Buttercup BakeShop

I get the purple ube cake every year for my birthday, and it’s always such a big hit! I love their cakes so much that my friend and I ordered one for our friend’s engagement, and it couldn’t have turned out more beautiful. The staff was so helpful and truly brought our vision to life. Their cupcakes and other treats are also amazing—I don't go anywhere else! Highly recommend!

The shop is easy to find and they have a wide variety of desserts available. I tried out the apple pie cupcake and I thought that they were so sweet. For being a smaller size cupcake, I could not even finish it. I thought I was chewing on sugar cube. The flavor matched the apple I was expecting but the sugar was just too much. The bottom of my cupcake also had red velvet cupcake all over the bottom of the wrapper so my hand got covered in it when I was taking the cupcake out of the container to hold it. ** 2 stars instead of 3 because one thing that I did notice is that they do have a "give us a five star review and get a free cupcake" so their reviews might be inflated compared to what they actually should be.

This is absolutely my favorite bakery in NY. They give you generous size amount for the cake slices. Homemade. The cakes are soo soft and just melts in your mouth. Customer service is amazing. Everyone is friendly. They allow you time to browse and see what all they sell. And they don’t force you to buy something you really don’t want. I really appreciate that!! The lemon cake is my favorite one by the way😁

Kathy & valentina made our evening! We stop in here every Tuesday after dinner and are simply obsessed. Order for all birthdays and holidays also. Thank goodness for them and their cupcakes

We got two dozens for our son’s first birthday paty, and these were a hit. It was a good assortment and each cupcake was unique. Definitely recommend and worth the money.

Damn good yummy delectables. Open late which is even better. We were wrapping up at the bar next door and popped in before 10pm. Excellent selection and cupcakes were divine. We ordered vanilla/vanilla, cookies & cream, red velvet, meringue, and a toasted treat. Moist and flavorful and beautiful to boot. $15 for a four pack was super reasonable.

Nice small shop serving up cookies, cakes, brownies and other delicious pastries. The staff was super friendly and fast. Definitely coming back for more deliciousness 😀

I had the "magic bar" (see my photo), which I found to be very disappointing. It has small pieces of coconut on top of chocolate (with some nuts mixed in). Who would not think that, with those two main ingredients, it is sure to be a winner? Wrong, don't pass go, don't collect $200. Both the main flavors are very mild, so the combination does not build up to be a strongly flavored dessert. Perhaps that was due to a lack of freshness. Judging by the large amount of bars I saw on the shelf in the mid-afternoon, carryovers to the next day could lead to that. Some bakeries sell out of their best sellers by that time.

I get the purple ube cake every year for my birthday, and it’s always such a big hit! I love their cakes so much that my friend and I ordered one for our friend’s engagement, and it couldn’t have turned out more beautiful. The staff was so helpful and truly brought our vision to life. Their cupcakes and other treats are also amazing—I don't go anywhere else! Highly recommend!

The shop is easy to find and they have a wide variety of desserts available. I tried out the apple pie cupcake and I thought that they were so sweet. For being a smaller size cupcake, I could not even finish it. I thought I was chewing on sugar cube. The flavor matched the apple I was expecting but the sugar was just too much. The bottom of my cupcake also had red velvet cupcake all over the bottom of the wrapper so my hand got covered in it when I was taking the cupcake out of the container to hold it. ** 2 stars instead of 3 because one thing that I did notice is that they do have a "give us a five star review and get a free cupcake" so their reviews might be inflated compared to what they actually should be.

This is absolutely my favorite bakery in NY. They give you generous size amount for the cake slices. Homemade. The cakes are soo soft and just melts in your mouth. Customer service is amazing. Everyone is friendly. They allow you time to browse and see what all they sell. And they don’t force you to buy something you really don’t want. I really appreciate that!! The lemon cake is my favorite one by the way😁

Kathy & valentina made our evening! We stop in here every Tuesday after dinner and are simply obsessed. Order for all birthdays and holidays also. Thank goodness for them and their cupcakes

We got two dozens for our son’s first birthday paty, and these were a hit. It was a good assortment and each cupcake was unique. Definitely recommend and worth the money.

