Traveling Cupcake Summary

I have traveled a lot of miles this past week (ship, plane, car, subway, city bus) and I took a lot of cupcake photos.....

Buttercream preparing to sail on the Oosterdam

Buttercream & friends at breakfast

in the Crow's Nest of the Oosterdam

One of the amazing works of art

outside the Oosterdam's Greenhouse Spa

Cupcakes at Blenz Coffee (Vancouver)

Cupcakes at the Granville Island Market (Vancouver)

Buttercream was almost a racoon snack!

 Grouse Mountain (Vancouver)

Cupcake minis from Market of Choice (Eugene)

Cupcake mini halved....looks just like a smiley-face with lipstick

Cupcake magnet from the University of Oregon bookstore

Aquarium cupcakes from Market of Choice (Eugene)

Spring Flower cupcakes from Market of Choice (Eugene)

Big City Cupcakes - Vancouver, B.C.

We almost missed Big City Cupcakes and that would have been our loss.  We were on a city bus headed to the Granville Island Market, and as the bus made a turn I saw cupcakes painted on a window.  I looked up quickly to see the street name so we could hike back and find it later.  It was well worth the hike. BTW...they have a great web site.

Big City Cupcakes has an elegant silver sign and logo but the cupcakes are the stars of the show!  The selection is huge and the cupcakes are nicely displayed.  They even have a printed guide with pictures of the types of cakes and frostings.  After much deliberation, we decided on the lemon and the coconut and headed down the street to a coffee shop where we could enjoy our purchases.

The lemon cupcake was very moist cake with delicate a crumb.  It was filled with lemon curd and topped with lemon butter cream….perfection is the only word to describe it.  The coconut cake was also moist with delicious butter cream frosting topped with a generous portion of coconut. 

There was only one thing my visit to Big City Cupcakes needed….a bigger appetite so I could eat more cupcakes!

 

 

Buttercream (the traveling cupcake) with a

Big City Cupcakes lemon cupcake 

Cupcakes - Vancouver, B.C.

The cruise is over and we are moving on to explore Vancouver!  After a short walk from the cruise terminal we found the Thurlow Street location of Cupcakes (by Heather & Lori). The shop is on the corner of Thurlow and Robson near major shopping and restaurants.

Cupcakes has many locations in Vancouver with their signature pink awning out front.  The location we visited was packed with customers and the staff was very friendly and helpful.  Their cupcakes were displayed with descriptions of each one to make your selection a little easier.  There were regular sized cupcakes, minis and jumbo.  They even had a cooler containing bottled water with their own Cupcakes label. 

We bought four cupcakes....coconut, chocolate with chocolate buttercream, vanilla with vanilla buttercream and red velvet with cream cheese frosting.  The cakes were all good but just a little bit dry.  The red velvet cake was very pretty because the red cocoa and chocolate cocoa cake batter was swirled.  The cream cheese frosting was light and fluffy, but for those who read this blog regularly, you know I want more cream cheese!  The buttercream frostings were sweet but not too sweet and the chocolate buttercream was full of chocolate flavor.  We took our cupcake purchases down the street to a local coffee place to enjoy them with an espresso!