The Sweet Divine - Mar del plata

The Sweet Divine is incredible at what they do! We have had the pleasure of working with them at a wedding and their cakes are beautiful. The staff is friendly and the shop is super cute. If you are looking for wedding deserts or a quick snack, contact them right away, you will be glad you did! Photos by: joshandlindseyphoto

First time in, so disappointed in the service and the cupcakes. The lady at the counter was rude and very impatient with me. Bought 2 cupcakes (over $10). Vanilla Cupcake was tasteless (maybe forgot to add the vanilla). Waste of money! Will not be back. Save your money, Sams Club and Walmart has much better cupcakes!

UPDATE: the Sweet Divine is still a must whenever I am in town. The cupcakes are always moist and tasty. This cupcake shop remains my favorite in STL. REVIEW FROM 5 YEARS AGO: This is the best cupcake shop in St. Louis! My favorite flavor is vanilla ecstasy. I ordered a dozen cupcakes as desert for my graduation lunch and everyone loved them. I also ordered 2 custom made cupcakes for my sister's birthday 2 years ago and we still talk about how great they tasted. Can't wait for the shop to reopen.

TLDR: Good to satisfy a craving, but I wouldn 't seek it out. If you 're craving cupcakes, I 'd recommend other cupcake bakeries in STL like The Cup or Jilly 's Cupcake Bar instead. I 've never been to The Sweet Divine before, but I asked the person working the cashier what they would recommend and settled on two different flavors: the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake and the Drunken Pig. I chose the Drunken Pig because it had won on the show Cupcake Wars, and I chose the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake because the person working the cashier said it was their most popular cupcake. While I do commend The Sweet Divine for creating such a unique cupcake flavor in the Drunken Pig, I think it was a little underwhelming given that it was a winning cupcake on the Cupcake Wars. But all things considered, I would give this individual cupcake 3.5/5 stars. The texture of what I presume to be the sharp cheddar was a nice touch in the cupcake base, but the cupcake wasn 't very moist and I thought the buttercream had too neutral of a flavor profile. The chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake was the definition of meh . This cupcake was also slightly overcooked or was maybe made the day before and refrigerated overnight which caused it to dry out? There was honestly just nothing unique about this cupcake. It was obviously better than a cupcake that you 'd get from somewhere like Walmart, but in terms of products from bakeries it didn 't have any properties which made it unique or special. I had a chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake from The Cup less than two weeks ago, and it was better in almost every aspect than the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake I had from The Sweet Divine today. I even walked down the street right after eating this cupcake to Protagonist Cafe and tried three of their pastries (cinnamon roll, samoa cookie, orange glazed scone) and thought that the cinnamon roll and orange glazed scone were considerably better than what I had at The Sweet Divine. Overall, I would give the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake 3/5 stars. Not great, not terrible.

Where do I even begin? When my husband and I were planning our wedding we struggled with cake. He apparently despises cake and would prefer brownies in stead. I chuckled at the idea of nixing a cake and offered to find an alternative that we both absolutely adored: pavlova. Pavlova is delicate meringue with cream and some sort of fruit. I had a vision of incorporating this dessert as a topper to a tiered funfetti cake and serving mini pavlovas for those interested in trying. This was not an easy find in St. Louis until I chatted with Sweet Divine. They were immediately on board and worked with us to not only create the cake of our dreams but incorporate our florals which featured figs and other seasonal fruits. Sweet Divine baked up the most scrumptious desserts and it looked amazing. Out of all of our wedding photos, a picture of the cake is my phone background. Aside from the deliciousness and gorgeous design, this bakery was organized from start to finish, easy to work with, very communicative and reasonable in price.