Gigi’s Cupcakes

How in the world would something like this expect to make it here in Las Vegas? i’ve never been interested in buying $ 5 cupcakes, but i received one for a birthday gift? Who in the right mind would waste their money on this crap I live across the street from this place and always wondered? How is this place still open? Who would go into a place like this? We all knew it, it was just a matter of time. Who wants to open a tootsie roll shop and charge $ 1 per candy? Heck no! NOT IN THIS ECONOMY! YOU can“t rip us off GiGi! Stay out of this market! cant fool us with your cute fancy little boxes and rip off cupcakes! SEE YA! GLAD YOU“VE LEFT! YOU WONT BE MISSED!

Yuck. The other reviews are on point with this place. I purchased 6 cupcakes the other day and brought them home to share with the fam. I got red velvet, lemon, triple chocolate, fudge, peanut butter and a malted milk cupcake. First things first these things do not travel well. It’s probably because the huge gobs of frosting they put on the cakes. At least 2 of them had tipped over in the box. Next the cakes were DRY!!! And flavorless! I love a moist cake and these were not moist at all. And the flavors all tasted the same. Now for the frosting… they use a TON of frosting on each cake and the frosting does not taste good. The red velvet cake had a white frosting which I assumed would be cream cheese but it wasn’t it was just a flavorless white frosting. It wasn’t even vanilla flavored. The chocolate frosting taste just like Betty Crocker canned chocolate frosting which I like but not when I’m paying $ 3+ for a cupcake! I can’t even finish this review because I’m so disappointed with the quality of the product.

Bought the groupon. I went in very skeptical because of the bad reviews and because I don’t normally like icing.
These cupcakes are AMAZING.
Moist. Delicious. Soft creamy icing. Just perfect. I couldn’t have asked for anything better.

Absolutely love love love this place. They accepted our Groupon coupon no problem and even included a few of their newest flavors (wedding cake) in the mini-​dozen :) we will definitely be back and will use Gigi’s for our Holiday treats

i’ve never been a fan of overpriced «gourmet» cupcakes, and i’m pretty happy that the fad seems to finally be all but over. i got a decent groupon deal on a dozen minis (about 2 bites each) for $ 8 and picked some up for a coworkers bday. they had some pretty delish sounding options for their full sized cupcakes, but the mini selection was fairly limited. i’m a sucker for anything ginger, so i couldn’t resist getting a $ 4 green tea/​ginger cupcake for myself (seasonal only).
i’m really not into sugary sweet frostings on anything, so i have to agree with all the others who said they use an excessive amount of buttercream frosting — enough that i felt sick after only having half. i didn’t try the minis, but i was disappointed that my cupcake was all green tea with not even a hint of ginger. it was a good moist green tea flavored cake, and it would be ok if i hadn’t specifically asked the girl which was the predominant flavor — she said it was a good balance of both because they use powders. i don’t know what using powder vs fresh has to do with balanced flavor, but regardless she was wrong.
coworker was happy with her teeny cupcakes, but i likely will stick to mad hatters if i ever do cupcakes for someone again. ps i think the cupcakery sucks too.

I hardly ever visit this place on my own, but my sister just cannot resist this place, so she always treats me to sweets after her classes are over. Haha.
I usually come to Gigi’s Cupcakes to pick up a gift for someone else.
They offer really cute cupcake flavors! They don’t offer the same flavors every day, so if you want a particular flavor, either call a couple days ahead and make a special order or pick up one of their to-​go menus that list out the daily flavors and wait for that day.
Yesterday I picked out the Blackberry Cobbler cupcake. It wasn’t as sweet as I expected it to be, which is a good thing! In the past, I’ve also tried Wedding Cake (on several occasions) and Miss Princess. All of those flavors exceed yumminess expectations.
However, I n my opinion, the star of this show are the icing stuffed chocolate chip cookies! They offered my sister and me free samples one time and it was instant love, I promise. The best sandwiches are those minus the bread and plus cookies instead! Haha, not only is the icing so satisfyingly sweet, the cookies are very obviously made with love and taste so.
What’s nice about Gigi’s Cupcakes is that their frostings are reasonably light on the sweetness, which is surprising when you see the cupcakes because there is a huge dollop of frosting on every cupcake and you would think each one is a stylish sugar overload. Not the case here!
There are different cupcake sizes here. They have regular and mini sizes. I prefer the mini sizes because the regular sized cupcakes tend to be too much and I have to eat those cupcakes in a couple sittings.
If you like some kind of milk to pair with your cupcake, I enjoyed mine at home with a glass of vanilla soy milk, which paired extravagantly.

If you are buying cupcakes only for showcasing !!!
These cupcakes are over prized, no flavour what so ever .
3.50 $ for one cupcake and the cupcakes taste terrible. The cake is dry, hard.
And the the frosting, all the frostings almost taste the same, like eating a cup of sugar finely ground into a paste !!
Wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone.

