Alexandria Cupcake

Came here Sunday with my friend and they had some
Yummy looking flavors. We shared a strawberry cupcake with strawberry butter cream. The cupcake was just okay. The icing wasn’t really sweet and the cake had real fruit and still was just okay. They don’t have a public restroom and advised us to use the coffee shop one block away. With so many other cupcake choices I wouldn’t waste my calories on these…

I love little hole in the wall places like this, and Alexandria Cupcake is no exception. There isn’t much room to sit down so it’s definitely a buy-​and-​go kind of bakery.
Even though the place is small, what I really love is the selection of cupcakes they have! A lot of places have very similar flavors that mostly come down to various combinations of vanilla or chocolate. Alexandria Cupcake has all sorts from Strawberry Shortcake, to Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate to their famous Guinness Cupcake with Bailey’s frosting. Normally the stranger flavors tend to be harder to get right, but here they knock it out of the park with their fabulous cupcakes.
It’s so hard to choose, but I had to go with the strawberry and Guinness cupcakes, and both were just as moist and delicious as I had hoped. The Guinness in particular had a rich, robust flavor, and their icing was sweet without any of the bad saccharine aftertastes of cheap cupcakes. Of course with such a big selection it means I’ll have to come again if I want to try all the rest of their flavors…

Took my family here today for the first time and my eight year old son didn’t like his cupcake neither did I. Over priced cupcake with discusting frosting and the young lady working there was very rude. Dont waste your money or time.

I was excited to try this place because I have been to Georgetown Cupcakes and really enjoyed it. I’m not convinced this place is as good. Small selection of cupcakes in the morning (more were still being prepared in the back).
I tried a strawberry cake option with a strawberry buttercream frosting. The frosting was light and tasty but had a pretty mild strawberry flavor. The cake bottom was unremarkable. I also thought everything was on the small side for a three dollar price point.
Service was friendly and helpful. There were only three small seats, so consider ordering and taking home to eat.

I just can’t rave enough about this place! Their cupcakes are always fresh, delicious & oh so moist. Heavenly delights every single one so when I got a call from the maid of honor asking me to help with a sweet treat for the bachelor/​bachelorette party, I instantly knew it had to be Alexandria Cupcake!
All the bridal party & many (most) of the guests are from out of town & I know they’ll be raving & wishing they lived here just for another chance at these delectable cupcakes! And I’ll be the hero for having brought the BEST!
The store is clean & uncluttered. The staff is friendly & kind. The owner called me directly to get more information to try & work with me for the theme I was trying to pull off & had I called just one day sooner, I’m sure they could of done it. Either way, the «toppers» are not why I decided on Alexandria Cupcake, it’s the dessert. My personal favorite is the Guiness but you cannot go wrong there! Red Velvet is literally ecstasy! The creamy smooth like frosting with moist springy flavorful cake. As my lil sis would say, «makes you wanna run home & slap yo Mama» good!
Thank you Alexandria Cupcake for coming thru last minute & always being consistent with you service & taste!

I wanted a Strawberry cupcake among others. So I tried Alexandria Cupcake and was happy to find a great selection of flavors. The icing is very light and creamy. We loved all the flavors we tried. So much more tasty than the other local shops like Buzz or Lavender Moon. It’s pretty plain inside the shop but the cupcakes are really good.

Unsmiling, unfriendly girl helped us after dinner one weekday night. $ 4 for a small cupcake, I got carrot and was not a fan of the heavy dense frosting which tasted like cream cheese and Crisco. Duncan Hines at home is way better. There is no decorations or whimsy that make it special, so going on taste alone, it’s a bust.

I visited this place randomly last weekend with my bff and her sister after we got back from Miami and had a sweet tooth. We Unilocaled some places and decided to try this place out since we were nearby at a diner. I decided to grab four to go and just ate my last one yesterday and believe it or not it was still fresh and good. I cant remember my flavors but I think I got Vanilla Bean, Strawberry, Guiness, and Raspberry. All were delicious. My dad’s bday is actually today and I’m meeting the family after work for dinner so I’m planning to stop by after work and get a dozen of cupcakes to take. I’m hoping they have a variety and I don’t have to call it in. Needless to say, I will be back. Great place to satisfy your sweet tooth and I love sweets… trying to work on that now with this diet! These are so yummy tho!

Delicious. I love their cupcakes.
One tiny criticism would be the lack of seating. There is a tiny, tiny table on the side with two stools.
I visited this place a few times, and there are always families with a kid or two giving death stares to the single guy taking over the table. Please put more seating. It’ll make for a friendlier environment.

This place is impeccable in every way.
As an individual who suffers from anaphylactic shock levels of nut and coconut allergies, this bakery’s policy of baking each batch separately has made it possible for me to order sweets without fearing death for the first time in years.
The cupcakes are always fresh, the flavors inventive, the service wonderful, employees kind and seating area is lovely.
My only qualm is that the prices could be a little lower, but all in all, the trade-​off has always been worth it in my book.
Best cupcakes I’ve ever had. Raspberry + Guinness flavors are especially off the charts.

