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davis_square2007-09-05 09:24 pm
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Come one, come all, come get your Kickass Cupcakes!
Hey there Davis Square...it's finally here...opening day is Saturday, September 8th...you can check out my website www.kickasscupcakes.com for all the details...hope to see you all there soon!
Sara
Sara
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<3 <3 <3
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(It seriously is. My birthday.)
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Yep. Have to try that.
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Congrats on your store! The website is really great.
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I do think there were some vegan offerings among the flavors...
Mmm, num-nums
KickAssCupcake-owner-person, thanks! There are many of us little, vegan people in the area who are thrilled to try all your animal-free creations!
Re: Mmm, num-nums
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(no, really, I had to.)
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I'm counting down!
Welcome to my world cupcake wizards!!
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i've been walking past this place ever since i moved to davis a month ago. peering inside, seeing what new construction got done.
then i immediately get distracted by PIGEONS SPARROWS OMG EVERYWHERE.
...new siding aint changing the fact you got a crazy birdhouse, mr. kickasscupcakes neighbor.
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Delicious cupcakes!
and NO!
You're down the street from me, like a block, this is going to take some serious will-power.
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http://www.yelp.com/topic/5STtw3-0h-UMB2Zukjt0XQ
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::swoon::
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Can't wait to try those out. :-)
Good Luck!
There is Somerville Chamber event tonight at the Holiday Inn (5 to 7) - maybe drop by and introduce your cupcakes. The are here (http://www.somervillechamber.org/events_meetings.htm), but the after hours events are the 1st Thursday of every month.
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Fail.
Seriously, when we saw the price of a cupcake from Kickass Cupcakes online, we thought said cupcake would be in line with the huge monster cupcakes we've seen on out cupcake hunting travels. Likely it wouldn't be the same size as one of the 5+ buck monsters from Crumbs in NYC, and we were fine with that (we couldn't finish'em anyways!), but at least it would be as big as Burger's & Cupcake's cake, right? Nope. A lone Hostess is bigger.
I hope that the vegan cupcakes and the deep fried cupcakes are in demand, because there's nothing here I can't find elsewhere for less or of better quality. Lyndell's is practically around the corner and these people have the gall to charge THREE TIMES the price for a cupcake? Given the choice between a frosting-anemic, over-cooked cap chocolate cupcake from Kickass and three times as many perfect three bite cupcakes from Lyndell's, I know what I'm bringing to a party every time.
We did have cupcakes from Kickass Cupcakes and they were pretty, well, boring, for cupcakes. Maybe deepfrying would give them the edge, but all in all, there was not enough frosting, the cakes were on the dense side, and they seemed overcooked. I won't pin the fishy smell outside the place on them as that is likely just odur du Davis.
My wife and I have been honestly and eagerly waiting for Kickass to open in Davis Square. When I first heard rumor, I told my wife and she was ecstatic. We waited for the hopeful June opening and waited and waited. We were so eager, we even swung by this Saturday morning (the 8th) hoping they opened at 10 AM in hopes of getting a taste!
Bottom line, Kickass Cupcakes is a sucker's bet for tourists and the desperate until they swell the size of their cake in line with their pricing (buck fiddy for current size, tops, 15$ a dozen).
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As they say, you get what you pay for. I completely get that you like their cupcakes better, after all cupcake are a personal thang. Some people get my cupcakes, some don't. Check out Daily Candy today to see who does.
That fishy odor comment is just completely uncalled for.That's just rude. What's up with that????
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Look, here's what I've gathered from tasting your product (strawberry shortcake cupcake... I went in intending to buy a dozen to take to a party, but felt that $33 for a dozen is just too steep a price) and reading other reviews online, a simple solution of increasing cupcake size to something that people can look at and say "yes, that's a $3 cupcake" would probably score you some more repeat customers. Certainly you can't please everyone all the time, but if cupcakes are so very personal, then you might end up selling to a select few persons.
I want to be a repeat customer, but I'll be waiting to hear how things shake down once you're more settled in and have had a chance to maybe consider the feedback that's out there.
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Welcome to the neighborhood, I hope you do well because I'm all for locally owned business. But consider us your focus group. You can either disregard what we say as a bunch of crazy internet folk, or take it to heart that we are a cross-section of your customers.
