I bake and lavishly decorate cupcakes for our family very often, so I am super-familiar with how to make them taste and look great! We thought we'd try Little Cakes Kitchen, so we ordered the half-dozen box of assorted cupcakes. They were delivered through DoorDash. We knew we were not able to pick our flavors by ordering this way, but figured Little Cakes would send a representative sample, which I assume they did. I'm not sure which flavors were in our box because they weren't labeled. I wanted to know what we were eating, but I had to dig through many past reviews to identify most of them. The 6 flavors received in the 1/2-dozen box were: * Vanilla * Chocolate * Almond Champagne * German Chocolate * Something Marshmallow-Topped * Something Chocolate--Topped with Thin Vanilla Icing and Vanilla Buttercream All the cupcakes were of average size and were decorated nicely enough. Albeit the cake part on all the cakes were a bit dry. It was difficult to discern a specific flavor on a few, so I've come to the conclusion that garnishing must be their gift. Most of the 'vanilla' flavors, were indistinguishable in flavor from one another, except for the Almond Champagne, which had a cloying almond paste filling, and too much filling to cake ratio. Of particular concern was that the frosting on all seemed to be off in ratios of butter to shortening. I suspect there was an over abundance of shortening in all the cupcakes, which to me, is not palatable, nor is it delicious or anything resembling what a good cupcake should be. They miss the mark in my opinion. Due to the high prices and the fact that the frosting on all the cupcakes was cloying and poorly prepared with what I suspect was too much shortening, and not enough icing sugar, I would likely not buy cupcakes from Little Cakes Kitchen again. read more

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Vegan options! This place always has about 2 vegan cupcake options on hand. Nice dessert option after dinner or after watching a movie in the same complex. My non-vegan mother also enjoyed the non-vegan options. read more

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Was wandering around and decided to swing by before heading to an event in the area. We have been here before a few years back and the cupcakes and brownies were just as good as I remembered. I was so excited they had a Jack Skellington themed cupcake (it was a tasty chocolate cupcake). I really enjoyed the almond cupcake I got. My mom loves chocolate cupcakes with white frosting and the one I picked up for her did not disappoint. They were all tasty and super moist. My Mom also really like the brownies, especially since they had walnuts (her favorite). Baked goods were reasonably priced and worth every penny. Love how the store is laid out and how the cupcakes are displayed and labeled. The store is nice, bright, and open. The staff is very personable, helpful, and overall amazing. I will for sure be stopping when I am in the area again. read more

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Cupcakes North county 2x winner at cupcake wars Desserts pastries cakes Amex accepted Mainly to go Flavors vary depending on day No restrooms Lots of parking Downtown vista Vegan options read more

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The cupcakes flavors are different and you'll find a flavor you like - there is everything from fruit to chocolate and even seasonal pumpkin. Little Cakes even has some specialty flavors online you can order in advance (like French Pear tarte and Linzer). Unfortunately, they were out of the Almond Champagne one the last time I went. That one is the flavor that first brought me here! Cupcakes are good - moist, flavorful, good size. The drunken pumpkin (delicious pumpkin cake with rum! and chocolate, caramel and cinnamon on top) . It was definitely was my favorite. The vanilla was my least favorite. The vanilla cake was fine but the frosting was flavorless and hard. I always get a vanilla cupcake since It is easy to compare to other bakeries. I would say every other vanilla cupcake I have had elsewhere was better! Service was so-so, the person was busy and didn't really offer any positive interaction. Also, if you see a lot of cupcakes in the back - you can only order the ones in the three main cake stands. Those are the only ones available! read more

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I've been here a few times and all of the cupcakes we tried were amazing! I guess I just know which flavors will be good. I've gotten the one that won the Cupcake Wars and it's amazing (sorry I forgot what it was called). They have unique flavors, which I like. The cupcakes aren't too sweet, and the frosting isn't too sweet either, which is perfect! I paid $3.75 per cupcake. No issue with the customer service, the lady did greet me right away. read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Cupcake Wars winner almond something, tamale corn with vanilla, chocolate with vanilla frosting, and ube-be. - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

I ordered my wedding cakes from Little Cakes. They were perfectly iced as "Naked Cakes". I had 5 flavors, they were all AMAZING! Everyone asked for slices of all the flavors. The Absolute winner according to our guests was the Chocolate Peanut Butter! We loved the lemon and carrot cake. I have picked up cupcakes several times, it's always a yummy experience. read more

