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Cupcakes! XL – Simulation Game Review
Cupcakes! XL is a Simulation/Family/Education game from Maverick Software LLC, first launched in 4th May 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 51+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cupcakes! XL Stand Out
Bake, decorate, and eat virtual cupcakes from the comfort of your couch.
Reviews for Cupcakes!:
- 6,000+ five star ratings on the App Store
- One of CNN.com's "10 new iPhone games for everyone"
- "The cupcakes look so good I almost licked my phone.", Robin Rhys, AppAdvice.com
Cupcakes! XL takes advantage of your iPad's giant screen, to make it easy to bake yummy virtual cupcakes. Pick your cupcake liners, fill the pan with cake batter, pop it in the oven, and before you know it your cupcakes will come out piping hot.
Once they are baked, you can choose from an amazing array of frostings and candy toppings to apply, to build the perfect cupcake. Even choose from 25 flavors of official Jelly Belly® gourmet jelly beans to add to the top!
After you've decorated your masterpieces, you can share them with your friends via email, Facebook, or save them to your photo albums. And of course you can eat them! Choose a tablecloth and plate to serve them on and you are ready for dessert.
Last but not least, put candles on your cupcake and blow them out by blowing on your iPad!
For the iPad version of Cupcakes!, we've expanded your baking pan to let you make a dozen cupcakes at once. And once you've baked them, they are all displayed on the countertop, making it easy to choose which one to decorate & eat next. Your batch of cupcakes is automatically saved when you quit the app, so if you need to do something else and come back, all your baking & decorating will be right where you left it.
Cupcakes! XL features include:
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Full support for all screen orientations, hold your iPad any way you want (portrait, landscape, upside down) and Cupcakes! XL will take advantage of the whole screen
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32 different cupcake liners (white, yellow, pink, blue, green, red polka dot, rainbow, leopard print, vines, camo, orange, black, red/blue/purple stripes, happy birthday, tie dye, shamrocks, zebra, red checkered, etc), and a custom liner creator option
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20 different batters (white, yellow, chocolate, strawberry, carrot cake, red velvet, lemon, confetti, marble, apple spice, blueberry muffin, and more)
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The ability to set your baking time, from lightly baked to crispy burnt cupcakes
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62 types of frosting (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, mint, caramel, cookies & cream, raspberry, chocolate orange, chocolate shell, vanilla confetti, lemon, nutella, butter cream, strawberry cream, peanut butter, triple chocolate, rainbow, lime, orange vanilla, blueberry, cream cheese, grape, and more!) Plus an option to mix your own frosting colors.
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75 toppings (gummy bears, red hots, rainbow sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, red/yellow/pink/blue/green sprinkles, strawberries, banana slices, mini chocolate chips, chocolate candies, cookie bits, mini-marshmallows, candy hearts, gummy worms, cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar, almonds, peanuts, candy corn, and more!)
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25 flavors of Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans to add as toppings
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15 kinds of plates and 10 tablecloths, to give your cupcakes the perfect presentation
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cupcakes! XL is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd October 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Updated to 64 bit
- Bug Fixes
Download & Availability
Cupcakes! XL is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We gave this game five stars because we think its a amazing game we play it every day some people may get bored of it but we dont at all to the people who made this game its amazing and we love it so much there so many choices but we would hope you make more toppings but overall its great.
Its not accessible as much as the iPhone version is, which is a bit disappointing for us. We can still use it ok, but Im worried that there are other people who cant. So please fix that if you can.
Thanks for fixing glitches with the updates! Works well now.
We played is in 6th grade so it's weird and awesome to play again, but we really wish there wasn't a black background and it was white again. And the food was so small. Some things are larger since you made this an ipad app, but you let a lot still be small… Please do an update and we'll buy ALL YOUR GAMMESSS.
This is awesome but you could add in other deserts too.
This game is great, it's really fun to make all the different cupcake combinations and enter the contests.
Very realistic and actually teaches you how to make cupcakes.
More smoothies More pretzels More jello More soda More burgers.
Can any help us with flower power and find the bunny.
We love this game it is so much fun and totally worth the 99 cents just get it.