So sad:((
Our cupcakes tasted a few days old. We were hoping for better, maybe they were just having a bad day.
Good luck, we won’t be back.

I found the cupcakes to be underdone and the frosting a bit chewy. Not sure how that happens. I had the vanilla bean and the guiness cupcakes. Very expensive. Not worth it unless you are hard up for some cupcakes and that day… I WAS!

$ 3 for a small ass cupcake. Not worth it. Will not come again and I do not recommend this place. Customer service was extremely lacking.

It was the end of the day, so there weren’t a ton of choices… But that’s understandable because the cupcakes were amazing!
We ended up trying one of each!
Guinness
Dark Chocolate
Dark Chocolate Peanut butter
Rose water
Strawberry
Each one was better than the last. We’ll definitely return next time we’re in Old Town!

So part of me is always in mourning for Frosting, my cupcakery of choice, which is now long-​gone. But Alexandria Cupcake just missed the spot. The classic cupcake– yellow cake, chocolate frosting– was just a spot too dry for my taste, and the frosting didn’t have that decadent richness I like. The cookie selection was equally limited (and the chocolate cookie with pepper was too peppery for my taste).

Freakishly sweet and greasy frosting. Dry cake. Pouting high school girls running the counter. Lavender Moon ain’t perfect, but it’s a helluva lot better if you have to have a cupcake.
We had the lemon, coconut and chocolate with vanilla bean frosting. Won’t go back, wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Bummer.

About a 2 – 2.5: Alexandria Cupcake has been around since ’10, and located in a walk-​up off of King. Cupcake flavors include Dark Chocolate, Vanilla Bean, Coconut, Strawberry, PB&J, Carrot, Raspberry Vanilla, Almond, and others. When the hubs and I dropped in, we were a little shocked in the lack of variety of the cupcakes, even though it was during the day. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t have Rosewater, as I thought that would have been really interesting to try; however, I tried their Strawberry and the Red Velvet. Unfortunately, both of the cupcakes were extremely dry, and the frosting on top, while pretty to look at, was just way too sugary and overwhelming. Service was a little stiff, and the place seems to be more of a to-​go place. I’m glad I was able to check Alexandria Cupcake, but there are other better cupcake boutiques in the area that I’d go instead!
+dry cupcakes
+overwhelming, sugary frosting
+scarce selections

I stopped in here after dining next door at Hank’s Oyster Bar. Truth be told, I am not someone who is super in love with cupcakes. They are good and scratch an itch, but they aren’t something that rocks my world.
Alexandria Cupcake is a-​ok. I got the lemon and my dude got red velvet. The lemon was nice and light and was just lemon-​y enough that I was satisfied. My dude really liked the red velvet and especially how light the cream cheese frosting was. I’d try them again, but I’m not sure that I’ll be a regular because cupcakes aren’t really my jam.

Man, their Guinness cupcake is absolutely delicious. Other flavors not so much (see previous review below) but definitely give the Guinness cupcake a try. It’s a rich and creamy frosting atop a subtle and smooth dark chocolate cake. So, so good.
Previous Review:
I wasn’t too impressed with their cupcakes. I ordered both a chocolate peanut butter and a coconut cupcake. They were good, but not great. And, the chocolate peanut butter was much better than the coconut. The peanut butter was a bit overbearing but the chocolate cake was enjoyable even on its own. The coconut though was mediocre. It had hints of coconut flavor, but the cake and frosting were relatively bland. They were also relatively small so it would be easy to share a few with some friends.

Here’s the truth — Alexandria Cupcake doesn’t add up to Lavender Moon. I am extremely partial to Lavender Moon, and would have to say that it is my favorite cupcake place in the DMV.
I went into Alexandria Cupcake with an open mind. I gave it a fair shot. The place is cute, and conveniently located right next to Hank’s Oyster Bar on the main drag of King Street. For quick convenience for a stop in and stop out kind of place — you don’t have to deal with the added hassle of venturing all the way down to the waterfront to look for parking to get your cupcake fix if you’re not overly concerned with quality. Some quality is there within their cupcakes, but more mediocre at best than any great.
They had a few flavors out — nothing special or unique, but more main stream like your carrot cake or strawberry and red velvet. The one unique flavor I got for myself was the rosewater cupcake. It is not a substantial cupcake. It is small, and for $ 3.18 including tax. Note that Lavender Cupcake includes taxes within the $ 3 price tag per cupcake.
I don’t know, for me it is just better to go the extra few blocks to get the quality I love than to stop by here for the convenience of being on King Street. It was not impressive nor did it leave much of an imprint for me to want to return anytime soon.