Cupcake Station Opens, Bringing Smiles – and Frosting – to Faces

There’s no way around it. No matter what you do, you’re definitely going to get frosting on your nose. But that’s the fun of eating the fluffy, lusciously frosted cupcakes made from scratch every day at the new Cupcake Station, which opened Thursday morning in the downtown location formerly occupied by .

The opening day celebration included a free cupcake for the first 500 people through the door. It was a tough choice between the 25 delicious varieties of cupcakes: Lemon Lust, Coconut Blitz, Original, German Chocolate, Vabulous Vegan, Pineapple Delight, Samoa, Cookies & Cream, and the signature Bump-a-licious, a take on Sander’s bumpy cake, to name some.

Owner Kerry Johnson opened his first Cupcake Station i in 2006. An Ann Arbor location followed two years later, then two years after that.

“When I saw this space come available, I just thought, ‘That’s perfect,’” Johnson said with a smile between friendly chats with customers on grand opening day. “Every one of my stores is in a downtown area. I just love the walking traffic. And Ferndale is such a booming area right now, I wanted to help it grow. And that’s the way we are – we support the community and the community supports us.”

Ferndale's tight-knit community was out in force with the promise of free cupcakes and to celebrate a new business in the plum corner location across from patio.

Monica Misky said even though she lives in Ferndale, she heard about the opening from a friend in Ann Arbor who is a regular customer at the location there.

“This place seems very family oriented,” Misky said, as son Reese, 2 1/2, played with the golf tee game placed on every table, and daughter Mila, 1 1/2, looked on from a high chair. “It’s a great place to bring the kids for not a lot of money.”

A single cupcake costs $2.75, but if you buy more than one, the price goes down per cupcake. 

The Cupcake Station is not just cupcakes – there are cookies, brownies and bars, too. You can also buy a cold glass of milk to wash it all down for 85 cents.

Sheri Kennedy, a Ferndale native, came all the way from Warren to sample a Chocolate-Filled cupcake. Daughters Tiffany, 4, and Millie, 2, got delightfully frosting-covered enjoying their Chocolate Covered Cherry variety. Kennedy’s husband, Carlos, a fellow graduate who works for the city of Ferndale, was across the street at Rosie’s eating lunch.

“He said he’s having a salad,” Kennedy said. “Uh, no. We’re going to bring him a cupcake.”

Owner Johnson, a Sylvan Lake resident who was in the landscaping business before opening his Cupcake Station locations, said he always wanted to open a bakery, ever since he was a kid.

“I just like making people happy,” he said. “No matter what their mood when people walk in, they always walk out with a smile on their face.”