Famous Cupcakes

I’ve had their cupcakes (various flavors, including Red Velvet) on a few occasions more recently and I will say the moistness factor has improved considerably. The cake to frosting ratio is better balanced as well. I would probably order them for a special occasion the next time I need professional cupcakes.

very good!
strawberry — outta sight!
chocolate coconut — yummm.
can’t wait to go back & try more!!!

I used to come here quite a bit before the recession and spend $ 13 on a 4-​pack. I didn’t want my wallet or waistline to suffer, so I stopped coming here the last few years.
On the way back from hockey, my boyfriend and I decided to stop at Famous Cupcakes. We walked in, and the hipster working the counter greeted us (if you want to call it that) while putting away some cupcakes. We made it obvious we were ready to order, and instead of stopping what he was doing to take our order, we literally sat there for 5 minutes watching him put away the cupcakes and ignoring us as if we weren’t there. I’m a pretty patient person, but I at least expected him to ask if we could wait a few minutes while he finished his job– we would have understood. After he finished putting away the cupcakes, he took our order for 4 cupcakes.
I don’t know what was up with this dude, but he seriously acted like he did not want to be there. He put the 4 cupcakes in 4 individual containers. If I remember correctly, I remember I used to get all 4 in one carryout box. I guess they don’t care about conserving packaging! The dumbass must have expected us to carry out 4 small containers, because he acted like a complete snot when we asked him if he could put it in a bag. He put all 4 containers in the bag, and when we carried it out the door, we noticed that he did not arrange the containers neatly. The way he placed the containers in the bag caused the frosting to smear on the top portion of the containers. (And yes, we licked the frosting off the containers!)
In addition to the horrible, snotty, customer service, the other thing I noticed about Famous is that their cupcakes got considerably smaller compared to what I was getting a few years ago. The cupcakes are literally half the size of what they were. I thought that it was just me imagining things until my boyfriend commented how much smaller the cupcakes were. I don’t know if they changed the recipe of their cupcakes, but they didn’t seem as succulent as before.
After this incident, I’m going to stick to going to Crumb’s to get my cupcakes until I find a better place.

Famous Cupcakes is my «denial» place.
Whenever I’m in the area, I pass by FC and. it’s NEVER OPEN. thought it closed or something. But lo n behold — it was open today!
I agree with Fia R. — no individual mini cupcakes? =(
Right — so each cupcake was priced at $ 3.25 (see my bakeries make a killing remark) — and they ran out of red velvet — so we went for banana nut (HUGE HUGE fan of banana nut bread).
As a cupcake it works wonderfully — and that butter cream frosting?
Quite fluffy but still too sweet. I didn’t love the coconut shavings on top either — thought it detracted than enhanced. Banana nut cake was delicious. but it was actually irregularly sized. they just added more frosting on one side to make it look even. –_​_​_​_​-​.
Will we be back? erm. maybe. if I’m really in the mood for cupcakes, methinks.

Technically it would be 3 stars just for the cupcakes, but it goes down to 2 because of the service. Showed up here about half an hour before closing, so wasn’t expecting them to have a whole bunch of every flavor or for them to be fresh… but even so, they were disappointing. We tried a Hot Chocolate, Black Tie, and Chocolicious. The Hot chocolate was the worst of the three; the vanilla frosting tasted really duncan hines-​y. The other two were fine, but not worth the drive to the valley or $ 3.50.
Now, the service. We walk in, there’s a guy standing behind the register who looks like he can barely stand to look at us, let alone serve us, what with us not wearing matching black plastic frames or above-​it-​all scowls. The look on his face was hard to describe when we walked in… as my dining partner put it, the dude looked like he’d taken a bite of his own shit and did not find it to his liking. Come on. You work at a fucking CUPCAKE SHOP. In VALLEY VILLAGE. Get over your completely unfounded snobbery and learn some selling skills, or at least some vague pleasantries.
Unless forced to, I won’t be back here.

