Best cupcakes
One of the gorgeous specialty cupcakes from the Lily Torte Baking Company, your pick for best cupcakes in and around Atlanta. Photo courtesy Lily Torte Baking Company
YOUR PICKS
1. Lily Torte Baking Company
You say, “They have so many flavors it is like being a kid in a candy store. My favorites are salted caramel and cookie monster yum” and “Lily Torte has the perfect cupcake for every occasion. Family owned. Great family, even better cupcakes. You can never have just one!”
2. CamiCakes
3. Cake Cafe Atlanta
4. Piece of Cake
5. GiGi’s Cupcakes
Atlanta Cupcake Factory co-owner Jamie Fahey frosts some of the delicious treats available at the Poncey-Highland shop. Photo: John Spink, jspink@ajc.com
OUR PICKS
The AJC dining team’s specialist in Southern and Neighborhood Fare Jenny Turknett says, “Atlanta’s cupcake scene has exploded over the past year. As I compared cupcakes from many of our local shops, the unique strengths of each bakery revealed themselves. Instead of ranking the five best cupcake spots, I offer the best features of five local cupcake bakeries and a few flavors to try (in no particular order).”
Gigi’s Cupcakes, multiple locations
Best feature: Filled cupcakes, which keep the cupcakes moist
Flavor to try: Coconut Cream-filled — A mountain of smooth coconut cream awaits.
Alpine Bakery, Alpharetta
Best feature: Moist and flavorful cake
Flavor to try: Turtle cheesecake — Is it a cake or a cheesecake?
The Atlanta Cupcake Factory, Poncey-Highland
Best feature: Cream-cheese based frostings
Flavor to try: Lemon — It might as well be a lemon meringue pie.
The Great Cupcake Co., Buckhead
Best feature: Fun flavors that venture beyond the traditional
Flavor to try: Creamsicle — Think of a frosted orange from The Varsity.
Jilly’s Cupcakery, Alpharetta
Best Feature: largest selection of miniature cupcakes
Flavor to try: Peanut butter chocolate — Peanut butter buttercream steals the show here.
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461 comments Add your comment
Rochelle
August 30th, 2011
9:47 am
endulge cupcakes are wonderful!!! This is a new cupcake business, but they are great! The owners are wonderful people who will cater to your needs. You can reach them at endulgecupcakes@gmail.com or 404-518-7125. Great cupcakes!!
Crimsonite
August 30th, 2011
9:48 am
The Strawberry cupcake from Sweet Justice is the best I’ve ever had! The Carrot cupcake is equally delicious because the flavors come together really well. The sweetness from the cream cheese icing carries the cake without providing an intense overwhelming sugar rush. Even better, the owner provides free samples to her Facebook followers and serves made-to-order fresh cupcakes.
Lynn
August 30th, 2011
9:50 am
Sugar Kneads in Loganville is the place to go for everyone OTP! The Dulce de Leche flavor is to die for! Loved it so much that I order that flavor for me wedding cake and will be serving a variety of their mini cupcakes for my rehearsal dinner.
jason
August 30th, 2011
9:51 am
Definitely Gigi’s. I go to the one at the forum in Duluth and they are amazing. I think you need to try all the places before throwing out an opinion on this and i have been to many of the ones listed. I see lots for Jilly’s though, never heard of them, might need to check it out.
Leslie
August 30th, 2011
9:54 am
Libbyann’s Sweet Shop cupcakes are by far the best!
Myrian
August 30th, 2011
9:55 am
Cake Cafe of Atlanta is the BEST! Rich tasting, but light. If I was younger, I would get a glass of milk!
Tori G
August 30th, 2011
9:56 am
Cafe Aromas in Lawrenceville, GA. Best kept secret around the city!
LBz
August 30th, 2011
9:57 am
Jilly’s in Alpharetta are average at best. Very dry. Been there two or three times and had several different ones and they are all the same – not moist – dry.
Beekay
August 30th, 2011
9:59 am
Cakes by Darcy in Roswell and Jilly’s in Alpharetta…
Toni
August 30th, 2011
10:02 am
I’ve visited a few cupcakeries in Atlanta. Camicake was not good to me. I bought the red velvet and the lemon drop. By the time I gave my fiance’ the lemon drop (about 2 hours after I bought it), the bottom of the box had a huge oil stain. The red velvet was dry and tasted like white cake with red dye. As soon as he took a bite of the lemon drop, he looked at me and asked if he had to eat anymore. So I haven’t been back.