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I ordered my wedding cake here-biggest mistake ever. The cake I just picked up looks nothing like the almond cake they have on their website. The roses and font are sloppy. The picture online had edible pearls on it. Absolutely disappointing cake. Do not make the same mistake as me. read more

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The desserts from little cakes were a huge hit at our wedding! Everything looked beautiful and tasted even better--especially the cupcakes Our guests couldn't stop talking about them. Highly recommend for any special event! read more

Was so pleased with this place. The service was amazing the young lady working was the sweetest and helped me find cupcakes as it was hard for me to choose lol. Where i was going to get my order canceled on me and needed cupcakes asap for tomorrow had no idea of this place till now and wow I'll be back. 10/10 must try!!! read more

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Best cupcakes in my opinion! I live in Chula Vista but have friends who lives in Vista so I try to stop by every time I visit them. 11/10 would recommend. read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Great quality cupcakes! - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

Their cupcakes are freaking amazing. I can't say I had one cupcake I didn't like. The staff is helpful at the shop.

Delicious cupcakes in a wide variety of flavors! We get them for every family event.

We were looking for a place to make a cake for one of our events and we decided to try a few cupcakes first. When we went in they had Halloween themed cupcakes and the 'sally' was our favorite. There is a slight price increase for the specialty cupcakes but nothing crazy. My favorites are the banana mocha tella, vanilla and almond. Their vanilla and almond buttercreams and sooo rich and creamy. Their award winning almond champagne with Bavarian is also delicious! We ended up ordering two round cakes and one sheet cake. I was in touch with Alexa all month - she is so friendly and accommodating. She calls me on time and always responds to my emails and texts. I highly reccomend this place for any special event or just a nice treat. Their cake is moist and never dry. read more

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The banana cupcake truly stole the show! Such a cute date spot. Grabbed dinner around the corner, saw the Christmas lights of downtown, and their cold brew is really good too!!! read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Banana, sweet potato, Italian Christmas wreath, and cornbread - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

Such a cute store and nice employees. They have vegan and gluten-free cupcakes, as well as regular ones. They have drinks too! Only a few seats inside and outside. Most likely, you will have to take it to go. No bathroom here. read more

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Food (5/5 stars): Little Cakes won TWICE on Cupcake Wars! My favorite flavor this round was their Tuxedo, but we'll definitely be back to try all of their flavors. Needless to say, these were high quality cupcakes and I highly recommend Experience (5/5 stars): * Price: reasonable. They even have a deal on Tuesdays * Wait Time: no wait on a Tuesday afternoon * Service: great and friendly. They even offered to keep our cupcakes cold while we watched a movie * Parking: there's a parking lot * Ambiance: it's a nice, cute cupcake shop with some indoor seating read more

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I totally get why you won Cupcakes wars! There aren't a lot of cupcakes that exceed my expectations... but these babies were by far one of the best cupcakes I've ever had. I'm a chubby girl- and I love cupcakes. So take it from me... this place should have lines out the door all day long.... I can't even tell you which one was my favorite because they were all excellent. The women working in the bakery were equally as fantastic! I'm kinda glad I don't live in California anymore because I'd be camping out at your door. But, you better believe that I'll be back the next time I'm in town!!! read more

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This is our go to cupcake place....and I don't even care for cupcakes LOL The cupcakes are moist and delicious and not overly sweet. They have limited seasonal cupcakes that are just as fun. My daughters's favorite is their red velvet and my son favors their chocolate....while I'll take their almond champagne. Really, we haven't had any bad ones yet. They also sell prepackaged mini cupcakes so you can sample different flavors. read more

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Adorable, little, local cupcake shop! You can tell much care and pride they have with their gorgeous window exterior. I'm not much of a cupcake gal but my husband and I walked by and couldn't help but go inside. The flavors are plentiful and very enticing. My husband settled on an Irish Cream and I lucked out with a mini lemon / berry cupcake! The employee working was very sweet and explained all of the flavors to us and answered all of our questions. She mentioned they'd come out of the fridge so let the buttercream warm up a little. We finished up our walk and within fifteen minutes were ready to sit down and enjoy them. Absolutely fabulous! Really loved my mini dabs my husband loved his full size cupcake. Very cute true local shop that we'll definitely support again. read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Shop exterior - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

Best cupcakes EVER!!! I actually don't like cupcakes but these are SO good. I've ordered from then tens of times. My favorite is their Snickerdoodle cupcake, hands down, but all their flavors are good. They also used to have these mini cheesecakes that were DIVINE but they stopped selling them, unfortunately. Please bring them back! Only downsides are they are pricey and their rewards system (stamp card) is bad in that they only give you a stamp for every $10 you spend. So if you buy $9 worth, you don't get a stamp at all. read more

