Something Sweet by Maddie Lu

I have come here a few times in the past and I have personally always had a great experience. When I was young I had a cupcake decorating party here and it was a blast. I have also stopped in for the occasional cupcake and have experienced nice and quick service. I had my birthday last week and my mom ordered me this cake, it turned out perfect and I was so happy with it. We all enjoyed the cake as it was very good and not dry at all! I'm not a big frosting person but the frosting here is different than any i've ever had and I absolutely LOVE it!

Food 4/5: The two favorites were the lemon cake and strawberry short cake. They were both so delicious and yummy! My only complaint was the vanilla cake on the variety cake slices were a bit dry. Service 5/5: Something Sweet makes picking up your order so easy. I showed up right on time at my pick up time and everything was bagged and ready to go. I was in and out within 5 minutes. Ambiance 5/5: The Coon Rapids shop is such a cute spot. Everything is displayed in cases for customers to see. You can also see the kitchen/baking area when you walk in which really like.

I've been enjoying products from Maddie Lu and her awesome Team for years! The attention to detail and the quality of ingredients are evident! The variety of flavors are in abundance and keeps me going back again and again because everything is scrumptious! I love that there are a lot of fresh items available on a walk in basis, making last minute treats easy. I appreciate the welcomeness when one walks in the door and her Mom seems to keeps things super organized on busy order ahead pick up days! Maddie always has fun new ideas for irresistible nibbles and everything on display is stunning! She strives for perfection. We've notice that there are a few girls that used to work for her are now locally trying trying to mimic some of the exact same ideas and goodies, but trust me One is NOT like the Other!

Full disclosure- I love the Food Network and when Maddie Lu's brownies popped up on my social media feed- like a Pavlov trained consumer- I immediately got in my car and drove there. The shop was busy on the Saturday before Mother's Day. Many cake boxes were stacked up for pickup and a couple was engaged in a consultation with an employee. Being a first timer, I wanted to try a few treats. Opted for a 4-pack of cupcakes, a brownie 3-pack, and a chocolate covered strawberry 6-pack. When my bill was almost $50 my only thought was "My husband is going to kill me." I'm a pretty good baker, so I needed these to be amazing to justify the cost. We started with the brownies- the cookie dough brownie was a hard no. The cookie dough on top of the brownie tasted artificial. The cheesecake topped brownie (with whipped cream and three berries) was tastier, but had my family saying, "We like your cheesecake more." The chocolate Twix topped brownie was my personal favorite, but I'm a death by chocolate kinda gal. The consensus from the family was that I make better brownies (sorry Maddie Lu). Next up, the chocolate covered strawberries. They were nice large strawberries, but the chocolate was overly sweet and shattered off after the first bite. Now, I needed the cupcakes to be phenomenal. Our 4-pack included red velvet, vanilla, cookie dough, and lemon. Everyone liked the cupcakes. Depending on palates, there was a favorite for all. My favorite was the lemon, which was moist and refreshing. At $2.50 per cupcake, I wished I'd spent just $10 and walked away. Go for the cupcakes.

$2 special brought me from St. Paul to here. This has been known to happen. I've long given up on the food network channel after it became the SSDD channel. The downside was missing another local baker, Maddie Lu winning. They have actual small cakes on display and they are pretty fancy. As you walk in they have candles and other accessories. We enjoyed a half dozen that included, strawberry, mint green, hazelnut frosting and the token chocolate that I always have to try. I bought the frosted cookie too. I got there just in time at 4 on Sat. before the line went out the door. The Northern burbs needed something sweet and special.

Business is stealing other baker's images from online and passing these pictures off as their own work to sell their own products is fully misleading and lying to customers. I came across your advertisement on Facebook to preorder your holidays pies and noticed some of the images didn't look right.. did a simple reverse image search and very quickly found the images you posted for some of your pies are not your images and are from Pinterest or where ever else. I tried to bring attention to this on their Facebook post but my comments got deleted or hidden which seems to be common practice for this business as on many of her posts you see a Facebook disclaimer that comments are filtered.. Real shame that a small business is stealing from other small businesses and to be so blatant about it. The images I have uploaded is her post I'm referencing, 2 proven copied images from her post and the images I found when I did a reverse search. Just unbelievable.

Our company got hundreds of delicious cookies made by the many hands at Something Sweet. It is our employee appreciation week and what a great way to start off the week. Thanks to Lori and her team for the goodies!

Duluth store-I ordered a dozen cupcakes the other day for a small birthday gathering. I had gotten cupcakes when the Duluth store first opened and was impressed, so I expected the same. Sadly, not really the case. Seemed so small! Definitely not a full-sized cupcake, and no real decadent "wow" factor. Some weren't as wide as the hole in the box even. Kinda disappointed.One Oreo cupcake had a small Oreo on top and the other had a chunk of big one. You can compare the size of the tiny Oreo to the cupcake for scale.

Terrible customer service. Owner Laurie not willing to hear any issues and make things right.

The cakes and goodies at this bakery are really very good, creative and tasty. Expensive, but seemed to be well worth it............. I would have highly recommended them until today. They are featuring on their online ordering site, under the heading of Christmas items, gingerbread men in the act of sodomy. They had a link from their FB page to the order page. When I noted on their website that this was inappropriate I was promptly and immediately had it made clear that she (Maddie Lu) was not the least religious and I was entitled to my opinion but should not force that on anyone else. Really? Sodomy cookies featured (First time on page) to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The hypocrisy is overwhelming. You don't believe in Jesus Christ, but you are very happy to make money off those who celebrate Him. I am disgusted with this place and I will never spend a dime of my money in there again. There are many wonderful bakeries in Anoka County, that at least won't take your money while showing their vile and soulless feelings about Christmas.