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| - I consider myself a cake connoisseur. In fact, I'm a food snob all around. I don't mind paying high prices for quality and fresh ingredients. I was looking for a really good bakery cupcake, and after reading online that these were $3.50 each, I though, "Wow, they must be good." I went in and picked six flavors, for which I paid nearly $23, and was excited to bring them home to my family. I was sorely disappointed, as were my kids. My first taste of the salted caramel frosting had me protesting that it tasted like grocery store frosting! And believe me, there's nothing I hate worse than a grocery store cake. I would rather have no cake at all than a grocery store cake. The same went for the cake and the filling. I then took a taste of several of the other flavors I had bought. Same thing, they all tasted like processed, fake, grocery store crap. Sure, they were pretty and the flavors were fun, but the cupcakes themselves were probably the worst bakery cakes I've ever had. Even if they were $1 each, I wouldn't go back.
Not even sure how this plays stays open when they have competition like Urban Cookies, whose cupcakes are $1 cheaper, and are made with REAL ingredients, and taste homemade. I'm new to Phoenix and U.C. is the only other bakery I've been to here, but Cupcakes by Design are not even on the same level.
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