If the cute shop, the fun flavors and big variety are all that you're looking for in a cupcake, then Yummy Cupcakes is fine. But if you're looking for a good tasting cupcake, there are only about two or three flavors that fill the bill...Red Velvet and the lemon varieties. The ""Old School"" (take-off on the Hostess Cupcake) and ""Cream Puff"" might be good if there was more than a smidgen of tasteless cream inside. They also had a chocolate flourless topped with whipped cream once or twice that was better than all of their cupcakes and they never had it again. I had asked someone who I'm guessing was an owner why they didn't have it anymore. Her reply was, ""It's just not what we do."" What? Make good cupcakes? If you look at their web site it lists all the gourmet ingredients and mentions the bakers are prestigious culinary graduates, etc. If that's the case, then Pillsbury and Betty Crocker are what they're teaching these days. The vanilla cupcake tastes like it's made from a mix... heavy, not fluffy and not good. The chocolate is better, but then there's all the sticky sweet icing piled high that ruins it. I guess they need to justify the $3.00 charge and are not taking into account that less would be more. That's why the Red Velvet is better, because it's cream cheese frosting. I guess for L.A. Yummy Cupcakes is considered decent, but if any of their happy customers ever visited a bakery in New York or any decent bakery for that matter, they would see the difference between a Yummy Cupcake and a truly good cupcake.
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