Damn good yummy delectables. Open late which is even better. We were wrapping up at the bar next door and popped in before 10pm. Excellent selection and cupcakes were divine. We ordered vanilla/vanilla, cookies & cream, red velvet, meringue, and a toasted treat. Moist and flavorful and beautiful to boot. $15 for a four pack was super reasonable.

Nice small shop serving up cookies, cakes, brownies and other delicious pastries. The staff was super friendly and fast. Definitely coming back for more deliciousness 😀

I had the "magic bar" (see my photo), which I found to be very disappointing. It has small pieces of coconut on top of chocolate (with some nuts mixed in). Who would not think that, with those two main ingredients, it is sure to be a winner? Wrong, don't pass go, don't collect $200. Both the main flavors are very mild, so the combination does not build up to be a strongly flavored dessert. Perhaps that was due to a lack of freshness. Judging by the large amount of bars I saw on the shelf in the mid-afternoon, carryovers to the next day could lead to that. Some bakeries sell out of their best sellers by that time.

Delicious!! Ordered a lemon birthday cake for my niece and it was delicious. We had a family of 10 and everyone enjoyed the cake!! Service was friendly and the Lemon cake was delicious!!!

The bars are super delicious and buttery! Price isn't bad at all for NYC. Service - not busy so we were helped quickly. There's 2 very, very small tables to sit so I wouldn't count on it.

I can recommend literally anything here and it would probably bring pure joy to your face! Their top tier choices, and what they are known for are their legendary Banana pudding (the original before people branched off to form Magnolia Bakery!) Their cookie bars are addicting snd their ube cake is the best ube dessert I ever had! Their staff is always friendly, happy and helpful. Who wouldn't be happy working there?!

I am obsessed with their Ube cupcakes. Besides the pleasant purple color, they're perfectly textured and not sickly sweet. This place is small, just takeouts. No frills. I've had a couple other cupcake flavors that were good, the banana pudding is really good, but the Ube is where it's at.

Damn good yummy delectables. Open late which is even better. We were wrapping up at the bar next door and popped in before 10pm. Excellent selection and cupcakes were divine. We ordered vanilla/vanilla, cookies & cream, red velvet, meringue, and a toasted treat. Moist and flavorful and beautiful to boot.

Cute bake shop with a variety of sweets and desserts options from cupcakes to banana puddings to cookies. Love the variety of unique and cool cupcake flavors they offer such as ube, lemon, peanut butter, etc. The cupcakes are not crazy sweet which is always nice. The staffs here are super nice and friendly.

A little take out spot in Turtlebay. If you want buttery and rich deserts, this is definitely the place to go!

Smaller cupcakes that I remember and they taste different. Not in a bad way but not like how Magnolia like they tasted before. I like chocolate frosting of the way they used to have it. It wasn't crowded so service was nice and quick. Place smelled great.

First of all the service in this little bake shop has been outstanding both of the times we've stopped by -- very friendly, very helpful. This really should be a 5-star review for the service as well as the baked goods, and would be for our first of two visits. And it is only 4 because when we went back to Buttercup for the second time, we were sad to find that they did not have the flan we were hoping to buy again or the tres leches cake that we stupidly chose to forego on our first visit. So on the 2nd visit, we clutched and bought a simple chocolate brownie. It was unfrosted, but perfectly moist and tasty. I'm sure we'll buy their brownies again, but unlike the flan I don't see us craving the brownies quite as desperately between visits. Now I don't want to oversell the flan we had, given that one person's favorite kind of custard is often very different from another's favorite. But for us this was exactly the kind of home-style south-of-the border flan you serve after a simple home-cooked meal. The custard itself is a little on the denser side, but paradoxically not at all heavy or mealy, and sweet but not excessively so. The caramelized sugar in the batch we ate from falls on the paler end of the spectrum (white gold, say, rather than a darker gold), but the flavor it lends to the custard is pitch perfect. We had half when we got home and half after dinner the next night -- not because it was too rich but because it came in such a generous portion. In that sense, their flan is sort of the opposite of the vast variety of mini cupcakes that seem to be the main attraction for Buttercup's intended market. It's also the opposite of the mini cupcakes in the sense that the custard comes with only its caramelized sugars -- no extra frills like whipped cream, flavored syrups or sprinkles. For us that was a feature not a bug. But don't worry if frills are your main need from a dessert. The cupcakes offer plenty of flavors and frills to choose from! Now, if only we had also tried the tres leches on our first visit, which looked as though its preparation was approached with much the same homestyle aesthetic as the flan. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that Buttercup will offer both the flan and the tres leches again in the future (hint hint). But even if they don't we'll be back often for the great service and to try whatever other delicious treats they're baking on any given day.

