After moving from the danforth to Pickering (temporarily), we set out to find a cupcake place that would satisfy our leslieville cupcake habit. We found Coco Cakes through a yelp search and we are happy we did!
At first we drove right past the shop because it's situated behind a restaurant off of a small street. A bigger cupcake sign or a sandwich board sign might grab more attention from the road. This cute lil' shop has a open concept kitchen so you can see everything going on behind the scenes. There is a nice glass display where the cupcakes are kept----which I like because there's less chance of flies, dust and whatever getting on them.
We ordered 6 cupcakes-- cherry cheesecake, peanut butter chocolate (2 of them), red velvet, toasted coconut and cookies and cream. All of them were delicious! The cream cheese icing on the cherry cheesecake, peanut butter and red velvet was smooth and had a great balance of cream cheese, icing sugar and butter. The only complaint that I have was that the cherry cheesecake cake part was a little dry.
Overall, good cupcakes, a lil' under the deliciousness of leslieville, but it hit the spot! A 3.5 star!!!