
You’ve heard me discuss my Sprinkles obsession in the past. Now I’m taking it to a whole new level. There are 23 regularly featured Sprinkles cupcakes plus 17 seasonal and I am on a mission to try them all! My plan is to go once a month to the Palo Alto store and buy no more than 6 flavors at a time. By my calculation it will take me 12 months to accomplish the task of eating all 40. Are you up for the challenge? Join me! MISSION COMPLETED SEPT 2009
I adore these cupcakes but all are not created equal. Here is how I rank them…
- Red Velvet – super moist, the light chocolate cake and cream cheese frosting are perfect complements
- Banana – very moist, bananalicious!
- Brown Sugar Praline - best seasonal cake, fantastically crunchy and sweet, should be a regular flavor
- Strawberry – hint o’ strawberry is lovely
- PB chocolate – soft chips, moist cake, flavors remind me of a See’s Milk chocolate Bordeaux candy
- Lemon – yummy light lemon flavor, dense cake
- Pumpkin – awesome cinnamon frosting
- Eggnog spice – eggnog frosting rocks
- Salty caramel – good caramel flavor frosting, salt on top is nice
- Lemon blueberry – think blueberry muffin w/ lemon frosting – another good morning treat
- Almond dark chocolate – flavor of a poppyseed muffin minus the seeds. I wish it didn’t have sliced almonds in it.
- Vanilla milk chocolate – a classic cupcake
- Cinnamon sugar – a cupcake with NO frosting, great for breakfast
- Flourless chocolate – dense yet moist, similar to a super rich chocolate brownie
- Orange – similar to lemon but with orange flavor
- Vanilla peppermint – great combo,very festive
- PB chip – creamy cake, like a mouthful of peanut butter
- Key Lime – very subtle lime flavor initially but has a zesty finish
- Orange cranberry – tasty combo
- Raspberry – solid cupcake, nice raspberry flavor
- Milk chocolate – not overly chocolaty
- Dark chocolate – didn’t think I was going to like this since I prefer milk chocolate but it was good with a glass of milk
- Caramel apple – didn’t get any real caramel apple flavors, just spice
- Irish Chocolate – wish the frosting had more Baileys flavor
- Vanilla hazelnut chocolate – if you think this is going to taste like nutella…you’re wrong
- Chocolate marshmallow – like a ding dong but needs more marshmallow
- Coconut – great coconut frosting, cake a bit dry though
- Vanilla- sprinkles on top were too sweet
- Ginger maple – nice frosting, too much ginger
- Chai latte – herbal flavor with spice frosting
- Chocolate coconut- dry cake, didn’t like dark chocolate frosting
- Carrot- if you like carrot cake, you’ll like this (I’m not a fan)
- Ginger lemon – good on their own but a weird combo
- Mocha – had high hopes for this – very good mocha flavor but with the choc cake was just bla
- Banana chocolate – the chocolate frosting masks the banana cake
- Lemon coconut – dry,dry,dry
- Chocolate peppermint – too much chocolate
- Choco loco – cinnamon and chocolate is not my favorite combo
- Black & White – really bland
- Summer Cherry – tasted medicinal like cough syrup
- Red Hot Velvet – frosting tasted/smelled like Dentyne gum (which I despise) & overpowered the cake
How about you? Which flavors make you drool? Leave a comment or two…
General findings:
- The cake to frosting ratio is not consistent. The cupcakes are all the same height but sometimes there is lots of cake and a thin layer of frosting other times less cake and tons of frosting. I guess the discrepancies have to be attributed to the bakers/frosters. On our first trip we had an abundance of frosting the second trip the amount was just right.
- Eat the cupcakes the day you purchase, they really don’t taste as good the next day.
Note: As I continue to devour Sprinkles cupcakes (& gain weight) this list will be updated. For quick access to this list in the future look for the banner below on my sidebar:

