Sweet Me Up: Desserts by miVi

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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When DID cupcakes jump the shark?…

Right about now.

Cake Wrecks made me laugh in painful spurts. Enjoy!

“Me been there. Me have crazy times in 70s and 80s. Me like the Robert Downey Jr. of cookies.”
[There was an embedded YouTube video here but alas, copyright issues claimed by Viacom have struck again! So in light of this issue, here's the link to the clip which legally resides on The Comedy Network player]

Standing mixers. Preheat to 350.
Cream. Blend. Stir. Fold. Mix.
All impressive and mighty nifty,
But here’s a recipe kids can get their kicks.

Packaged cake mix with some milk.
Tiny bowl, little spoon and baby pan.
Stir until batter is smooth as silk.
Bake like Mom? Yes, kids can.

Set the light bulb to ON and watch it glow;
Getting ready to bake up some fun.
In the pan goes, it will not overflow.
The mini oven will ding when it’s done.

Then comes the frosting to sweeten the deal.
No patience for cooling the pint-size cake.
The icing drips slightly, this is hardly a meal.
This is what you get when you Easy-Bake.

– Michelle Villagracia (a.k.a. miVi)

Not [REMOTELY] for the faint at heart!

According to one cartoonist blogger DocPop, he believes cupcakes have jumped the shark (passed its prime, outstayed its welcome etc). And while I am gearing up to debate this, I do enjoy his Cupcakes Have Jumped the Shark! pool on Flickr so really, I can’t be too mad about it. This one is my favourite (from Flickr user Josh1):

I’ll agree that food can hit its peak with the masses then it’s a downward spirl from there (see sundried tomatoes). Sundried tomatoes can get boring when you put it on, in and around everything, but cupcakes invite different flavour combination and decorations. I suppose I shouldn’t attack sundried tomatoes since it is a matter of taste. Anyway, in my mind, cupcakes will always be classic and never boring. So until the cupcake has a baby in its third season during a wedding ceremony, or finally has sex with their friend with whom they’ve had intense yet humourous sexual tension with, then I’ll join the Cupcakes Have Jumped the Shark rally. But until then: bake on!

[Sidebar: someone also made the same statement about bacon jumping the shark. I may have missed it when I was busy devouring a plate of bacon while sitting on a cupcake-shaped love seat.]

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Just did a Flickr search on some of my childhood memories in cupcake form…

The Rubiks Cube from Flickr user Anita Jamal

Super Mario Bros. from Flickr user clevercupcakes

Sesame Street from Flickr user EyMie

Daleks from Flickr user Crumbs and Dolies

And finally…

Mahjjong Tiles from Flickr user PinkCakeBox