I’ve lived in Valley Village practically my WHOLE LIFE! When famous cupcakes first opened in this plaza right by my house, my sister and I were interested in it and went in and bought a bunch of cupcakes! It was good, but recently I purchased Mini Cupcakes and they came in many many flavors! I FELL IN LOVE! We got two sets of 12 for these mini bite size cupcakes, and they were a huge huge huge HIT! They were all taken in a heart beat and everyone loved them! You can never go wrong with FAMOUS CUPCAKES!
* 12 Cupcakes for $ 15.00 (Mini Cupcakes-​BITE Size)

4 stars for the cupcakes and for the store service. 3 stars for the company. I used a Groupon today for a dozen cupcakes. Alas, I am giving half away to a friend because I’m on a diet and too much of a good thing is not always good for the waistline. I know, I know, I’m on a diet and I got cupcakes? Well, I had to use the Groupon before it expires in a couple of days!
I called their toll free order line and all I got was an answering machine giving the hours the order line is open and asking to leave a message. I left a message and never heard back. I called the next day and got the same message. I’ve never experienced having to call an order line and leave a message. Where are the customer reps? It is very bad business practice, especially when they don’t call you back! I thought maybe the company went under. So I called the store at Laurel Canyon instead and found that I could place my order there directly.
When I went to pick up my order today, the two clerks were busy filling an order for delivery, apparently. I was asked to wait and I had no problem with that. When the front clerk was free to attend to me, she found out that my order hadn’t been filled yet and that the order sheet was thrown away! But she said she can just fill it right then, which she did. However, they were out of the large boxes and asked if she could give me smaller boxes. That was fine with me. I can tell she was a bit frazzled but she helped get my order done.
I ordered an assortment of cupcakes. At home, I just had to eat the Good Morning. It has a half strawberry on top so it won’t keep. It was like a very buttery, moist crumb cake. This one doesn’t have a full layer of frosting, but just a dollop of vanilla frosting, which I thought was just enough and which made the taste profile not too sweet. Very good and lordly, do I taste the butter coating in my mouth!

I walked in after lunch a few doors down I was like «THEY HAVE CAKE POPS!» Awesome!
Then the let down, the guy behind the counter couldn’t tells us what the prices were or what the flavors were. I guess they just started carrying them. Only thing is, we bought some to share with the office and another coworker said a male counter assisted helping him in previous visits was totally clueless as well… and sold him a bad cupcake (i.e. hard as stone, he did note that some were very good)
We picked a simple box of what looked like 9 cookies and cream cake pops and it was $ 22. Prices vary, i assume on the complexity, of the decorations (they had some sesame street and graduation themed ones)
A dozen mini cupcakes ran $ 15. I ended up only getting to try one but it was decent. It’s nice that it’s mini so it wasn’t very heavy.
It’s cute and clean cupcake shop. I’d drop by again, just hope they train the staff a little better.

Service is always friendly here, and not at all pretentious like I thought it would be – being endorsed by the Kardashians and all.
Caramel Macchiato — 5 stars, amazing
24 karat — 5 stars, «famous» cinnamon cream cheese & carrot cake
Peanut Butter Cup — 2 stars, both for frosting & PB cup on top, chocolate cake was gross
Hot Chocolate — 3 stars, nothing hot about it, just good cocoa cupcake
Good Morning — 5 stars, different: hearty vanilla cake, fresh strawberry on top, dollop of cream cheese frosting

I’m only commenting on the store because… 1) Unilocal didn’t post store business hours& 2) when I went to FC today, they were closed AND didn’t seee any where posted store business times again!!!
First of all, today is a Sunday, Why are u closed??? You’d probably make more money if FC were open the same times that the one in beverly hills are open.

