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From Renee Suen:
"The relaunch of TorontoLife.com's Food Porn column starts with a post about the city's most beautiful cupcakes. This topic was one suggested by my editor. Despite my initial hesitations (really? cupcakes? That's so 2005!), we did have a twist on it: finding the best looking (tasting would obviously be as important). I'll confess that at the end of the day, I did look forward to see how creative some of the artisans/bakers were.
With regards to the selection process, all candidates were my pitches based on familiarity or by reputation. I was really surprised by how amazing some looked; others by their taste. A week of cupcake tasting testing (with a motley crew of cupcake lovers - and most importantly for me, ones who could actually eat cocoa laced products on my behalf) wasn't something I looked forward to (given that I'm more a savouries person than one for sweets), but I was quite happy to discover some favourites along with being wowed by the details infused in others.
On a wild note, one of my members claims she developed an allergy to cupcakes (likely to ingredients found within it but I think has been fine with eating those same ingredients elsewhere) including anaphylaxis. Perhaps she's experiencing the same allergy development as I did to cocoa? Only time will tell (and for her sake, I hope not!).
I bring you Toronto's most beautiful cupcakes curated as of Nov 2010. These are a representative selection from the following cupcake vendors: SweetThings, OMG Baked Goodness, Wicked Little Cake Company, She Takes the Cake, Whole Foods, SweetThings, Eini & Co, The Cupcakery, LPK Culinary Groove."
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