SusieCakes

I LOVE having this place in the OC Mix, just a hop, skip, and a jump from Portola!
I got for myself:
Red Velvet slice– this is a staple so you much get it. Moist, chocolate, frosting… To die for. Heaven. RIP.
Celebration Cake– this is a celebration in your mouth. You cannot get enough of this. I just wanted more and more and more. Try this with ice cream.
Lemon Slice– this thing was super zesty and great frosting. The crystallize sugar was good too.
Pumpkin Cheesecake– I am a sucker for pumpkin. I am also a sucker for cheesecake. So I am naturally a sucker for pumpkin cheesecake. This was soooooo delicious. I loved every bite.
Pumpkin Bread Pudding– I have no words for this. Just none. Eat it.

Came to get sugar cookies for bridesmaid proposal (20s theme) and the cookies were really really poorly decorated. They’re specialty is cakes. Stick to that. Also, they did not delivery on promise of design. Please look at the pictures for reference. So many better places for cookies. I was so embarrassed to give my bridesmaids they’re cookies. They joked and though I was in a RUSH and threw them together! That’s how bad it was… Anyways, so disappointed I probably won’t come back or suggest it to anyone.

Another cupcake shop
I surprisingly have never been here until last week. I came in with my girlfriend for some after lunch treats. We got to sample their chocolate cake that was WAY too sweet. It was moist though. After asking a bunch of questions I went for their monthly (February) special cupcake, a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting. I liked that there was a cute little edible heart on top. The cupcake was very moist but SUPER sweet. The frosting was extremely sweet as well. I noticed that the cupcake is also smaller than other cupcake shops.
A cupcake is $ 3.50. The birthday cupcake, which just says happy birthday is $ 4. The mini cupcakes go for 3 for $ 5. They also have cakes which are $ 6.50 per slice. They charge you an additional percentage without telling you for some charity thing. You must tell them to take it off otherwise you will be charged. There’s a little sign. I hated that they do not list their prices so you have to ask them for everything if you care enough. I also hated that they place their cupcake (if you buy one) in a paper bag. The cupcake can easily get destroyed if you are not careful. I just thought that was cheap of them for not providing a box. The service was good. They did answer all our questions and ran us up pretty fast. The inside is small and it’s mostly a take out shop. There’s one table that sits about 6 otherwise you can find a seating outside in the communal area. I don’t really understand the hype of this place. Yes their cupcakes are moist but I just thought they were too sweet and were smaller than your average cupcake shop. I did like that they have a good variety and were cute. Their cakes are also beautiful.

I got 4 mini cupcakes so I could try more flavors without gorging. I tried the Chocolate Chocolate, Red Velvet, Chocolate Vanilla, and the Vanilla. They all taste pretty good however only 1 out of the 4 cupcakes was fresh. The rest tasted like they were a couple of days old. For $ 2 per MINI cupcake, I expect them to NOT be stale. Since each of these mini cupcakes could be eaten in 2 bites that $ 1 a BITE!
I especially didn’t like how the salesgirl straight up lied to me and told me everything in their store was baked this morning at 5am when I asked her if the cupcakes were fresh. I understand that it’s difficult for a business to have a fresh inventory but at least be honest. I could’ve picked something else and gotten my money’s worth. Very disappointing…

Best cakes in town! And the price is reasonable for how great these cakes are. Red velvet and their cupcakes are amazing. I highly recommend if your in need of a cake for special occasions. Plus FRIENDLY STAFF

I love love love this place!
One of the best vanila cupcake I’ve tried!
I’m so glad OC has one!

I ordered customed cupcakes for my friend. I was charged 7.50 each for customed cupcake but they should have looked better than it looked for 7.50 cupcake.

$ 36 on a standard tiny little 6″ marble cake, not including tax or their «health care fee»? Okay, fine, but it better taste like gold. But charging an additional $ 3 for an inscription of «happy birthday», without even telling me beforehand is just rude. Seriously? Hidden fees much?
Not worth $ 40+. I’ll eat the cake, but I won’t be back.

Chain bakery with dense cake and overly sweetened unimaginative heavy frosting. Similar to the other Desperate Housewives — Stepford wives bakery Sprinkles.
Disappointed my hubby spent nearly $ 40 on a 6″ lemon cake for my bday. 1 sliver eaten, the rest just wasting away in the box.
Sorry, but Costco cake taste better.

Three stars only because the eggnog cupcake was a dry and tough. Everything else was woderful. Beside the eggnog cupcake I also tried their chocolate cupcake and their pumpkin bread pudding which was delicious. They were friendly and service was quick, but honestly go somewhere else for cupcakes definitely not worth it. :) maybe try sprinkles cupcakes for cupcakes.