Yowza!
Great sushi and great cupcakes? Sound the alarms, folks… the best strip mall in all of Los Angeles is located on Laurel Canyon Blvd.
Le hubby and I’d been meaning to try the goods at Famous Cupcakes for ages. Problem is, the joint isn’t open on Sundays, and that’s when we go on our Sushi Don run. D’oh. But we finally mozied on over on one of their business days, and boy are we happy we did. Famous Cupcakes’ cupcakes are fresh and oh-​so DELICIOUS. The cake is perfectly moist. The frosting is perfectly sweet. The shop interior isn’t as cute as that of Sprinkles or Magnolia, but who gives a rat’s ass about the décor when your baked goods are so frickin’ good!
Hubs and I ordered a Chocoholic, Hot Chocolate and 24 Karat (Carrot).
Yum, yummy, yum.
Would love to return soon, but I doubt I’ll be able to so during the work week. Famous Cupcakes needs to improve its hours and the good folks who run it should consider opening up the shop on Sundays. You’ve got the best cupcakes, but all the deliciousness in the world is useless if your fans can’t buy access it!

«We don’t sell individual mini cupcakes, sorry,» said the enthusiastic & outgoing cupcake counter guy. (Hey, nothing wrong w/​asking curiously :].)
[Okie dokie,] I’ll get the [$ 3.25] Red Velvet Cupcake, please.
As soon as I took a few bites at home, that beautifully crafted cream cheese frosting was superb & fresh – omg, one of the best! The cake was lightly dense in a very good way.
Except it tasted more chocolaty than red-​velvety *_​*.
Additionally, I’ve had the «same» RVC at this Famous Cupcakery over a year ago, & that one was interestingly more on the latter side.
In short, I’ve bought & eaten a yummy CHOCOLATE Cake w/​Cream Cheese Frosting. Nonetheless, greatly baked cakes & wonderful frostings overall.

Hmm… Organic? Check. Kosher? Check. At this point, does it really matter? At least you don’t have to feel completely guilty. So more importantly, how does it taste? Delicious? Absolutely!
There’s a good selection of cupcakes here, but I decided to stick to my favorite for now. The red velvet was a medium sized cupcake. It was really good and not a bit too sweet. I tasted a hint of chocolate in the cake. It was moist and even fluffy without being spongy. It stands on it’s own even without the frosting. With the cream cheese frosting, however, it was perfect!
Parking isn’t hard to find but it’s tight. There wasn’t a line at 6pm when I went.

Hello — I’m in search of the perfect cupcake, can you help me?
While ordering my cupcakes and chatting with the young man behind the counter someone brought up Cupcake Wars (Food Channel) — he said he had not seen it but he would for sure win because nobody makes a better cupcake. I then told him there were challenges so it’s more than just baking a fantastic cupcake. BY THE WAY — They don’t even bake there — they truck them in! Then he went on to say that their cupcakes were WAY better than Sprinkles and he hated their cupcakes. Excuse me, Sprinkles paved the way for Cupcake bakeries, show some respect.
So I tried the Red Velvet and Coconut. Let’s start with the Coconut — it had a filling but the filing really didn’t add anything to the cupcake, the cake was dry (and the filling didn’t help) and the frosting was OK. It was not bad but not fantastic — and hey, I’m in search of the perfect cupcake.
Red Velvet — Cake was dry and the frosting was OK. Tasted like a million other red velvet cupcakes I’ve had. Not in the top. Not in the bottom. Uninspiring.
Don’t trash your fellow cupcake bakeries — especially the one that made it chic to have a cupcake bakery — that’s just tacky.

If you have tried Sprinkles and not Famous Cupcakes then you really don’t know that you’re missing out a spectacular cupcake experience from your life.
I decided after 2 – 3 time trials that Famous Cupcakes are way better than Sprinkles.
You can look at my photos and imagine why. But, just the fact that they’re ingredients are organic, their cake texture is fluffier than Sprinkles’ and their flavors are pretty straightforward and delicious are many of the reasons that I vote for Famous!
All the flavors are great, my favorite picks (except my all time love red velvet)
The Good Morning (vanilla bean), 24-​Karat (carrot cake), the Moca, the strawberry, ALL are yummy!!! They put lots of frosting, but their frostings are goooooood.
In case you have a special occasion and you want to follow the new trend of serving cupcakes instead of cakes, you could order online and pick them up at a store of your choice.
Let me know how much you enjoyed them!!!
see the photos.

