Butter Lane Cupcakes

Butter Lane features a number of fruity buttercream icings that I love, including raspberry, lemon and blueberry. Besides its scrumptious homemade cupcake offerings, the bakery also enables customers to compose their own cupcakes by choosing their cake and icing options. Butter Lane has ramped up on community offerings since its opening in 2008. It offers cupcake baking classes, maintains an active social media presence on Twitter, Facebook, Yelp and Tumblr, and runs specials on Groupon, LivingSocial and Foursquare.

Absolutely terrible customer service. The cupcakes were supposed to come with real foods on top. when I ask for the fruits the person at the register said that they don't put the fruits because it's going to go bad but I told him I was going to eat it now but he still didn't give us the fruits. Very basic tasting cupcakes, nothing to be excited about. I do like the interior design.

I passed by this cupcake shop on my way to have my morning coffee and stopped on the way back to my nephew's apartment. When I looked it up, I was really curious what an icing shot was which was free with a Yelp check-in. There were so many variety of cupcakes that I really did have to have one. I chose the chocolate cupcake topped with strawberry buttercream. Both the cupcake and the icing was not overly sweet at all. Yummilicious! Their best seller is the salted caramel with chocolate so I got that for the icing shot. Really good! For those who live in the city, they offer baking classes where they also share the recipe. Love that they do not add food coloring to their icing. All natural from the fruit!

So, the 5 star reviews of this place say it all. These are some of the tastiest cupcakes I've had. They are the perfect size for having just 1 or 2 or more, who's judging? They were so good that my sister and I came in to buy some two days in a row during our only 4 day visit to NYC. The young man working behind the counter was super helpful and friendly! You get to customize your own cupcakes and the shop smells amazing. Highly recommended!

We had heard how good butter lane was and it didn't disappoint. I had the vanilla cream cheese and my friend had chocolate salted caramel. We sat outside on a cute little bench delighting in these tasty treats and watching the world go by (which in the east village is the thing to do) when the owner and baker came out. His love for his work and delight at our delight at his cupcakes led him to insist on us trying one more on him. Thanks Butter Lane, we love you!