You know how some businesses have business card drawings where they swear there will be one lucky winner? I WAS THAT WINNER!
SusieCakes sent me an email notifying me that I had won 12 cupcakes, 1 brownie, 1 chocolate chip cookie, 1 whoopie pie, 1 7 layer bar, 6 mini cupcakes and 1 sugar cookie to share with my company. They even personalized it with a sugar cookie and my company’s name!
I personally loved the mini cupcakes because it was just the right amount. The chocolate chip cookie was also pretty dang amazing too… I’m just a sucker for chocolate chip cookies.
They’re located in the OC Mix in Costa Mesa, which is a pet friendly plaza, and they even leave water bowls out for your canine buds!

C and K love this place. We stopped here now and again when we visit We Olive to get our Olive oil and Balsamic Vinegar fix.
Susies Cakes is a delight. They make some awesome cakes, cookies & cupcakes. It’s impressive to see the artistry and realize that they do not use Fondant, just good olé buttercream. All of our interactions with the staff have been great, they are really very nice. This visit we bought a 9″ Southern Red Velvet cake ($ 49) to take back to Arizona. We also bought 4 individual slices of various cakes to take to my cousins birthday celebration. At over 6 bucks a slice, this place is EXPENSIVE. The cake slices are very good and since we don’t eat here all the time, the splurge is worth it. We got a slice of Susie’s Famous Southern Red Velvet for C, Carrot Cake for me, Tropical Coconut Cake for K and Classic Marble Cake for the birthday girl.
My Carrot Cake was very good although I would prefer a frosting that was a bit «cheese-​ier». I think Carrot Cake by nature is a bit more savory than sugar sweet. Susies gets close but the frosting was more towards the standard buttercream cake and cupcake style than the sweetened cream cheese style Carrot Cake requires. But that’s just my take. The cake was really very good. Moist, carrot-​ee, not overly spiced with a nice ratio of walnuts to cake.
C had the Red Velvet Cake. His favorite. He allowed me to have a taste. I would say this cake was very moist, almost teetering on too moist (oily). The buttercream frosting on C’s cake was not too sweet or grainy but was applied a bit on the thick side. I wonder if people actually like Cake because it seems a lot of places focus so much attention on the frosting, the cake gets lost in the taste.
Both K & M enjoyed their cakes. I did not taste them however neither of them thought there was too much frosting and both felt the cakes were very moist and flavorful. Winner winner cake after dinner.
Very good cakes, Great service, great selection, beautiful facility, high prices. 4 Stars.

Susie cakes better than Sprinkles! I’m literately here every week. I go to the gym just so I can keep coming back here! The staff is super friendly. Customer service is great. Cakes are super moist. And the seasonal stuff is always great! And they have treats for my pooch buddy! Also, if there was a cake you liked but wasn’t sure how it tastes, they will gladly give you a sample.
My favorite of all time is still the Blueberry Pancake/​Breakfast Cupcakes. MMMm… I can smell the maple syrup now…

Latest visit was slightly disappointing.
Went with my friend to pick up some sweets after a visit to Portola coffee lab. Got the 3 for $ 5 mini cupcakes. Drove home with them right away, one of them was the wrong order/​wrong flavor, and also all of them were kind of hard and not very moist as I remembered them, or maybe it’s the mini ones that are different from the regular ones. The red velvet was the only one that was slightly softer, the other 2 were kind of hard.
Service was nice as usual.

This review is mainly for their chocolate chip cookie. I got one because cravings.
I’ve tried their snickerdoodle before and I like it more than their chocolate chip. It isn’t super eggy or cinnamamony which is nice.
At $ 2.25, it’s a pretty sizeable carb. You should probably share it. But did I? No. I actually stopped eating it partway because I got kinda sick of it.
I found that the edges were a tad crispier than other competitors. The inside was chewy and soft, which is great, but something about the flavor didn’t whisk me off my feet like the words of Haruki Murakami. Chocolate chips were plenty studded throughout the cookie. However, I didn’t go through an epiphany as I did with another bakery.
The other bakery seems to be a bit thicker in height, a bit more rich in flavor and not as cloyingly sweet. I think I’ll stick to Susiecakes for cupcakes as I can find cookies that make my heart skip a beat elsewhere.
As for cakes. the slices are definitely shareable unless you want health concerns. They’re moist but they get a bit stomachsickening afterwards. The workers are always nice and happy to give you a sample of a cake that they’re not even featuring.
They close Sundays which is unfortunate: l Can’t raise my blood sugar levels it looks like.

