Pamcakes, a Philly Cupcakery

I’ve been looking for good dessert places I can go to after work, and I thought a cupcake place would be perfect. The description of the cupcakes sounded amazing, cream in the middle and cream cheese frosting and strawberries. However, the cupcake was dry, there was nothing of note in the middle and the frosting certainly wasn’t cream cheese. I am irritated by the false advertising and disappointed in this dry, too sweet and otherwise tasteless cupcake. And each cupcake was $ 3 and they weren’t big or tasty!

Great cupcake shop. The Triple Chocolate was fantastic. The Black & White got rave reviews from a friend.

Super nice staff. Ordered 3 dozen key lime cupcakes and they were superb. Having a mini size available is a PERFECT option — you just don’t see that anywhere! Thanks for allowing us to pick up our order a little before your normal open hours!

pamcakes always smells amazing and the staff is super friendly. the peanut butter cup cupcake is by far my favorite and is soooo moist and flavorful. YUM!
i don’t know pam personally, but she’s hot and i love her

3.5 stars. I say they’re pretty decent tasting cupcakes, but I find them a bit pricey. And no discount when buying half dozen or dozen or so? Normally, places offer small discounts the more you buy. They should really think about some sort of discount and maybe people would be inclined to buy more.
Chocolate pb cup — I really enjoyed the chocolate cake. It was extremely moist and quite delicious. Probably one of the better chocolate cakes I’ve tried in a long time. However, the frosting, I felt, needed more peanut butter. I tasted more sugar than pb.
Strawberry cheesecake– the cake wasn’t as moist as the chocolate, so I wasn’t a huge fan. I did like the frosting though. A tad sweet, but had really good flavor and the strawberry stood out nicely.
I would say they are one of the better ones in Philly, but I wasn’t 100% sold.

I came here at 5 pm, near their closing time at 6, fully aware that I will likely not be getting the freshest batch of cupcakes. I got one strawberry cheesecake and one lemon to take home for dessert. As I expected, they weren’t the freshest by 8:00pm. But that was my doing. Despite this aberration, the cupcakes were fantastic and fully delectable from the frosting to the every last crumb. The lemon cupcake had a sweet filling in the center and was very tasty. And the strawberry cheesecake cupcake. Where do I begin? I don’t think I can ever eat another cupcake after having the strawberry cheesecake cupcake because nothing will compare to the fresh strawberry flavor, the creaminess, and perfect amount of sweetness this morsel of heaven provided. To say it was a delight is an understatement. It was an honor to have this cupcake.
I am looking forward to eating more of these. For the rest of my life.

Bought a dozen cupcakes from Pamcakes this week for a friend’s baby shower. We got one of each flavor and each one seemed to be a hit! Yummy flavors like: monkey business (banana), chocolate cupcake, triple chocolate, carrot cake, chocolate peanut butter. Very solid cupcakes, but a little expensive at 3 bucks a pop. Would come back!

SO good! The Sweetest service in town ;)
My go to for gifts that everyone loves.

Delicious cupcakes. Incredibly moist and the frosting was delicious. Will definitely keep this place in mind for events in the future.

We had Pamcakes provide cupcakes for our wedding, and they were simply the best cupcakes we ever had. We began a tour of the city’s cupcake spots to search out the one that best replicates my wife’s homemade cupcakes, but stopped it short once we tried Pam’s because there was no need to continue. We got the chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and they were pretty much all anyone was talking about at the end of the night. Thank you!

A friend brought my fiancé and I here while we were visiting from the Boston area. I’d been waiting weeks to stop in ever since she shared a map that had the location ‘starred’ on it. Pamcakes definitely did not disappoint! We tried the lemon, chocolate peanut butter, cookies and cream and pumpkin. De-​li-​ci-​ous!

ate three of these; only barely regretted it. (rare!) the pam’s kandycake was life-​changing: the cake was perfectly moist and the frosting not too sweet (before this, I’d never tasted properly-​executed peanut butter frosting). the pumpkin chip was wonderful as well: if fall had a taste, it’d be the pumpkin chip cake, though I found the frosting to be a bit much. the only real disappointment was the cookies and cream, which looked beautiful but was unfortunately rather dry.
all in all, I would eat three random cupcakes from here again, which I can’t say about most cupcakeries.

3.5 stars
There aren’t too many decent cupcake bakeries in Philly. I tried pamcakes with an open mind and it was very good. Not the best cupcakes I have ever had (Southport in Chicago and Molly’s in Iowa/​Chicago/​NYC) but they were moist, delicious, and decadent. The triple chocolate hit the spot. At $ 3 a pop for medium sized cupcakes with no filling in the middle, it was a bit pricey.

