Church of Cupcakes

I’m going to give this place the benefit of the doubt and say that the sun impacted the outcome.
I tried it down at Civic Center Eats one day and was pretty disappointed given all the hype. I think the sun and heat were basically melting everything including the syrup and frosting creating a pretty gross mess.
Underneath all of that was still just an okay cupcake. It needed to be eaten with a fork to avoid creating an even bigger mess than it already was.
Even without the sun, I’m not sure that I’d consider them to be amazing. They’re completed on-​spot and just seem to lack that something special for me

The raspberry Lemon cupcakes were delicious! Their food truck Downtown is a little slow in processing orders, but the cupcakes are high quality.

SHE DOES NOT HAVE A STORE FRONT, BUT KEEP READING
I recently got cupcakes from Church of Cupcakes. Although there is no store front any longer, she happily delivers to you or it is possible to schedule pickup of the cupcakes with her. The cupcakes are definitely the best I have had in Denver so far. Nearly every single style that we tried was so much better than I expected, and I had high expectations. We ordered 2 dozen cupcakes. She does NOT have a store front. This meant that it was necessary to do a bit of planning. Thankfully she makes the process very easy. We called in the order 2 days before we needed it and then met her to pick them up. It was VERY simple. It just meant that we needed to plan ahead a bit, but we will happily do this for cupcakes that are so much better than any other I have found.
There were 5 varieties that we got: Carrot Cake, Red Velvet, Sea salt caramel, devils food and Beetitude.
I prefer a denser and moist cake coupled with a denser frosting/​buttercream that isn’t super sweet. This is her style and I love it. It allows all of the well executed flavors to come through that much more accurately and strongly.
The sea salt caramel and the Beetitude are so much better than even what highest expectations are possible of expecting. They just rock. The Beetitude is the one that is likely my favorite. It is a lavender cake with honey lemon buttercream. Wow it is good. The carrot cake is as good as the best carrot cake I have ever had. It is just very well executed. The same could be said of the red velvet which doesn’t use any red food coloring and instead looks to use come cocoa to obtain the lovey reddish brown velvet color. The only one that I wasn’t in love with was the devils food. It was just too much chocolate… That could be a good thing to some, but not so much for me. The texture and flavor was there, but it was all just a bit too much.
The best praise I can offer is that my girlfriend has already made me promise that her birthday (cup) cake will come from here. There are so many options in the market today in Denver that something has to be essentially perfect to get a reorder from me. Church of Cupcakes definitely will get many more.

Meh, no storefront. Drove all the way down to figure this out the hardway. When I called and was informed this was the case the woman was rude and offered no help. Good news though, there are plenty of cupcake shops in the area.

They are only taking special orders and don’t have a shop currently. It would have been nice if either their website or their Unilocal page reflected their current situation before our family drove across town and looked all over for it on my birthday only to find this out.

I was so excited to try the cupcakes from the trike. That being said, I got the carrot cake. AMAZING cake… the cream cheese was lackluster. I was hoping for a really cream cheesy type flavor, and unfortunately it was more buttercream with a hint of cream cheese. Made me sad!

Devils food cupcake is great! Parking is easy because there is a small garage behind it. Would have given 5 stars if they were bigger

Delicious, made-​from-​scratch pastries, delivered via tricycle? Um, yes, yes and YES.
My office had these delivered and I liked it so much I decided to break my Unilocal hiatus. Wha? I have been out of the country for the past 2 years and recently relocated back to the Denver area. OMG, I did not know how much I missed cupcakes and how delicious these are. Wow. I had a cake for a welcome home party but it was nothing like this. These are moist, fresh and just perfect flavors. I tried the strawberry solstice and the pillar of salted caramel. I wanted to keep going but they were all gone! SO yummy and a consciously-​ran biz. I will be walking here often.

Wow! The best Cupcake shop in Denver! I have been to most of the shops in Denver and this is by far the best. I had the carrot cake, pumpkin, devils food. The carrot was amazing!

This is most definitely one of the best cupcakeries in town and the fact that they have a cupcake tricycle to deliver their little lovely sweet goodness.
I tried out a strawberry solstice and the devil’s food today, off the tricycle. The strawberry solstice is a simple vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream. It was seriously my favorite cupcake ever! The strawberry tasted very fresh. I would have sworn I was biting into a piece of fresh fruit! The devil’s food was a deliciously decent chocolate on chocolate indulgence. I was glad I started with strawberry, because after the richness of the chocolate I was done!
I thought the cake was dense, but moist. They had just the right amount of frosting (not too much). I am not sure if they have various sized at the shop, but off the tricke they were smaller to medium size (more like what you might make at home) and I thought perfect sized for trying a few (some cupcakes are just too big, but not these).
Love them! New favorites! I will have to seek them out again!