Not familiar with Sprinkles? Where have you been? j/k See this past post.
the flavors (0 to go):
banana
banana w/chocolate frosting
black & white
carrot
chai latte
chocolate coconut
chocolate marshmallow
cinnamon sugar
coconut
dark chocolate
ginger lemon
lemon
lemon coconut
milk chocolate
mocha
orange
peanut butter chip
peanut butter chocolate
pumpkin
red velvet
strawberry
vanilla
vanilla milk chocolate
caramel apple*
orange cranberry*
ginger maple*
chocolate peppermint*
vanilla peppermint*
eggnog spice*
red hot velvet*
irish chocolate*
brown sugar praline*
flourless chocolate*
choco loco*
lemon blueberry*
summer cherry*
almond dark chocolate*
raspberry*
vanilla hazelnut chocolate*
key lime*
*seasonal
Update August 2009: You may have noticed recently that Sprinkles each week has been tweeting about secret cupcakes (that only exist for a day and in small qtys) composed by mixing their regular flavors. For example: banana & peanut butter or strawberry w/ choc — I WILL NOT be trying all these. I would probably drop dead.
Proof that I actually ate these

Round 1: peanut butter choc, red velvet, banana w/ choc, coconut, strawberry, banana

Round 2: lemon, caramel apple, carrot, choc coconut, peanut butter chip, vanilla

Round 3: ginger maple, pumpkin, lemon coconut, orange cranberry, choc marshmallow, milk choc

Round 4: eggnog spice,vanilla peppermint,vanilla milk choc,choc peppermint,B&W

Round 6: irish chocolate

Round 7: brown sugar praline, flourless chocolate

Round 8: mocha & choco loco

Round 9: key lime & chai latte

Round 10: lemon blueberry

Round 11: summer cherry

Round 12: raspberry

Round 13: orange & almond dark chocolate

Round 14: vanilla hazelnut chocolate

Round 15 (new flavor May 2010): Salty Caramel
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I tried a few cupcakes at Sprinkles but the red velvet is a definite winner! I’m craving the red velvet again and I think I’ll be making a trip to Sprinkles tomorrow. However, I’m looking forward to trying the strawberry and banana but I have to go on a day when they are available.
Jasmine
My favorite is the peanut butter chip…delicious!!
Best of luck with the challenge! My favorite happens to be the lemon coconut one….apart from chocolate coconut and irish chocolate of course!
I am both proud and ashamed to say I have tried all of the Sprinkles flavors except the chai and peanut butter chip. After living in LA for a few years I frequented the store in Beverly Hills more than I care to admit to.
I’m eager to try the irish chocolate…i love my bailey’s…
I loved the carrot and Carmel apple but I also love carrot and spice cake!! I’m not a big fan of the cupcakes with dark chocolate — it always seems to overpower the other flavors. The banana is just amazing!!! Reminds me of my wedding cake.
The ginger maple is awesome!! Wonderful ginger flavor with a hint of maple in the frosting.
Hey – they make “green” velvet for St. Patrick’s Day. It’s as good as red!
I’m adicted…and make them at home with Sprinkles mix from Williams-Sonoma!
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/fd420/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1%7C16%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Csprinkles&cm%5Fsrc=SCH
Hilleary – we too make the mix and they do turn out well. They keep adding more flavors. I just picked up a banana!
First, LOVE your blog.
Second, Love sprinkles cupcakes, but man, I don’t know how you managed to try each and every one of those!
Thanks for sharing.
LOVE LOVE LOVE Sprinkles Cupcakes! Kid of late on the contest, but SPrinkles are the best. Check out their Twitter: http://twitter.com/SprinklesMobile. I work in SF but went to school in LA, so I don’t get to frequent them as often, but they come to SF every once and a while!!
Hi, I’m just wondering if Sprinkles comes up with new flavors…will you continue to try them? I hope you do b/c you are so far the only one who has tasted every flavor and I trust your opinions.
Absolutely! Any new flavors I will be trying!