++++ Huge variety, tons of sweet icing (I had caramel, white chocolate… liked both) on the cupcakes, the mini cheesecake got good reviews (I didn’t taste so taking a male co-worker’s word on that one) & they serve them in precious little green boxes.
—— very dry cake w/​little flavor. Tried 2 different chocolate & 2 different white cake…3 of the 4 were dry and one of the dry ones was the flavor of the day so I would have expected it t be fresh w/​high turnover.
I am constantly looking for a great cupcake since we like to do them at work instead of cake, but for the price & inconsistency in quality, won’t go back… too many other options to try out in my one woman cupcake quest.

If you’re a big fan of frosting, good cause that’s the only good thing on the cupcakes here.
Ok ok, I’ll give them a break since I did come here around closing time, so I really can’t expect any fresh tasting cupcakes. I had the birthday surprise cupcake, which besides the slight dryness it had, there wasn’t really any flavoring to it. Just vanilla and buttercreme. Most «birthday» labeled cakes/​cupcakes have a punch of bitterweetness to them that really give them the taste that says «birthday» flavor rather than just «vanilla». I also had a bite of the wedding cake flavor cupcake as well, it tasted exactly the same. Um. Ok.
Could probably get better flavor variety at Wal Mart.
Anyway, I ate all the frosting off and threw the cake in the trash. I might try this place another time, perhaps in the morning, when they have their more distiguished flavors available. Bad last minute call on my part.

Groupon deal
Didn’t buy the groupon deal I waited till I was there to ask a couple questions.
— they are prepackaged from 1 to 4 flavors depending on what time you get there. Early the more selection of 4 prepackaged flavors
Price:
Bought the 4 mini cupcakes for $ 5 and a regular size cupcake for $ 3.50. Not a bad deal
Cupcakes:
White wedding cake «my favorite» and I’ve been told a customer favorite too. Though it had a lot of frosting it wasn’t overly sweet but it was slightly dry.
Turtle chocolate was super sweet couldn’t even finish it. Too much frosting but it was beautifully decorated.
Red velvet — even though there was a lot if frosting it wasn’t overly sweet. Nice moist and spongy
*wish their groupon wasn’t prepackaged but overall it wasn’t bad.

The selection, the batter, the presentation are excellent. Gigi’s definitely earned themselves a returning customer.
The only reason this review doesn’t have 5 stars is because the icing is too sweet for me. I have to take most of it off to enjoy the cupcakes. In my experience, when batter is lacking, bakers try to compensate with super sweet icing but in this instance that’s absolutely unnecessary.

The cupcakes are horrible — the frosting is fake sugar tasting goo that will melt off your cupcake when it reaches room temp.
The staff is rude — don’t even think about getting a groupon — as you will not get to pick your own cupcakes — you will get the prepackaged ones.

This place was of interest because it wasn’t far from where we were staying off the strip in Vegas. I noticed the Groupon and drove over to do a «spot check» before investing. The shop is small and not too inviting. I have this thing about bakeries, I believe that when you walk inside, you should smell wonderful things baking! That wasn’t the case, it was kinda drab. The display case was pretty monotone, not enough variety. It seemed as if they used only a few cake bases and switch out with a few artificially flavored toppings. Cupcakes are the it thing right now and the bar is set pretty high. I just didn’t witness the style, creativity and whimsy that I was expecting!
I reluctantly purchased one cupcake (thank goodness, I didn’t get the Groupon because I would have been stuck with a dozen of these bricks). My husband declined getting a cupcake, because they just didn’t look inviting. I felt guilty, because those empty calories just weren’t worth it. The cupcake was dense, dry and crumbly. The frosting was too sweet and didn’t carry the intended flavor (strawberry) well at all. It was piled high though, which made the cake to frosting ratio way off.
I think this place has to use services like Groupon to stay afloat? Because new customers will come. I’d like to know how many repeat customers they have? That is a more reliable indicator of a good thing. I’m gonna hold out until Sprinkles Cupcakes opens up later this year at the Linq. They are divine AND they will have ice cream too!
In closing… SKIP THIS PLACE

When I arrived at this location, there weren’t many options, and some flavors were out. There was only one young lady working. When we asked her if there were any more flavors, she said all the flavors they had were out on display, and they were not making any more. We arrived around 1pm, so its hard to believe there were not anymore cupcakes, and if so why would you make so little – and you are a cupcake business?
The icing of the cupcakes was really good, but the cupcakes them self tasted like they had to much sugar. I was not impressed with these cupcakes and wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone…

Thre is such a thing as too much frosting.
Cupcakes from Gigi’s magically showed up in our office this morning and I was able to get past the swarm of people to grab myself one. It was a very average cupcake. Way too much frosting. This is the place to go if you have a buttercream addiction. I actually don’t like buttercream at all so I took a taste and scraped the rest off. I did like the inventive flavors and pretty toppings. This is definitely a case of the food looking better than they taste. The actual cake in the cupcake was tasty. Very fluffy and flavorful.

