Cupcake A La Mode recently opened in Leawood's Park Place.
This is the second location for owner/executive pastry chef Lisa Clark and her husband Daniel, who opened their first store west of the Plaza, at 1209 West 47th Street, last January.
The new shop is awash in pink. There's a bookshelf filled with princess hats
and sparkly stuffed animals, but the bakery counter at the back is the real attraction. When Clark started her first location she
was baking four dozen cupcakes; today that number is closer to 25 dozen
-- even 40 dozen on Saturdays.
Cupcake A La Mode divides its cupcake menu into two parts: chocolate
and vanilla cake. The cupcakes are $3 each or $33 for a dozen; those
with smaller appetites or children can opt for the child-sized cupcakes
at $2.25 a piece.
Chocolate cupcakes include flavors like marshmallow fondue (semi-sweet chocolate, marshmallow creme icing, a sprinkle of graham crackers and a chocolate covered graham cracker), chocolate obsession (chocolate buttercream icing and grated semisweet chocolate), and the Bella Nutella (Nutella, chocolate hazelnut buttercream icing, a Rocher-chocolate-covered hazelnut truffle and chocolate hazelnut pirrouhette cookie).
Vanilla flavors are just as varied: stuffed French toast (cream cheese icing, maple cinnamon buttercream icing, sprinkling of powdered sugar); Amaretto sweet (almond buttercream icing, almond slivers, topped with a maraschino cherry); and raspberry lemonade (raspberry buttercream and lemon buttercream, sugary raspberry and lemon wedge).
Cupcake enthusiasts should take note that Cupcake A La Mode offers both cream cheese-based and buttercream icing. And the cupcake cafe is set to offer two new flavors on March 2: Bailey's Irish Cream and Apple Pie.
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Well, you never know ... if I just read the post last Oct. - who's to say I waited too long to respond? You, obviously ... but why do you pose it as a negative thing? These articles are here for a long time, so why not post and give alternative feedback to what Sarah posted - even if a year later. People don't always pay attention to dates ... maybe not everyone will notice the bad review was a year old. Just trying to give props to a local business.
Erika: Sarah posted her comment in September of 2010. It took you over a year to compose that response???
I am definitely surprised by the comment above. I get these cupcakes for absolutely EVERY special occasion and they look EXACTLY like the pictures (wish I could post my own here - because they really really do), and they taste better than you can imagine. If you do like Costco or Grocery Store cakes, then that's fine - but these are nothing like those IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE. I am so sorry the person above had a bad experience and wrote such a nasty review. I really can't believe it could have ever been that bad, actually. That's a shame!
I drove four hours to go to this place after reading all of the reviews, and I was soooo excited to try these cupcakes. First of all, I get to the bakery, and the cupcakes look NOTHING like the website. They looked thrown together. I bought three of them, and I was so excited to take a bite out of one of those cupcakes! I tried the first one and could not believe my taste buds- it was horrible! THESE ARE DEFINITELY NOT MADE FROM SCRACTH! I would rather have a betty crocker mix cupcake then these. They were definitely a box mix, but actually worse. They tasted really artificial. Ok, so I try my next one, "Nutella Bella". I love Nutella, so I was so excited to try this one, and it didn't even taste like Nutella!!!!!!!!! They all three were horrible, and I didn't even eat them. I was actually really really offended by the low quality of the ingredients for the price I paid. I would rather have Walmart Bakery any day. I have tried cupcakes all over the country and world, and I never have once written a bad review, but this place 100% deserves it. Shame on the owners for making such low quality cupcakes with no natural ingredients at all. DO NOT GO HERE.
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