Sweet Loren’s and Baked by Melissa put actual cookie pieces on top of mini cupcakes, and the whole assortment is gluten-free. Cookies on cupcakes. That’s a pretty good use of frosting.
The limited-edition collection has six flavors, from Chocolate Chunk to Pumpkin Spice. The brands announced an October 1–31, 2026 run, so this is an October treat.
What’s in the box?
The 25-pack includes five Chocolate Chunk cupcakes and four of each of the other flavors. Here’s how the brands describe the lineup:
- Chocolate Chunk: Yellow cake, chocolate frosting and a chocolate chunk cookie piece.
- Fudgy Brownie: Chocolate cake with fudge inside, chocolate frosting and a brownie-cookie piece on top.
- Salted Caramel Chocolate: Chocolate cake with dulce de leche inside, salted dulce de leche frosting, cookie pieces and Maldon salt.
- Snickerdoodle: Yellow cake with a cinnamon filling, cinnamon frosting, cinnamon sugar and a snickerdoodle piece.
- Pumpkin Spice: Pumpkin-spiced yellow cake, cream cheese frosting and a pumpkin spice cookie piece.
- Monster: Yellow cake with a brown sugar filling, brown sugar frosting and a monster-cookie piece.
Salted Caramel Chocolate doubles up on dulce de leche, with a filling and frosting, plus Maldon salt on top. Pumpkin Spice gets the cream cheese frosting. Those are two very different routes through the same little box.
How much are they?
When checked October 14, Baked by Melissa’s product page listed the 25-pack at $43, the 50-pack at $78 and the 100-pack at $116. That works out to $1.72, $1.56 and $1.16 per mini cupcake, respectively, before shipping and tax.
The $116 price is a limited-time 20% discount from $145. The 100-pack has the lowest per-cupcake price at those listed prices, but it also means buying four times as many as the smallest box.
A gluten-free note worth checking
Baked by Melissa says these are made in its dedicated gluten-free bakery. Its product page also warns that nut ingredients are used in its kitchens, so gluten-free should not be read as nut-free.
Check the current assortment, price and delivery options before ordering, especially if you’re planning around a particular date.
The cookie was already dessert. Apparently, it wanted a frosting pedestal.
