Food Porn: the city’s most beautiful cupcakes
The floral centerpiece is re-imagined with this cupcake bouquet that doubles as dessert. Buttercream rosettes, bejewelled with decorative sugar, decorate plain and Oreo-spotted vanilla cupcakes. Jennifer Gill and her bakers artfully arrange the mild flavoured cupcakes into clay flower pots then finish the look with tissue paper and ribbons.
Individual cupcakes are $2.50 each; custom designs are an additional $1.50 per piece. Cupcake bouquets (like the one pictured here) start at $30.
The Cupcakery, 1034 St. Clair Ave. W., 647-430-7409, thecupcakeryTO.com.
Fancy cupcakes came roaring onto the culinary stage in 2005. Many dismissed them as the second-worst Sex in the City trend (the worst was name necklaces), but thanks to the creativity of Toronto’s baker-artists, these little treats have evolved from flashes in the pan to café standards. Meticulously constructed versions are now regularly found at wedding receptions, TIFF shindigs and bachelor parties. Here, eleven gorgeous and delectable examples that show how this childhood favourite has moved to the adult table.
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