The cupcakes at Vanilla are the best in the City! I cannot imagine what the other reviewer is talking about. My friends and I go there all of the time now that they are in Shadyside. I have gone to 2 weddings that served their cupcakes and they were so good...everyone ate them! They are moist and flavorful and so cute...

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! I was married on August 22, 2009 and used Vanilla Pastry Studio cupcakes as my wedding cake and I could not have been more disappointed. I paid more than $1000 dollars for 425 cupcakes that looked like they’d been decorated by a kindergarten class. At my consultation we decided on a variety of flavors and talked about bright orange and pink colors to match my wedding flower, Gerber daisies. April assured me that she knew ‘exactly’ the colors I was talking about and all of the sample cupcakes were delicious. I bragged to everyone that the cupcakes were going to be the ‘show piece’ of the wedding – boy did I look like an idiot! When I showed up at my reception I could not believe what I saw a lackluster display of pastel orange, pink and green cupcakes and the sugar gerber daisies that I paid a hefty charge to have on top were marginal at best in appearance. They put the orange flowers on the orange cupcakes and the pink flowers on the pink cupcakes – ZERO CREATIVITY. I asked for lemon cupcakes, raspberry white chocolate cupcakes and chocolate caramel cupcakes. Apparently, someone at VPS decided we got orange, raspberry with plain white cake, and chocolate with flavorless icing. Being inside VPS I can’t believe that someone there does not have at least an ounce of creativity, but apparently my wedding wasn’t worth expending the effort.

In addition, I purchased a 300 dollar birthday cake – they never asked me the inscription or the cake flavors. I had to call and volunteer that information. Is this SOP for a bakery???? I made some loose suggestions of what I wanted on the cake, they put the three things I ‘suggested’ and not one other thing. Again…some creativity?!?!

If you are planning a wedding take your business elsewhere. Do not be fooled by the appearance of the store or the consultation. You will be disappointed. I could have gotten better service and product from Giant Eagle. A wedding cake is a lot of money; don’t gamble with it at VPS.