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| - The Prairie Girl Bakery is adorably pristine cupcake boutique and as soon as you walk in, it smells like rainbows and unicorns...errr well more like cake batter baking and icing, but you get the jist of how sweet it is! It's hard not to get excited as you see rows-upon-rows of shelves lined with cupcakes of many pastel frosted hues of pinks and creams, and for a moment I'm wishing to become a possum in a pastry, I mean cupcake shop http://iphone.collegehumor.com/picture/6737427/opossum-sleepy-after-eating-pastries
The owner Jean is incredibly sympatico and wonderfully customer focused and certainly registers as someone who is very proud to be a purveyor of these fantastic gourmet cupcakes. Now, my first experience with Prairie Girl (via Pusateri's) was semi-tragic. On my second try, I must say it's much, MUCH better to purchase the cupcakes directly from Prairie Girl's shop as I now know that buying these from a secondary vendor makes for a much lesser experience. For reference the Prairie Girl address states 18 King street, but the shop actually faces Victoria, near the intersection of King.
For gluten free cupcakes the Prairie Girl version is very good, evenly moist, cakey and better than some of the other well known gluten-free cupcake versions I've tasted around town and yes the icing is superflous, but certainly a sweet tooth's dreamiest fantasy! The strawberry icing is my favorite as there are real strawberry bits mmmm. With regards to the towering amount of frosting, I've learned to scrape off the excess, save it in the fridge and use it to spread on cookies for later :9 Oreo Doublestuff can go suck it!
Tip: The cupcakes freeze very well, I had mine frozen over a week and thawed them out in the fridge for a day for a cool frosted treat.
Also good to know, when you first take these babies home if you don't want the superflous frosting to migrate too far from the cupcake surface, don't have your klutz husband carry them, or at least make him eat the ones with the haphazard frosting mishap.
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