Les Amis Bake Shoppe — Restaurant in Baton Rouge

First, let me say I take no pleasure in giving reviews that aren’t four and five stars. In this case it’s even harder because the young lady was very friendly and helpful waiting on me.

I’m writing this review strictly on the quality of the product or lack there of. My first question is why are they so small? I mean it’s a cupcake for goodness sake, how much more could it cost to make it bigger than a Reese’s mini cup?

I may be exaggerating a little bit on the size, but I do believe if I were to compare it to a cupcake from Nothing Bundt cake it would be about a 1/5 to 1/6 of one of there cupcakes.

As far as the texture, I didn’t think it was particularly moist either. It wasn’t completely dry so let me just say that upon eating it, turning to someone and saying, boy that’s moist, would not be the first thing you say.

Staying in the area of texture, I’m sorry to say that the cupcakes stick to the sides of the wrapper there by crumbling the cupcake. I’ve included a couple of pictures for a visual.

As far as the flavor itself, and the taste overall was pretty good, and would no doubt have been much better with a better batter/texture cake.

of course, anything is possible and it just could be that I got a bad...

Despite hearing many great things about Les Amis Bake Shoppe, I can't recommend this bake shop. Went on a Monday to select birthday treats. Most bakeries in BR are not open on Mondays, unfortunately, so this was my only option in the area. Picked out 4 mini cupcakes, which totaled $9+. Yeesh! Cupcakes were so disappointing. Cake was dry, frosting gritty. Only difference between flavors was what was drizzled or added to top of the frosting. I will not be back.

Selection was also underwhelming. No regular sized cupcakes were available. The macarons were limited flavors. Just...not what I was expecting when visiting a bakery. A bakery should tantalize the shopper, not feel like "umm....I guess I'll just get this thing..."

Lastly, the look of the shop did not wow me. It feel very hodge podge and lacking an overall aesthetic. I understand that a bakery is not the same as a restaurant, but a "look" and style would go a...

I was not impressed. We had a co-worker bring in a box of the mini cupcakes. Flavors were peaches and cream, cookies and creams, very vanilla, triple chocolate and caramel pecan turtle. I was able to sample all but he triple chocolate.

Peaches and Cream was rather bland and not very peachy. It had an after thought of peach cobbler but very feint. Caramel Pecan turtle was very grainy and all I got out of it was chocolate and a little pecan and sugar granules. Very Vanilla was just that very vanilla... Not a compliment it was kinda plane Jane. the custard or pudding was a nice touch but didn't seem to add much to the cake.

The Cookies and Cream was so very close. The flavor's were reminiscent of Oreo's. the chocolate in the center was an interesting touch but again i mostly got chocolate out of the cupcake. Maybe think double stuffed? but this was by far my favorite out of the four I had a...