little cupcakes @ degraves st., melbourne

I love finding cute shops and little cupcakes on Degraves Street in Melbourne is a cutie! From the cupcake motif in their shop sign, the blackboard signage which draws you in, inside you'll find some cute bunting, filled glass jars and a cabinet filled with cute as a button cupcakes!

Here's the shop from the outside.

From where I was sitting.

We had a Belgian Chocolate milkshake which I'd highly recommend. I reckon Raspberry would've been ace!

Here's the cabinet with all the little cupcakes. So many to choose from and you can order them for birthdays too.

It wasn't hard to decide on Elmo & Cookie Monster - how cute are they! Just realised looking at this photo that I picked all chocolate cupcakes. The cupcakes are the perfect size - you can have that extra one without feeling too guilty.

That's me inside the shop!

To be really honest, it's been ages since I've had a cupcake. They were the 'it' thing at one point but then cupcake shop after cupcake shop started popping up and the cupcakes just got bigger and bigger and not very tasty. Good to see that little cupcakes has them just the right size and tasty too!

gingerbread man!

Thanks to Suze, I finally got my hand on one of these and 'he' is the cutest!! I did need to operate on 'his' eyebrow because it was falling off but a stitch or two later, 'he' was in top condition. J remains boggled as to why I had to drag him to come with me to Carlingford to look for him, as was my mum who just laughed at me and gently reminded me that I'm 22. Anyhow, I saw the two smaller ones and am extremely tempted to get them as well. But as my mum puts it, I have TOO many soft toys, so one should do for the time being. Might I add, the biggest one is the cutest!

Anyway, for anyone interested, there's still one of these at Target, Carlingford. Plenty of smaller ones, although slightly different looking. This big one was retailing at $29.99. As Suze was saying, the stuffing tends to shift around a bit if you try to make him 'dance'. Funny enough, it's like a disease, cause that's what J tried to make him do too once it was in his hands.