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Got an order of the vanilla cupcakes and champagne almond cupcakes for my grandson's birthday party, and when I got home, saw that the sprinkles on top of 5 of the six vanilla were Halloween colored (black and orange). Not exactly birthday colors. And then just one odd pastel sprinkled cupcake (as the website picture showed). I called to see if I could exchange them, and at least ask why I didn't get six matching cupcakes. The store clerk just said "yeah, sorry, we are doing Halloween Sprinkles right now on our vanilla cupcakes. You must've gotten one of the last regular sprinkle cupcakes." I told her well it's for a birthday party not a Halloween party. She just said "yeah sorry." Then silence. I was so ticked, I just hung up. I know it's hard to get good help in retail these days, but this was just really bad customer service. The cupcakes taste great. The customer service tastes rotten. read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Mismatched and misleading advertising on the cupcake sprinkles. - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

I was given 2 cupcakes for my birthday yesterday, they both had the texture of muffin's and had absolutely no flavor. I could have made the cupcakes myself with my eyes closed and had a moist nicely frosted cupcake. read more

Cute little shop in Vista. Stopped by 45mins before closing and they still had a decent selection available. I ordered the half dozen for $24.50. Flavors were similar to what you'd see at other bakeries. I enjoyed the green tea matcha and almond champagne. read more

Ordered a carrot cake for my best friends birthday. She is an amazing baker so buying her a cake is hard. We didn't want her to make her own cake for her birthday! Her request was her favorite...a carrot cake. This was the best carrot cake we have ever had, and the frosting was amazing!!! We couldnt wait to try it and started the celebrations 1 day early, what a way to start! Thank you so much!! read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Best Carrot Cake ever!! - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

Little Cakes is one of my favorite places to buy a nice little treat for someone's birthday. All the flavors I've tried from them have been excellent and did not disappoint one bit. I love that you can customize a box for any type of occasion you may need. Today, I stopped by to get a couple of cupcakes for my FIL. I chose the lemon and chocolate toffee which I'm sure he will love. I'll update my review with his thoughts. I also purchased a Lemon Berry and a chocolate peanut butter for us to try. They also happened to be running a special buy 3 get 1 free. Great deal! Make your way over to this cute cupcake shop in downtown Vista. Definitely a gem! read more

Love this place! Is so cute and clean inside and your greeted right away by the Bakers and the delicious smell of all the goodness. There is such a large variety of cupcakes to choose from so if your unsure what to get you may want to get the mini cupcakes pack. So far my favorite is the Strawberry Champagne cupcakes and the Maple Bacon!! Who would have thought bacon on a cupcakes would compliment each other so well. Every time I come here they have new flavors so your tastebuds will always have the opportunity of savoring in new flavors.. read more

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I came here to pick up some last minute treats for work and grabbed their pre packaged dozen mini cupcakes! It came with 6 different flavors and was fast & easy to purchase. For a mini dozen, it was $21 I believe? The cupcakes were moist and flavorful, and everyone in my department enjoyed it. My favorite was the strawberry milkshake, it was a vanilla base and strawberry frosting that explodes with flavor in your mouth. The parking was easy to find, I parked next to the Panda Express and walked over to the opposite side to find the store. It's in front of the movie theatre. The service was nice and easy. I would come back for sure in the future! read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Variety mini dozen - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

Soooo good!!! The cupcakes were perfectly sweetened! We got the peanut butter chocolate cupcake and it was so moist and delicious!!!! They had other flavors that looked amazing too! read more

This place has been in the Vista community for quite some time now and in case you didn't know, they won Cupcake Wars from the Food Network Channel not just once, but twice! I've been coming here few times a year especially when my sweet tooth craves a cupcake. This is one of my favorite places in North County to come. Today, I took advantage of their LIMITED TIME $29.95 dozen deal. My favorite cupcake of theirs is the Tuxedo but that wasn't available today. So I got... 2 Red Velvets, 2 Chocolates, 1 Vanilla, 1 Tres Leches, 1 Banana Split, 1 Strawberry Milkshake, 1 Pearl, 1 Mayan Macaroon, 1 Green Tea Blueberry and 1 Peach ala Mode. My daughter just ate the Chocolate one and she said it was good that she realized she accidentally ate a tiny piece of the cupcake liner...lol. My dad and I split a Mayan Macaroon and Tres Leches and both were delicious! My hubby had the Banana Split. He liked it except for the Sprinkles. Hopefully they'll continue their 2010 pricing for $29.95 for awhile. Also, try coming when they open as some of the popular flavors gets sold out like I missed out on Pancakes & Bacon and Dark Chocolate Macadamia. read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Assorted cupcakes - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

