The Great Portland Cupcake Tour

So during that last epic thrifting adventure with Stacey and Kendra, we were also hitting up every cupcake bakery in sight! There’s quite a few here in Portland. Ready to see some super uber delicious baked goods?
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Our first yummy stop was Bliss Cupcake Shop, not too far from my apartment. Me and Kendra picked out a mini cupcake (eggnog for me, chocolate bliss for her), while Stacey broke the pattern right off the bat by getting a giant chocolate chip cookie.

Next, it was off to Cupcake Jones in downtown Portland. This place is amazing, but sadly lacks much room to sit or stand inside. One thing I love is that every cupcake is filled on the inside. I got a delicious dark-chocolate-mint cupcake with an edible golden snowman on top. I honestly don’t remember what Kendra or Stacey got, probably because I was way too busy devouring that heavenly, messy cupcake!

Our last sugar-filled stop downtown was Saint Cupcake. They have two locations, and we ended up going to their new, shiny, wonderfully decorated “Galore” bakery. This place had lots of room to sit, gorgeously tiled walls, and free cinnamon-sugar puffs (which their website adorably calls “bonbonbunbuns”).

I picked out a Willy Wonka cupcake (chocolate chip with green frosting!) and Kendra got a Toasted Coconut Cream. After biting into it, she sadly realized that it had her least favorite frosting ever: cream cheese. Luckily, Stacey was happy to give the cupcake a good home in her stomach.

I totally couldn’t resist jumping into the giant whisk/bike rack outside Saint Cupcake!

The next day, Kendra and I headed out to Lake Oswego to check out Crave Bake Shop. Crave is completely gluten-free. I haven’t tried many gluten-free baked goods, and certainly never cupcakes, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. It helped to know that Crave won the national Cupcake Wars on Food Network.

Kendra got a Hot Chocolate cupcake (with crazy-delicious toasted marshmallow on top), and I got the Coffee and Doughnut cupcake. (Do you see that adorable mini doughnut?!) Everything tasted just as awesomely as it looks. I was pretty impressed by my first gluten-free cupcake.

Bonus: Bitter chocolate filled croissant from Baker & Spice. Oh so good! As you can probably tell, my sister and I end up eating a lot of yummy baked goods when she visits me!