We love this game but the only thing that bugs us is that on a we pad you cant take or choose a pic and put it on the wraper you are designing. You can do itban a iPod why not on the we pad?we still give it a 5thow.
For a new frosting flavor we would say lavender we've had it before and it's yummy!!! :-) For a new cupcake flavor we would Also say vanilla bean or buttercream!! :D.
This app is great! But there's one thing. We've made well over 1,000 cupcakes but we have yet to get the "Kilo Cupcake" achievement. We have all the others. Please fix this. :).
This app is like another cooking game just more Ideas to choose from but it is kind of addicting :p we LOVE THIS GAME.
We really wish u could lick the frosting off… But we guess not :P.
Dear whomever is reading this, we strongly would give this app a 5/5 star rating simply because it absolutely deserves it! Not only does has this app inspired us of us true love and passion for cupcakes but, it has also given many wonderful recipes and ideas to test, try, or use on a daily basis. We love this app and we think that everyone else should feel the sane way as us for various reasons. This app makes you feel like you are actually making cupcakes and also giving you pleasure as well. What more could this app simply have as well you ask someone. Well, it also gives you many options and combinations to try out while in the process of this game. It is absolutely our favorite game and without a doubt should be yours too.
This app is the best ever we can't stop playing it its our favorite app on our iPad.
This cupcake making app is omg awesome u have to get it.
Cupcakes XL is a great game, but whenever you go to make a cupcake from scratch the writing is really big.
This is an excellent app for IPad's and IPod's etc. If you really enjoy baking and cooking this is an excellent way to do it on the go. Worth the 99 cents.
When you go to choose the cupcake batter to make, you can't see what the recipes are because they are cut off. Also, we would like to see the photo-liners as there were in the iPod version. Don't waste your money. The iPod version is great (or so our friend says) and we are disappointed to have bought this version instead.
We luv this app CupcakesXL because we love cupcakes.
We love this app. We have always loved baking and this opened a new world of it. We have learned new recipes and icing ideas.
Our 3 year old loves this app. It has been a fantastic travel distraction. There are a huge number of wrappers, batters, frostings, and toppings. No one could possibly complain about lack of variety. The most recent version has addressed some of our issues but we have a couple of suggestions for future versions. Accessing the saved cupcakes can be confusing since it seems to be allowed only at certain times. It would be nice if you could swap saved items with new cupcakes at any point. The small buttons that are used to navigate through the different stages can be confusing for little ones (non readers) at first. Especially if there is more than one button present. Making the navigation more obvious would be a great improvement. Adding a 'Back' button would be helpful so you could go back to previous screens. These really are little things. The app is fantastic.
Our friend Alexis really loves to play Cupcakes. Her favorite flavor is strawberry! Ken.
This is the best game we've got in a while us and us friend Shikayla Tatum play it all the time.
We love this app so realistic! However, our one complaint is that when it asks us to write a review,if we say no, then it closes out of the app and won't let us play till we write a review. No means no. Great app anyway, though.
We like the candy canes best. We wish you made the same but with cakes.
We completed 13 acheivements, 145 point total since we purchased the game 6 months ago. The points have not transferred to our game center and we are very upset. One of the achievements is make a dozen cupcakes. We made over a hundred.
We voted on April 25th for cartoons. We are 8 and we want our cupcake! Who ever voted the other Snoopy does not no how to vote. The Snoopy was in coconut and we used white eggs. Plus it was brown not black. Why is there picture liner for only Cupcakes!? It is a one dollar ripoff!!! We do not like losing so bad when we submited 20 times!! Cupcakes! And Cupcakes! EL version are a ripoff! Do not buy it.
Very good game just need new cupcake flavors.
We love all the "more" apps there are all wonderful. This one especially is our favorite because you can do a lot of things like you can send one of your cupcakes to the hall of fame to get voted on. Also there are so many flavors!!!!! Our imagination just runs wild when play more cupcakes because can thing of thing we can do with food and for other events with cupcakes in them!!!! We highly recommend this app to latterly ANYONE.
Double Apple= Apple Spice Cake with NO frosting and Green Apple Jelly Beans On top.
