After Jenkins and I finished our cake tasting at Ganache, we headed over to Cupcakes on Broadway for our second and last tasting of the day. If you are going to cake tastings, I would recommend not doing more than twice a day, or else you will get tired of cake pretty quickly. I didn’t think that could actually happen to me but it did! 
Cupcakes has two locations in Vancouver but all wedding (cup)cake consultations take place at the Broadway location. Once we were there, we were greeted by Isabella, who coordinates all the wedding cake orders. In addition to the cost for the cake, you would also be charged for delivery and cake stand rentals. Cupcakes offers both regular wedding cakes and cupcake-style wedding cakes.
I had been looking forward to choosing which flavours to try at Cupcakes, but unfortunately, they were all pre-selected for us. Not only that, but we got the tiny cupcakes rather than the regular sized ones! It was also a bit difficult to cut the cupcakes in half for both Jenkins and me try.
We were given four cupcakes: lemon, vanilla, chocolate, and coconut. I started with the chocolate cupcake. The cake was moist but the chocolate icing was very sweet. I normally like lemon cakes but I found it hard to taste the lemon flavour in the lemon cupcake and again, the icing was too sweet for my taste. The vanilla cupcake was more of the same, with the icing being too sweet for my taste. I liked the coconut cupcake the most but that’s probably because the sweetness of the icing was cut with the shredded coconut.
To tell you the truth, I was a bit disappointed with Cupcakes but not overly surprised. I find that the cupcakes here are hit and miss and since we weren’t able to pick which cupcakes to try, we were unfortunately stuck with some duds. Both Jenkins and I found the icing much too sweet and there was way too much of it. Jenkins even noted that he preferred Safeway cupcakes more! Long after we finished our tasting here, we could still feel the sticky sweetness on our teeth. Cupcakes seems to be pretty popular despite our personal opinions. I guess it is an acquired taste or only appeals to some people.
Details:
2887 W. Broadway, Vancouver
Tel: 604-974-1300
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Service: n/a
Price: $$
Wedding: More Cake Tasting at Ganache
Wedding: Ganache Cake Tasting
Wedding: King’s Bakery
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January 19th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I agree - I don’t know why cup cakes is so popular. I guess they look good (like your photo) so that’s why people buy them? At ~$2 per cup cake, no thanks!
January 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I’ve never really liked the cupcakes from Cupcakes. Sibby’s Cupcakery in San Mateo and Saint Cupcake in Portland are both so much better.
Try Absolute Sugar if you can. They’re a commercial bakery which makes desserts for a number of restaurants. They had a chocolate cake to die for which we got for our wedding after trying cake at 12 different places… This was in 2003 so, YMMV.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Hi Ted - Like I said, people either love Cupcakes or hate them.
They do look nice though!
Hi David - if I am ever in San Mateo or Portland, I will have to give those places a try! Is Absolute Sugar based in Vancouver? Where is it located?
January 20th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Absolute Sugar is in Vancouver. They are around 5th and Main.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Thanks David - I will have to check that place out!
January 27th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I agree. I think people are just swayed by the *look* of the cupcakes; thinking they’re good because they look good.
As for Ganache, yeah! Very good!
I’m not really a dessert/baked goods type person, so I’m more particular to patisserie offerings.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Hi Tiffanie - You’re definitely right…you would think that Cupcakes taste just as good as they look but then again, I guess some people there do think that.