Buttercup Bake Shop

Fantastic cupcakes! Very moist and just absolutely delicious. Favorites include: the Turtle and cookie dough. This was my first visit to this particular location, and I was pleased by the service and the product. A huge step above their uptown location. I will return the next time I need to pick up sweets for work or a special occasion.

Been here several times for a quick cupcake fix. My work wife loves the chocolate chip cookie dough. And you’ll definitely devour the s’mores is with gusto. Generally $ 3 for a cupcake. I’ve seen bigger prices in the city for worse cupcakes. Worth a pop in – you’ll definitely buy something mouthwatering.

May just be the best cupcake in NYC. Our 3-​year-​old who is quite the cupcake connoisseur proclaimed it was the best red (velvet) cupcake she ever had.
Wife had the standard yellow cake with chocolate icing and said it was better than Magnolia.
Being the adventurous one, I had the Chunky Monkey — nutmeg banana bread cupcake with chocolate buttercream icing. Absolutely incredible. On a prior visit had the dark chocolate peanut butter cupcake. Out of this world.
Check this place out! Cute little corner shop. Staff is friendly. And best of all, amazing cupcakes.

These cupcakes are worth trying! The taste and texture far exceed the quality of other bakeries like Magnolia, Baked By Melissa, Crumbs, or other more well know cupcakeries. It’s on par with Molly’s. As a baker who has sold cupcakes for several years, I really appreciate when a bakery offers confections that were made with quality ingredients and recipes that really reflect how a flavor should taste. The Hummingbird cupcake was fantastic but I love how the classic chocolate on vanilla tasted.

What a cute little corner lot!
My friend and I were craving something sweet so we Unilocaled this place and came to the right place! It had been a while since I’ve had an amazing cupcake and I am glad I made it on time before this place closed!
I absolutely love their mini cupcakes, perfect for those who have a sweet tooth, but also care about their figure. Of course for those who don’t give a ****, they have the perfect average size cupcakes!
They have a big selection of flavors chocolate, chocolate/​vanilla, red velvet, banana, carrot cake etc. Since I have a soft spot for red velvet, I got just that. I liked how the texture of it was crumbly and moist. It was flavorful and wasn’t too sweet. The cream was thick and smooth, which complimented the cupcake very well.

Great carrot cake and apple muffins.
Many cupcake makers pay much too much attention to frosting and decirating and not too much to the cake. While the frosting was fluffy and (not too) sweet, it did not overpower the delicious tender cake.
I was told I just missed the last lemon meringue. The staff told me the guy that bought it just left the store and was waiting at the light. I almost ran out of the store to jump him for it. Kidding. I’ll get one this morning.

I think these are the best cupcakes. I used to go to their Upper West Side location all the time and I was so happy when they opened this location. It’s smaller than their Midtown bakery but still has a wide variety of options, including cupcakes, brownies and puddings. They also sell candles. The only bad thing I can say is that they often sell out of the cupcakes by the early evening so if you want a full selection, come early!

I went here for cupcakes for my roommates birthday… excellent choice. I got the assortment of regular sized cupcakes for $ 18.
My array included lemon, marble, chocolate chip cookie dough, red velvet, and a banana pineapple hybrid that my roommate loved. These are not your everyday cupcakes and were so delicious.
The staff is super friendly and offered suggestions of their favorites as well. It’s a little corner shop so you may pass it up if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for but worth a trip in. You also get a free mini cupcake when you check in!

Location: Buttercup Bake Shop is on Madison Ave. It is small; and you probably won’t notice it if you just passed this store. But the store is clean when you stepped in. There are cupcakes on storage, and a small fridge which stores banana pudding.
Bakeries: I had, marble cupcake, and dream bar. Marble cupcake is vanilla creamed cupcake. Dream bar, I am not sure what it is, but I know that it tastes like white chocolate with raspberries. Cupcake is legit. Bar is bad taste. It is hard to bite and like stack of white chocolate on top of a rock. Tastes weird.
Service: the people who works there are pretty nice.
Overall: 3.5 stars.

The magic bar wasn’t bad. Staff was nice. Short review but not much to buy so yeah, short review.

Delicious cupcakes! Beats magnolia for sure. Free mini with your Unilocal check in — I went for red velvet. I also enjoyed the salted caramel cupcake. Tiny little place so don’t expect to sit here but Bryant park isn’t too far away!

Yesterday was my second time in this shop and I love it. There is so much variety in their flavors without them being inedible and pretentious flavor combinations. I like that I can get a plain cupcake with vanilla frosting without any strange things in it. The cupcakes are soft and beautifully made and taste so delicious. I don’t get a fake chemical aftertaste either which is great. This bakery provides friendly service every time too!
I tried the brownie and a few of their other square shaped goods and they were all very fresh and so tasty! I can’t wait to come back and try the puddings. Oh and the peanut butter square was SO good!!! It’s a small place with a lot of variety and it’s just refreshing to get a nice tasting and nice looking cupcake without having it be a strange flavor. Good job guys! Highly recommend and will be back soon !

