Sweet Cupcakes

I ordered strawberry/​vanilla cake for my mom’s birthday. The cake was delicious and it is exactly what I asked. Since I was out of town, I had to order the cake via email. Everyone was very approachable and it was very easy to communicate. If you do not have time and need a birthday cake, Sweet cupcakes are very flexible.

I live in California and wanted a cake for my daughters graduation from nursing school. I knew she already liked this bakery. I called them and told them a theme, never saw the cake before pickup day. They did an amazing job. Not only did they nail the theme, the cake itself was delicious. I did have issues with communication as every time I called I spoke to someone new who didn’t know about my order, but they were always very nice and polite. I highly recommend them.

Sweet cupcakes is a cute shop with really fun and delish cupcakes. I love that they always have seasonal or topical cupcakes, like Red Sox themed or holiday specials. However, for the price of the cupcakes I find the level of service to be pretty poor. I’ve come to the shop on 3 separate occasions and have been either completely ignored or had to wait for the gals to finish up their personal phone calls. I think a specialty shop that sells cupcakes needs to focus on customer service and experience, but Sweet Cupcakes isn’t up to snuff.

Gluten free baking is a challenge. I love to cook & I find that gluten free alternatives are easy to find. Baking is a whole different story. When I try to make GF cupcakes from scratch, I want to pull my hair out. That being said, I was so excited to find that the great city of Boston had a bakery with GF and Vegan cupcakes!
A group of friends and I from Pittsburgh were visiting Boston for St Patty’s day weekend. We enjoyed the festivities of the city on Saturday and hit up the brunch scene on Sunday for a much needed recovery meal. After brunch, we decided to continue our foodie tour of the city so we walked to Sweet. Cute and clean shop but the space is under utilized. There are only three small two top tables making it a tight squeeze for our group of 5.
Two of our 5 are gluten free. The GF cupcakes are sold in packs of two, sealed off in separate containers to avoid cross contamination. This was a perk but also a bummer that we couldn’t mix up the variety we ordered. We didn’t want two of the same kind but had no choice. We ordered the carrot cake cupcakes and one GF brownie. I also ordered a cup of soy milk. Our friends ordered a mix of chocolate, snickerdoodle and vanilla.
The prices hurt. For my two cupcakes, brownie and soy milk, I paid $ 16. Ouch. The regular cupcakes were less expensive. We started with the carrot cake cupcakes. The icing was a nice compliment and it tasted just like carrot cake! I was happy with that choice. Next up, the brownie. I should have mentioned this earlier… I am a fierce brownie lover. I buy GF brownies whenever I find them and I attempt to make them on my way when I find a good mix. I recently discovered a GF bakery in Pittsburgh that makes a brownie that would knock your socks off. I had high hopes for sweet since they advertised their GF treats. Wellllll, my hopes and dreams of finding a brownie to beat the one in Pitt were crushed. Sweet’s brownie was almost inedible. Dry, minimal flavor and small portion for the price. I was able to swallow each piece with a swig of my soy milk.
While the GF treats didn’t live up to our expectations, the rest of our group raved about their cupcakes! Sweet had a steady flow of customers while we were there so I don’t doubt that they make great desserts, they just miss the mark with GF products.

Highly recommend the Jameson Irish cupcake and Red Velvet Cupcake! Well worth the money.

I had the chocolate chip pancake cupcake and the Boston cream pie cupcake. Both were stale and the flavors weren’t strong enough. I would say it’s not worth the price. For the price, I would expect higher quality but I was disappointed.

2 girlfriends and I came here after a couple of drinks and bought a half dozen variety and we were less than thrilled. They were extremely dry and I would not make the trip back. If we’ve had a few drinks and still think cupcakes don’t taste good then there’s an issue.

This place is good if you’re craving something a little sweet (excuse the pun). However, you won’t find THE best cupcakes. I had a key lime cupcake, which tasted like a plain old vanilla save the green filling inside — which more closely resembled frosting than anything else. Nonetheless, it satisfied my sweet tooth for the day. If I walk past this store, I might stop by again — but I won’t exactly seek it out. Also, a little overpriced — even for the mini ones!

