Ever since GiGi's Cupcakes opened up on Poplar a couple of months ago we have been meaning to stop by and try out their cupcakes. I pass by there every day on my way home from work and yesterday I finally stopped by to purchase some. Before leaving work I checked out there daily menu on their website to see what cupcakes they had available. They usually have about 10 cupcake flavors everyday; however, after looking over all the cupcakes they offer, it seems like a lot of the cupcakes are the same just different color icing with a different topping, i.e. the birthday surprise is white cake with pink buttercream icing and colored sprinkles while their wedding cake is white cake with white buttercream icing and white sprinkles. I really don't see a difference and at $3.00 a cupcake I decided it would be better to go with their more specialty flavored cupcakes. I also found a coupon online for buy 3 cupcakes get 1 free so with 4 cupcakes we would get a nice variety....below is what we ordered:
Hunka Chunka Banana Love (top left)
banana cake with chocolate chips, banana buttercream icing topped with chocolate ganache
Champagne (bottom right)
White champagne cake with a champagne cream cheese frosting with edible pearls & white chocolate
Peanut Butter Cup (bottom left)
Milk chocolate cake topped with peanut butter frosting & honey roasted peanuts all drizzled with chocolate
and one that wasn't on the menu for the day but they had one left..it was meant to be
Chocolate Strawberry (top right)
Devils food cake with chocolate chunks baked in topped with strawberry frosting and dipped in ganache.
The store really wasn't what I expected. It was really small and had one display case with all the cupcakes. Nothing really on the walls and just kinda plain. On their website it says they are open til 7pm; however, we have driven by numerous nights on our way to dinner way before 7pm and the store is as dark as night! So if you are hoping for cupcakes after dinner this isn't the place to g
o!They put our cupcakes in a cute little box that securely holds 4 cupcakes. The lady behind me only ordered one and they had a cute little single box for that as well.
So we couldn't wait to try the cupcakes when we got home and of course we had to try all of them so I cut each in half and we shared them with a tall glass of milk, which I would recommend when eating these cupcakes. Overall, the cupcakes weren't bad. They are really sweet and do have a lot of icing. This is how we would rank them for taste and flavor. Our favorite being number 1!
1. Hunka Chunka Banana Love
2. Chocolate Strawberry
3. Peanut Butter Cup
4. Champagne
We probably won't go back to GiGi's for while but if you haven't tried them you should so the next time cupcakes come up in a conversation because you know someone will inevitably mention GiGi's, you can say "yea, I've been there, tried that!" But honestly I don't think they are worth $3.00 a cupcake and Ethan didn't like how they don't offer all there cupcakes everyday. To each his own! Eat Up! Bon Appetit!
