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Vancouver Cupcake Challenge

June 21st, 2010 admin

Teresa Lanziner -Founder of Cake Tease

Cupcakes have been a rage in the Vancouver area for quite sometime, having been invited to attend the 1st Vancouver Cupcake Challenge on Sunday June 20th, I couldn’t resist the temptation. I thought that I knew most of the Cupcake players from around the city and boy was I ever taken by surprise. This funtastic event was co-organized by Mijune of Follow Me Foodie and Nicole of Nicole Marie Events, no doubt those two wonderful ladies are esteemed cupcake lovers.

Cake Tease Cupcakes

I know that they had their own team of judges and since no one asked me to be one of them, I went on my own tasting challenge along with a couple of friends Ariane Colenbrander and Ed D’Anco-Ascarza, we determined our own favourites from tasting all the different cupcakes.

Our favourite by a long shot were the cupcakes from Cake Tease (on twitter @caketease),
  • My favorite was the Creamy Caramel Cupcake from Cake Tease.
  • Ariane’s favourite was the Very Berry Cupcake from Cake Tease.
  • Ed’s favourite was the Mango Cupcake from Bon Gateau.

Teresa Lanziner is the founder of North Vancouver’s Cake Tease Cupcake company, she told me that she used to be a Snowboard instructor that turned baker about a year and a half ago and bakes everything custom to order with 15 varieties of cupcakes and spectacular custom cakes.

Bon Gateau Cupcakes

Most of the cupcake vendors were giving away samples of their regular sized cupcakes which was the way to go. Some giveaway pieces and others gave away tasters the size of spoon and that was not the way to go. The room was packed when we were there and we there early, huge lineups and everyone tasting and taking photos!

Can’t wait til next year’s cupcake challenge.

By: Richard Wolak
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Valentine’s Day Treats

February 3rd, 2010 admin

Cupcakes by Tracycakes

Speciality Cupcakes

Now through to Valentine’s Day, Tracycakes will be preparing freshly made Valentine’s Day cupcakes daily in a variety of flavours like For My Valentine, Hot Lips, Neopolitan, Girlicious and A Moment On Your Lips. All cupcakes are available in store or made-to-order by calling either of the cafes.

Cupcakes prices:

Cupcakes – $2.95 each or $14.00 per half dozen

Babycakes – $1.25 each or 10.95 per dozen

Specialty Cakes and Cookies

Heart Shaped Mini Cakes come in two varieties – chocolate or vanilla, iced with either chocolate or vanilla icing and covered with flakes of chocolate and decorated with a special candy or those three magic words! - $10.95.

Tracycakes Heart Shaped Sugar Cookies come in beautifully wrapped packaging and decorated to your heart’s desire. 2 pack boxed sugar cookies for $5.95 or individually wrapped in cellophane for $2.00.

Cupcake Bouquets

“Cup of Love” Bouquet – A unique floral arrangement perfect for the sweetheart with a sweet tooth. The “Cup of Love” is a pretty tea cup filled with colourful flowers and babycakes – $25.95

“Bunches of Love” Bouquet – This lovely floral arrangement is good enough to eat and is a colourful display of gerber daisies mixed with seven scrumptious babycakes – $50

Tracycakes White Rock

15015 Marine Drive

Tracycakes Abbotsford

101 2636 Montrose Avenue

For more information and ordering:  www.tracycakesonline.com

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GO CANADA! cupcakes available in four celebratory flavours

January 13th, 2010 admin

GO CANADA! cupcakes by Tracycakes

Tracycakes is offering customers a chance to taste the spirit of the 2010 Winter Olympics with a freshly baked selection of GO CANADA! cupcakes, exclusively available at Tracycakes Bakery Cafe in Abbotsford and White Rock.

The sweet treats are offered in four celebratory flavours:

Proud To Be Canadian: A vanilla cupcake filled with raspberry filling and topped with vanilla buttercream sprinkles and Canadian flag. Oh Canada!

Proud to be Canadian!

Peak Performance: A chocolate cupcake, topped with chocolate icing and drizzled with white chocolate to represent the snow on the peak of Whistler!

The Flame: A cupcake made to look like the Olympic torch topped with orange and lemon icing and a flame made out of a fruit roll up!

Gold Medal: A vanilla cupcake filled with caramel and iced with a ribbon of vanilla icing and caramel, all topped off with a gold coin. Let’s go for the gold Canada!

Cupcakes prices are: $2.95 per cupcake, $14 a half dozen or $28 for a dozen. The Flame cupcakes are $3.95 each. Please call ahead for cupcake availability and to order in bulk. Tel:  604-541-4668 or 604-852-1904

Giant “True North” maple leaf shaped sugar cookies are also available for $2.95 each.

Tracycakes White Rock

15015 Marine Drive

Tracycakes Abbotsford

101 2636 Montrose Avenue

For more information and ordering:  www.tracycakesonline.com

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BIG CITY CUPCAKES

September 22nd, 2009 admin

bigcity

2206 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver

Tel: 604-736-8881

Web: http://www.bigcitycupcakes.com/

Advice: Craving a cupcake ……

It is all about the cupcakes here, from the different icing tops to the fillings to the cutesy names. I had the Strawberry Covered Chocolate Cupcake ($2.95) which was pretty good, this selection was unfilled. They have a range of cupcakes that are filled at $3.95 and offer premium cupakes at $4.95. You can’t miss the shop as there are huge cupcake photos adorning the front window and walls, the cupcakes are on display by flavour on the slanted trays on the cupcake bar. Some of the other flavours that looked appealing were the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Snowballs, Truffle and the Celebration.

Review by: Richard Wolak

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