When someone offers to bring cupcakes right to your doorstep, you do not say no. Ever. That’s what this post is all about. It’s also another huge shout-out to the reasons we love Twitter (follow us here). A couple weeks ago, I noticed a Twitter user with the name @MixBakery and an icon of a cupcake following us on Twitter. Naturally, I clicked on it and found they were “A Boston-based boutique bakery, specializing in personal-sized treats for weddings, birthdays, showers, parties and more!”
Hello?! How have a not heard of them? So, I replied and said “@MixBakery, Where are you guys located?? Are you new? Cupcakes look fabulous 
” And then they responded and said they’re a new bakery called Mix Bakery in the South End that’s delivery-only right now. And would I like to have some cupcakes delivered to try out? Um, what kind of question is that? Have I ever said no to cupcakes? YES, I would like some cupcakes delivered.
So, on Monday morning, Kelly showed up at my apartment with a 6 cupcakes for Chels and I to indulge in. 2 vanilla/vanilla (my standard for rating cupcakes), 2 chocolate peanut butter and 2 s’mores. How sweet was it that she brought 2 of each so we could both try them?
Chels and I immediately went upstairs and got started on a cupcake lunch. The lunch of champions, right?
Like I said, I totally judge bakeries on what their vanilla/vanilla cupcake tastes like. Mix? They got it RIGHT! What we loved about it is that it truly tasted homemade. You could tell the ingredients were all totally fresh and there was nothing artificial about this cupcake. And that goes for both the cake and the frosting. Simplicity, beauty, and freshness.
S’mores was next. You can’t tell from the photo, but there was actually a layer of graham cracker on the bottom of this cupcake. And more graham cracker on top, of course. It really did taste like S’mores! And while the frosting was a tad bit sweet for us, we’re sure it would have most sweet-toothed people going crazy with joy. Mix took this innovative cupcake flavor and managed not to go overboard with it. It’s still simple and not artificial-tasting at all. Plus, it’s beautiful looking.
Now, onto the peanut butter and chocolate cupcake. I consider myself an expert on all things peanut butter (peanut butter + cupcakes= a little personal heaven of mine). Chels, on the other hand, is not a big peanut butter person. Let me tell you, we both LOVED this cupcake. Honestly, I was shocked to see Chels going back for more after eating a half of it. Again, I have to talk about the freshness of this cupcake. The chocolate cake was homemade tasting and not fake at all, and you could tell the peanut butter frosting was actually made with real peanut butter and not just some sort of flavoring. I loved that.
Don’t get me wrong, I love all kinds of cupcakes. And sometimes I get huge cravings for Party Favors’ artificial, who-the-heck-knows-what-the-ingredients-are cupcakes. But for the most part, I want something that tastes real and natural. And doesn’t feel so heavy. Mix is it.
Boston is in desperate need of a place like Mix. While the bakery only does deliveries right now, Kelly is hoping to open a storefront within the next year, probably in the South End area of Boston, closer to Back Bay. When Mix gets a store, I’m seriously hoping it has free WiFi and good coffee, so I can spend every day there. Oh, and Mix has more than just cupcakes; they have cookies, muffins, and more. And the delivery service is perfect if you’re having a party and don’t want to drive into Boston to pick up the baked goods (or can’t carry 48 cupcakes on the T)!
Chels and I destroyed the plate-full. And seriously, is there any better way to spend a Monday afternoon? OK, so I might have just sat on the couch in cupcake bliss for a while after Chels left, not getting much work done, but it was worth it.
It’s clear to see how passionate Kelly is about Mix Bakery and the cupcakes she makes. She’s been in love with baking for as long as she can remember and while she’s inspired by the classics, she loves to experiment and create new flavor combinations. Check out the flavor list Mix currently sells (I NEED to try banana!)… We can’t wait to see what else she comes up with.
Welcome to Boston, Mix! We’re thrilled to have you!
THE MIX BAKERY GIVEAWAY:
Now for the best part. Mix Bakery wants to do a giveaway for our local Boston readers! If you live anywhere within 25 miles of downtown Boston, you can enter the giveaway and Mix will deliver 1/2 dozen cupcakes to you (regular cupcakes with the simple topper of your choice)! All you have to do is leave a comment and tell us your favorite flavor of cupcake (if you could have anything in the world), by Sunday April 25, at 11:59 p.m.
Want extra entries? Send a tweet about this giveaway or write about it on your blog (make sure to leave another comment to let us know). I’m pretty sure there’s nothing better than having cupcakes delivered straight to your doorstep, and you could be the first on your block to try cupcakes from Mix!
