Love at First Bite Bakery
Cupcakes built on Madagascar bourbon vanilla, Saigon cinnamon and Guittard and Callebaut chocolate, in a corner of Walnut Square. The butter, milk and eggs come from local dairies.
Why go
The shop is specific about what goes in, which is the useful thing here. It names its vanilla, its cinnamon and both of its chocolate houses, and it says the butter, milk and eggs come from local dairies. Cupcakes go out in biodegradable containers.1 They bake everything from scratch, in the shop's own words, and the counter also runs cakes, cookies and other baked goods.
The retail door is at 1510 Walnut Street, Suite G, in Walnut Square, and the shop moved there from an earlier address.1 It delivers, and it takes custom work for weddings, company events and parties, including tiered presentations and custom toppers.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: a chocolate cupcake, on the evidence of the chocolate they buy.
- Avoid: leaving a custom cake to the last minute. Event work goes through the shop by phone or online.1
Good to know
- Booking: walk in for the case; order ahead for anything custom.
- Getting there: Walnut Square, a block off Shattuck in the north Berkeley shopping block.
Verdict
listed — One source stands behind this page and it is the bakery itself, which is why the rung is where it is. What the bakery does commit to is worth something: it prints the names of its chocolate houses and its vanilla, and most counters at this price will not. Named ingredients tell you what somebody chose to buy. They tell you nothing about what comes out of the oven, and I have no outside account of the baking to set beside them.