I almost gave a 5 star, but due to operational efficiency issues (she ran out) we only had choices of a small number of cupcakes.
This place is awesome, and definitely my first choice now in cupcakes. It is located in a fairly new building as part of a recent gentrification of Colfax (2008 modern condo/​building/​complex).
The theme (religious cupcakes) is cute. 10 cupcake commandments, cupcakes with wings, etc. A confectionary (instead of confessional)
An added bonus — it has garage parking (don’t have to fight the street). Just turn right past it, and into the garage.
The two cupcakes we got were delicious. A double chocolate one, and a red velvet. Both were so sweet and moist.. .our cupcake prayers were answered.
Here is our unhealthy tip: next time at the Denver Zoo — leave and hit Über Sausage then Church of Cupcakes.. .then go back to the zoo. It is worth it

The owner was very pleasant and informative. I love the concept of this place. Very creative and I love the fact that they do have a nice step above the mini size and I am looking at planning a causual wedding party and ordering mini cup cakes.
I tried the Pillar or Salted Carmel and a specialty St. Nutty St. Patty’s Day Cupcake both delicious. I would say spectacular, but I am more of a fan of the whipped buttercream which theres is the stiffer version which is not my favorite so I will not be ordering for my party BUT they were very tasty and the true flavors where there. The salted carmel was true to the taste and definitely earns it’s name. The Nutty St. Paddy is a Frangelico cake, vanilla buttercream and a Bailey’s ganache and was very tastey.
Again, I love the concept of this place and the Confectional and Church theme. I wish they would add a couple more tables and some coffees to their menu to make it a fun meeting place. Oh… and add mini cupcakes to their daily walk in menu since I would have liked to try more flavors, but my waistline would not allow to try more than two flavors today.
I highly The Church of Cupcakes and the only reason I am taking away a star is because I think they should make it more of a meeting place to hang and enjoy your cupcakes (and NOTHING against them, but I like the more whipped buttercream since it is lighter and I tend to like my desserts whipped creamy, and I feel on their daily menu they should offer mini cup cakes as well so you can sample more.
ENJOY!

If you’re going to put a bold flavor like lavender in a cupcake you have to really bring it. Every bite should release a lavender floral without being overbearing. The flavor in the Bee-​tutition was completely absent for me. I had no idea I just ordered a lavender honey cupcake. The lemon buttercream was a little on the rich side as well.
If you’re going to take away a cupcake then I wouldn’t pick this place first. However if you have time to just hang out and enjoy the décor, as well as the con-​fectional (which is a little curtained off section with a variety of props that you can use to take pictures) than this place is worth the trip.

Another stop on the UYE — cupcake tour, I was more impressed with this one than I expected to be when walking in. The whole place is an emersion into a «religious» cupcake experience. The «ten commandments» are cute and there is a «confessional» booth.
The selection isn’t huge, but the cakes are a bit larger than normal. As there were several of us, we tried almost everything. Favorites were the pumpkin (seasonal) and the sweet potato pie (amazing). Everything here is fresh and natural (no weird dyes) but the cakes were a bit dry and the frosting a bit heavy.
While not my favorite cupcake place in Denver, I would come back here again for sure.

(To the beat of Prince’s «Let’s Go Crazy»)
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 eats through these here cupcakes
Electric cupcakes
It means delicious and that’s a mighty fine thing
But I’m here 2 tell u
There’s something else
The afterglow
A sense of never ending happiness
U can always taste the love, day or night
So when u call up your local dietician
U know the one — Ms. You Better Not Cheat
Instead of asking her how much weight to lose
Ask her how much of your soul, baby
’Cuz in this life
Things are much harder than in the afterglow
In this life
You’re on your own
And if the sugar crash tries 2 bring u down
Go crazy — get another cake
If u don’t like the world you’re living in
Take a look around u
At least u got friends
U see I called my baker
4 a friendly word
She picked up the phone
Dropped it on the floor
(Frost, frost) is all I heard
Are we gonna let the sugar crash
Bring us down
Oh, no Let’s Go!
Let’s go crazy
Let’s get cups
Let’s look 4 the «rapture raspberry»
‘Til they force us to try «missionary».
.. . and Lot’s Wife could have done much worse than to have been turned into a «Pillar of Salt-​ed Caramel».
Amen, brothers and sisters. May you achieve «Sprinkle Salvation».

Stop #1 on my mini cupcake tour with my family. Everyone loved the sparkling pink floor. We got 3 cupcakes to share and grabbed their only table. Everyone loved the cupcakes and then we fooled around with the picture booth which allows you to log in to facebook and post the pictures right there.
We got the pillar of salted caramel, devil’s food & the day’s special, a cinnamon roll (I think).

