Jun 8
A Cupcake Crawl in Toronto?
Posted by admin in My inner geek, Random on 06 8th, 2009| icon39 Comments »

After doing some research (thanks BlogTO, A Baked Creation and Yelp :), how does this tour sound (I mainly stayed central-ish but starting at Leslieville thus, omitting places like Cupcake Shoppe and Life Is Sweet)

  1. Sweet Bliss Baking Company (1304 Queen Street East)
    * http://www.sweetblissbakingcompany.com/
    * $2.50 each
    * Available flavours as listed on their web site: Vanilla with butter cream icing, Carrot with cream cheese icing, Banana Chocolate, Double Chocolate and Chocolate with strawberry icing
  2. It’s The Icing On The Cake (1238 Queen Street East)
    * http://www.itstheicingonthecake.ca/main.html
    * $2.00 each
    * Available flavours: Chocolate and Vanilla
  3. BabyCake (892 Queen Street East - located inside parent restaurant Lil’ Baci)
    * http://www.babycake.ca/
    * $3.25 each
    * Available flavours: Listed here but might not be available in-store http://www.babycake.ca/flavours.htm[Might have to walk back to grab the Pape bus and head north to...]
  4. Sweet Tooth (508 Danforth Ave - between Chester and Pape Stn)
    * Available flavours: subject to change but when I was there last they had chocolate, vanilla, chocolate mocha, chocolate raspberry, vanilla strawberry and carrot w/ cream cheese frosting[Take TTC to Kensington Market...]
  5. Miss Cora’s Kitchen (69 Kensington Ave)
    * http://www.misscoraskitchen.com/Site/Home.html
    * Available flavours as listed on their web site: chocolate/vanilla/lemon/carrot cake with cream cheese icing[A bit of a jaunt to...]
  6. Sneaky Dee’s (431 College Street - College/Bathurst)
    * http://www.sneaky-dees.com/
    * Available flavours: cookies ‘n’ cream and pumpkin (both vegan)

UPDATE: Looks like there’s an empty void. Any suggestions what can fill it?
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Jun 3

The story behind the recipe:

A friend of mine challenged me to create a chocolate banana cake that would rival that of a bakery in downtown Toronto. This is the result. I found a regular chocolate cake recipe and added bananas and swapped out the milk with strawberry yogurt (mainly because that’s what I had in the fridge).

I’ve since then have put it in cupcake form.

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