I stumbled into SusieCakes trying to pass some time before Pueblo opened up. The first time we ordered a bunch of cupcakes. The frosting they put on them is light and has the right sweetness. The cake portion was excellent.
Last week, I picked up a few more cupcakes, a personal sized key lime pie, and cheesecake. The key lime pie had a great balance between the sweet and the tart. The cheesecake was very fluffy and quite good. SusieCakes is excellent and will drop by any time I’m around the Mart Mix.
Note: SusieCakes also offers a samples to the left of their glass case. All the cakes I’ve tasted were fantastic.

SusieCakes is better than Sprinkles. There, I said it!
My sis made a special order for her Bridal Party invitation party. I picked up the goodies and was greeted with excellent service. When it came time to dig into the cupcakes and cookies that sis ordered, they were soft, moist, and delectable. I was pleased to find that they weren’t overly sweet like Sprinkles and that the frosting to cupcake ratio was better than Sprinkles too! I wish SusieCakes would make dog cupcakes too so that Bodie can enjoy them… *hint hint!

I decided to stop by Susiecakes due to the recommendation of Hannah Y.!! C’mon homegirl is from Italy, she would know her sweets and pastries!
The staff here are super nice, but not over the top creepy nice where it feels fake. They have a good variety of cupcake flavors here as well as cakes. The guy that was helping me wasn’t hesitant at all letting me sample the different cupcakes. My fav one was this dense fudgy chocolate cupcake and their seasonal cupcake at the time which was gingerbread. I also got my bf the red velvet and coconut (his 2 favorites). We both agreed that Sprinkles does a better job when it comes to cupcakes. Susicakes cupcakes were a bit on the dry side and not as flavorful.
I got to try the carrot cake recommended by Hannah and that thing was so huge! Good thing my carrot cake cravings were kickin in that night lol. I was surprised at how light it was and not too sweet! I liked the little raisins in it, but wished they put more frosting. The classic marble cake looked good, I’m going to have to try that next. A lot of their other bakery items look good, but I didn’t want to over do the sweets!

I am in love. I like to stock up on sugary sweets and I think I have finally found my cake store to do so. Upon entrance you can just smell the aroma. Then you glance to the left and see all the delightful goods that Susie’s Cakes have in store for you. I had to control myself because truth be told I wanted to buy the whole store. After resisting the temptation I decided to pick up 3 brownies, 2 chocolate chip cookies, 1 ginger molasses cookie, a slice of celebration cake, a whoopie pie and red velvet cupcake for K.dot.
Brownies– Who is the baker here, these treats are out of this world. The brownies were soft and had the right amount of chewiness. The chocolate wasn’t overwhelming and it had just amazing texture to it. The chocolate was incredibly rich in taste. This is coming from someone who is picky on brownies too.
Chocolate Chip Cookies– The cookie is big, like really big. I had to split it with 3 people and then i realized I ordered a second one too. The texture was also really good and the chocolate chip melted perfectly into the cookie.
Ginger Molasses– I didn’t like this one a whole lot. It was a little too sweet for me and realistically I only ordered it because it looked cool. There wasn’t much wrong with it but it just wasn’t my type of cookie.
Celebration Cake– This was one of my favorite items I picked up. The cake’s texture had me eating and eating until it was all gone. I only picked up a slice but they are not stingy at all. For 6.50 a slice it is a huggggggeeee slice of cake, enough to feed 2 people. The cake had incredible aroma and though it was a bit sweet, it still was stunningly delicious.
Whoopie Pie– I didn’t order this one for me but K. dot broke off a piece for me to try. Regrets already came after I bit into it. This was the best thing I’ve ever had. It had this crunch to it which made it absolutely perfect. The taste wasn’t too sweet like other items. Ironic how the best item on the menu was the one item I didn’t buy for myself sighh. I’ll shall return for this whoopie pie.
Customer service is wonderful here. This one Asian cashier helped us out and I felt she was really genuine going out of her way to help us on questions we had. I never caught her name but she made the experience 10X better not that it wasn’t good any ways. We ordered to go and they give you their awesome bag with all the treats carefully packaged individually. My favorite store so far at The OC Mix.

MMMmmm cupcakes. Susie cakes is in the heart of the Mart Mix next to Iron Press. It is delisious and they have fantastic customer service. There are always samples. The flavors are not shy — if you get coffee and tastes very strong of coffee, red velvet is super velvety, etc. My friends say it is too much — but I am in disagreement.
Also, there is free magnets. After you order, you have to wait and they bring you out your order. They also do full size cakes, cookies and other desserts. Alot of customers had called ahead and just swooped them up.
It is a small establishment with just a couple small tables inside but you can use the OC Mart Mix seating outside on our many beautiful days.
I will def be back here. Yum Yum Yum.