So this place changed its name? Is that why the inside looked like it was undone? Like being renovated or something… It just didn’t feel very inviting a place to sit and enjoy your sweets so I asked for my cupcake to go. It was a lemon cupcake with raspberry frosting. It looked beautiful and tasted fine. Not as good as Yum Yum’s Delights which is unfortunately closed; but definitely better than Gigi’s Cupcake. Especially the after taste that lingered on my mouth. At first I thought the cake part looked a little unusual, almost like cornbread.

Yesterday, my finace walked in the door after work and I greeted him with, «I think we should give into your craving.» He looked puzzled and asked, «Uh, what am I craving?» to which I replied, «CUPCAKES.» And off we went to Lovely Confections!
When we arrived they only had 3 flavors left, but the three flavors left were fresh out of the oven. We have visited before when they were nearly completely sold out, so I wasn’t too shocked to only be presented with three flavors to choose from. I went with Red Velvet this time and my guy went with Salted Caramel. The cake protion of the cupcake is some of the best I’ve had. It’s always moist! The frosting is sweet, but not overwhelmingly so.
I have a confection to make: I’ll be back and probably too soon at that!

I’d hate to be so harsh but I found these cupcakes to be a little average, not bad, but average.
The flavor selection was ok. I found the most «fun» flavors coconut, red velvet and carrot cake? Hmm. The cake itself was good, nice a moist and the frosting was yummy as well. The size was also great, definitely not overwhelmingly big
I guess I’ve been a little spoiled with The Shoppe and Happy Cakes.

Lovely Confections
I really, no REALLY wanted these cupcakes to be good, as I LOVE cake! Their website says that they bake them in small batches throughout the day, to make sure they are fresh. We have tried them on two separate occasions now, months apart, and they have not been fresh at all, but very dry. I was so disappointed!
Parking — on the street
Price — reasonable
Variety — good
Will I try them one more time, YES, as I really want them to be good, and I want to give them a better rating! I will update this posting, when I do.

On my ever long travel down Colfax I came upon another one of 150 bookmarks — Holy Moly — that’s Lovely Confections, errrrrr — turn around and park. I HAVE ARRIVED!
The woman behind the counter was great, we chit chatted about her cupcakes and Unilocal and everything in between.
I asked her what her recommendation was and she recommended:
The Bees Knees — Lavender and Honey Cupcake
Their Daily Special — Lemon cupcake with fresh blueberry icing
Salted Carmel Cupcake — Chocolate cake with carmel icing and some rock salt on top
All of them were totally yummy. I bought all three and tasted each on throughout a couple days. I am trying to think of my favorite… hmmmm…every single one was great!
I will be back to try more fab cupcakes!
Awesome Experience!

I’m not a big fan of cupcakes or cupcakeries, but I’m a huge fan of Lovely Confections. Just as the name implies, these confections are indeed lovely.
First of all, the cupcakes are lovely. The cakes are moist and flavorful and the buttercream is wonderful-​thick and rich rather than sugary sweet. They are also some of the prettiest cupcakes you’ll find anywhere. I almost don’t want to eat them. Almost.
Then there’s the owner Porche. She’s lovely. Seriously. Her last name is Lovely and it fits. Porche uses all organic ingredients, supports local business, and she does this while keeping her cupcake prices reasonable. At $ 3/​cupcake her organic goodies are less expensive than many of her non-​organic competitors.
When I came into grab to get my complimentary birthday cupcake today, Porche was behind the counter. I was debating on getting one of my standards, lemon or coconut (both amazing) or trying something new. I opted for her amazing coconut cupcake.
As she was packing it up a regular came in and he said «don’t you just LOVE her cupcakes?!» and of course I said yes. We all engaged in a bit of small talk and I mentioned that I debated on trying the salted caramel, but explained that I prefer vanilla base cake, She suggested that next time she’ll make me a vanilla cake with the salted caramel frosting. That sounds lovely!

This cupcake operation has it all, including my undying devotion to their $ 3.00 Salted Caramel cupcake. This is hands down, the best cupcake I’ve ever eaten. And, trust me, I’ve eaten my share of cupcakes. Possibly, your share too! Moist, tender crumb, topped with a luscious, silky, caramel, butter cream. If that wasn’t enough to send your brain into overload, they sprinkle a touch of sea salt on that luscious butter cream. Not salty, by any means. Just the right amount to bring out, and intensify the flavor profile, all at a very budget-​friendly price, $ 3.00. Sold to the little lady with the cupcake addiction! Utter perfection!
Another top contender for the crown, The Bees Knees. A lovely lavender cupcake with a delicate, honey lavender, butter cream. If you are a fan of indulging your deepest desires, try a cupcake from Lovely Confections, and tame your sugar beast within.
As I see it, there is only one flaw with this bakery… it is in Denver, not Kansas City, where I hang my hat. Alas, I will love you and crave your «Lovely Confections» from afar!