Gigi’s Cupcakes of Cordova

Cup cakes are overpriced and dry. There is extremely too much frosting.

Totally YUM! The staff is awesome and the baking is top notch. I have had most if not all of the flavors and can say they are really good!

Cupcakes were dry and overpriced. That’s even if you can get the flavor You want. Every time I go in it’s nothing but empty trays. Will not be back.

I like gigis. It’s a fun place to take my daughter for a cupcake after school. However, the cupcakes are always dry.
The least dry are the chocolate torte, wedding cake and midnight *magic*. I can’t remember if it’s midnight magic or midnight something else. Anyway, the chocolate Torte is my fave! It’s like a brownie inside a crisp outside. The icing is delicious.
It’s a super cute store and the customer service is always good.

Given that my review is now three years old, I feel it’s time for an update. I’m still giving it five stars, so I’m not downgrading or anything, but they’ve added stuff to the menu so it definitely warrants a re-​review (is that a word?).
First, a tip: you can call ahead (it just has to be at least a day’s notice and obviously something on the menu that day) and special order a cupcake — what I mean by that is maybe you don’t like cream cheese frosting (I don’t!). Well, if it’s a day they carry the Scarlett’s Red Velvet, just ask for it to be made with vanilla buttercream. Or maybe you hate that all of the vanilla cupcakes have vanilla frosting, and the chocolate cupcakes only have chocolate frosting? I’ve never ordered one like this, but given that they always have a cupcake with both frostings every day, it should be no problem to order, say, a Midnight Magic with vanilla buttercream or a Wedding Cake with chocolate buttercream. Or you don’t want nuts on top of a cupcake (keep in mind I don’t think they can remove the nuts from the cake or frosting itself unless maybe you were making some special order that would be an entire batch’s worth) or no drizzle or whatever? They can do that.
The one catch is these special orders are only here, at the Cordova location, and I believe this is the location where all the cupcakes are made (going off memory from what an employee told me, so don’t quote me on this) so they’re in theory freshest here.
Anyway, the cupcakes themselves. I’m a sucker for the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough cupcake, I’m so glad they’ve made it a daily cupcake. The Chocolate Salted Caramel one is amazing as well. Both of these are available year-​round, as some cupcakes are only available during spring/​summer or fall/​winter. Right now during the fall/​winter they’ve got this amazing Mama’s Butterscotch Bacon cupcake. I mean yeah, there’s the whole «omg candied bacon» thing, but the butterscotch cake itself is amazing, and the maple buttercream is great. If you want to try it hurry, as they only have it until ¹¹⁄₂₉.
The Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough cupcake is exactly how it sounds. The cake itself is basically a chocolate chip cookie in cake form, and the frosting is chocolate chip cookie dough flavoured buttercream. It’s got a little piece of cookie on top, too. The Chocolate Salted Caramel is delicious, dark chocolate cake with caramel, caramel buttercream, thick chocolate ganache, and sea salt on top. It’s not too much sea salt, it’s just the perfect amount. If you’re #teamsaltedcaramelmocha rather than #teampsl then you will LOVE this cupcake. Try both together for a salted caramel mouth explosion. ;)
They also have breads, which I’ve only tried a sample of one time when they were giving them out. I tried the blueberry, which is the only one I’d like anyway. It was moist and good, I’ll be honest and say it tasted like any other blueberry bread I’ve had, but I also feel like I can’t give it a fair rating with a little square rather than a least a whole piece, if not an entire loaf. Maybe one of these days I’ll buy a loaf.
Finally, they have cookies now too (well, they have for a while, but you know). Yeah there’s peanut butter, snickerdoodles, and oatmeal cookies (all are sandwich cookies filled with a complementary buttercream (peanut butter: peanut butter buttercream, snickerdoodle: vanilla cream cheese, oatmeal: cinnamon cream cheese). But for me, it’s unsurprisingly the chocolate chip cookie that has me hooked. It’s two chocolate chip cookies — shocking, I know — sandwiched between chocolate chip cookie dough buttercream. If I don’t feel like eating a cupcake, then these cookies are right up my alley, and they’re a teensy bit cheaper too (I think one is $ 2).
I always have great service here, the employees are always friendly, I usually call my order in ahead of time in order to ensure that they don’t run out of a cupcake I want. If you want to go in the late afternoon/​evening, I definitely suggest calling your order in ahead of time (you can call them the same day to reserve them). Any bakery will run out of items as they get closer to closing time, reserving your cupcakes ensures you won’t be disappointed if you have a particular favourite. You don’t have to give them a credit card over the phone or anything, although if you order online you do have to pay when ordering.

