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Table 5 · 11-10-2010, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by valo403

There are still lots of cupcake places here, ranging from regular stores to cupcake trucks and little stands that only sell bite size cupcakes, but it doesn't seem like people are as into the whole thing as they were a year or two ago.

I think a year or two is generous. I remember the cupcake craze was already ongoing when I moved here 7 years ago. The fad locally has been over for at least 2-3 years now in my opinion, even though as you said, they are still pretty prevalent.

I'm now eagerly awaiting a crepe craze.

mykalberta · 11-10-2010, 09:10 AM

Crave is great, I brought up for my sisters birthday party, the DQ ice creak cake went uneaten (except by me) and everyone at the cupcakes - they also asked why I only brought 24 of them. I guess no one in or around Edmonton has ever tasted a good cupcake.

getbak · 11-10-2010, 09:14 AM

I miss Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuffins.

I never really understood the cupcake craze. I prefer cake. I don't like the cake to icing mix in the cupcakes - you get a glob of icing on top of a big pile of cake. With a cake, you get a better mix of a layer of cake, with a layer of icing, ideally repeated 2 or 3 times.

I would welcome a crepe craze. It's like a pancake you can eat with your hands.

DrJ · 11-10-2010, 09:18 AM

You have to be a sucker to spend $5 on a mountain of icing on a cupcake.

Winsor_Pilates · 11-10-2010, 09:20 AM

I thought this craze was stupid, and now to hear people have replaced wedding cakes with cupcakes it's even stupider.
Do the bride and groom stand together and make the first cut into a cup cake?

onetwo_threefour · 11-10-2010, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

I think a year or two is generous. I remember the cupcake craze was already ongoing when I moved here 7 years ago. The fad locally has been over for at least 2-3
years now in my opinion, even though as you said, they are still pretty prevalent.

I'm now eagerly awaiting a crepe craze.

Me too! Although I would b
Probably be disappointed by any mass-produced crepe. I make them form my family once every ciuple of months or so. Lots of work for breaksfast,, but heaven in your mouth.

NBC · 11-10-2010, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Regulator75

We had a cupcake wedding cake back before it was "cool". This was over 7 years ago.

Had a friend who had cupcakes at her wedding. I think it was in 1999.

Trends in baking are very cyclical. Croissants were huge in the 70s, muffins in the 80s and bagels in the 90s. Doughnuts - at least in Canada - seem to be the only consistent when looking at typical store-bought breakfast items.

Like one poster said, I'm sure that the trend in specialty cupcakes will eventually wane.

macker · 11-10-2010, 09:23 AM

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Misterpants · 11-10-2010, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by mykalberta

Crave is great, I brought up for my sisters birthday party, the DQ ice creak cake went uneaten (except by me) and everyone at the cupcakes - they also asked why I only brought 24 of them. I guess no one in or around Edmonton has ever tasted a good cupcake.

Blasphemy! Who passes up a DQ ice cream cake for a cupcake?

valo403 · 11-10-2010, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

I think a year or two is generous. I remember the cupcake craze was already ongoing when I moved here 7 years ago. The fad locally has been over for at least 2-3 years now in my opinion, even though as you said, they are still pretty prevalent.

I'm now eagerly awaiting a crepe craze.

Oddly enough i have noticed some crepe places popping up. This pleases me greatly. If one of those southern Thailand style crepe carts were to ever show up here I'd be done for.

I will admit that the bite size cupcake place in SOHO (Melissa's I think) is pretty good, especially the PB+J flavor. I could eat those all day.

bizaro86 · 11-10-2010, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by NBC

Trends in baking are very cyclical. Croissants were huge in the 70s, muffins in the 80s and bagels in the 90s. Doughnuts - at least in Canada - seem to be the only consistent when looking at typical store-bought breakfast items.

Like one poster said, I'm sure that the trend in specialty cupcakes will eventually wane.

This is definitely true, and I suspect it won't be much longer. People are comparing the cupcake craze to Starbucks, as its an "affordable indulgence." But coffee is chemically addictive in a way that sweets just aren't. It'll get replaced by the next big thing shortly.

4X4 · 11-10-2010, 09:48 AM

No wonder chicks go bridezilla. Forget about impressing the gals with your wedding dress, there are dudes out there critiquing the cake.

burn_this_city · 11-10-2010, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by 4X4

No wonder chicks go bridezilla. Forget about impressing the gals with your wedding dress, there are dudes out there critiquing the cake.

Not all of us are used to going to weddings where the bride and groom are cousins, or where the newly weds jump a truck over a barn after their vows.

Sorry Regulator, not directed at you, the cupcake wedding I went to was pretty redneck.

anyonebutedmonton · 11-10-2010, 09:57 AM

Honestly used to love grabbing a crave cupcake in Kensington and walking over to Starbucks for a dark roast....

How can anyone hate on delicious cake?

I actually don't like buttercream nearly as much as crave for some reason. Just wasn't as rich or something.

4X4 · 11-10-2010, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Not all of us are used to going to weddings where the bride and groom are cousins, or where the newly weds jump a truck over a barn after their vows.

Sorry Regulator, not directed at you, the cupcake wedding I went to was pretty redneck.

Ho ho hold the f*uck on... So at the cupcake wedding, the bride and groom were cousins, and they jumped a truck over a barn?
I don't think I'd remember the cake after that.

Misterpants · 11-10-2010, 10:05 AM

Cupcakes are so 2005. Aren't Macarons the new hotness in wedding desserts?

MissTeeks · 11-10-2010, 10:06 AM

There is nothing I hate more than a cupcake wedding cake. It's just so tacky.

But I do like a Crave cupcake if I happen to be near a store. I don't go out just for a Crave cupcake. It's far cheaper for me to bake my own cupcakes at home that taste just as good but I get two and half dozen cupcakes for the price of two cupcakes at Crave.

wooohooo · 11-10-2010, 10:16 AM

I don't know how girls love cupcakes so much. Whenever I'm with my girlfriend she always wants cupcakes so I buy her some when I go over to her place. But damn... they're hella expensive. They don't even taste good. She made us take a day trip to Calgary just for cupcakes at a place on Kensington. Yes I realize I am incredibly whipped.

Table 5 · 11-10-2010, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Misterpants

Cupcakes are so 2005. Aren't Macarons the new hotness in wedding desserts?

Hmm, not a bad idea actually. I'm getting married next summer, and we're trying to figure out what to do with the cake part as neither of us are really cake people. In my opinion wedding cakes tend to be pretty boring and dry, and way too frickin expensive for what you get. Cupcakes? Meh, a little too trendy. Not sure macaroons are it either, but it's not a bad alternative. The kid inside of me wants to get a Philips ice-cream cake.

Wtf...when the hell did I start caring about this stuff?!?

WilsonFourTwo · 11-10-2010, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by bizaro86

This is definitely true, and I suspect it won't be much longer. People are comparing the cupcake craze to Starbucks, as its an "affordable indulgence." But coffee is chemically addictive in a way that sweets just aren't. It'll get replaced by the next big thing shortly.

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle...eroin_stu.html