In the meantime, head to their website, follow them on Twitter, and call 617-571-6525 for a delivery!
Good luck
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Um, this is a FANTASTIC giveaway! I took a look at their website and I would LOVE to try out their Pumpkin and Cream Cheese cupcake as I love anything pumpkin but my favorite cupcake flavor would have to be strawberry!
Boston Creme Pie cupcakes are my absolute fave! And I love/hate that you wrote about this – love it because I am really excited about this new place, hate it because this is pretty dangerous for my cupcake obsession. I mean, really, delivered to my door? Oh dear.
I’m a big fan of vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting. I also love Carrot cake ones. The menu looks amazing, hello, Twinkie cupcakes? Sign me up!
My co-workers and I were hit with an insatiable craving for cupcakes yesterday afternoon, but alas, there weren’t any cupcakes near enough for us to sneak out of work and indulge our craving! My dream cupcake would be a spicy dark chocolate with chili pepper and cinnamon, topped with marshmallow frosting
Cupcake delivery is the answer to my prayers! I just drooled on my computer looking at the peanut butter and chocolate cupcake. Literally. My favorite would have to be the standard chocolate with vanilla icing but the peanut butter icing with chocolate is definitely a close 2nd!
Love all these new cupcake places that are popping up in Boston but the fact that this one delivers!? Amazing. I might put them on speed dial for when a craving hits. I’d love a funfetti type of cupcake without that chemical flavor. I’m a vanilla girl, all the way, but think their marshmallow frosting sounds heavenly.
cant go wrong with red velvet with cream cheese frosting!
seriously, yum. lemon is my favorite because i’m so old school it hurts.
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is definitely my favorite cupcake flavor! Don’t the carrots make it healthy?
It’s gotta be a carrot cake (no nuts or raisins) with a cream cheese frosting. This is not negotiable. I can haz cupcakes now?
The pumpkin & s’mores cupcakes look delish! Carrot Cake too.. yumm.
What an amazing giveaway, seriously! Mix sounds awesome – and I’d have to say that my dream cupcake is some type of key-lime cupcake, maybe with a graham cracker layer on the bottom . . . so good!
I love love love peanut butter and jelly cupcakes… makes me feel like a little kid!!
I’m all about chocolate cup-cake, with vanilla icing. Mmmmmm.
Okay, I don’t live in Boston, but my sister does. If I win, can she get the delivery? My favorite is red velvet!
I LOVE peanut butter & chocolate cupcakes…by far my fav. Welcome Mix Bakery!
Cream cheese icing used to be my favorite with chocolate, but I’ve become more of a chocolate buttercream fan, particularly on a yellow, buttery cake.
I’m not in Boston, if I win give it to Adam and Beth and tell them Adam’s cousin Kati loves and misses them.
And speaking of banana cupcakes, I’m about to try baking this recipe from Joy the Baker: http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/2008/01/fact-the-world-is-better-with-bananas/ I’m super excited.
And the tweet…
http://twitter.com/HerNewDeal/status/12648072551
How awesome!!!! I love the idea! I’m a big fan of cake. Any kind. Right now my favorite… red velvet!
omg! sounds amazing
i’m all over anything pb, but i’m thinking of the pb banana they offer… or the pumpkin pie… yum 
They look sooooo good. I love ALL cupckes but my favorite has got to be old-school vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream frosting
Definitely red velvet with cream cheese frosting! I love plain vanilla too, but I judge bakeries on their red velvet!
I’ve recently had Mix Bakery cupcakes and they’re delicious! Of the ones I tried, I could probably eat a 1/2 dozen of the chocolate pb cupcakes, but in general you can’t go wrong with red velvet and cream cheese frosting. It’s great to finally have a good cupcake bakery in Boston!
Yummy! I love good old chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
I am dreaming of a smores cupcake. I also love the idea of a twinkie cupcake!!!
I am going to enter this in honor of my boyfriend…he has his first year of law school finals coming up and is a complete ball of stress, and I know these cupcakes would satisfy his sweet tooth and 3 am cravings! Plus you know I would eat the icing off of these bad boys
Anything double or triple chocolate should do the trick! Or the peanut butter ones!
UM SCRATCH THAT! THEY MAKE GLUTEN FREE CUPCAKES! Nuff said, I want to win these for myself so I can indulge in gf cupcake and frosting glory! And I’ll save one for the boyfriend. Carrot cake cupcakes would be my pick!