Very disappointing and rude customer service. I attempted to buy a cake for my friend’s birthday and sent an online order 2 days before, just like the website says. The website did not take my order, and I was left without a cake that I was designated to get, because the website failed to work. Then I went in store around 6pm on a Thursday to purchase cupcakes instead, and the girl working was very rude. She did not seem like she wanted to be there at all. The taste of the cupcakes brought up my experience a little bit, but overall, not a good experience.

I am obsessed with cupcakes. Like in an unhealthy way. Anyway, when I told my friend I was heading out to Boston, he very kindly looked up cupcake places for me. I didn’t even ask! That’s a good friend!
He discovered Sweet and fortunately for us, it was near where we were getting dinner, so we stopped in and grabbed some cupcakes before heading to the restaurant. This was the Saturday night before Valentines Day. I have to say… I’m kind of disappointed that they only had Valentines Day themed cupcakes. They also had vegan vanilla and chocolate, and organic carrot cake, and your regular vanilla/​chocolate. I really would have loved to try their Boston cream and/​or peanut butter.
Whatever. I got two cupcakes, the vanilla with chocolate frosting and I forget the name of it, but it was essentially funfetti. I REALLY enjoyed the cake part. Not too dense, perfectly moist. It was really good! No complaints about the frosting on either of them, but there wasn’t anything memorable about it either. My husband got a strawberry champagne cupcake, which he said was really good, but agreed that the cake part was much better than the frosting.
I found these cupcakes to be really small for what you’re paying. As someone who frequents cupcakeries quite a bit, I expect bigger cupcakes. I don’t think I’ve seen any this small at any of the other cupcakeries I’ve been to. I kind of get why they only had Valentines Day cupcakes — kinda — but at the same time, other offerings would have been nice. The people working there were nice enough and answered what few questions I had.

They told me via their Facebook account that they bake the cupcakes daily every morning in a bakery in Hyde Park then ship them to the stores. So none of the Sweet locations actually produce these cupcakes and they are all made off site. Makes sense for them not to be as fresh as they could be, premade and decorated so by the time customers get to them they are getting stale. Still no excuse for being sub par. I used to settle for these, now I’ll just skip the cupcake craving.

Received a dozen for my recent
.Great variety, enjoyed the one w/​a choc. chip cookie @ the bottom. The frosting is not real sweet which is good, but the cake, alittle on the dry side.

Sometimes a restaurant with multiple locations maintains a feeling of uniqueness. Sometimes a restaurant with multiple locations feels like a chain. Sweet feels like the ladder: the cupcakes are good, not great, nothing to get excited about.
This feeling is supported by the way it is often staffed. A single, seemingly inexperienced employee. As an example, my wife recently ordered cupcakes from this location and prepaid. I didn’t know she had prepaid, and when I showed up to pick them up, I was charged again. An honest mistake. But when we called to have one of the charges removed, they removed both charges, then called us back to tell us they needed to recharge us to make up for the extra refund.
I can’t blame the employee. I’ve been there. You are staffing a place alone, and there isn’t really a manager to help guide you through the tough situations. The problem is, I had this experience while working in fast food.
Maybe that’s my problem with Sweet: it’s a local chain, but it’s a chain, and the chain part seems to stand out.

This location is a little out of the way so I’m surprised that it even still exists. Still, I pass through occasionally and figured its time to rate it.
I’m in agreement with other reviewers who have said that Sweet cupcakes are on the dry side. They definitely are. The icing is easily the best part of the cupcakes here.
I am also underwhelmed with the varieties — nothing is very adventurous or creative or even particularly flavorful. They’ve got your standard choco/​vanilla/​lemon/​carrot cake but I’d like to see something more seasonal that I could get excited about. The place is better suited for young girly girl teens, especially given the decorations. Not my go-​to for cupcakes in Boston, particularly because it is rather expensive for lackluster cupcakes.

