Sprinkles Cupcakes closes at Downtown Disney to make room for ‘something new’

A popular Downtown Disney specialty bakery known for scratch-made gourmet cupcakes, cookies and cakes has closed its doors amid the latest round of updates at the outdoor shopping center next to Disneyland.

Sprinkles Cupcakes has closed in Downtown Disney to make room for “something new,” according to Disneyland officials.

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The Anaheim cupcakery closed in mid-April as part of a larger reimagining of Downtown Disney that will bring new restaurants and shops to the mall.

The Sprinkles sign has been removed from the building, the shop is behind construction walls and a message on the door from Disney reads “Something new and exciting coming soon.”

The Downtown Disney Sprinkles location is next door to the Catal restaurant and on the courtyard used by the Uva bar that are being transformed into the new Paseo restaurant and Centrico bar. A construction wall encompasses Catal, Uva and Sprinkles. Construction work on the nearby Disney Home and Wonderground Gallery recently concluded — extending the upcoming Paseo restaurant space across the second floor above the shops.

The space formerly occupied by Sprinkles will be used for the Paseo and Centrico locations in the future, according to Disneyland officials.

The ongoing reimagining of Downtown Disney will see the addition of the Din Tai Fung dumpling restaurant and Porto’s bakery. A refreshed version of Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen recently returned on the west end of Downtown Disney where the former AMC Theaters, Starbucks West, Earl of Sandwich and Sugarboo & Co. were demolished. A temporary pop-up version of Earl of Sandwich has taken over the space once occupied by La Brea Bakery — which will eventually become the Porto’s location.