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!