I was totally confused on how to rate this place — basically their cupcakes. It was such a dilemma. I had to settle in for 3 stars for a simple reason. And below sums up my reasoning and hence possibly the smallest review I have written so far:
Positive: The cup cakes’ toppings are so so delicious. And I tried almost 5 of the dozen I got (yes, glutton me!) and not one of them was anything less than — delicious.
Negative: The base cup cakes themselves (minus the toppings) left a lot to desire for. Most of them were definitely on the drier side.
The ultra excitement of the yummy toppings was completely overridden by the mediocre base itself. And hence the strictly OK feeling. That would be all.

Okay, this place has stepped up its game, so I MUST give it mad props for doing so. The cupcakes are no longer dry… they actually sort of taste like Duncan Heins mix, which is fine cause I love grocery store cake.
Maybe Sweet listened to its reviews that its cake was dry. It’s not the case anymore!
Still really, really too expensive though. Mini cupcakes are $ 2.30 each. Wowzas!

I had high hopes for Sweets. I ordered through DiningIn at around 8 pm or so only for Sweets to tell me they didn’t have 4 of the 5 choices I ordered. So I made my substitution through DiningIn only for them to get my order completely wrong. Instead of Macaroon, I got Mint Chocolate Chip. Instead of Snickerdoodle, I got Chocolate. Now, DiningIn is about the worst service I’ve ever used in my life so I’m willing to bet the order was wrong because of them, not Sweets. Regardless, the cupcakes were dry and painfully mediocre. If you have a hankering for desert you could find many better places in Boston to go to such as South End Buttery which is absolutely fantastic.

I want to love Sweet, I do. The convenience, the pristine candy-​shop (pe) appeal, the pink tufted leather that screams WE MAKE MINI ROUNDS OF HEAVEN!
Sad truth: the cupcakes are on the drier, denser side, and I’ve never quite found myself on a successful trip. It’s been a while since I’ve been back, but after three or four disappointing attempts, it’s hard to find further motivation.

Sweet is… okay. It’s definitely sweet, but I found the flavors to be lackluster — they just didn’t have that «wow» factor. I bought two, different cupcakes, but if it weren’t for the differences in icing, it could have been the same cupcake (seriously, that’s how similar they tasted and I’d like to think I have a decent palette.)
The service was great, though, and the girl who helped my friend and I was so sweet (pun not intended.)

Délicieux cupcakes, il faut les essayer… Je vous conseil le red velvet. Les cupcakes sont frais et fait quotidiennement. La petite boutique est jolie et il n’y a jamais trop de monde.

These cupcakes sure are damn expensive for tasting like they’re 3 weeks old.
I’m not a huge cupcake fan but apparently I’m in the minority cause a ton of my friends are obsessed and seemed to take heavily to this fad. I decided to give in and try the cupcake game again at Sweet but that was a mistake that turned me off cupcakes for good. I tried the vanilla and the cappuccino. I was expecting something moist and fluffy and instead got something cold and stale. If I got this same cupcake from a bake sale it wouldn’t be so bad except I paid freaking $ 4 each for these little things.
Also wasn’t impressed with the lack of hospitality we received. I came in with a friend a good hour before the posted closing time and when we went to sit down on the obnoxiously pink couch thing the guy working quickly told us they were closing so we had to leave. Come on dude, you still would have been able to leave at least half an hour early than you would have, chill outttttttt.

Why do cupcakes always look better than they taste?!
This place is really cute in the inside and all the cupcakes look so pretty and tasty, but then you eat it… and it’s disappointing… as was the old coffee.
If you are only going to do one thing (make cupcakes) then those cupcakes should be awesome, but sadly, they were not.
The employees were less than happy to be there and didn’t crack a smile. The individual cupcakes & frosting were dry. Husby’s caramel apple was good and tasted fresh, but the coffee was pretty old and luke warm from a carafe.