I've been craving chocolate cake and came here to get a slice. It was $6, which is way less than Little Cupcake Bakeshop ($10). They're both solid slices of chocolate cake. This one is a little smaller than Little Cupcake Bakeshop but just as good. I'd definitely come back to try some of their other cakes!

Great variety of cupcakes. Good buttercream (I make my own so I am kinda picky). Cake in the three we tried, Van Van (vanilla), s'mores and hummingbird was dense and a tad on the dry side but we were there at 9:30pm sooo....A little pricey for a regular sized cupcake ($3.50). Flavors were good and service was spot on- super nice gal gave us suggestions.

We ordered a cake in advance to be picked up. I ordered over the phone to be sure. I went first thing in the morning, the cake was boxed and bagged and ready to go! It was beautiful and such a hit at the office. Will be coming back!

Cute, narrow bakery with a variety of desserts. Staff was friendly and fast. I tried a cupcake, brownie, and cheesecake, all of which were solid. The highlight was definitely the fun selection of cupcakes. However, I found everything to be very sweet, specifically the frosting. Truthfully, I wasn't blown away, but then again, it's hard for a dessert to be THAT bad. I'd still give this place a go, especially for a kids birthday party or casual event

We ordered four different small desserts and were happy with all of them. The Oreo cupcake was delicious and the butter cake was the best of the bunch. The staff was friendly and professional. There were beautiful cakes and cupcakes in the case. I would use them if I was having a party or or dinner at my home.

AMAZING!! Magnolia has nothing on this place. I needed last minute cupcakes delivered the next day to my office for a birthday. Not only were they able to deliver but the cupcakes were absolutely delicious. I don't even like sweets but let me tell you the frosting is to die for and the lemon cupcake is heaven. My entire office enjoyed them. Thank you Buttercup. I'm a life long customer now!!

Ordered cupcakes for delivery to Drs. office where other vendors have gotten items without issue. Delivery was promised for am, not done. Specified address on order not done. Opportunity to commemorate 15 years of cancer treatment wasted. No one showed ever deal with this organization.

We ordered my husband's birthday cake from Buttercup Bake Shop in Midtown East. It was a delicious vanilla sheet cake that served our party of over 35 guests. Several people asked us afterwards where we got the cake, and we happily recommended Buttercup Bake Shop!

Nice little bakery -with lots of cupcakes, cheesecakes, and other pastries, but no coffee -I've now been here two or three times. Strangely, they don't offer coffee to go., but they do offer some light beverages and soda. Though they have seating, they are not really a sit-down place, so just come here to purchase the sweet stuff and then leave and go on your merry way. Would I come back here? Yes.

We order from here all the time when the occasion calls for baked goods (or just because!). The banana pudding is just as good as Magnolia's (and Buttercup made it first- just ask them about it!). The ube cake, red velvet cake, and brownies/blondies are also delicious.

Ordering birthday cakes or any of their cupcakes are amazing and the staff does a great job with service there

these are some solid cupcakes. they offer a good variety of flavors. not extremely sweet like some other places.

I tried the lemon cupcake, which was extremely good as well as the vanilla bean cheesecake, which was very good. This place has a wide variety of different cupcakes and cheesecakes and I would go back!

This place deserves more hype! The cookie dough cupcake is soooo good. All of the bars are great too. They're also open pretty late which is nice.

the cupcake was great, it was sweet and tasty i recommend this place to anyone, the people were friendly and made great cupcakes

Every cupcake and bar is made with perfection! I ordered the chunky monkey, devil dog, and ube cupcakes and they were all delicious. The gooey chocolate chip bar was so soft and yummy! I highly recommend Buttercup for when you are needing a sweet treat!

The best bakery in nyc! It doesnt get any better. World class cupcakes. The service is always perfect.