Quick service and great for birthday parties too. The ambience inside the shop was cozy, very mom & pop. I ordered a few more via DoorDash recently, their vegan cupcakes were my favorite. I would have taken a picture if I hadn't eaten them first :) definitely coming back. read more

This is a small sweet little shop in Down Town Vista near the theater. Lots of flavors to choose from. Both the ones we choose had plenty of frosting which I love! Thank you so much we can't wait to go back and support read more

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Nice cute cupcake shoppe off Vista Village Dr near the movie theatre. The cupcakes are $3.75 for a regular, or more for a premium cupcake. I tried the award winning champagne almond cupcake, and it was very good but had just a tiny bit of icing on it. The icing on the chocolate was very good as well. They keep the cupcakes refrigerated, so they need to be left to sit out at room temperature to get the best flavor and texture. They don't taste as good cold, so I'll get it "to go" next time. Service was good. read more

Bought the cupcakes here for the first time. They were good, not great Wife said they felt not totally fresh and seemed to need a filling inside. Nicely decorated just not as moist as we were hoping and just lacked a filling to give them that "over the top" taste. Tried cannoli cupcakes and tuxedo read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

I've walked by before and saw that they boast winning Cupcake Wars, but I've never really had a good cupcake, so didn't really think award-winning cupcakes would change the fact that I'm just not a cupcake person. Turns out I was wrong. Good cupcakes do exist! We had a variety dozen delivered for a birthday, and it was sweet perfection. Every flavor was good, but The Pearl was the best! Per the website, The Pearl is "a sweet almond cake filled with Bavarian cream, topped with Champagne Italian Buttercream and edible pearls" - aka divine! As good as they were, we couldn't/shouldn't eat a dozen cupcakes in one day, so we had leftovers. It doesn't keep well, probably because it's freshly made without too many preservatives. So get one at a time, or more to share! read more

This has been the 3rd time I've had their cupcakes, and they 100% satisfied the cravings. The cakes have consistently been soft, moist and not heavily sweet. Perfect sponges for the creamy luscious frostings. read more

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Little Cakes is a local favorite, so it was my first choice when I was tasked to hunt down two dozen delicious cupcakes for a baby shower. I arrived a few minutes before they opened since I needed two dozen of a single flavor same-day, and without a pre-order I wanted to give myself the best chances. Luckily I was first in line. The woman who opened the shop was pretty icy. Just generally curt and unfriendly. Thankfully a lovely older woman swooped in to help me. She was super accommodating and did her best to find 24 cupcakes of a single flavor. What was strange was that, as we were in the middle of ordering, the other rude employee sold the cupcakes I was in the middle of purchasing to a customer on the phone. It was bizarre! I ended up needing to settle on two different designs of a single flavor, which obviously wasn't my first choice. I kept it easy, nodded and took my cupcakes, but that really left a bad taste. The cupcakes here are cute enough, but honestly I'm not rushing back after that kind of service. I also recommend avoiding the vanilla flavor - the frosting wasn't great. read more

This is my favorite cupcake shop in SD, so I decided this would be the place to order a cake from for a birthday. Although I didn't get to taste the cake, the birthday girl said it was delicious! I ordered the almond cake with vanilla buttercream, 8" and round. I asked for "vintage" style and provided a picture, and the piping was PERFECTION. The shells were so clean and each one was the same size all around for each border, and the base was pretty smooth. The pictures show the inspiration picture and the actual cake (video). read more

Little Cakes Kitchen - Inspo - Custom Cakes Near Me - Vista, California

My girlfriend and I called about a week ago to try and order a gluten free cake. We received no call back, so we called again a few days later, finally got ahold of someone, only to be told that we needed to call a week out. We also asked if they make gluten free chocolate cupcakes (which they normally have) and were told they only come with cream cheese icing. We asked if they could put vanilla frosting on the ones they make for a birthday only to be told no, you need to order a week out. We have been to this place many times, but won't be back. Save your time and go somewhere else, I guess winning cupcakes wars twice turns you into this. We won't be back. read more

This is my 3rd time going. Other times I thought the cupcakes were good. However when the bf and I came today on the 4th of July and I got the Mayan Macaroon (a Cupcake Wars winner) and he got the snickerdoodle, both were cold. So the texture of the cake itself as well as that of the frosting made for an underwhelming cupcake. Hard to discern the true taste and texture. Disappointing. read more