Smallcakes Longview

Smallcakes Longview is a locally run cupcakery and creamery on North Fourth Street, baking cupcakes daily and churning its own ice cream in-store. The shop keeps a rotating lineup of specialty flavors on both sides of the counter, so the cupcake case and the ice cream case both change on you if you go too long between visits. It is a good example of a franchise name run as a genuinely local business — the baking happens on site, the staff are Longview people, and the shop shows up in local celebration after local celebration, from birthdays to teacher appreciation trays to office send-offs. Doors are open Tuesday through Friday with Mondays closed, and the North Fourth Street location is an easy stop off the north end of town. Cupcakes, ice cream, and the option to combine the two into one dessert is a hard combination to argue with.