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The folks I know who have tried out your product seem to all say the same thing: liked the product, horrified at the price. Amongst comments online, both on here and in other forums, people seem to feel comparably. Maybe you can thrive as a business charging these prices while also snubbing your nose at what is, for a lot of people, just standard protocol and customer-appreciation at bakeries: a discount on a dozen.
Then again, maybe you can't. But one way or another, what comes across as a barely-veiled and snotty attitude towards a dissatisfied customer isn't the way to do it. Some people "get" your cupcakes, some don't? Please. That sounds like an excuse for avoiding some self-reflection.
Also, I hope you've got evidence for your statements about Lyndell's; maybe you're new in business and don't understand that unsubstantiated and direct claims like that are things you can be sued over. Plus, it's just kind of bad form.
Enough of this cupcakery.
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Lots of flavors were sold out at 1:45pm - no mojito cupcake for me! - but I did get a cherry cheesecake (the "cheesecake" is the frosting) that I liked quite a bit, and I'll be back for a few more flavors for sure. I hope there were more batches getting baked and ready as the day went on.
$2.75 is not especially cheap, but neither is whatever a small cup of ice cream costs at JP Licks.Uyou could get a few more mass-produced cupcake at Lyndells' for the same price, but still sugary and sweet, or a more mass produced half gallon of ice cream from Brigham's for the same price as a small cup from JP Licks - but most of the time, more frosting or a bigger bowlful is not what I'm looking for.
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Are you joking? It's absurd to claim that Lyndell's "mass produces" anything, it's a neighborhood bakery for crying out loud.
I'm not impressed with a lack of quality accompanied by a unjustifbly high price tag.
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Lyndell's is a good neighborhood example of this kind of baked goods, but it's still a red-and-white-string-tied-boxes bakery whose baked goods look as familiar as any other neighborhood bakery in another neighborhood. (Now, if they'd only sell my favorite rainbow cookies there..)
Sure, there's yet another level of mass produced for things like Hostess cupcakes, but to me Lyndell's is on only a slightly larger *scale* (I would guess they have 3x the square footage and 5-10x the inventory?) than Kickass but has a very different *style* from the Kick*ass cupcakes. I think there's a room for both styles in Somerville, and Lyndell's will get just as much business from me as they used to.
But please don't give me grief because my preference in a tastes-like-homemade cupcake matches what's being made at Kickass and yours doesn't - her cupcake is worth $2.75 on occasion to me and isn't to you, and in either case it doesn't taste like the same thing as I can buy Lyndell's.
Agree with C_M_I
I settled on the super (or double?) chocolate, mojito and strawberry cakes. Took them to a friend's house, cut the cakes up into 4 pieces each to share between the 4 of us. We were all in agreement that they didn't live up to the hype and for the money we wouldn't be making many return visits.
First impressions was that these cakes are way small - I think for $2.75 I would expect something a bit more substantial - not a muffin size but at least something the size of a standard cupcake not 3/4 the size of the established minimum. It's like getting a slice of a large pizza that was cut into 16 instead of the standard 8 pieces and paying more than standard price. I felt like a tool for forking over the money - but did it anyway just to satisfy my curiosity.
The chocolate topping was out of hand good - the cake itself was dry and overcooked. the mojito and strawberry frostings were good but they were somewhat runny and hard to eat - a cupcake is a kind of on the run snack and it's hard to run and wipe runny frosting off of yourself. The cakes themselves were mostly dry the toppings better. They were good cupcakes but 2 of the test tasters are also relatively good cooks and were certain that they could match the cupcakes without much trouble - and make batches for the sale price of just 1 or 2.
I would head over to Lyndells for a black and white pastry (I think they're $1) anyday over kickass cupcakes. At this point Kickass cupcakes is a gimmicky name that will draw people in but unless they make some changes I can't imagine they will survive after the initial curiousity is satistified.
I wish them luck because it's a good addition to the square - maybe there are enough rich kids/yuppies around to keep them going?
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Anonymous said...
Lyndells cupcakes are cheap because they are made with cheap ingredients- hydrogenated fats, oil, artificial flavors. They are not all natural. As they say...you get what you pay for.