Happy birthday to Sprinkles Cupcakes! This beloved cupcake Mecca is celebrating thirteen years of operation on April 13, 2018. And to celebrate — naturally!! — they’re introducing a Limited Edition Black Velvet Anniversary Cupcake!

Black Velvet Birthday Cupcakes from Sprinkles!

Sprinkles invited DFB to preview these indulgent goodies (but, as always, the review is 100% ours!), and we couldn’t pass up cupcakes — especially ones as yummy-sounding as these.

Black Velvet Birthday Cupcake

Oh, yeah! Happy birthday to all of us! This cupcake is a classic-with-a-twist! It’s a Black Velvet Cupcake frosted with rich Chocolate Frosting!

Black Velvet Cupcake

It’s topped with Sprinkles’ signature simple decoration, in this case a star. It contrasts nicely with the super-dark frosting.

Frosting and star detail

And to really turn this cupcake into a party, it’s filled with tiny colorful Sprinkles! And by filled, we mean filled.  Like the ratio of cake:sprinkles is 2:1!

Sprinkles-filled cupcake!

We love this whole concept — and we think kids (of all ages!) will get a kick out of those hidden sprinkles! And, well, y’all better because they are unavoidable. As soon as we cut into the cake, they spilled out. (They even started popping out when we took off some of the wrappers!)

Sprinkles, sprinkles everywhere!

And if you’re wondering where the Black Velvet comes in? The cake is super, duper, duper chocolate-y. We’re thinking there’s an abundance of dark chocolate cocoa in the batter (super rich and yummy!).

Dark, dark Black Velvet Cupcake… and more sprinkles!

Lucky for Disney food fans, the Happy Birthday Cupcake will be available at Sprinkles locations at Walt Disney World and Disneyland starting on April 13! And if you’re like us and you can’t get enough cupcake pics, you can follow all the fun on social media by following #HBDSprinkles!

Want to look back at Sprinkles’ first steps at Disney Springs? Check out our very first review of this tasty locale!

What’s your favorite Sprinkles Cupcake (or Cookie or Frosting Shot)? Let us know in the comments! Disclosure: DFB was invited by Sprinkles Cupcakes to preview the Black Velvet Cupcake. In nearly all circumstances, Disney Food Blog writers and photographers pay full price for their own travel, hotel, food, beverage, and event tickets. We do this because it’s important to us as journalists to ensure not only that we give you unbiased opinions, but also that you can trust us to do so since we’re paying our own way. On rare occasions, when we are invited by a company to attend an event or preview an item as media, and when we choose to accept that invitation, we will always make you, our readers, aware of that situation. Note that when we attend events as media we are 1) Not required to review that event/food on any of our channels, and 2) Not required to review that event/food favorably. You can always count on DFB to give you a 100% unbiased and honest review of any event that we attend, food that we eat, or beverage that we drink. You can see more in our Disclosure Policy. Thank you for reading. — AJ