Daisy Cakes Sugar

Daisy Cakes is really a hidden treasure (in my opinion). They have a bunch of bakery treats that are fun for sharing or getting for yourself, obviously I choose the latter. I got a peanut butter chocolate cupcake which was fantastic!!! I love cupcakes, and this definitely hit the nail on the head. Also, their selection of coffee is way bigger and higher quality than you think it would be. I’m used to bakeries also serving coffee, but usually that is a much forgotten part of the business. Daisy Cakes actually has really great coffee and espresso drinks, even offering specials of the day for flavored lattes. Love this place!

I love this place. It is very cute in the inside. This place does not have a lot of seating but depending on what hour of the day you go it shouldn’t be a problem. Also, if there isn’t any seating you can always walk down the block to the park. But all that aside, the red velvet cupcake is amazing! I would describe the cream cheese frosting as melt in your mouth deliciousness and the cupcake itself a little on the buttery side (oily?) but still really good. Trust me when I say that one cupcake is enough. I tried to eat two of them in one day being miss piggy but it was too much for me because of the richness of the cupcake and not the size.

Repeated visits to this wonderful eatery have been rewarded with really nice food. You definitely want to try the soups: my favourites are the gazpacho and the avocado citrus.
They have a unique dessert called a pop’d art. It is the platonic ideal of a «pop tart.» There is real fruit inside of a delicate, flaky pastry.
Some people grumble about the cupcakes. I don’t. Many places make their cupcakes with icing that is toothachingly sweet and which overwhelms the cake below. The butter cream they use is at once light and melt-​in-​your-​mouth delicious.
I also recommend their coffee selection. It is excellent. This is a regular destination for me. Many of my friends are hooked on it too.

DaisyCakes made the cake for our wedding in early March. I first got in touch with Tanya last summer to arrange a tasting while I was in Durham; she was very prompt in her response and our tasting was great — we got to try a variety of flavors and Tanya was great about giving us all the information we needed for what we were looking for. She was also exceptionally patient in my slow responses in the months that followed and enthusiastically picked right back up when I got in touch to finalize our plans. We got a simple, beautifully decorated and delicious cake (red velvet with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing) which was exactly what I wanted and well within our budget. Everyone loved it and we couldn’t have been happier with our choice.

MMMMMMM! Getting hungry just thinking about my visit here. So, I had walked by DaisyCakes several times assuming it was just a cupcake place before I met the lovely owner and hear differently. I went the next day to have some lunch. I had half salad and sandwich which was a perfect portion. The salad greens were fresh and tasty and the dressing was light and tangy. I had the tukey sandwich made with freshly cooked turkey with an explosion of flavor. The combo of the bacon and avocado was just delicious. My only compliant was some mayo on the sandwich which I did not see stated on the menu. I was able to safely scrap off but next time will know to ask them to hold off.
The seating is tight here but has that homey feel that I love about several Durham restaurants where you snuggle a bit with the table next to you. I am very excited to come back for a breakfast meal at DaiseyCakes soon!

Seemed like a truck that was always around, so I never felt the imminent urge to try it. After a long time of going «hey, whatever happened to daisy cakes?» it and I crossed paths at the food truck rodeo. I was torn between this and another new cupcake truck, but after my friend ordered her pumpkin spice and couldn’t stop going «mmmhmmmm», I had to try it. And it was «mmmhmmm good.» Delicate cake and delicious cream cheese frosting. It’s pretty comparable to Blue Ribbon, but Sugarland is still my top cupcake indulgence.
We had really wanted to try the ginger brew one but it ran out as we opted to lunch before dessert. Won’t make that mistake again!

I love you, DaisyCakes, I really do /​I love you, DaisyCakes, and I’ll be true /​When you’re not near me, I’m blue /​Oh, DaisyCakes, I love you!
Because I have been on a strict diet for ten years, I haven’t in all that time allowed myself very many cupcakes. It’s just been recently, where I decided, screw it, I’m destined to be a chubbette for life, so I might as well enjoy a danged cupcake every now and then. Enter DaisyCakes.
I don’t go out of my way to seek DaisyCakes, mainly because of that lingering part of my conscience that reminds me that I’ll never be a supermodel while eating cupcakes — hell, I won’t be a supermodel anyway, so whatevs! — but I will pop by if I’m in the neighborhood.
I’ve sampled their red velvet, vanilla, and strawberry cupcakes. I prefer their cream cheese frosting to buttercream (buttercream in general is always a tad too, well, butter-​tasting for me). On May 8, they offered a rainbow-​decorated cupcake in honor of those who voted against Amendment One, and a free coffee to everyone wearing their I Voted sticker.
I’ve also had their Daisy Cake, which is a small cake with layers of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry decadence, and decorated to look like a teeny-​tiny wedding cake. My only regret here is that they don’t sell their Daisy Cake by the slice; you have to buy the whole damn cake! Granted, it’s only, like $ 10, but not something I would get unless I was expecting cake-​loving company because, let’s face it, my will is only so great, and easily defeated by cake.
I tried a smidge of my friends’ brownie and raspberry bar, both of which were pretty danged heavenly.
I’d like to sample some of their savory items as well, but have yet been able to get past all the delicious sweet treats lining the display case. They have great options, though, and plenty of vegetarian items.

