Sprinkles Cupcakes

Sprinkles Cupcakes

780 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10065

Finally. We're here. We got to visit Sprinkles Cupcakes. I've waited many years for this. At first, it was "we need to visit California," then "we should go to Chicago." Now, I can just try their cupcakes in New York!

You step in and on your left is a wall of cupcake boxes and stands.

To your right, cupcake mixes, hats, and T-shirts for this growing business.

Look down and you see the walk of fame... of cupcake flavours of course!

The beautiful shelves of cupcakes. Again, I'm having trouble choosing which cupcakes to try!

They have an organized system here, you go up to order your cupcakes. I noticed they have customized pads to write your order down. Then, when it's ready, the cashier calls your name for pay and pick-up. The line moves pretty quick this way and I love the efficiency.

Howard wanted something citrus - so he got the lemon cupcake. There's the signature fondant dot on top of all that frosting! I really like the wooden cutlery here, makes sharing easier!

The cupcake is soft and it does have a lemon flavour - not the most lemon flavour we've had, but still good enough.

I went with the mocha cupcake - I don't think I've had a beverage flavoured cupcake yet in New York. The mocha flavour really stood out and I give it thumbs up! The chocolate jimmies freaked Howard out a bit. He claims that they look like little worms for Domo. I rather like them because it gives the cupcake a crunchy texture. ;)

Short & Sweet Cupcakes

Short & Sweet Cupcakes

1945 Avenue Road

Toronto, ON M5M 4A2

Tel: (416) 519-6633

After hearing about Short & Sweet Cupcakes, I told Howard that I wanted to check it out. The shop is right on Avenue Road, visible by the hot pink signs and chairs.

Inside, the shop is nice and bright, we can see the full cupcake trays and friendly staff working on grabbing cupcakes for the steady stream of families that came in.

The window display - looks like it's a back-to-school theme!

All the cupcakes are behind a glass pane, seated on trays or cake stands, and they're clearly labeled!

There's the gigantic menu hanging on the wall. Luckily for us, all the flavours are available on Saturday.

We picked the Lemon Drop Cupcake, a lemon cupcake with raspberry buttercream. The cupcake is dense, but the texture was fine - it just depends if you prefer light airy cakes over the pound cake versions. The frosting is piled on a garnished with a lemon candy. The cupcake didn't reach a strong citrus or tart flavours that I love in lemon and raspberry, but was still enjoyable.

Our second choice was their seasonal cupcake for August - the Banana Split. This was a banana cupcake with a chocolate ganache filling, topped with vanilla buttercream, chocolate drizzle and sprinkles. The chocolate ganache was delicious, but that frosting to cake ratio was too high for us. You can see the two levels of buttercream swirls piled on top of the cupcake. It just made the cupcake really, really sweet for us, and over powered the banana flavour.

It's not in our neighbourhood, but while we were there for the short period of time, lots of families came in to buy cupcakes. There was one funny conversation that we overheard between a mother and daughter:

"Mom, can we buy the bottle of sprinkles so that I can eat them all?"

"Err... maybe next time."

"Oh I can't wait! I'm going to eat all the sprinkles."

You might have noticed that there were two mini cupcakes in our first photo. The owners were kind enough to offer samples to the children and seeing us with our cupcakes, gave each of us one too. That mini chocolate cupcake was yummy, we simply can't resist fudge-like buttercream!