Delicious cupcakes await at these Richmond, Virginia area bakery and pastry cupcake shops! If you have a sweet tooth like me, you will love the creative flavors that abound in these great cupcakes in Richmond, VA. Do not wait for special occasions, tasty cupcakes make an average day extra special.

The Richmond area is home to the best cupcakes, and I am sharing the details about new flavors and more from these dessert studio locations in Richmond Virginia. Take yourself on a cupcake tour of Richmond or pick up a few cupcake flavors to celebrate a friend or family member on their next birthday, you cannot go wrong with a stop at any of these amazing cupcake shops!

Best Cupcakes in Richmond, VA Bakeries

The cupcake shops on this list are in alphabetical order and have information about address and flavors to help you find the best cupcake shop for you and your loved ones!

Cameo Cakery and Cafe
Located at 306 Libbie Avenue this adorable insta-worthy backdrop is home to delicious cupcake flavors but SO much more as well. While Cameo has to die for cupcake flavors, it is also home to delicious shareable plate options, charcuterie boards, salads, and breakfast sandwiches. Cameo Cakery and Cafe is open daily, so go get your cupcake fix any day of the week! 11 cupcake flavors that are all mouthwatering await at Cameo Cakery and Cafe.
Your tastebuds will rejoice with cupcake flavors like Chocolate Salted Caramel and Heath and Boston Creme Pie, you are going to want to try them all! Cameo Cakery and Cafe is home to gluten free, sugar free, and vegan cupcakes also. Special orders are welcomed with 48-hour notice.
Call your girlfriends and round out your visit with tapped beer, wine, mimosa, or coffee flights while enjoying good music, an awesome staff, with cozy indoor and outdoor seating options. Fur parents will love that their furry friends will not be left out either with pupcakes options as well.
Carytown Cupcakes
Carytown Cupcakes located in, you guessed it, Carytown! Stop in 7 days a week to their bright pink and cheery shop and then walk around and shop after! Carytown Cupcakes is home to 13 flavors of cupcakes with flavors like espresso, bee sting, vegan choco taco, and more traditional flavors like red velvet cupcake flavors too!
Carytown Cupcakes does offer vegan options for cupcakes and gluten-free cupcakes. 6-inch cakes are also an option too and one of my friends swears that their chocolate cake is the most delicious dessert she's ever tasted! Don't take my word for it, go try it yourself!

Photo Courest of Carytown Cupcakes

3. Frostings

Many local residents will remember Frostings which was featured on Season 4 of Food Network's Cupcake Wars show. Frostings placed second in this show but is still #1 to Richmond-ers! Frostings serves high-quality products that are made from scratch with the finest ingredients and contain no preservatives. They're best when consumed the day they're baked.

Frosting is open 7 days a week and serving unique cupcake favors like Banana Pudding and Pineapple Upside Down Cake among others! Frostings is located in Glen Allen, Virginia. Shoppers can also purchase cakes and request custom cakes as well.

Photo Courtesy of Minglewood Bake Shop

4. Minglewood Bake Shop

Located in Carytown as well and welcoming guests with espresso, coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Enjoy ice cream and milkshakes in addition to cupcakes too. All items at Minglewood are 100% vegan, there is no dairy, eggs, honey, gelatin, or confectioners' sugar used.

5. Mixing Bowl Bakery

The talented team at Mixing Bowl Bakery always strives to source local, fresh and seasonal ingredients. Breads, pastries, danishes, pies, and cupcakes galore are to be found at Mixing Bowl Bakery in Richmond, Va. Buttercream, Caramel, German Chocolate, Fudgy Chocolate, Red Velvet, Strawberry, Lemon, Carrot, Orange are some of the cupcake flavors you can find at Mixing Bowl Bakery.

Photo Courtesy of Mo’s Sweet Minis

6. Mo's Sweet Minis

Mo's Sweet Minis is a family owned bakery specializing in cupcakes and cookies baked fresh from scratch daily. The team at Mo's Sweet Minis use high quality ingredients and offer a wide variety of flavors. Their products are baked in small batches with fresh organic fruits and vegetables, European butter, Vietnamese cinnamon, Madagascar bourbon vanilla, Belgian chocolate and love. Even better, Mo's Sweet Minis will deliver up to 15 miles away! Located at 902 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220

Photo courtesy of Pearls Bake Shoppe

7. Pearl's Bake Shoppe

Combining Class & Style With Age-Old, Secret Family Recipes, Pearl’s Bake Shoppe Satisfies Your Cravings With Our Highest-Quality Confections Prepared for Every Theme, Event, and Moment Life Has to Offer. Pearl's cupcake shoppe has SO many cupcake options and you cannot go wrong with any choice of flavor.

8. River City Sweets

Established in 2013, River City Sweets is a small-batch artisan bakery, dedicated to offering the best custom baked goods and confections made with only the finest ingredients. We offer custom cookies, one-of-a-kind cakes, and specialty desserts for all occasions. Because River City Sweets is a small-batch bakery, we can customize any order to fit your flavor preference or dietary restrictions and special needs.

With 15 cake flavors and 23 icing options there is a perfect combination for everyone.River City Sweets operates from a private residence in the metro-Richmond, Virginia area in compliance with Virginia's cottage food laws.

9. Smallcakes

Smallcakes is located in Chesterfield, right off of Midlothian Turnpike, and is well loved by cupcake customers in Richmond, Virginia. Smallcakes bakes and frosts 18 signature flavors every morning, fresh from scratch. Smallcakes features seasonal and special flavors that are well loved in Richmond, Virginia. After appearances on the Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars” seasons one, two, and seven as well as on the hit daytime talk show “The View,” Smallcakes became well known and in hot demand in neighborhoods across the nation. You cannot go wrong with these huge cupcakes - every flavor is absolutely delicious.

10. Sweet fix

The specialty cakes have been voted "Best Wedding Cake (s) in Richmond" by the Readers of Richmond Magazine, Richmond Bride, Borrowed & Blue, and Virginia Living Magazine. But, their savory cakes are not the only thing made at Sweet Fix! They can make unique and fun cupcake options too. A minimum of 24 mini cupcakes per flavor and a minimum of 12 standard cupcakes per flavor must be ordered due to batch size.

Funfetti, Marble, Lemon zest are just a few of the delicious flavors that you can expect from this Richmond, Va full-service bakery. They also make Gluten Free, Vegan & Dairy Free options for most flavors! Located at 9 W 10th St, Richmond, VA 23224

11. Westhampton Pastry Shop

If you are from Richmond, Virginia or have lived here for a while then you are familiar with Westhampton Bakery. Westhampton Pastry Shop has been baking Richmond a better place since 1952. Using the same time tested recipes and methods that have been handed down for 65 years Westhampton prides itself on continuing the tradition.

They specialize in Wedding cakes, Decorated Cakes, Pastries, Pies, Cookies, Breads, Donuts, and Danishes. Call for cupcake orders! Westhampton does an amazing job and you will love anything that this bakery shop has to offer. Westhampton Pastry Shop is located at 5728 Patterson Ave.

These cupcake shops and bakeries are amazing options for beautiful creations and delicious memories with family and friends.

Best Cupcakes in Richmond, VA Bakeries

Best Cupcakes in Richmond, VA Bakeries

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