I’ve had cupcakes from the Cupcake Factory and wasn’t impressed with them either. Too much icing for the cake size and the cake wasn’t good.
I love A Piece of Cake’s red velvet. It’s huge, has the right icing to cake ratio and taste like red velvet should.
When they were in business, Chocolate Pink had a lovely red velvet. I miss them.
Susie Sinclair
August 30th, 2011
10:02 am
CAMI CAKES!!!!!!!!!!! No one else comes close
Toni
August 30th, 2011
10:03 am
Oh yeah…I tried GiGi’s too. Wasn’t impressed with them either.
My quest for the illusive perfect red velvet cupcake continues.
Peggy
August 30th, 2011
10:04 am
Lizzie Lu Sweets are wonderful!!!
Amanda
August 30th, 2011
10:04 am
Cafe Aroma in Lawrenceville… the BEST!!!
EClaire
August 30th, 2011
10:05 am
CAMI CAKES are by far the best. Gigi load on the frosting and have a bland taste, too sweet. There is always a line out the door for Cami Cakes! I even got to meet little Cami once and she is a doll!
Lynn
August 30th, 2011
10:05 am
Cami Cakes hands down!
My Two Cents
August 30th, 2011
10:08 am
With the looks of folks around here too many cupcakes are eaten! Glad y’all can enjoy the sweet treats and think you can afford the extra pounds. Personally, too many calories for me. Time to go for my morning run!
Lynn
August 30th, 2011
10:09 am
I love Cami Cakes! However, I wish they would invest in more cupcake friendly packaging to keep the cakes separate. I often end up with butter stains showing on the outside of the box. This isn’t overly appealing, but the cakes for fantastic! Sometimes, you can’t judge a book by its cover.
Feli
August 30th, 2011
10:10 am
A Peice of Cake in Buckhead has cakes that make you want to slap your mama. LOL I wouldn’t dare hit my mom, but there cakes are to die for.
Shelly
August 30th, 2011
10:10 am
CaseyCakes makes the most delicious strawberry lemonade cupcake. Moist, with real strawberries in the cake and in the to-die-for cream cheese frosting. She also does an amazing 24 carrot cupcake, a cannoli cupcake, and many others. Find her on Facebook.
JO
August 30th, 2011
10:11 am
A Piece of Cake has the BEST cupcakes
faceit
August 30th, 2011
10:12 am
Highland Bakery…along with flavors, you have a choice in size. A big cupcake or a mini cupcake, just enough for a taste and watching the figure.
Amanda
August 30th, 2011
10:12 am
Lenox Cupcakes
Gregory
August 30th, 2011
10:13 am
Have you ever tried SWEET CHEATS in Cabbagetown? Well you should check them out. The cupcakes are pretty darn tasty! My wife and kids cannot eat enough of these gems!
http://sweetcheatsatlanta.com
Walker
August 30th, 2011
10:13 am
I use to be die hard Cami. They are now #2. The best cupcake is Whimsical in Grayson, GA. I thought there was no one who could ever take Cami but Whimsical Sweets bake Shop does it well. The red velvet cupcake are the best. They also have brownies. If you don’t think Whimsical is better I am willing to pay for your cupcake. It not close to everyone and if it has to be the city of Atlanta then Cami is still good.
Tag
August 30th, 2011
10:19 am
CAMI CAKES, 2221 Peachtree delicious, moist the best cake I’ve ever had!!!!
Bryan
August 30th, 2011
10:21 am
SUGAR KNEADS in LOGANVILLE!!!! AWESOME!!!
Beth
August 30th, 2011
10:21 am
I still have to say that Sugar Kneads in Loganville has my vote. LOVE their cupcakes, for a day-to-day sweet fix but have also had them make a birthday cake – fabulous AND my daughter’s wedding cake!! AMAZING!!! Consistently delicious! Thanks Sugar Kneads!!
Barbara Lewis
August 30th, 2011
10:21 am
The very best cupcakes are at “The Cup” its located in a new community “Town Brookhaven” off of Peachtree Rd very near Oglethrope University. The cupcakes are a nice size (not huge) and delicious. They melt in your mouth. They are made fresh daily. There are daily specials and a great variety. The coffee is pretty good and they have free wireless!!