We love this app and all your apps but u should make a cake poo one.
We love this app so much because we are obsessed with cupcakes! We love making them, but not much eating them! So this is a perfect app for us. We showed our little cousins a quick easy how to do it and then there on there own! We love that there is filling, different cupcake wrappers and etc. The only thing we don't like is that there's this app called Easy Bake Treats. The whole app is basically the same as this except this game has more wrappers, filling and candles. We just wish there was a little something extra because we paid for this app. But we love love this app.
This app is so cute!! How do you submit your cupcake for the cupcake of the week? Thanks :).
We really love this game/app it's really worth .99 and if you do choose to buy it you aren't wasting your money. Maverick, you should really consider making a donut game and/or cake game.
We fell in love with app the first time we opened it! But our friend told us there are new flavors in the update, and we checked last time it was updated… December! Please make an update for Cupcakes! XL.
This is an excellent app! We highly recommend it. We love all the verities of frostings, and you get to choose if you want the batter from scratch or not. Also the toppings, candles, and the filling are incredible. We want to lick our screen! Five stars.
If you like to make cupcakes, this is the app for you!! There are so many combos. Different batters, frostings, fillings, liners, you can even put candles on!!! We would definitely suggest this to people.
Cupcakes XL is so fantastic. We only wish that all of the icings you can pipe on yourself. Maverick software should do a more cake. If that happens it would be cool if you could add on fondant. All of the games by Maverick software are awesome.
This app is so cute!!! We used to have the free version of this app and it was ok but this is so cool how you can either make it from scratch or use pre- made batter. Also the frosting selection is bigger and we love the way you could put candles and fillings at the end. :).
This app is great! It is so much fun and we love the achievements! There are so many combinations with all of the batters, frostings, toppings, fillings, candles, and even cupcake liners. It is a great app and our favorite! We also bought cookies and pie and they are great too. We just might need help with the achievements on cupcakes. They are a little tricky to figure out when it doesn't tell you what to do. Otherwise this is a fantastic app and we highly recommend it.
Once we saw that this game had NO ratings we wasn't so sure if we should buy it or not, but we found out it's quite high-quality game and our daughter loves it! This is a great game for the kids and maybe even some fun for the parents. Love it.
Kilo-Cupcake: Make 1000 Cupcakes. Find the Bunny: ???????? Flower Power: Any cupcake w/ Flower Cupcake Liner & any flower type frosting. Triple Blueberry: Blueberry Batter, Blueberry Frosting, Blueberry Fruit Toppings. Monkey's Favorite: Banana Batter, Banana Fruit Toppings. Double Apple: Apple Spice Batter, Green Apple Jelly Beans. Elvis Favorite Sandwich: Banana Batter, Peanut Butter Frosting. Over the Rainbow: ?????? Jelly Belly Party: Make cupcake with every flavor of jelly beans. Fruit Party: Make cupcake with every fruit topping (including coconut too!) Alphabet Party: Make cupcake with every letter topping. Watermelon Patch: Make cupcake with watermelon jelly beans. Cherry Limeade: Make cupcake with lime frosting and cherry fruit. Strawberry Shortcake: Pound Cake Batter with strawberry fruit. Nuts for cupcakes: Make banana nut cupcake with every nut. Double Cherry: Make cupcake with cherry frosting, and cherry fruit.
Why isn't there any black icing we wana make a panda and a zebra but we can't cause there is no black icing.
And the recipe cards give the instructions to a cupcake that could've been under baked. That will be very disgusting.
We love this game when we have time we always make cupcakes for us and others if u r looking to buy GET IT NOW.
This is our 3 year old daughter's favorite app. She loves to mix batter, bake, decorate, add candles and then blow them out, etc. Little worried that her first words in the morning are "we need to make cupcakes!" Easy app to learn. Options for wraps, toppings, etc. Are many.
It's amazing how our two boys love this, our step children love it and we secretly love it too. It's the app that keeps giving and has saved us many times.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.8
- Size: 64.48 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Maverick Software LLC
Last updated: 3rd October 2017 | Genre: Simulation, Family | Developer: Maverick Software LLC