Eating enough of these will leave me very far from looking as «bootylicious» as Kim who was staring at me on my box, as i gobbled up my cupcake.
I couldn’t get enough of their cream cheese frosting!- Definitely in my top 5 fave cupcake frostings. Some will probably say that it’s too sweet, but they have the «cream cheese» flavor perfect in my taste– no overpowering vanilla taste getting in the way. It wasn’t a goopy mess either, and topped my red velvet cake great proportionally. The cake itself wasn’t dry or oily but light. For $ 3.25, they give u a pretty big size.
The guy who helped me was super nice and enthusiastic! Gotta love that! Maybe he was hyped up on sugar and frosting, taking a lesson from Khloe’s Candy Man…

2.5 stars
Let me just start off by saying that the parking spaces here are small and the lot tends to get crowded.
With that being said, I thought their cupcakes were «meh.» I actually came here to buy cupcakes as gifts for some friends and needed each cupcake to be individually boxed. However, the girl at the store told me that the first 2 boxes are free, with the additional ones being $ 1 each. I don’t know if other cupcakeries charge extra for boxes, but I wasn’t too thrilled about being charged $ 4 for 4 additional boxes.
I had a cookies and cream cupcake. The frosting was a little too sweet for me and took away from the flavor of the cake. I thought the cake was okay. It was moist and wasn’t too sweet, but that might have been covered up by the sweetness of the frosting.
Overall, just okay. I would check out other cupcake shops before coming back here.

This was a place I discovered accidentally, after eating at the equally excellent Sushi Don, two doors down.
Extremely clean, scrupulously polite, extraordinarily tasty, wonderfully quiet (without music or flat screen TV).
The cupcakes are moist, delicious, well-​sized, fairly priced.
The Guatemalan who works here is also fastidiously, famously, authentically… nice.

Parking lot is tight, very small cupcake place and kosher!
Ugh! I hate hate hate hate tight parking spots. Yet again this is Los Angeles right?
Like Carlos R, this place is okay but I’ve certainly experienced better. I’ve seen better places and way more selections. I also don’t need to see the Kardashians on the boxes. I understand publicity but they are not the reason why I came here.
Love their colors. Soft dark brown with pastel blue. They quickly advertise their own bouquet of cupcakes in a shelf for different occasions, their display on the goodies was way way way small than I figured it would be, and their selections were limited.
3.25 per cupcake. I’ve had worse.
I also found it very odd that their red velvet had chocolate sprinkles. Maybe its different but I’m quite used to seeing red for the velvet. Loved the presentation of their good morning cupcake, so cute and very uplifting with a touch of raspberry on top.
I’m not a Mocha Chocolata ya ya ya fan but people seemed to be grabbing those than others. I got a mix of cupcakes for a birthday party at work and spent way less than I did as Susies.
I’m still on my way to track down the cupcake place to fill my desired needs.

Revelatory.
Obscenely moist cake, light whipped frosting. Neither cloying nor desperate, this is a confident cupcake. It has nothing to prove. It simply exists, waiting to be discovered and rightfully lauded as the best there ever was.
After eating only one, I felt compelled to go back and adjust my ratings on every other cupcake place in town. My whole world shifted as a cupcake-​shaped light bulb went on over my head *, and I saw the face of God in a swirl of Madagascar vanilla frosting.
Go.
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* If Famous Cupcakes made cupcake-​shaped light bulbs, I would install them all over my apartment. If they made cupcake-​shaped light bulbs and topped them with their whipped peanut butter frosting, I would eat those light bulbs, sideshow freak style.