Red Petal Cakes

Save your money and walk on by if you’re looking for a yummy treat. Their cupcakes taste straight out of a grocery store bakery, overly sweet with lots of artificial flavors and ingredients, for twice the price.

Went in for a vanilla cupcake, it cost $ 3.56 & I left the rest for tip. Brought the cupcake home and sliced off a bite. The vanilla cupcake was not even a good vanilla flavor the frosting was not good at all & flavorless like it was made with just shortening. I could have have bought a box of cake mix at the grocery store and made 24 better cupcakes. Don’t waste your money on the cupcakes here, if your looking for good cupcakes please go somewhere else.
If you want exceptional cupcakes go to Cupcake Royale on Pine Street in Seattle by Pike Please market they have superior cupcakes. Then try the sipping chocolate in the chocolate/​wine shop next door, you won’t be disappointed!
Or just walk up the street to Starbucks.
I would rate a zero for cupcakes. I didn’t have coffee so can’t comment on that.

No cupcakes at a cupcake shop and bad customer service is NOT a winning combination. I’m another one of those suckers who bought Amazon Local vouchers for cupcakes at a cupcake shop. I made the silly assumption that a cupcake shop would actually have cupcakes. Silly me. I learned that they only bother to bake them certain days of the week that they deem busy enough (according to the worker there). And when they do have them, they’re only available for a couple of hours a day. Yes, the cupcake shop only actually has cupcakes a couple of hours a day AND they sold vouchers for these non existent cupcakes.
When I got there at 3:30 on a Wednesday afternoon, there were maybe 2 – 3 customers in the store and no customers at the counter. The worker was making a latte. I stood across the counter from him for approximately five minutes just waiting for a simple acknowledgement — a hello or even a nod in my direction. This is customer service 101, folks. I guess he was incapable of multi-​tasking. After waiting for five minutes he told me they had no cupcakes. I said that was strange for a cupcake shop and he stated they were a coffee shop. Really? Why does it say «cupcakes» in big letters on your store window? Why do you sell vouchers for cupcakes?
I will leave work in the middle of the day tomorrow to try to purchase some of their nonexistent cupcakes again during the magic hours that they «may» actually have some. Never again…
Update: I decided I wasn’t going to play the game of going to this sad shop multiple times and asking for the nonexistent cupcakes. I called Amazon Local and got a full refund.

They never have any cupcakes! My family and I often eat dinner in downtown Edmonds, many many times we will stop in to see what they have… they usually have about 0 – 5 cupcakes and no variety.
This makes zero sense to me. It’s like McDonalds running out of hamburgers… no wait, this is worse because all they sell is cupcakes. McDonalds sells a variety of low quality foods.
How can you possibly run a successful business when you drive people away by not having the one thing you are supposed to sell?

Horrible customer service! We went in to
use an Amazon coupon that was expiring at the end of the day and the girl said Amazon made a mistake and the coupon was suppose to expire a day earlier. I said that the Red Petal was at fault for not verifying a coupon that they had going. She was very rude. They definitely do not know how to run a business. We walked down the street to Starbucks — total different atmosphere. Save some money and get excellent service by going to Starbucks or the Edmonds bakery! Amazon refunded our money and said they would note the feedback on this business

I would rate this place a zero if I could. Gave an Amazon Local I bought to a friend so he could get some cupcakes. Six Cupcakes or $ 20 to Spend on Coffee, Cupcakes, and Pastries for $ 7. He went there 4 times over 2 days and they NEVER HAD ANY CUPCAKES. How can a bakery that sells cupcakes never have any, not from the time they opened, or at any other various times during the day. There were several people all there for the same thing, with one person working who said «you shouldn’t have waited till the last minute». That is not the point, the point that there were NO cupcakes for sale, I’m wondering if the owner decided NOT to honor the deal, and told the workers not to make cupcakes.
I’m not sure why there weren’t any cupcakes, but it seems a bit ridiculous that a bakery whose website touts the many flavors of cupcakes they sell would not have any cupcakes for 2 whole days. I, for one, will NEVER patronize this place.
They should honor this deal for another week, at least, or decide not to have deals for cupcakes anymore.

Funky Monkey mocha ;)
I’m not sure if they still serve it — but it’s the drink to get (when available)
Great quiet place to enjoy your cup of Joe or any type of espresso you may order, I too noticed the high prices for their coffee. A plus on the place would be their mini baked apple pies LOVE THEM!
I normally go back when ever I stroll around edmonds. I’m still not sure if they offer wi-​fi to customers though =(

Awesome ambiance, cozy fireplace killer coconut cupcakes are the positives. Negatives=overpriced pastry ($ 3+), one of the male tweenage staff could use a lesson in customer service (or was having a bad day, they happen) but other than that we like it!

For the price, I’d expect more. Bought 6 cupcakes, selection was poor – they really only had white/​chocolate cake with white/​chocolate frosting with either sprinkles, coconut, or toffee on top. For a bakery, I’d expect more options than that!
They had 4-​pack boxes, so they smashed the other two into these undersized cupcake holders, which I thought was a bit odd and undesirable considering all the icing stays in the plastic cup – forcing you to eat it with a fork, which is kinda beside the point of a cupcake.
Lastly, the presentation and flavor of the cupcakes was just okay. Very homey looking rather than the nice polished look most cupcakeries have. Very buttery tasting, nothing outstanding one way or another.
All and all, just meh.

Finally got a chance to check out this place using my Amazon local deal. The place had great ambiance. Aside from one person the place was completely empty.
I immediately noticed that none of the cupcakes were labeled. I asked the young lady behind the counter what they were. Well, she gave me a look of ‘really?’ and passed me on to another a co-​worker. Ah, giving me ‘that look’ and passing me off to another person will defintely not get you five stars. First off, if you didn’t want to be bothered to explain the eight cupcakes displayed maybe labeling them might be handy so we’re not wondering what the heck we’re getting.
As far as the cupcakes, I got some marshmallow topping with a candy cane, an almond joy, a toffee topping with cream cheese frosting, regular white and chocolate cupcakes with green Christmas tree frosting. The cupcakes were pretty dry. The only one I enjoyed was the almond joy cupcake with coconut topping. You probably won’t be seeing me at this place anytime soon. Glad I had a deal because I can’t imagine paying full price for these cupcakes.

My experience at Red Petal wasn’t so bad I wouldn’t return, but I’m certainly in no hurry to come back. I feel bad leaving a review since I didn’t even have a cupcake, just coffee. Why didn’t I have a cupcake? The selection was whack. After checking out their website I was so excited because they have some really creative flavors (and a huge variety). However, the person deciding the flavors that day must have been on drugs because out of the six they were offering, three had coconut and two had peanut butter. As someone who doesn’t eat peanut butter or coconut I was pretty disappointed. I don’t remember the sixth flavor but I definitely wasn’t impressed and didn’t even bother ordering a cupcake.
Besides lackluster (and extremely redundant and uninspired) flavors, the presentation was amateur. They all looked messy and sloppy and I think my sub par frosting skills are better than what I saw here.
2 stars for friendly staff and a mediocre coffee.