{"id":727,"date":"2009-04-06T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2009-04-06T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T19:15:35","slug":"sprinkles-cupcapes-newport-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/oc-food-reviews\/sprinkles-cupcapes-newport-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprinkles Cupcakes &#8211; Newport Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well if you visited the site yesterday you would have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/live-blog\/live-blogging-sprinkles-newport-beach\/\" target=\"_self\">I did a quick live blog<\/a> from Sprinkles Cupcakes in Newport Beach.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try and start doing those, and give my immediate opinion when we have the time.\u00a0 Remember that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m doing giving my opinion based upon the current visit, your miles may vary!\u00a0 Anyway Mrs. DanGarion and I went for a drive and after having some of the best sandwiches in Orange at <a href=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/oc-food-reviews\/the-filling-station-orange\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Filling Station<\/a> we went for a drive.\u00a0 As we went on our drive the Mrs. sweet tooth activated (it&#8217;s been doing that a lot lately as she craves for the chocolate she gave up for lent).\u00a0 Since we were already in Costa Mesa because I had to get a tool box from Sears I suggested we go and try some cupcakes from Sprinkles.\u00a0 Many have praised them here when I&#8217;ve visited previous cupcake joints and also on a number of the other sites I read, so I figured it was our turn to check them out.<a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Sprinkles - There was a line.\" href=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/img_0376.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" src=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_0376.jpg\" alt=\"img_0376.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First thing we noticed was that this place is busy!\u00a0 We arrived there around 1 PM and there was a line up of about 5 people in front of us.\u00a0 I did like the design of their menu and how they show what cupcakes are available as you are waiting in line.\u00a0 The wait wasn&#8217;t long, which it shouldn&#8217;t be, it&#8217;s not like they are baking the cupcakes to order!\u00a0 I ordered 1 Lemon and 1 Red Velvet, along with a milk, the cupcakes were $3.25 each.<a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Sprinkles - Are those nipples?\" href=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/img_0379.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right\" src=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_0379.jpg\" alt=\"img_0379.jpg\" \/><\/a> The Lemon cupcake was good although it was a bit sweet and not very lemony, we both thought it could use more lemon flavor like that of a lemon bar, also the cake was a bit dense when compared to other bakeries and even the Red Velvet that I had.\u00a0 Talking about the Red Velvet it was delicious!\u00a0 <a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Sprinkles - One bite cupcakes?!?\" href=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/img_0383.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_0383.jpg\" alt=\"img_0383.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>The cake was moist and the cream cheese frosting was great.\u00a0 I do however prefer the version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susiecakesla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susiecakes<\/a> with it&#8217;s filling in the middle.\u00a0 We also both commented that the edge of both the cupcakes seemed to be a little crunchy, not sure if that&#8217;s typical or not of Sprinkles.\u00a0 I really want to try the Peanut Butter Chip next time we come.\u00a0 For a listing of flavors and the days they are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprinkles.com\/flavors.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 The Mrs. prefers the cupcakes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchsbakery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">French&#8217;s Cupcake Bakery in Costa Mesa<\/a> to Sprinkles.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Sprinkles - Cupcakes in a box\" href=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/img_0375.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" src=\"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/sprinkles-cupcakes\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_0375.jpg\" alt=\"img_0375.jpg\" \/><\/a>Overall things were good, and the service was friendly.\u00a0 They took my order and quickly put it together for us.\u00a0 I would think they could look into not wasting boxes for those customers that choose to eat their cupcakes outside, it seemed sort of wasteful to package them up in a box when we were justing going to open it right up.\u00a0 I can see us coming here again if we are in the area and looking for a treat, especially once chocolate is back on the table!<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Visit on Sunday 04\/05\/09 @ 1-2 PM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[xrr rating=3\/5]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprinkles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sprinkles Cupcakes<\/a><br \/>\n944 Avocado Ave.<br \/>\nNewport Beach, CA 92660<br \/>\n(949) 760-0003<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/20\/247600\/restaurant\/OC\/Corona-Del-Mar\/Sprinkles-Cupcakes-Newport-Beach\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sprinkles Cupcakes on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/247600\/minilink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:130px;height:36px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ad] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well if you visited the site yesterday you would have seen I did a quick live blog from Sprinkles Cupcakes in Newport Beach.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try and start doing those, and give my immediate opinion when we have the time.\u00a0 Remember that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m doing giving my opinion based upon the current visit, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[58,108],"class_list":{"0":"post-727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oc-food-reviews","7":"tag-dessert","8":"tag-newport-beach","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgNGWN-bJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}