We ordered a bunch of cupcakes and brownies after my dad told us it was National Dessert Day (for the record, it was NOT National Dessert Day but he wanted cupcakes and felt he needed an excuse, which is crazy because nobody needs a special occasion for a cupcake. For those that are wondering, October 14 is NDD) Each cupcake was more delicious than the last. We got the salted caramel, a s'mores cupcake, a hummingbird, a chocolate banana one. We got some brownies and bars and a pecan thing. Honestly every one of them was delicious. It's more reasonably priced than competitors and tastes better too.

This is the 2nd time I have been here and similar to the first time I wanted to try everything. They have cupcakes, pies, cheesecake, and all sorts of stuff. I really like the cupcakes here. $3.50 a cupcake but they are damn good! I want to try the different cakes next time and maybe sneak a fudge brownie in while I am at it!The cookies are also spot on. I don't get the negative reviews but everyone has their opinion. It is a little pricey but that is nyc for you. Come check it out and support a local business!

We ordered a couple cupcakes from them, and all of them were pretty solid. The staff was friendly and fast. Our only complaint is that the cake seemed a little dry-- but we went at the end of the day, so maybe that's why. Would definitely order from them again!

Not as good as they used to be. The ube cupcake is too sweet and lacking the ube flavor, I wouldn't be surprised if it were vanilla with purple food dye. The lemon cupcake was also disappointing, tastes like box cake. The lemon poppy muffin from Stop n Shop is 10x better and at the same price but obviously larger. The coconut bar was really good, a bit too sweet. I wouldn't return nor recommend it.

Epic, fresh cupcakes delivered. I had ordered five dozen cupcakes for my client to deliver in Lower Manhattan. I couldn't be happier with the taste and quality of the cupcakes.

I really like citrus and on a casual stroll I happened on this bake shop open at 7pm night and a lightbulb lit in my head that bake shops open late are busy and delicious so I wandered in and spotted lemon bars which I've become skeptical of lately due to most places not being noticeably lemon so what do you know there's about enough lemon to be tart enough to lightly challenge a Warhead candy so I want to give this place a shout out! PS it's a tall bar and maybe twice as wide as most. I'm discovering most all portions in NYC are double the volume of "normal"

Only tried a couple of cupcakes but they were damn good. Devil dogs were a big part of my childhood and to find a cupcake version? Just gimme! Also had to try the Twinkie one and it was also great! Would def like to try some of their cakes.

Looking for an affordable bakery in the area led me to this place. Only one other customer inside as you go down the line to see all the baked goods behind the glass before placing an order. Decided on getting the Cookie Dough Pudding, Magic Bar and Lemon Bar (total $9ish). Packaging holds up well as everything is intact by the time I got home. Cookie dough pudding is certainly creamy, okay cookie flavor, could have used more texture balance. Magic bar is coconut heavy with a biscuit layer at the bottom. More on the chewy side aside from the biscuit portion. Lemon bar looked good but I didn't get a chance to have any. Nice options here at a reasonable price. Need to try other items to see if something stands out.

won't order again They sent incomplete order. What they did send was stale. Tried to resolve issue with Raoul ( I think he gave fake name) and no luck. Would not recommend. Not worth the hassel

Cute local bakeshop for some yummy cupcakes. I'm usually at the downtown Murray Hill location, but after a meal across the street, we swung by for cupcakes. Buttercup does great classic cupcakes, small but moist and tender to the last crumb. Buttercream frosting is not cloyingly sweet, but smooth and light. $14 for a box of four, but they don't hold well in the summer heat! I like the flavors from their "premium" lineup, and this time got the Ube, Salted Caramel, Apple Pie and Red Velvet. All were delectable, especially the apple pie a la mode. Ube needed way more ube flavor though. Eat them quick, as the HOT summer is not kind to the frosting. We traveled a few blocks and the frosting was slipping and sliding away.

Devil dog cupcakes ?! Seriously?! Grew up on devil dogs so it was a lovely throw back! Red velvet + B+W cookie heaven they nail it consistently

Another year of three amazing birthday cakes and too many cupcakes to count. Best NYC local bakery.

This is my favorite bake shop, the UBE cupcake is the best. I love the customer service and I love everything in the bake shop. The banana pudding is delicious and it's not sweet.