These are perfectly acceptable cupcakes, especially if you’re looking for cupcakes to give to other people; no one would complain. However, I think I have pretty high standards and expectations for a cupcake and these don’t quite meet the bar for what I want.
I got the ginger stout cupcake, and my friend got the red velvet cupcake. They were fine, but I did not feel that they were amazingly good (the way that I expect cupcakes to be if I’m paying $ 3 for each one). The ginger stout kind of tasted like a spiced muffin (cinnamon, nutmeg, etc) and the red velvet was just a plain red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Perhaps it’s a southern-​style cupcake, but the frosting was very heavy and thick (rather than light and satiny). It was good (and not like frosting on store-​bought cakes, or anything like that; it’s definitely homemade!) but not what I look for in a dessert.
Overall, I was rather disappointed, but the people ARE really nice (they sold us some cupcakes even as they were closing down). And they’re opening up a shop pretty soon!

walked away with my half dozen daisy cakes yesterday at the food truck rodeo. As always they were fabulous! I can’t seem to decide which I love most, the red velvet or the black and white. The pop t’arts are slamming delicious as is the parfait. The scones are wonderful as well. Can’t wait til their storefront opens!

I have been a fan of Daisy Cakes for quite some time. They are usually my last stop after shopping at the Durham Farmers market. When I began to plan the cake for my wedding, the first thing I thought of were the cupcakes at Daisy Cakes. We had the Black and White and a special vanilla cupcake with raspberry filling and raspberry butter cream frosting. The cupcakes were so moist and delicious and the frosting was just right, not cloyingly sweet (I understand some people like that, I don’t). This latter point was also a big hit with my parents who always complain that frosting is too sweet for them. Overall it was a great cupcake extravaganza.

Big Daisy Cakes fan here.
I was first introduced to Daisy Cakes at a party — a couple brought 2 dozen of their cupcakes. I instantly fell in love with the moist cupcake and (more surprisingly) soft, whipped icing. I’m one of those people who would rather eat cake and leave the icing behind — but it’s not the case with Daisy Cakes — their icing MAKES the cupcakes.
My favorite is the Red Velvet, but I also recently tried their weekly special — a chocolate cupcake with passion fruit icing — which was a very close second!
To boot, the owners are some of the nicest people to do business with. A few weeks ago I needed a large order on short notice and they did their best to accommodate it.
Daisy Cakes is going to be a staple adjoined with my trips to the Durham Farmers Market for quite some time.

I tried Daisy Cakes again… I was planning on Vanilla cake with Vanilla frosting — a classic. However, they were out so I tried the special flavor of the day (I think it was Pink Lemonade… or something like that). Anyway, the cake was dry and the frosting didn’t have much taste. It was a beautiful cupcake to look at… but that’s not what I like to do with a cupcake :)

I’m a fan of the local food truck movement and Daisy Cakes is one of the originals. I love their mix of creative and avant garde flavors with traditional goodness. The red velvet is definitely a favorite. I want to try the homemade pop-​tarts next but it’s hard to get past the cupcake menu.
I only wish they would go mobile during the week too!

Daisy Cakes has phenomenal cupcakes ! Also I was inpressed by their customer service and their willingness to create whatever it is you desire for that special occassion. Awesome !

woah nelly! Cupcakes «not good»?!! better cupcakes at kroger!!! I have had a totally different experience!
a. friends don’t feed friends trans-​fats. i will never eat a kroger cupcake and neither will any of my friends, if I have any say. Daisy Cakes over kroger every day, forever. Those kroger cupcakes have inedible frosting, whereas the Daisy cake frosting has always been light and fluffy and wonderful.
b. Daisy Cakes fed ALL of the participants of the Doughman awesome bacon-​topped-​cupcakes during the 2009 race so I have no complaints about their speediness or deliciousness.
c. I like the cupcakes but I also prefer their other breakfast offerings. The pop’t-art is a particular favorite of mine but I’ve also tried their bread pudding (delicious), scones (fluffy and delicious) and madeleine cookies (vanilla-​y and delicious). I have never left that airstream disappointed.

I give it two rather than one star because it is a cute van and the kids seem to get a kick out of it.
The cupcakes are just not good: the chocolate and vanilla pretty much taste the same, and the frosting isn’t light and buttery but dense and lardy in texture. Go to Mad Hatter, or Kroger for that matter, for much better cupcakes. They also need to work faster as it shouldn’t take so long to get a dang cupcake.

Daisy Cakes is a mobile purveyor of cupcakes and many other delicious pastries. Right now, you can find them every Saturday morning on the corner of Foster and Geer streets, just north of the Durham Farmers’ Market. Not sure if Daisy Cakes are mobile to other locations on other days of the week, or what their long term plans are.
My daughter and I have a ritual now, every Saturday, after the market, we head to this funky airstream (I think they’ve christened it «Sugar») and share a cupcake and a «pop’t-art», this killer doughy pastry filled with jam.
The cupcakes pretty intense — early in the morning, I prefer the the pop-t-art’s, and when they have bread pudding, it is incredible. But my 5-​year old has now recognized an opportunity to get cupcakes at 10 a.m. every Saturday, so that’s part of the deal.
I often see folks come in and order a dozen cupcakes or so, and I think they do custom orders.
I’m guessing the owners, Tanya and Konrad Catolos, see this in part as a cool novelty, but also as a marketing tool for Tanya’s baking. I think it’s a great idea — Tanya is the pastry chef at the Washington Duke Inn, and Konrad sells coffee for Counter Culture. So that means, as a little bonus, they always have a new killer coffee as well. As a counter-​culturista, Konrad knows his shit about coffee.