Gigi’s Cupcakes of Lafayette

I think Gigi’s cupcakes are good overall. The cake quality is very good and they present well. Some of the icing flavors could use improvement, but it’s still quite good. I think Gigi’s makes a great comfort cupcake. You know, the kind that makes you smile and think of home :-). Can’t be mad at that. I’ve tried cupcake bakeries all across the country, and few earn repeat visits. Gigi’s does. Two words: Cookie Dough.

Cupcakes are very dry. Never had a cupcake so dry before. Don’t get the cheesecake. It doesn’t even taste like cheesecake. Also dry. Not happy there. Ew.

As a fairly early adopter of the gourmet cupcake trend and a Sprinkles Cupcakes borderline-​fanatic, I was very excited to learn that gourmet cupcakes were arriving in the greater Lafayette area at the same time I was. I finally got to try Gigi’s today. I had the midnight magic (chocolate cupcake & chocolate buttercream) and the cookie dough.
The midnight magic looked fantastic, but the cupcake was too dry and the icing was waaaay too sweet. It mostly just tasted like sugar. The first bite was ok but then it had a lingering extremely sugar-​y aftertaste and it was hard to take more than a couple bites because it was so sweet. It was a big disappointment especially since it looked like dark chocolate. The cookie dough (cookie cake that tastes kind of like chocolate chip cookie bar, cookie dough icing, with a little cookie on top) was better than the midnight magic but again way, way too sweet for me. The icing especially was overwhelmingly sweet.
Also note that there is a *ton* of icing on these cupcakes — I love Sprinkles, which has too much icing for many people, but this was too much even for me, especially because it was so sweet. If the icing is not super sweet it’s easier to get away with having more of it.
(I don’t think $ 3.25 + tax is abnormal to pay for a cupcake, but I’m coming from California and I’d be surprised if most people around here aren’t a little stunned by that price — but then again, maybe not; there was a line out the door when I was here in the middle of a weekday).

In a word, meh. When I go to a cupcake store I usually get 4 different ones and my husband and I split them in half. Gigi had a special, buy 5 get 6 so I popped for the extra. Tonight we tried the carrot and the chocolate and wedding cake. They weren’t terrible but I wouldn’t go out of my way to go here. The cake is a little gummy but my biggest complaint is the icing, way too sweet instead of butter creamy, almost like grocery store icing. So… meh. YMMV.