Adding one more star to my updated review. Went back in today to buy my mom some Oreo pudding and walked out with two — Oreo and Tiramisu Puddings.
Since my last visit, they seem to have added more flavors for both cupcake and pudding. They were unfortunately sold out of the red velvet cupcake :(
Oreo pudding is still my favorite!

Absolutely adorable. I went in yesterday because of the cute display window. This place offers a wide and overwhelming variety of cupcakes. Unlike crumbs the portion and sugar level isn’t over the top and can be consumed by 1 person without guilt.
The guy that assisted me was very friendly and knowledgeable about The products. He didn’t pressure me to pick something like other place and let me take my time looking over everything. I felt like a little girl in a candy shop except cupcakes. They have cute colorful ones like cotton candy and more fruity ones like Apple crumble.
I went for the salted caramel one and it was 5 out of 5!
Check in on Unilocal to get a mini cupcake!
Prices weren’t that bad with products ranging around 3 to 3.50.

You know when people try to sell you a piece of cake dough with frosting and call it a cupcake. Throw it at them. Hard. Then on your way home from central booking, stop by here.
I’ve had a few flavors. All have been well done. I’ve already said too much. Go forth and take back the cupcake.

I love their cakes and cupcakes. I’ve only been to the location at 2^nd Avenue until today! I accidentally walked by and spotted the window. This location is take out only.
The selection of cupcakes is beyond belief! The employee was very friendly letting me take all the pictures I wanted. I want to return and try all of my favorite flavors. While I was there she had a pretty good flow of customers. When word gets out this place will be swamped with business!
If you like cupcakes and cookies this is the place to go. The prices are very reasonable! Pick up a box to take back to the office. I guarantee you will be popular with your co-​workers!

It’s a tiny shop. There’s nowhere to sit, just the counter and display case. My friend bought $ 5 worth of goodies and she kindly offered me the free cupcake that you can get when you check in and spend $ 5. I got the strawberry icing on a vanilla cake. It honestly was odd. I tried to lick the icing off to taste it and it was so thick it didn’t budge. In fact, the cupcake itself was so dense and thick. I didn’t particularly like the taste of the icing or the cake for that matter. I definitely would not have paid for it. It’s SUPER buttery. Like the icing tastes like you bit into a stick of butter. Not that great and the cake wasn’t that great either. But my friend got a PB&J bar and she said it was great and really liked it. She also tried the cupcake and she seemed to like it better than me. Anyway, I ate the rest of the cupcake because who am I to not eat a cupcake even if it’s mediocre.
If you wanna see what I mean by the thickness, check out the picture I posted. It might make more sense.

Small space but very friendly, patient, and knowledgeable staff. Tried their banana pudding but realized I wasn’t in that kinda mood. They were out of the humming bird suggested on the board, so went with the $ 3 carrot cake cupcake and wasn’t disappointed — substantial and enjoyable. Having been to their 2^nd Avenue location before, it’s nice to have one more convenient pre-​commute.
Returned to show my review for 2 free mini cupcakes (they were out, so offered one regular size instead) and an IG follow for a BOGO, making 3 cost $ 3…unfortunately the cookies & cream was dry, the smores lacked toastiness, and the humming bird barely tasted of pineapple.

I really didn’t like the cupcakes.
I was in the city and looked up «cupcakes» or «bakery’s» near me. They get 1 star for being conveniently located in the midtown area and 1 star for the appearance of their shop. The shop is cute and small, nice cupcake window display, but the cupcake options are very limited.
In ordered 1 dozen cupcakes, the cool part about my whole experience is receiving 1 FREE cupcake for checking in on Unilocal.Always check in on Unilocal.
The cupcakes are a bit expensive in my opinion for the quality, they all looked the same, the only thing that changed were the color of the icing and perhaps a little sugar sprinkle on top to match the flavor of the cupcake.
The cupcakes were super sweet and the cake itself was dry in my opinion. They don’t bake in house and get their cupcakes delivered from somewhere else.
I will not be returning anytime soon.

The boy picked up some cupcakes for me on the way home from work after seeing the wonderful display of cupcakes at the façade of Buttercup Bake Shop. While I can’t comment on the service or the shop itself, I can comment on the two cupcakes I happily devoured!
He brought home a hummingbird and a red velvet cupcake. Both were decent sized, at what he said was $ 3 a pop. The hummingbird cupcake was not memorable… but the red velvet was decent. Both of the cakes were not as moist as I would like them to be. These are probably closer to cupcakes you bake at home than ones you would buy from a store… they also look that way.
Overall decent cupcakes, but it just didn’t scream LOVE for me.