I have been on a cupcake crawl with my sister for the last couple of weeks and in my googling, came across Miss Cora's in Kensington many times as having great ones. So today, we went all the way down to the market and the first thing we did, was pop in and get half a dozen mini to go.There were some in the fridge but we go the "fresh" ones or at least that's what the counter people assured us. We got carrot, red velvet and vanilla (only ones they had).They certainly looked cute and had little sprinkles and decorations on top. My almost 3 year old (reason for cupcake hunt as it's her birthday soon) wanted to eat hers right now but I made her wait til after lunch.
We hit Empanadas and enjoyed delicious as always empanadas.Then my sister, my husband, my daughter and I all grabbed a cupcake each. I lunged at red velvet. EW! It was dry&crumbly and the frosting was thick,too sweet and grainy. The cake itself didn't taste like red velvet but was oily. The carrot cake was oily too and had raisins. Basically a muffin with icing. The vanilla was absolutely the worst and was thrown out as was the second red velvet. The vanilla was hard, dense and tasted like bread. The icing tasted like icing sugar icing and was just gross.
I seriously don't understand why anyone likes these cupcakes? The oil is obvious in all and maybe since they don't use butter? I don't know the answer to why they are so bad but I have had other vegan cupcakes like the cupcaketionary that taste good. These were so bad I wanted to cry in disappointment.
My daughter didn't even lick all the icing off as she normally does and spit out her bite of red velvet. What 3 year old does that to a cupcake?
All in all, so far the worst I have had in TO, even worse than Lollicakes who I disliked. Sobeys and Loblaw ones are WAAAAY better than these.