Some food trends never go away and the cupcake is a great example. Recently, the Spotlight crew gathered on a Sunday morning to taste through a variety of cupcakes from some of the newer establishments that have popped up in the last year or so.
Continue Reading →As we're counting down the days, the spotlight crew is busy shopping, enjoying holiday dinners, drinking tequila in Mexico, and eating more cupcakes than New York.
Continue Reading →“You are taking me to a cupcake decorating class? Why?” That’s how the conversation went between my partner and I as I indicated that were going to spend a few hours decorating cupcakes on a warm Thursday night in Spring.
Continue Reading →You would think that we would be sick of this cupcake fad by now. The trend to go gourmet on cupcakes started a few years ago when boutique bakeries in Manhattan and LA started selling (and viciously competing) traditional cupcakes in fancy flavours and icing. Then, the gals from Sex & the City [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve got buttercream on our fingers and cake crumbs all over our mouths. The milk cartons are getting lighter… but they’re not empty yet. We’re still gorging on cupcakes and will be for a while longer.
Continue Reading →Cupcake explosion rocks the city, icing spreads everywhere!! Or maybe it’s just all over us. In our efforts to be thorough investigators, we’ve become cupcake and frosting junkies.
Continue Reading →We’ve been feeding our cupcake habit for some time now, enjoying the soft fluffy texture of the compact little desserts, licking off the rich buttercream icing that comes in so many colours, enjoying the sugar high that follows.
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