Tag: sweets
What: PS by Pretty Sweet
Where: 848 King St. W.
Atmosphere: White and airy with girly touches (pink logo, chandeliers, floral plates, etc.) but warm and welcoming, too — owner Adjoa Duncan makes you feel right at home.
Go here if: You want cheesecake in a mason jar. So you could technically just have a bite and leave the rest of the jar for later. Hahahah, who’s kidding who? Who will be able not to devour the whole jar?! There’s some seating up front if you want to have your coffee and baked treat ASAP, too, btw.
What to order: I’ve only had the vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting so far, and it immediately filled me with fear. Why fear? Because it was beyond tasty and PS is on a route I walk regularly and it’ll be mighty tempting to pop in for a treat ALL. THE. TIME. In fact, I may need to figure out a way to adjust my Nike Fuelband because the Fuel I earn walking isn’t exactly valid if I’m inhaling Pretty Sweet goods as I do it.
Besides cupcakes, there are plenty of other things I want to sample such as the vanilla bean cake with white chocolate and cream cheese buttercream.
March 3, 2013
(I would love a dedicated shoe or handbag closet, but sometimes I dream of having a cupcake closet just like at Prairie Girl Bakery)
I share this information since I can never enjoy a Prairie Girl Bakery cupcake in the same way ever again — and misery loves company and all:
In an article in the Toronto Star yesterday, they revealed that a chocolate cupcake from this bakery (it’s one of of my favourite cupcake shops) contains nearly 700 CALORIES and 30 GRAMS OF FAT.
YIKES.
I obviously didn’t think they were nutritious or low-cal, but those ginormous numbers were astounding to me.
If you haven’t been scared off by this info, and want to try them (they are indeed delicious), here’s what I think this shop does right (I’m very picky when it comes to cupcakes):
- They offer tons of different frosting and cake combinations and the options are clearly marked on the wall making it easy to decide and order. (I’m partial to the chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting.)
- Their cupcakes are large (although I guess this adds to the calorie and fat numbers…but hey, go big or go home).
- Their sliding shelves of cupcakes are mesmerizing. The very first time I walked into check out the bakery for sweetspot.ca (sigh, a site that is no longer, but if I talk about that I’ll need 10 cupcakes to drown my sorrows) the vision of rows upon rows of cupcakes stopped me in my tracks.
- They have proper cupcake boxes (with a base that holds each cupcake place so they don’t get all tossed around in the box) for however many cupcakes you buy.
Will I stop eating them? Hellz no. I only have one every three months at most. And I’ll just make sure I run an extra hour or two the week that I do 
Prairie Girl Bakery; two locations, 18 King St. East and First Canadian Place.
May 11, 2012
I picked up my race kit for Saturday’s Harry’s Spring Run-off 8k today.
I also picked up some cupcakes from Prairie Girl Bakery…it was one block away, how could I not.
Is that wrong?
Well, if that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right
April 5, 2012
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