Cupid’s Cupcakes, Katoomba, Blue Mountains
It was freezing cold when I was cruising by the sleepy mountain town of Katoomba, but I knew I had to stop by and check out Cupid’s Cupcakes. Rumour had it that these cupcakes were worth driving from Sydney for.
The shop itself it quite small – only a couple of tables inside to enjoy a coffee or hot choc with your cupcakes of choice. They had a special offer of buy 10, get 2 free, so I splurged and bought a dozen large cupcakes for $35.00.
There are a huge variety of flavours, which seem to change daily – jaffa, cookies and cream, devonshire tea, lemon meringue, rainbow sprinkles, orange, strawberry, mocha, passionfruit, choc mint… My favourite was the raspberry and white chocolate, a surefire combination to win me over every time.
I drove these cupcakes 2 hours’ west to my sister’s and we scoffed them all up within 12hrs of me arriving at her house:
All of the cupcakes are a mud cake base with frosting on top. Some of the cakes were a teensy bit dry but the frostings were all delicious. The decorations are simple, allowing more room for frosting – the best part!
When I drove past Katoomba again the following day, I couldn’t help myself and bought another dozen cupcakes. Michelle and Phillip, the owners of the shop are incredibly friendly and offer all sorts of information about the cupcakes and try to help making the difficult job of choosing flavours a bit easier.
The store is currently for sale and all I can do is hope that the cupcakes stay the way they with the new owners. It’s hard to find a cupcakery that has a nice balance of aesthetics, flavour and quality and Cupid’s Cupcakes is one of the best.
And yes, definitely worth driving all the way from Sydney!
Cupid’s Cupcakes
30-32 Katoomba Street, Katoomba
(02) 4782 1244
Mmmmmm…. cupcakes
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I popped in to Cupid’s when I was up in Katoomba recently. I’m alleric to gluten so they were not an option for me, but Mr. J partook in a couple of my behalf. I was uber jealous.
I’m actually baking cupcaks now (for a birthday at work tomorrow) and I wis mine would turn out half as tasty looking as them!
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Hannah are there any cupcakes places that offer gluten-free alternatives? It must be so hard to be a celiac!
Obviously I lose the ability to type after 6pm. *shame*
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i’ll have to keep an eye out for these next time i’m passing through to Blue Mountains for a sugar hit. they look good.
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Hi, I am cupcake obsessed..
Not only do i love the taste, but i have so much cupcake stuff its not funny,
by the way how old do you have to be to work part time here???
Coz i can work weekends?
You can get gluten-free cupcakes from a cookie and cupcake stall at Glenbrook markets once a month. I don’t know if they have a shop outlet anywhere.
Cupid’s Cupcakes are dull. They only do boring mud cakes and only in 2 flavours.