OK, they were on the small side for fancy pants cupcakes, conversely there was a mountain of frosting, if you like that kind of thing have at it. I’m a fan of pillowy tasty cake.

Once or twice a month I try to visit my boyfriend up near Redding at the firehouse he works at. He lives with me in Philly but works 24 hours up there and then has 3 days off, so if his shift falls on a weekend I will take the hour and a half trip up and make sure to stop and grab some goodies for him and the rest of the firemen. Well ever since I brought them up an assortment of Pamcakes’ amazingly perfect cupcakes — I haven’t stopped anywhere else!
The guys start drooling as soon as they hear I am making the trip because they know that means their favorite cupcakes are on their way. Red velvet, carrot cake, cookies & cream, even Pamcakes’ basic vanilla cupcake gets them giving the instant feedback that «damn these are amazing.»
Every single cupcake is made to perfection. Pamcakes stocks up on a consistent selection of ready-​to-​grab, undeniably delicious flavors — and I have now gotten into the habit of choosing one or two of every single flavor available in fear that I will be missing one of the guys’ favorites (even though I’m pretty sure every cupcake flavor is their favorite).
The staff are always extremely friendly — I’ll walk in with an order of 2 – 3 dozen cupcakes and leave 5 minutes later with 2 – 3 neatly wrapped pink boxes of heaven ready to be strapped in for the trip up. Many times I have had a hard time not diving in to a cupcake before the boxes make their way up to the station — but lately I’ve been able to behave myself!
Always perfectly moist, every single cupcake carries the perfect combination of cake and decadent, rich icing. There has never been one complaint or negative review of any flavor whatsoever — these cupcakes are literally fail-​proof!
Pamcakes is my #1 cupcake shop in Philly — now and always. Just walk in and try one for yourself — you won’t need my review to get you hooked.

I’ve been walking by Pamcakes everyday for 6 months and resisted temptation as long as humanly possible. This past Friday as a young child ate her cupcake outside the store, my willpower collapsed. I walked in and the sweet smell hit me like a brick wall. I had no cash and needed to meet the $ 10 card minimum, so I selected 6 cupcakes for $ 18. Pumpkin Chip, Cookies & Cream, Peanut Butter Cup, Triple Chocolate, Southern Red Velvet and the Classic (yellow cake chocolate icing).
Dining partner and I felt it our duty to each try a half of each one. I bought them on Friday evening and we finished them on Sunday afternoon. The cake was the best part, very moist and flavorful. The icing was good, but on some cakes, was just way too sweet. We ended up scraping off a good portion of the icing in favor of the cake. My favorite was the Pumpkin Chip with cream cheese icing. Dining partner really liked the cookies and cream cake. The standard size is perfect, not too little to feel like you’re getting ripped off and not too big to decrease the quality. They came packaged very nicely in a bright pink box with baker’s twine. It won’t be a regular thing, but I’ll gladly treat myself to Pamcakes again in the future.

The cupcakes here are ridiculous!!! Pam is prettier than her cupcakes and just as sweet with a little bit of an attitude as well. I’m glad I met the owner. Her recommendations were all I needed. Peanut butter, red velvet, triple chocolate and sundae. All amazing. Good work. $ 10 min on credit cards

Do yourself a favor and check this place out! They make a wide variety of flavors to go with the seasons. The cakes are always moist and the icing is always light and sweet (but not TOO sweet). I wish I lived closer… I’d be making daily trips!

Hot damn, these were good cupcakes. I ordered a dozen assorted varieties for my friend’s bachelorette party and they were a hit! I personally had one of the chocolate peanut butter cup ones, and it was everything one could hope for in a cupcake. Super moist cake, rich peanut butter frosting, and a mini peanut butter cup on top. Later that night, as the booze set in, I was eyeing the few leftover cupcakes and decided to have half of the strawberry lemonade. I was less pleased with that one, it was way too sweet and I was hoping for some tartness either in the cake or the frosting.
Presentation was beautiful, and everyone ooh’d and ahh’d over them. All in all a success and I would definitely come back here the next time I need to get cupcakes for a party.

I love you Pamcakes! These are some of the best cupcakes in Philadelphia, hands down. The cake is moist and delectable. The icing is perfectly light and sweet. So far my favorites are the carrot cake and the peanut butter cup. The carrot cake is packed with flavor. Cinnamon, walnuts, carrots, oh my! Add in the fluffy cream cheese icing and you have found yourself a spot in foodie heaven. The peanut butter is equally delicious. Moist chocolate cake with creamy peanut butter buttercream. I could eat these all day!
The constant rotation of flavors (new and old) constantly coaxes me back for more. They also always have special deals on twitter which is a nice touch! I am always willing to ride my bike those couple miles for these fantastic cupcakes!