Sprinkles Cupcakes

What makes a good cupcake? The quality of ingredients, the mix of flavors, or maybe the presentation? Well Sprinkles Cupcakes does all of these things to produce a product worthy of celebrity enjoyment.

Sprinkles cupcakes is the world’s first cupcake bakery, started in 2003 by Candace Nelson in Beverly Hills. There are now 11 locations across the country, including a Newport Beach location, located at 944 Avocado Ave, which is convenient for Long Beach residents.

Sprinkles La Jolla
 Bottom right: Eggnog cupcake & Triple Cinnamon cupcake
Photo taken by: Britta Garsow

Sprinkles recently added a cupcake ATM outside of the original store. That way sugar addicts like myself can get a delicious cupcake any time of the day. A Sprinkles Ice Cream has also been born and is located right next door to the Beverly Hills location.

Sprinkles offers 10 standard flavors on a daily basis, including their most popular cupcake, red velvet. They also have 12 rotating flavors that are offered on specified days of the week, along with certain seasonal flavors. Sprinkles has vegan and gluten free options as well, so there really is something for everyone.

German chocolate, a seaonal flavor. Photo taken by: Britta Garsow

 Now you don’t have to live close to Sprinkles to experience its goodness. They offer delivery of their cupcakes and ice cream nationwide. Sprinkles can also create custom cupcake boxes for your party needs.

The cupcakes are priced at $3.50 each, or $39 for a dozen, and its worth every penny. If you follow Sprinkles on twitter they often provide a daily “whisper word” that, when whispered to a Sprinkles employee, will grant you a free cupcake!

 Mark Summers, of the Food Network, says “[Sprinkles Cupcakes] is turning a simple cupcake into the next star (www.sprinkles.com),” and I couldn’t agree with him more. I like to describe Sprinkle’s Cupcakes as “little drops of heaven,” and that’s an understatement. Try one, you won’t regret it!
Website: http://www.sprinkles.com/