Bristol Farms to relocate

I heard that one of the two Bristol Farms locations in Orange County was closing. Since I have only been to the Newport Beach location, I had my fingers crossed that it wasn't that location. After reading more of the article, I found that it was the Mission Viejo location that would be closing.

Why would I be so concerned about the closing of Bristol Farms? Well, Bristol Farms sells some delicious cupcakes! Last year, the OC Register chose Bristol Farms for Best Overall and Best Frosting on cupcakes in their Cupcake Challenge. That's a pretty big deal considering there are a lot of good cupcakes to be found in Orange County. After reading about the Cupcake Challenge, I decided that I needed to try a few cupcakes from Bristol Farms. Check out my review here.


So back to the story...the good news is that even though the Mission Viejo location is closing, Bristol Farms is going to relocate to a new location between San Clemente and Mission Viejo. Although this location is not closer for me, at least Bristol Farms is not diminishing it's Orange County presence.

On the 4th Day before Christmas, I went to BRISTOL FARMS

Bristol Farms is no ordinary grocery store, they are a specialty store. And accordingly, their cupcakes are no ordinary cupcakes. Bristol Farms sells some of the best cupcakes in Orange County. My favorite flavor cupcake from Bristol Farms is their Chocolate Coconut. The only downfall to this cupcake (if you can call it a downfall) is the amount of frosting. There is more frosting than cake! No one needs that much frosting. Despite that, their cupcakes are delicious. Especially the frosting. I love my heavy buttercream frosting!


Bristol Farms is located in Newport Beach, in the same shopping center as Sprinkles. They are open until 10:00pm every night, which is good when you have a late night cupcake craving. (Cupcake shops need to realize that this happens more often than not!) Their cupcakes are $2.99 each.

Baby's First National Chocolate Cupcake Day

Turns out that my friend's son's birthday is the same day as National Chocolate Cupcake Day. What luck! Sloan turned one on Saturday. To celebrate, his parents asked me where to buy some cupcakes. I recommended Sprinkles and Bristol Farms. They took my advice and bought a few cupcakes from each place.Sloan's first cupcake was a Sprinkles Milk Chocolate cupcake. I would say he loved it! The bad part about eating a Sprinkles cupcake as your first cupcake is that it is only downhill from there.
Of course I had to eat some chocolate cupcakes to be a part of both special days. I enjoyed slivers of a Bristol Farms Chocolate cupcake and Sprinkles Peanut Butter Chocolate, Black & White, and Red Velvet (just for fun!) cupcakes.

(These pictures were taken by Sloan's talented mom, Amelia Lyon. She is an amazing photographer. Check out her blog.)

Bristol Farms Review

When the OC Register had their Cupcake Challenge a few months ago I noticed that Bristol Farms won for Best Overall and Best Frosting. I knew I would be needing to give them a try in the near future. I was a little hesitant at first because Bristol Farms is a grocery store. I would expect a cupcakery to have the best cupcakes, not a grocery store. So what did I find?

When I arrived in the bakery section of their store I saw that there was a whole row dedicated to just cupcakes. Wow, they looked amazing! How was I going to decide which ones to try?

Somehow I was able to narrow down my choice to just two cupcakes. I surprised myself by picking the White Chocolate Cupcake and one of my new favorite flavors, Chocolate Coconut.

The White Chocolate Cupcake is a white chocolate fan's dream come true. It is white cake with white chocolate frosting and white chocolate curly-cues on top. I am not a huge white chocolate fan, but my husband is and he said that this cupcake was superb. I agree...I could tell this was a good cupcake despite my weird taste in food. The cake had the right amount of moistness and the frosting was very tasty.

Chocolate Coconut is one of my new favorite cupcakes. I didn't expect that coconut would be a fav, but I am really starting to enjoy it a lot. Bristol Farms did not disappoint! This cupcake had a great flavor combination...chocolate cake, vanilla frosting, coconut on top. The only downer was the amount of frosting. As you can see by the picture below, there was more frosting than cake. Don't get me wrong, I love frosting, but it has to be the right amount. I would probably cut the amount of frosting in half. Besides that, I really enjoyed this cupcake!
Bristol Farms may get overlooked as a cupcake choice because it shares a shopping center with Sprinkles Cupcakes in Newport Beach, but it is definitely worth the trip. These cupcakes were $3.00 each and I felt that I got my money's worth. Another positive note, it is open until 10:00pm, which is way past's Sprinkles curfew. Try it out and see if the OC Register is right about Bristol Farms having the Best Overall cupcake.