Sprinkles Cupcakes, the bakery that helped turn cupcakes into a national obsession, appears to be shutting down all of its brick-and-mortar locations nationwide. The company, founded in 2005, currently operates about 20 bakeries across six states and Washington, D.C. If reports from employees are accurate, the ovens go dark on Dec. 31.
Sprinkles has not issued an official announcement, but an employee reached at the company’s D.C. location confirmed that all stores are expected to close by the end of the year. Similar accounts from other markets say the bakeries will permanently shut their doors at 8 p.m. local time. The company’s online ordering system tells the same story: orders are available for New Year’s Eve only, with “no times available” starting Jan. 1, 2026.
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