Cupcake Royale, which originated on Market Street and has locations in West Seattle and Madrona, announced today they will open a new store in Capitol Hill this July.

Cupcake Royale has a full construction crew underway at its forthcoming Capitol Hill bakery, their biggest location yet, at 1111 E. Pike St., said owner Jody Hall.

“We’re so excited to open here,” Hall said. “I’ve lived on Capitol Hill for nearly 20 years, and it just feels really good to build my dream bakery, from scratch, in the neighborhood I call home.”

"With a bakery nearly three times the size of Cupcake Royale’s current World Headquarters in Ballard, the company’s baking capacity will get a much-needed boost," according to the press release from the company.

This will be Hall’s first design-build bakery endeavor, and she’s enlisted a dream team of artisans and architects.

The new location is designed by Domestic Architecture, led by Roy McMakin (artist and longtime neighbor/customer of Cupcake Royale in Madrona), and artisans handling the build-out include Dovetail Construction (which recently completed Molly Moon’s and Oddfellows), Sterling Voss, Big Leaf Manufacturing, and glass artist Greg Lundgren (owner of Hideout, and Stranger Genius award winner for Vital 5). The space is housed within the first commercial building by internationally acclaimed architect Tom Kundig.

The new cupcake café will feature a semi-private party area, a community table for gatherings, and a bakery peep show with a picture window exposing back-of-the-house operations to the cupcake-obsessed customers. Cupcakes baked daily at Capitol Hill will find homes in the pastry cases of the Madrona and West Seattle cafés, along with neighborhood grocery partners such as Metropolitan Market. The Ballard bakery will continue to bake cupcakes to serve its own café.

Hall also sources local ingredients as much as possible to make cupcakes from local butter, sour cream and flour. Hall is in talks with Shepherd’s Grain, an Eastern Washington grain manufacturer to procure local flour, which would make her cupcake recipe 66 percent local.

The summer “Cupcake of the Month” line-up will feature local berries and stone fruits, underscoring the local bounty.

A grand opening date for July will follow as construction and inspections near completion.

Cupcake Royale has been serving cupcakes to its Seattle neighbors since 2003.