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If I’m going to lose a bookstore…

05 Sunday Jun 2011

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Desmond & Beatrice

…I’m at least much more placated when a cupcake shop is opened in its place! Very excited that the lovely Desmond & Beatrice is opening soon on Queen St. E., just a bit east of Broadview, in the spot that the equally lovely Roxanne Reads used to be.

Funny side note: My roommate and I looked at an apartment right next door to this spot. Yup, that’s right, I almost lived next to a bookstore that later became a cupcake shop. I would’ve been poor, and then poor and fat. Probably a good thing that I live a 45-minute walk from there.

Where to Find the Best Cupcakes in Toronto

22 Sunday Feb 2009

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(This post was completed for a web feature assignment in my Online Magazines course in the Book & Magazine Publishing program at Centennial College.)


Rainbow Cupcake(photo by bookgrl)

Once a popular sweet ending to a child’s birthday party, the standard Betty Crocker chocolate cupcake with rainbow sprinkles has recently undergone a massive makeover. Specialty cupcake shops now create beautiful (and delicious!) works of art with ingredients as exotic as lavender and matcha tea powder for celebrity customers such as Ringo Starr and Katie Holmes (and little Suri!).

As a self-proclaimed cupcake connoisseur, I perform taste tests at cupcake shops in every city I visit, I read cupcake blogs regularly, and I even bake my own cupcakes from scratch. The worldwide popularity of cupcakes has touched down in Toronto with more than a dozen “cupcakeries” in the downtown area alone. But where are the best places to go when you’re in need of a mini-cake fix? Read on for my four favourite cupcake spots in T.O.

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