I had a friend make cupcakes for my birthday last week – chocolate cake and chocolate frosting with a Nutella center. That’ll do, cupcake. That’ll do.
Hooray for Mix Bakery!
YUM! How fun were these to do a review on? The pb cupcakes look amazing! I will have to keep these in mind next time I want to send a treat to my sister
dulce de leche cupcakes are my favorite!
i posted a link to their website on facebook!
Peanut butter cupcakes? Sounds awesome… and they have gluten free? This place sounds AMAZING!
I am in a cupcake trance.
My favorite is the ol’ standby: chocolate cake with vanilla frosting.
P.S. I tweeted.
Love vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting. Peanut butter cup is a close second place. Am so hungry reading this post now! Fantastic giveaway, Martha girls.
My faves, aka “Old Faithful” are vanilla with vanilla frosting. I do venture out into chocolate cake with vanilla frosting territory if I am feeling crazy!
Red velvet w/ cream cheese icing is the standard I use for judging all cupcakes, but if they could finagle one that involved salted chocolate, peanut butter, toffee and/or caramel and finish it off with icing that tastes like freshly whipped cream… I’d die, happy of course!
I love a really good chocolate cupcake, or strawberry! Such a DELICIOUS giveaway!
Red Velvet with buttercream frosting. I know it’s not the conventional way red velvet is served, but it’s my favorite. Mmmm
OMG!!!!! I live in the south end and this may lead to me gaining a few lbs now! Any combo of chocolate and peanut butter in a cupcake is pure heaven!!!!!
BEST CONTEST EVER! I am such a huge cupcake fan and actually the first recipe from your blog I made (and loved!) was red wine cupcakes. But I think my ultimate favorite cupcake would be a butterscotch flavored cupcake with chocolate frosting and heath bar bits on top. YUM!
Peanut butter and jelly cupcakes are calling my name! I would love to find them on my doorstep! Welcome to town Mix Bakery!
There aren’t many things I wouldn’t do for an Oreo cupcake.
Yum. I wish I were still local. I love me some cuppiecakes.
Red velvet is a classic for a reason, and it’s my favorite! So excited to see a new cupcake place in Boston, so close to my own hood.
The old standard of vanilla/vanilla is my fav!
Mmmm – PB and J cupcake!!!
my favorite cupcake’s are a basic vanilla topping with chocolate bottom and chocolate frosting with vanilla bottom
My favorite flavor cupcake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Cheese + Frosting = Win. There’s a party in my tummy. So yummy. So yummy.
My favorite cupcakes are funfetti or red velvet with cream cheese frosting! YUMMMM!!!
Sign me up! So hard to pick a favorite. How ’bout lemon/raspberry cupcake with lemon buttercream or cream cheese frosting?!
This has done me in. I must scour the cabinets for sweets now, thanks to you two! Wow – they look awesome. I think my favorite is white cake w/vanilla buttercream. Tried & true and a great std. to judge a bakery by . . . . off to Tweet this now!
i’m cupcake obsessed! i could go for a lemon cake + coconut frosting cupcake right now!
I’m a huge fan of the vanilla/vanilla too! Although, fabulous buttercream frosting is heaven!
I love the traditional vanilla with vanilla…..Yum!
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting or lemon cupcaskes with chocolate frosting would be my pick
. Yum!
I love spice cake cupcake cake or chocolate peanut butter. I live in Quincy and would love to be chosen!
My favorite flavor of cupcake is chocolate mint: devil’s food cake with creme de menthe, topped with mint buttercream frosting, mint chocolate chips, and an Andes mint on top! YUM! I live near Kenmore Square
Tweeted it! @goofyfrito
I like yellow cake with vanilla frosting. So tasty and simple.
My favorite by far is vanilla chocolate. My mouth is already watering
Favorite flavor of cupcake? Do I have to choose? Gotta go with any sort of peanut butter/chocolate combination. Nomnomnomnom.
Tweeted, of course! @kimerly
I love how you found them. My favorite cupcakes are red velvet!
Those cupcakes were demolished! Guess they were indeed quite tasty.
Hands down, without a doubt, PEANUT BUTTER!
Red velvet with cream cheese frosting!
Mmm, cupcakes. I’ve been disappointed with the cupcake places in Boston so I’ll have to check them out. I’d go for the peanut butter and chocolate
Just tweeted too!
Oh my gosh- I’ve been craving a good cupcake lately. Yum. My favorite kind is usually the vanilla with vanilla frosting, but i could go for a nice mocha frosting as well!
