New York City Cupcake Walking Tour: Decadent Dessert Exploration
3.9
100 Ratings
New York
Indulge in a decadent cupcake walking tour in New York City. Sample a variety of heavenly cupcakes and even create your own custom treat. All food included!
Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • West Village - Visit artisanal cupcake bakeries
  • SoHo - Visit artisanal cupcake bakeries
  • Greenwich Village - Visit artisanal cupcake bakeries
What's Included
  • Professional Driver/Guide
  • Assortment of Snacks
  • Culinary Food Tasting Experience
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Cupcakes, with their rich, sugary charm, are enticing sweets that tap into our youthful joy. The modest cupcake has become increasingly trendy in the past several years. Chic cupcake boutiques are popping up all over New York City, and this tour whisks you on a two and a half hour exploration of the best, letting you taste the array of divine cupcakes available, and even design your own unique cupcake! All food is covered.

In light of COVID-19 constraints, this tour will be exclusively open-air, with access to shops and points of interest possibly restricted at this time.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Dress code is smart casual
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Due to COVID-19 restrictions this tour will take place exclusively outdoors, entering shops and places of interest may not be available at this time.
Location
Reebok
Union Square West
Southwest Corner of Union Square Park
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Greylisp2024
May 29, 2024
Cupcakes - Indulge your sweet tooth in the Big Apple on this cupcake walking tour of New York City's West Village. Learn about the neighbourhood's history and top sights on your way to its most popular bakeries, where you can skip the lines and head straight to the counter thanks to the VIP treatment for The best cupcakes in New York City, with beautiful stories, bakeries with delicious sweets, with places where you are filled with love, energy and good vibes, you relax just by looking at the scenery and beautiful places, where the locals fill you with love and empathy.
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Cheechz2024
May 29, 2024
Awesome trip for a group of four! - It was an awesome tour! My two daughters enjoyed it as well. We visited NYC for the first time and were amazed at the wonderful time we had. The beautiful places we visited were a highlight of our trip.
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Kristen_h
Dec 11, 2023
Great tour…our guide was fantastic! - Our tour guide was amazing! Great tour for not only being able to try out different sweets around nyc, but also for seeing a lot of cool historical/pop culture sites.
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Sheryl_a
May 27, 2024
Vince was very... - Vince was very knowledgeable. We were the only 3 on the tour. He gave a great deal of history about the area. We would have preferred cupcake shops that had places to sit rather than eating outside on the street. Molly’s was the best!
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Vyanned2024
Apr 22, 2024
Fun tour if you want to learn about NYC history and eat cupcakes along the way - The best part of the tour was our guide Vince who was very knowledgeable about NYC history and told us many interesting stories. He had a great sense of humor too. We passed by many historical/pop culture landmarks. The cupcakes were just a bonus - I would consider this more of a history tour than a cupcake tour. We didn’t mind that two of the cupcakes were mini because by the end we were so sugared out. It was a fun experience but I received this as a gift otherwise I don’t think it’s worth paying the full price.
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Kristim872
Apr 11, 2024
Great Walking Tour of Greenwich Village... - Vincent, our tour guide, was a wealth of information and a fantastic storyteller. We loved walking through the beautiful West Village hearing about the early days of Bob Dylan, Jimmy Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Tony Bennett, Stonewall Riots, Death location of Alexander Hamilton, "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" locations and on and on. If I had to critique this tour at all, it was only that the cupcake part of the tour was limited to three cupcake stops (two of which were only mini cupcakes) and the others were cookies and creme puffs. Maybe change the name of the tour instead of making it all about the cupcakes...but again, overall a great experience.
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Andrea_c
Dec 29, 2023
Cupcake walking Tour in Greenwich Village, NYC - My grandchildren enjoyed listening to the stories about the various cupcake stores and how they originated. They enjoyed walking through the streets and seeing the sites of the city. Johnnie was a very pleasant and patient tour guide as my grandchildren were also distracted by looking at all the shops we passed too. My only recommendation is that the kids do not have to eat cupcakes at every place. Perhaps they create mini-ones for these tours.
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Navigate23027341817
Aug 9, 2023
Not at all worth the money. - Started late, I was informed the night before via a bad phone call and did not quite hear (was out to dinner) the time change. There was no follow up email or message. The guide was great at knowing the city and quite entertaining with facts, but the bakery stops were not at all welcoming or interactive. They gave us a sample and we walked out. Only 1 location was good, where we built a cupcake. I would never suggest this to anyone.
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Kennym742
Dec 8, 2023
Horrible and no contact from tour provider. - This tour is a scan. No tour guide showed up at the meeting place. The people at the shop in the meeting area had no idea of a cupcake tour. We four paid for the tour and no one showed. I’ll dispute the charge with my credit card company. What a ripoff.
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Q3288ijtomm
Nov 12, 2023
Definitely not worth the price...tour company based 8000 miles away from NYC - Save your money. You would be better off just going to cupcake shops on your own. None of the shops seemed to be expecting our group of 10. The guide basically just bought a sample pack at each store and we ate outside down the street as the stores were too crowded. No space reserved for our tour. No where to sit down ever. The build your own cupcake wasn't as special as it sounds. The tour started late. We booked for 3pm and were informed in the morning that the guide would be running late and it needed to start at 3:30. We had already booked another event at 5:30pm in Brooklyn and the late start threw off our day. And the company contacted me through WhatsApp from a Philippines number - very strange - this not a local company and has no idea what goes on in NYC. Pacing of the tour was off - we had 1 mini-cupcake in the first 45 minutes, did a lot of walking around, and then 3 in a row. It was not all cupcakes. One stop was a chocolate covered expresso bean (neither my wife or son like coffee so that was a waste). One stop was an Italian cookie. We had 1 full size cupcake in 6 stops - we skipped the last one because it was running late. The guide was fine and gave us some good history along our walk but this simply missed the mark as a cupcake tour.
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