You Can Have Your Piece of Cake (and eat it too!)

Our second cupcake shop visit was a piece of cake to complete...literally!

Right down the road from Agnes Scott, where we attend school is a tiny little bakery called Piece of Cake. This itty bitty nook is always a temptation for students crossing back and forth between campus and the student apartments down the road. Last Saturday, we chose to walk down to this joint to try ourselves a piece of cake and let you know our thoughts!

Walking into this tiny store, we were surprised at the amount of business being conducted for such a small place! We waited patiently in line for our turn to order, eyeing the cupcake variety and attempting to choose which ones would be our victims. Piece of Cake is unique in that they have two sizes of cupcakes, that are not your typical sizes. They have a small, which is about the size of your average one-in-a-dozen cupcake, as well as a large cupcake, which is, well....large!

While we waited, we concluded that we would order three small cupcakes in order to try several of the flavors available. However, our plans changed when we reached the front of the line. They were unfortunately out of the caramel cupcake, one of the three we were hoping to try, so we decided to take a different route and just take two cupcakes.

Sarah ordered one of the weekly flavors, Peanut Butter. Through the glass cupcake container, it seemed a promising choice to both a cupcake and a peanut butter lover. Although nothing special stylistically, the cupcake was appealing in taste. Lizzie had a Strawberry cupcake, which was adorably pink and pretty good!


The woman at the counter packaged the cupcakes and we took them back with us to campus to enjoy, as there is no seating available in the store. We cozied up under the shade of the trees in the Agnes Scott Alumnae Garden and unpacked our cupcake feast.

Sarah took a full bite first to get the full experience of cake and icing. Delicious! The cake was extremely moist and light. Not only edible, but extremely enjoyable! The icing, however, was slightly disappointing. The icing was supposed to be the peanut butter part of the deal; however, it tasted only slightly of peanut butter. It was a nice icing, don't get me wrong, just not completely peanut-buttery! Overall, the experience with my piece of cake was quite enjoyable, although next time I would like to see a bit more flavor in the icing.

Lizzie had the Strawberry, which was good! The cake part was wonderfully moist and the icing was a good cream-cheese based frosting. The flavor didn't taste too artificial, which is a problem that many fruit based cupcakes can run into. I too wished that the flavor of the cupcake overall could be a little stronger.


Our recommendation: try it out! This place is for sure worthwhile. They are reasonably priced, have a range of sizes and flavors, and have multiple locations in the Atlanta area for convenience. We can promise you that we will be going back to have our piece of cake (and eat it too!).

The Atlanta Cupcake Shop Review Summary:

Who: Piece of Cake

What: Cupcakes, Cakes, Custom orders...you name it!

When: Monday-Friday: 9AM-5:30PM
Saturday: 10AM-2PM

Where: Buckhead, Roswell and Decatur locations!
307-A East College Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030