Blue Bird Bake Shop

Small local bakery with seating for 3 to 4 couples. Paid $9.42 for 3 little cupcakes (red velvet, tuxedo and strawberry). They have 2 types of frosting, either buttercream or regular sugar frosting. Make sure to ask which cupcake has which type of frosting if you like one particular frosting over another. Got here around 4:45 pm / 4:50 pm, close to their 5 pm closing time on Tuesday. They still had plenty of cupcakes and other items like cookies, whoopi pies, personal apple pies, etc. Cupcakes are a little on the pricey side at $3.14 per cupcake especially for the size. Price for 6 cupcakes remains at $18 per the cashier who happened to also be the baker / owner. The cupcakes themselves are soft and moist. I'm not a huge frosting fan as I always believe a lot of cupcake places overdo the frosting to the point where the frosting is almost the same size or sometimes bigger than the actual cake itself. With that said, I tasted and removed most of the frosting which was stiff and holds its shape, but good in flavor. I can see why this place gets a good rating for their cupcakes. Place looks small but clean. They have a small shared parking lot with the other store fronts in the complex area.

Blue Bird's is this wonderfully enchanting cupcake shop with cookies and brownies and delicious coffees too. Who knew they would could become a new coffee stop for me? Yum. They're also really rather reasonable too, which you don't often see with specialty shops. ...my highest compliment, though, goes to freshness and quality. I do bakeries often enough and my biggest complaint is freshness...awesome looking stale confections by a few days or so. Not here. Always fresh and that's exactly what you want. Thank you. Total five stars because there's also a friendly, happy vibe here too.

My first visit there, I came with a friend. We each got 2 cupcakes each to try. For some reason, 1/2 of each order was dry and we got different cupcakes. I love red velvet and that by far was superb but my Sweet Cake was extremely dry. The balance and flavors of the cake and icing on the red velvet was spot on so I decided to go back again, in spite of the dry cupcake on my first trip! Next trip they had lemon which I am always searching for the perfect lemon cupcake. They seem to be a popular flavor and I got the last one. I also got strawberry. The lemon was a little on the sweet side for me but I could appreciate the lemon flavor throughout the cake along with the strawberry. The service is always friendly and helpful and I LOVE the atmosphere there. It's pumpkin season so I will be visiting soon to try some of their pumpkin flavored treats and whoopie pies! People also buy coffee there. Always a steady stream of customers and it's in one of my favorite areas of Orlando. Recommend you give them a try.

Proprietors Joel Pfrogner and Jeff Lambert were at the forefront of Audubon Park coolness, opening Blue Bird in 2010. Cupcake masterpieces (try the Buckeye peanut butter triple threat or strawberry balsamic wonder) are just a sample of the delights, baked daily in limited quantities. The cherry, pistachio and chocolate Kimberly cookie is a personal favorite, and you can never have too many mocha chocolate chip scones. The house brand coffee, Top Hat, is really good too.