About Dozen

Dozen is Pittsburgh’s urban cupcake experience. Bring the kids or a special someone or just bring yourself. Grab a unique cupcake for your co-worker’s birthday, or grab a dozen for the office; get a high quality coffee or tea. Forget a wedding cake, order 200 White Wedding cupcakes. Son or Daughter turning 5 years old? She or he will be the talk of the town when you dish up each guest their own unique cupcake. No forks, no knives! Dozen is bringing a little piece of the big city to this big little city of Pittsburgh.

Our cupcakes are made with top-quality ingredients including organic and all-natural ingredients. Our chocolate is one of the finest baking chocolates. Sweet cream butter gives our butter-cream frostings a delicately smooth texture and a rich yummy flavor. And we use local dairy and other local products and suppliers as much as we can.

Our cupcakes are derived from traditional, classic recipes. Like the kind you might have had when you were a kid! We've updated these traditional flavors to reflect a growing cultural interest in diverse flavor sensations. So our chocolate is nostalgic and new at the same time. Our butter cake harkens back to the real butter cake grandma used to make for the holidays.

You will find great coffee and tea, and a nice selection of beverages to enjoy with your cupcake, including milk from a local dairy. What could be better?!

Dozen is a joint effort between James Gray, Andrew Twigg and Michelle Horton.

James and Andrew both live in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. James attended culinary school in Chicago and worked as a baker and cook in several Chicago restaurants. His best work went down in his Lincoln Square apartment, throwing dinner parties that would make the folks at Gourmet take a second look.

Andrew grew up in the Pittsburgh region and is excited to be here after nearly a decade in Chicago. Also an independent graphic designer, Andrew brings business and cultural knowledge paired with a long-standing love for Pittsburgh.

Michelle moved to Pittsburgh in November. As General Manager, Michelle coordinates catering and manages front of house operations.

The rest of our staff includes assistant bakers Erin, Traci, Steve, Jessica and Rachel; assistant manager Paul, counter staff Kate, Perry, Jess, Cassandra, Schmuel, Adrienne, Steven and John; and our most critical employees, 'kitchen engineers' Joe and Dan - all work hard to make Dozen cupcakes Pittsburgh's favorite destintation for a sweet treat.

Charity Donations

Dozen Cupcakes regularly makes donations to area organizations. Lately we've been overwhelmed by the number of requests we've been receiving and so we ask that you visit our charity donation request page if you're interested in a donation from us.

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