Dorie
August 30th, 2011
10:25 am
Metrotainment! Metrotainment!
Jade
August 30th, 2011
10:25 am
Cake Cafe in Decatur, hands down. They have the BEST cake, cupcakes, rice krispy treats. But their cupcakes are killer!
selisel
August 30th, 2011
10:28 am
Lily Torte in Powder Springs is the new bakery in town that is going to crush all competition. Their cupcakes are baked fresh every morning, super moist with an excellent frosting-to-cake ratio!!
Kristy
August 30th, 2011
10:31 am
PIECE Of CAKE!!!!! THE BEST CUPCAKES ON THE PLANET!!!!!
dee
August 30th, 2011
10:31 am
CAMICAKES…hands down!!!
Jesscia
August 30th, 2011
10:33 am
Hands down – Pink Cupcake Dreams! Even people who don’t like cupcakes fall over themselves for these!
AriAtl
August 30th, 2011
10:33 am
Piece of cake hands down!!!! They really have no competition. Cami has more icing then cake, and their icing is bad. By the way if you said Publix you shouldn’t have posted.
kristin
August 30th, 2011
10:35 am
Pink cupcake Dreams gets my vote 100%
lt
August 30th, 2011
10:36 am
Cupcake Utopian is finger licking, hands down the best CUPCAKES in Atlanta! If you dont believe me …try em! Don’t know where those delicious morsels of goodness are? Well let me help y’all out!
Email info@cupcakeutopian.com
Phone 404.295.9988
Website http://www.flicker.com/cupcakeutopian
Love…a loyal, cupcakes eating woman!
Steve
August 30th, 2011
10:36 am
Honest question: How many people posting here aren’t affiliated with the cupcake place they are mentioning? I suspect 80-90% of these posts are from the owners of these places.
SweetsGirl
August 30th, 2011
10:36 am
CamiCakes, CamiCakes, CamiCakes and oh did I say CamiCakes?!!!!
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Jeena
August 30th, 2011
10:37 am
Hands down, Pink Cupcake Dreams! They have the perfect amount of sweetness, great cream cheese based icing, moist, and above all they taste a-may-zing. The baker really thinks about the flavour and adds ingredients such as coffee to make them unique and delicious. Best cupcake you will ever eat, I promise you.
Doesn’t hurt that they have names such as ‘better than sex’ and they come in a nice pink foil cupcake wrapper.
Dan williams
August 30th, 2011
10:37 am
Can we get over the cupcake thing? For Christ sakes, it is just a small cake with fatten icing on it…
Jeena
August 30th, 2011
10:38 am
PS I am not the owner and have met the baker once. PINK CUPCAKE DREAMS!
Jadzia
August 30th, 2011
10:40 am
My cake/cupcake tastes run to light, not dense, in both the cake and frosting. No place does that better than Star Provisions. Their cupcake are light and flavorful and their buttercream frosting is real butter that is also light as air.
Lisa
August 30th, 2011
10:44 am
We L-O-V-U Cupcake Utiopian’s Double Chocolate Cupcakes, they melt in your mouth. http://www.facebook.com/cupcakeutopian
sportsmommy74
August 30th, 2011
10:44 am
Cami Cakes and Sweet Cheats are AMAZING!!!
Tami
August 30th, 2011
10:44 am
Lily Torte Baking Company! By far the most moist, flavorful cupcake I have ever had. I send these cupcakes around the world to family and friends. If you have not tasted one of these cupcakes, you have not tasted the best up cakes around.(Lilytorte.com)
TJ Wiltz
August 30th, 2011
10:46 am
SWEET CHEATS!!!
MMMmmmm…..
Tag line says it all – “If you’re gonna cheat, it better be worth it”
Totally Heavenly!!!
Mike Vick
August 30th, 2011
10:46 am
Jilly’s is great just over priced.
Diego
August 30th, 2011
10:47 am
What is all of this attention and excitment to cupcakes??? Is this the new Take home-a-sack? Snacking Obese America! The last time I had a cupcake was about 50 years ago that my mama made, white cake with chocolate icing and I could lick the spoon and bowl…YUM!…………..