good! Mch better than Cuppies IMO

That reminds about when I was driving through the parking lot today in the shopping center on the SW corner of NW Expressway and Rockwell. I noticed some kind of new food place getting ready to open that had a name similar to that. I wasn't looking that close and just noticed it quickly. Anyone know if it might be a branch location?

[pearlbluevtx]

and the overall winner was:

GiGi's - off North May in OKC

kid's favorites - Pinkitzels in Edmond

Tried to taste test a vanilla/vanilla icing/cake at all places (if available) for the main testing.

with several doing the taste test (parents + kids), lots of judging was very personal in nature. For instance, parents & kids LOVED Pinkitzel's store ... but parents didn't like cupcakes at all & kids loved them. Parents differed on Sara Saras ... Mom loved the cupcake, Dad hated it (Dad loved the 'key-lime' cupcake which helped Sara Sara's score)

Ranking like this for just taste:
(1) GiGis
(2) Ingrids + Cuppies/Joes + Cupcake Lounge + Cupcake to go go
(3) Sara Sara + Jemz + Pinkitzel

Our final list *that we taste tested* was:

• jemz, norman
• cupcake lounge, moore
• sara sara - downtown/midtown
• cuppies & joe - 23rd st, okc
• Ingrid's Kitchen - 36th/Penn, okc
• gigi's, N May by quail, okc
• cupcakes to go go, edmond
• pinkitzel, edmond

Criteria/Questions we asked were as follows:
(1) how was store, people etc?
(2) presentation of cupcakes?
(3) icing - look and taste?
(4) cake - look and taste?
(5) overall


Our complete list of cupcake places was:

norman

jemz cupcakes - 2201 W. Main, Sweet 200, Norman, OK 73069

moore

the cupcake lounge - moore

midtown/downtown(brick) okc

coco flow – bricktown – Oklahoma Ave/Main St OKC, OK

sara saras - midtown - 7 NW 9th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102 (just east of Broadway)

23rd St

cuppies & joe - 23rd, OKC

36th St

Ingrid's Kitchen - 3701 North Youngs Oklahoma City, OK 73112, (2 blocks west of Pennsylvania on N.W. 36th Street)

MAY AVENUE

sweet memories - 6501 N. May Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73116

Ruth's Sweet Justice - 7606 N. May Ave Oklahoma City, OK 73116 (We are located on the northeast corner of the intersection of North May Avenue and Grand Avenue, at the light.)

NICHOLS HILLS

green goodies - 7606 N. Western Avenue, Nichols Hills, OK 73116 (South of Wilshire on the East side of Western Avenue (next to Brown Bag Deli & Lola’s) (organic type)

MAY AVENUE (Northern)

valerie's cookies - 9432 N. May Ave. (Tucked in the corner of The Charter at May Center) Britton Road and May Avenue, Oklahoma City, Ok 73120

gigis - 14101 N. May Avenue, Ste. 104, OKC, Ok (west of quail springs mall)

EDMOND

Cupcakes 2 go go - 2524 W Edmond Road, Edmond, OK 73012 (edmond rd & santa fe)

Pinkitzel - edmond (spring creek, 15th & Bryant)

[okcisok]

Thanks for sharing your results. What a fun family quest!

[EBAH]

No physical location, but Luxy in Norman, is my hands down favorite in the metro. She sets up at the Norman Farmers market every Saturday, and often at Roller Derby bouts. She makes cupcakes with savory ingredients as well as sweet. I mean, pancake with maple frosting with DELICIOUS bacon, Guinness beer cake with irish cream frosting, green tea cake, smores with graham cracker cake and fresh torched home made marshmallow. Really from a culinary stand point they are far better than any shop's cakes I've had. They're totally AWESOME...

http://www.luxycupcakes.com/menu.html

[metro]

No physical location, but Luxy in Norman, is my hands down favorite in the metro. She sets up at the Norman Farmers market every Saturday, and often at Roller Derby bouts. She makes cupcakes with savory ingredients as well as sweet. I mean, pancake with maple frosting with DELICIOUS bacon, Guinness beer cake with irish cream frosting, green tea cake, smores with graham cracker cake and fresh torched home made marshmallow. Really from a culinary stand point they are far better than any shop's cakes I've had. They're totally AWESOME...

http://www.luxycupcakes.com/menu.html

I agree Luxy is more unique, did you know Sara Sara has a maple flavor, as well as a bacon egg and cheese with sour cream adn chive topping?

[betts]

What seems apparent to me, from the results above, is that different people like different types of cupcakes. There is enough difference between the different types to make it difficult for a small group to choose. I haven't been up to GiGi's, because I rarely go north of 63rd St. I'm not sure it's worth the trek for a cupcake. In the southern group, I like Sara Sara, but I've never had their vanilla cupcake. I like the German chocolate, coconut and Crimson and Cream cupcakes there.

[Proud Daddy]

Well if your "really up for an adventure" and want to take a road trip may I suggest "Sprinkles" Cupcakes in Dallas located at Preston Road and Northwest Highway in a shopping center called Preston Center.

I have to agree with trying out Sprinkles. That place has ruined me on any local cupcake places because IMO none of them can touch it. I wish they would open one here, but for now I either have to make the three and a half hour trek to Dallas or wait for the Sprinklesmobile to visit OKC again. I still have some of these places to try, so maybe one of them will change my mind.

[Dustin]

Green Goodies is the best IMO! Love that place!

[Pete]

FYI, Green Goodies is moving to Classen Curve.