Blissful Bites Bakery

Blissful Bites Bakery is one of those places we’ve passed by a thousand times, each time saying, we need to stop in there. We never have. That is, until yesterday, and it was well worth it.

Blissful Bites is located on Arguello Blvd, near Clement Street. In the window, they have very enticing photos of cupcakes. Cupcakes with frosting piled high. That’s my kind of cupcake. Yesterday, in the early evening, we took the kids for a walk and we found ourselves passing by the bakery. We decided that we needed dessert for tonight’s dinner. We stopped in and took a look around.

Inside, there are several tables convenient for sitting down and enjoying your pastry, cake, or what have you. There are also a couple of sidewalk tables. The staff was very friendly to us and we noticed several customers moving about the place.

The display case was filled with so many treats it took us awhile to decide what to get. We got the standard chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting, the chocolate cupcake with orange buttercream, and we branched out a bit and got two of the banana chocolate chip with banana buttercream. The man behind the counter boxed them up and charged us $10.35. That’s right. We paid over $10 for 4 cupcakes. And these are not the huge cupcakes like you get at Costco. We started thinking these better be good cupcakes!

We headed back home, fed the kids their dinner, and split the chocolate cupcake in two for them to share. I had a sneak-taste and was like, Wow. That’s a pretty good cupcake! Mom agreed and said it was very fresh and moist. Before we could blink our eyes, our toddlers wiped their plate clean and let us know, rather loudly, they wanted more! It was a good thing we got four cupcakes, so we split up the orange buttercream, and they snarfed that down just as fast. Blissful Bites went two for two as far as the kids were concerned.

We (Mom and Dad) enjoyed our banana cupcakes after we put the kids to bed. These were a little disappointing after trying the chocolate cupcakes. The cake was not nearly as fresh and my wife complained the frosting was too thick (which is not possible in my book) and too sweet (also not possible). I happily ate her leftover frosting. When you pay $2.50 for a rather small cupcake, you kind of expect perfection. Blissful bites went two for three.

We might stop by another time. We did notice they had some tasty looking croissants…

Blissful Bites
397 Arguello Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94118