I have to give it up to GIgi’s on making an AMAZING oatmeal cookie sandwich!
The cookie is moist and the cream is delicious. It’s cream cheese frosting mixed with cinnamon! so good and huge! Fed 4 people!
Although a franchise they are LOCALLY owned and operated. Their goods are baked in house and scratch made with whole ingrediants, no fillers.

Have you ANY idea how NASTY it is to have gnats in your cupcake counter? Not Once not twice but MY LAST AND FINAL trip there were BUGS, GNATS are insect and its deplorable that you allow that, people don’t obviously notice but I DID, the 1^st time by luck, then by habit and every time you have BUGS crawling on cupcakes and they obviously don’t care because I pointed it out each time Yet still BUGS!!! ALL I CAN SAY AFTER READING THIS REVIEW is LOOK, stop for 10 – 15 seconds stare ate the cupcakes and YOU WILL SEE KNATS! Then pay the $ 3.5
per GNATCAKE

I went in to get a birthday treat for my SO and it was about 45 – 30 mins before closing. There was only a limited variety of cupcakes left for the day — actually just 3 kinds. However, the cheesecake varieties I got were very good. The Bourbon Bomb was slightly dry, and I didn’t taste any bourbon, so I will skip it next time. I think I’ll try someplace that isn’t a chain next time.

My wife and I had to get some desserts from GiGi’s last night and what can I say. I am never disappointed in the quality. I was a little late in getting the last Wedding Cake, but was pleasantly please to get the Texas Chocolate.

Not a huge fan of these cupcakes. They are nicely decorated but as far as taste I would not recommend these. Overpriced as well. There are many other locations that offer great cupcakes for a reasonable price.

More icing than cake itself! Perfect gift for the looks though. Most of the cupcakes I’ve tried here have a more dry tasting and a bit sweet. It’s not as moist as how I like my cupcakes to be. It’s only okay for me.

I’ve had a cupcake craving for the past few weeks. It was time to take care of it.
First tried the Kentucky bourbon pie cupcake. It was tasty. It was more like a pie consistency than cupcake. Bought my husband the wedding cake flavor, he liked it. Excessive icing though.
I have one other in the box to try tomorrow… turtle.
As other reviews mention, there was a lot of icing — and its very, very sweet.
Would definitely return if I get another cupcake craving. Will try more flavors.

I had to redo my review. My friends took me back here today & I have to say its gotten alot better than past time. I tried this time the chocolate salted caramel & the wedding cake. Both were delicious but the chocolate salted caramel was the best! It was so moist & so chocolatey. I even ate all the icing. That flavor alone could beat out muddys. A little pricy tho since its $ 3+ a cupcake.

A bit pricey, $ 10 for three cupcakes, but well worth the price. My favorite is the wedding cake and a close second is the white chocolate raspberry.

Ok cupcakes! Lots of selections, only downfall is toooooo much icing. Had to remove ¾ of it, wont be back, not as good as I had thought.

The cupcakes taste fantastic, a bit too much icing for me (and I’m not usually one who will complain about too much icing!!)
The actual experience in the store is what took my rating down a few notches. Maybe because it was 5’oclock and the employees were counting down to the home stretch in the final hours. They didn’t seem particularly happy or kind. A few of the varieties displayed weren’t labeled, and the selection was a bit slim. I’m sure it was because they had only 2 hours left and didn’t make a fresh batch of anything for fear of waste. I’ll just chalk it up to a lesson learned and now I know what time NOT to visit.