It was one of my coworkers birthday, so we decided to get his favorite banana pudding and cupcakes from Buttercup Bake Shop. When I walked in there were many options too choose from, from puddings to brownies to cupcakes. They even had some gluten free options. Order: - Banana Pudding (5/5) - Cupcakes (4/5) Pros: - A lot of options to choose from - Gluten-free options - Tasty - Really nice employees Cons: - Frosting for cupcakes were a little too sweet Overall: Buttercup Bake Shop offers a wide variety of tasty options. I highly recommend!

I tried this bake shop and got 6 different cupcakes for a birthday. Most of the cupcake flavors turned out delicious and we were very happy with them. They were moist and well flavored. The bake shop also has unique cupcake flavors so it's fun to try different ones every time we go. The favorite for the group ended up being the cookie and creams cupcake and the second best was the salted caramel. It's definitely worth a try.

YUM, YUM, YUM you can smell the sugar and the butter the minute you step into this joint. I've been a covert customer for years but usually not on my dime. I've had many encounters with the baked goods here via office parties and friend's birthdays. This was my first time being in this store in person. Had no idea it was so close to my office. Walking in, display after display of sweets. Brownies, cupcakes, sugar cookies, macarons, muffins and cake in a cup. What to choose?! Flavors is the way to go. Ube yes, red velvet yes, chocolate chip yes... Then you have to decide what will satisfy your sweet tooth. I'm actually not a big fan of overly sweet stuff, I'd rather salty snacks but this fits the bill for last minute gifts and hostess thank you's or that sugar crash in the afternoon Everything in here is sweet! It tastes like butter and sugar for sure. I can recommend the cream puffs and the classic cupcakes. Banana pudding was my go to purchase this visit but the other desserts in a cup were just ok. Oreo ice box cake would be the next option for me. The folks behind the counter know their stuff. Any questions, they can answer easily. Allergies, you should ask for sure. Prices are typical NYC where it's reasonable to high.

If you cancel an order with them, keep an eye on your credit card statements to see if you really get the refund or not. You'll be told you will be getting a full refund, but email response wait times will get longer and longer, and they may run into an "issue" with their pay portal. After multiple emails with them and almost two months of being told my refund is on the way, I have yet to be refunded for my custom cake order. Paid ~$90 for a cake order that I canceled the same day... never received a cake nor my refund.

Overall cute looking shop but cupcakes are a little on the smaller side and a bit too sweet for my taste. The texture and consistency of the frosting and the cupcake are good though but the sweetness was a little overpowering for me. The cookie was good though and their banana pudding was pretty solid!

I'm so sad! While I've been very satisfied with Buttercup's sliced cake (it's still yummy), my last two orders have seen a SIGNIFICANT decrease in the portion size of their marketed "massive" sliced cake. Take a look at my photos; Putting a la ferme yogurt cup for sizing purpose. The cake slices used to be DOUBLE the size and was put in a box that was also double the size. Now the cake slices fit in a cupcake box and what makes me sadder to say is that I'm still paying the same price. Hard to see this being worth the cost anymore. Blame rising costs and/or supply chain, but how could you charge the same amount for a smaller slice of cake? Very sad.

I decided to come here after passing by it so often, and it was definitely worth it! The staff was very friendly and I was able to quickly get my order (a cup of banana pudding). Delicious and better than any other banana pudding I've had before -- highly recommend!

Everything is definitely too sweet for a frequent sort of snack, but I did enjoy the vanilla cake vanilla buttercream slice a lot, though I tend to gravitate toward chocolatey desserts. The cake was soft, and the buttercream paired well together. The chocolate cupcakes were ok, but I liked the jam filling inside. Next time, I hope to try one of their squares/bars, which looked tasty.

I got a cookie bar and magic bar and it was ok. I didn't really like the cookie bar, it was better when I sprinkled a little salt on it though. The magic bar was fine but I've definitely had better. Not bad but there is definitely better desserts out there

Someone sent me 6 cheesecakes and 2 cup cakes as a birthday gift. The cheesecakes were "disgusting." Very creamy; too creamy and sickening with all the stuff / garbage they add on the top; unedable poison. I gave three away and had to throw the other three in the garbage as my sister and I had a taken a bite each to taste. The cup cake was edible but not moist. I really feel bad for the money my relatives spent on sending me this stuff.