Cupcakes are fast becoming very fashionable in Dubai. Recent trends in food habits have pointed to the development of a cupcake craze. While cupcake are an old-fashioned treat that generations have enjoyed but now, the traditional home-baked dessert is undergoing a fashionable makeovers, available in many flavors and colors, at a store near to you across Dubai.
At Magnolia in The Dubai Mall, Sugar Daddy’s Bakery, The Village Mall, Jumeirah, you will find cupcakes like Fake Blonde (vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting), Tanned and Toned (chocolate cupcake with caramel frosting) and 24 Carrot (carrot cupcake with cream cheese frosting). To maintain authenticity, Sugar Daddy’s and Magnolia’s cupcakes are baked fresh daily in-store and are frosted by hand.
Other places such as Kitsch Cupcakes, located at the JBR make cupcakes whipped up from ingredients imported from the US and France and include favourites like Red Velvet with cream cheese icing and Double Vanilla.
With a number of reputed bakeries serving authentic cupcakes in Dubai, the consumers have a range to select from. Cupcakes can be ordered online for pickup and gourmet cupcakes delivered via the local cupcake delivery.
Sugarbox has a wide selection of cupcakes customizable for the occasion, be it Eid, Christmas or Halloween. Flavours include Devil’s Food cake with marshmallow frosting, date cake with cream cheese frosting and saffron cupcakes.
As more and more freshly baked cupcake brands set up shop in Dubai, the cupcake niche industry is booming.