Oakland's Favorite Cupcakes!

Wednesday-Saturday 10:30 - 6:30

Sunday 10:30 - 5:30

Eurydice Manning started James and The Giant Cupcake in the summer of 2008. She had always dreamed of starting her own business and most importantly, putting the magic back into food. Never letting this dream die, a trip to NYC to visit her best friend sparked an interest. Everywhere she went she saw cupcake shops of all kinds- filled with grownups. There was a certain childlike excitement that she saw with people eating cupcakes that no other food had done. She wanted to bring that excitement back to the Bay Area, specifically Oakland, her home town.
She went back to the Bay Area and set her dream in motion. The outcome: Bringing the finest, freshest ingredients from local farmer's markets and using sustainable ingredients in her cupcakes. Eurydice thanks her grandmother for teaching her what a cake should taste like- 'Moist!' She hopes that you can taste that tradition in every bite.

Website by Max Batt.

Flavors Menu

Each day we offer selected items off this menu for our daily flavors.
For a calendar of flavors, check out our order page.
For special and seasonal flavors, scroll to the bottom of the menu.

Chocolate✶

Chocolate cupcakes topped with pure vanilla bean buttercream frosting,
chocolate stars and sprinkles.

Vanilla

Vanilla cupcakes made with real vanilla beans and topped with pure vanilla bean
buttercream frosting.

Hostess with the Mostess✶

Chocolate cupcakes topped with chocolate ganache and a signature vanilla swirl.

biRtHdAy!!!!!

Buttermilk cupcakes topped with fudgy chocolate frosting and topped with rainbow sprinkles

Red Velvet

Red Velvet cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting and red sprinkles.

Cookies n' Cream✶

Chocolate cupcakes topped with Oreo cookie frosting.

Boardwalk✶

Chocolate or Vanilla cupcakes topped with vanilla bean buttercream frosting and
dipped in rainbow sprinkles.

Bubblegum

Vanilla cupcakes piped with bubblegum flavored buttercream frosting and topped with electric blue sprinkles.

Peppermint Patty✶

Chocolate cupcakes topped with mint buttercream frosting and an Andes chocolate mint.

Smurf

Blueberry cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting and a touch of blue sprinkles.

Sea Salt Caramel✶

Chocolate cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream and drizzled with sea salt caramel and a dash of salt de fleur.

Coconut

Vanilla, Chocolate or Buttermilk cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream and
rolled in toasted coconut.

Lemon!

Light Lemon cupcakes topped with a tart lemon buttercream frosting.

Carrot✶

Cupcakes flavored with coconut, topped with cream cheese frosting and a dash of cinnamon.

Peanut butter & Jelly

Buttermilk cupcakes filled with grape or raspberry jelly and topped with a creamy
peanut butter frosting.

Cinnamon Bun

Cinnamon spiced cake with swirls of brown sugar & cinnamon, topped with
cream cheese frosting.

Mocha✶

Chocolate cupcakes with espresso buttercream frosting, topped off with a chocolate covered espresso bean.

Chocolate Chili✶

Chocolate cupcakes topped with a chili cinnamon chocolate ganache and a touch of
red sprinkles (spicy.)

Cocoa Crazy!✶

Chocolate cupcakes topped with fudgy chocolate frosting.

French Toast & Maple Bacon

Buttermilk cupcakes flavored with cinnamon & nutmeg, topped with maple
buttercream frosting and a cut of maple bacon.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Strawberry cupcake topped with champagne buttercream frosting and pink sprinkles.

Guinness & Bailey's✶

Chocolate cupcakes made with Guinness Stout beer and topped with Bailey's
Irish Cream frosting.

Vegan Carrot✶

Cupcakes flavored with coconut, topped with a creamy vegan buttercream frosting and a
dash of cinnamon.

Uptown✶

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Chocolate cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting, purple sprinkles and chocolate curls.

Peter Pan✶

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Chocolate cupcakes piped with a creamy peanut butter frosting and topped with chocolate & green pixie dust.

Bananarama✶

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Chocolate cupcakes covered with fresh banana slices and topped with peanut butter & milk chocolate swirled buttercream and chocolate sprinkles.

Molly Ringwald

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Strawberry cupcakes topped with vanilla bean buttercream and dipped in hot pink sprinkles.

JAWS✶

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Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla bean buttercream, dipped in deep blue sprinkles and topped with a mint Milano cookie fin.

Vegan Sweet Potato✶

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Vegan sweet potato cupcakes topped with vegan vanilla bean buttercream and a dash of cinnamon & nutmeg.

Champagne Wishes

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Chocolate cupcakes topped with a champagne buttercream frosting and fantasy sprinkles.

Seasonal Flavors

Jem

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Pink and purple vanilla cupcake topped with pink buttercream frosting and a purple synergy star.

Rainbow Brite

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Rainbow cake topped with vanilla butttercream frosting and a red sparkle star.

Pumpkin

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Pumpkin cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting and topped with pumpkin pie spices.

Chips

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Vanilla cupcakes baked with Chocolate chips, topped with a chocolate chip buttercream frosting..

Cupquake

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Chocolate cupcakes with a graham cracker base, filled with a gooey chocolate sauce, topped with toasted marshmallow frosting and graham cracker crumbles.

✶ - Available gluten-free!

Welcome to our image gallery. Above you will see images of all of our permanent menu items. Seasonal items may not be pictured. For more information about a pictured flavor, check out our menu page.