Magnolia Market Bakery in Waco, Texas

Waco is about an hour and a half north of the Austin/ Round Rock area. While this is definitely out of the realm of a local Austin restaurant, I still wanted to try out a few places up there that I hear a lot about.

We took a trip up to the Joanna and Chip Gaines Magnolia Market Place at the Silos. I'm not a huge fan of their aesthetic, but I can appreciate what they do and they're style. Just not for me.

I've been hearing over and over again that their bakery is pretty fantastic and worth the drive up. I wanted to get out of town for a minute, so we took a drive up to the Magnolia Market.

They opened at 9am, and while we got there right at 9am, we still had to wait in line about 30 minutes. It's certainly a busy place.

The main reason to go here is the cupcakes. They have a few other items at the bakery as well, but the largest selection is for the cupcakes. 

We got three cupcakes, a chocolate chip cookie, and a cinnamon roll.

For the cupcakes, we got a strawberries and cream, a strawberry lemonade, and a chocolate one. The cupcakes look beautiful. They are simple, pretty, and very enticing. The cake part of the cupcake was so moist. As in I've never had a cupcake so moist in my life. I don't know how they do it, but it's pretty magical. 

The frosting was very smooth, creamy, and full of flavor. I'm not a big frosting person. I need just enough to cover the cake and I'm good. So for me, it was way too much frosting. But for you frosting lovers, the ones who take the frosting from those like me who don't want so much, you will be in pure blissful heaven. The cupcakes are definitely worth the hype.

The next thing we tried was a chocolate chip cookie. They had a few different cookies options, but I just went with a classic. 

I don't usually get chocolate chip cookies from bakeries. I'm always disappointed. But understand, I am VERY picky about my chocolate chip cookies. My sister makes the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. Nothing lives up to those cookies, so I just don't ever get them from a bakery.

This chocolate chip cookie was pretty good. It was very big, and better than most bakery cookies I've had. For me I could still taste a bit of the oil, but again I'm hypersensitive when it comes to these kind of cookies. It was better than expected, but my sister's recipe is still better.

The cinnamon roll. Most of the time when I get a cinnamon roll from a bakery there is an element of disappointment. Usually they are a bit dry, or over baked, or stale once you get passed the frosting that is there trying to disguise the stale aspect of it. 

This cinnamon roll was amazing. I can see why they sell out of these daily. It was so rich, moist, and wonderful. So so so so good. Not at all overbaked or style, but not gooey in an under-baked kind of way. Definitely not at all a disappointment in any way.

Overall the bakery was worth the drive to Waco. I think it lives up to the hype it gets, based on the flavors I got to try. Definitely not a waste of time to wait in line for these beauties.

We gave them an average rating of 4.75 stars out of 5.