I just tweeted about it (I’m @RedSoxGirl10)
If I could have any cupcake flavor in the world? Something that tastes & smells like demera sugar (slightly carmelized, a little on the earthy side, but with a heady aroma of sugar cane). With vanilla frosting.
Vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting. i love all things vanilla.
I WOULD DEFINITELY GO FOR THE BANANA CUPCAKE WITH VANILLA BUTTERCREAM OR CHOCOLATE FROSTING. I AM A SERIOUS DESSERT PERSON AS EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT I JUST HAD A CUPCAKE FOR BREAKFAST !
For me it would be pistachio! Hope you bring me some cupcakes.
Thanks
Doug
This sounds about the best thing ever! My favorite would be carrot cake!
I retweeted I’m @m_kennedy9
I’d have to go with anything lemony-y…..or chocolate/peanut butter. Both sound amazing right now. Can’t wait to check this place out!
wow… these sound amazing! it’s hard to choose but my favorite cupcake is probably peanut butter butter cream frosting on chocolate cake with a spot of frosting filling inside. mmm!
OMG! I think I’ve read or heard about this place, but after seeing your pics and reading your review on each cupcake, I am SOLD! I need one ASAP (but I could always use a cupcake)! Thanks for this awesome review and giveaway. I love your description/excitement at the beginning of this post; I could just picture how happy and thrilled you were to sample the cupcakes!
I would love to try a cupcake that tastes like a Reese’s PB sundae (a la Friendly’s). My fave is anything with frosting
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Tweet, tweet! http://twitter.com/NicoleChow/status/12708648712
Since I saw your post I’ve been pondering if I could have only one flavor of cupcake what would it be? It’s so hard to choose just one, but after my deliberation, and changing my mind again and again and again (and then rewriting my answer a couple of times), I’m going to go with vanilla cake, chocolate frosting. The best of both basics. (And I better submit this before I change my mind again!)
Thanks for having such a happy blog!
Um, are you kidding me?!!!! I live in the Back Bay/South End border. Please open a store front asap. I haven’t found a cupcake in Boston I was gaga over yet.
My favorite cupcake of all time is chocolate/chocolate from Magnolia bakery in NYC. I guess I’ll say that’s my favorite flavor although creative cupcakes is something I really should be consuming more of
hmmmm. how about honey flavor? yum!
I love cupcakes!!!!! And my favorite are red velvet or carrot cake…but those graham cracker ones look AWESOME!
my favorite are red velvet (specifically when the frosting is cream cheese YUM!) but I would love to try those chocolate peanut butter! I’m psyched to hear about Mix – we celebrate birthday parties at work and its always a hassle to run out and buy cupcakes or treats at work – delivery would be great! I’m going to keep them in mind for the next office bday party!
I love a good hummingbird cupcake with chocolate frosting! I found it at the Cupcake Truck that parks around New Haven, CT. Since moving to Allston, it’s a little difficult to stop for one.
I would love to try a cookie dough cupcake invention. I’ve never seen/tried a cookie dough cupcake before! And by the way, cupcake delivery? Amazing!
I also have to say that I think your blog is great, and I’ve been reading it for a while. I like getting ideas from you guys, especially since I live in the Boston area as well. You two are fabulous!
I have never had it in a cupcake, but I would LOVE to see a banana-nutella combo! Mmm…I might have just inspired myself with a recipe!
i NEED those cupcakes! i could really use a red velvet cupcake right about now…
hands down my favorite cupcakes are red velvet with cream cheese frosting. oh man, now i really want one. here’s hoping i’ll be able to get some delivered soon
love the power of twitter and social media!
I would love pepermint frosting cupcakes!! Until you add that flavor, I would be more than happy with smores…or red velvet,or vanilla,chocolate…or any other flavor you would like to bring to me ..lol
I love cupcakes and am so excited there’s a new bakery in the South End! I think a German Chocolate cupcake would be delicious with a chocolate cake and covered in a pecan and coconut frosting.
My favorite cupcake is a lemon cupcake with vanilla icing. And of course, anything with chocolate. Taste aside, I would go for any cupcake that has a lot of colors!
My favorite with Chocolate with Vanilla frosting but anything that has a hint of Irish Cream is delightful…. Something along the lines of Ben and Jerry’s Dublin Mudslide…. Heaven…
I would love to try a cookie dough cupcake invention. I’ve never seen/tried a cookie dough cupcake before! And by the way, cupcake delivery? Amazing!
I also have to say that I think your blog is great, and I’ve been reading it for a while. I like getting ideas from you guys, especially since I live in the Boston area as well. You two are fabulous!