I’m surprised this place isn’t more highly rated! Came here after lunch at Raising Cane’s because we were in the mood for something sweet. The shop is small with just a few tables but its bright and simple décor is very nice. The display case showcases a large variety of cupcake flavors. There’s a menu that has a photo of each flavor, which day its available, and what it consists of. We went on a Sunday, which is Baker’s Choice day, so it’s kind of a surprise which flavors are available.
We wanted to try a couple of flavors so we decided to get 4 mini cupcakes. We chose red velvet and peanut butter cup and both were really good. The cake was soft and moist and the frostings were rich and delicious. I think they would have been too rich if we had tried a full-​sized cupcake but the small ones were perfect! Really hit the sweet spot.
The prices seemed average, if not cheaper, compared to other cupcake shops I’ve been to in the valley.
There are many flavors that I still want to try. I took the menu home with me so I know which days I can have them :) They also have cheesecake cupcakes in their refrigerator case and I can’t wait to try some of those as well.
Will be back to Gigi’s when I’m in the area and my cupcake craving calls.

Go in the beginning of the day so they are fresh. Wedding cake cupcake is delicious! They have a calendar that lets you know what flavors they bake on which days. They also have a BOGO offer, but the time recently changed, so you will have to ask about it.
I love how they have mini cupcakes, I just wish you could by one and didn’t have to buy a certain amount. Sometimes you just want a little bit of a certain kind… not six little cupcakes at once.

Bleech. Seriously, bleech! I had to grab the Listerine and Pepto after eating one of their Southern Comfort cupcakes which I bought on a whim after pulling out of the Raising Cane’s drive thru and I was blocked by delivery trucks.
I go inside and the guy tells me 4 for $ 5 on the minis or $ 3.50 a piece on the big cupcakes. I ended up with two big cupcakes, a Texas Milk Chocolate and the Southern Comfort. The guy working the counter tells me all about how they sell to casino bakeries, how they’re doing something special for the «Wicked» Broadway show coming to the Smith Center, yadda, yadda. I pay my $ 7 and am out the door thinking this should be good.
2 hours later I open my little green and brown box and am looking forward to my Southern Comfort. The wonderful cupcake bliss one usually gets from these kinds of cupcakes evaporated when I bite into something that’s slightly softer than a brick, and tastes like it’s been on the shelf for 4 days. I got through about 3 forced diehard bites before it got spit back out and it was time for the Listerine. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve had to resort to spitting my food out and following it with a Listerine blast but today was the day. BLEECH!!!
As for the Texas Milk Chocolate? I’ve snapped a picture of it but I’m not about to put it anywhere near my mouth, and I will NOT step foot back into Gigi’s again. BLEECH, SPIT, BLEECH, I don’t freakin think so, I wish I could get my money back.
1 Listerine bottle, oops I meant 1 Star. And now I’ve got an upset stomach to boot. In short, not only no, but hell no!
Edit: 2 reasons: 1: I put it under the wrong location, it was the location on Flamingo at Maryland that’s the problem. 2: I filed a Foodborne Illness Complaint Form with the Southern Nevada Health Department. If I put a place on my Call the Health Department list, it’s because I really filed a complaint.
«Your form has been successfully submitted. If further information is required, an Epidemiologist will contact you.». This is at the end of the 4 page SNHD’s online form which can be found here:

While it was my last day in Las Vegas, i said, i have to try a cupcake place. The cupcake place that people said to go were Caked and The Cupcakery. Both were far away from the Olive garden we ate at. Unilocal had tons of mixed reviews of GiGi’s cupcakes but I said to my self, you can’t mess up a cupcake.
So we find it and it was easy to spot for the sign is very clear.
We get inside and the place looks wonderful, very welcoming and nice décor etc. I asked what was their most popular and the Rommie i think it was suggested the Red Velvet but his personal favorite was The strawberry shortcake i think?
We purchase it and take it back to our hotel and i give one of two that I order to my friend Traci who it was her Birthday.
As i bite into mines, i didn’t like what i tasted it. The frosting wasn’t cream cheese which is a no no to me. Your red velvet should always be a cream cheese frosting.
After biting more into it, I don’t like the taste of the cake it self too. It tasted very artificial. Not very good in my opinion.
The frosting though is what very much killed it for me. It tasted like it came out of a tub that the super markets get. I remember tasting the same exact frosting from the super market chain QFC in Seattle.
I can almost guarantee with no doubt its the same exact frosting.
Sorry GiGi, not a fan of your cupcakes. good try but not for me.

I came here after my Hawaiian Dinner and not far away from the Maryland Parkway Plaza.
The area is not the greatest being located on Tropicana Ave and Maryland Parkway (east from the Las Vegas Blvd-​strip). The cupcake place would do much better near the Las Vegas Blvd-​strip.
Nevertheless, this is a cute place.
Half the selections were gone, with whatever cupcakes remaining yelling, «Take me, Matt… Take me!»
With whatever is left after 5pm, I had to choose one, which is the Spumoni cupcake. The helpful-​girl saying, «this is one of my favorites, too!» (Like I believed her)
For $ 3.50, this cute cupcake is a red color cupcake with mountain-​size frosting and a cute Maraschino Cherry on top. Amazingly at 5:30pm and the first bite, I was shocked the cupcake was still very moist. Cupcakes would taste a lot better earlier in the day.
My first cupcake in a while, and I enjoyed it too.
I wish the franchise will succeed and move to a better location in Las Vegas, or maybe San Francisco (?)