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7 reviews for Sweet Bliss Baking Company
At $2 a pop, Sweet Bliss' cupcakes are affordable and priced just right for their ample size - a human cupcake portion. I sampled a Red Velvet Cupcake and it was divine - the icing could stand to be a bit more tangy though. I couldn't taste enough cream cheese flavour. I loved the fact that it was refrigerated - I'm a big fan of cold cupcakes.
Highly recommended in sandwich format - unscrew the cupcake bottom and smush it onto the top of the icing. Voilà! Perfectly balanced sweetness without a wall of unmanageable icing.
I had one goal when I went into this bakery and it was to try a cupcake. And the cupcake of choice: red velvet!
First, walking into the bakery I was greeted with a punch in the face of baked good; their aroma to be exact. Such a lovely way to enter a building.
As I mentioned, I chose the red velvet cupcake as my maiden voyage into what will be many visits back. I was surprised, but not too horrified, that the frosting which tops the cupcake was not a cream cheese frosting but rather a buttercream. That's nothing to sneeze at but I would've expected cream cheese. Comparing this buttercream though to other places I've been, this was close to perfection.
The staff was friendly as one of the workers eagerly waited with a pair of tongs in his hand for me to decide what I was going to have. The fridge by the till which housed most of their delights was full of cakes and cupcakes among other things - you see why it was hard to decide.
The cake itself? Ridiculously moist and begged to be savoured. I've read these reviews which boast about Sweet Bliss's cinnamon buns so I may have to make another visit... just can't make this a habit of mine.
My Sunday morning tradition:
-sleep in
-walk to Sweet Bliss
-order a coffee and a cinnamon bun, sometimes two (don't judge me, asshole)
-walk back to my place
-heat the cinnamon bun in the microwave for exactly 23 seconds (no more, no less)
-savour it's sugary goodness
Okthanksbye!
If I could package a smell from any place in Toronto, this might be the one I'd choose. (Least likely candidate: Dundas/Spadina, but I digress).
Cinnamon buns are delicious, just the right amount of sugar, not gooped with icing like those chain places you find in a mall, and the cupcakes have an almost shortbread-like flavour to them. Homemade granola is also very good. Owners are always gracious, friendly. Stopping in here at least once per weekend is pretty much a weekend ritual that I must observe. Highly recommend.
I have crossed half the city by streetcar just to satisfy my cravings for Sweet Bliss' cupcakes. The icing has the perfect texture, thick and sugary but yielding, while the cake is light and flavourful. The chocolate ones are particularly devastating.
Various other baked goods are also available (larger cakes, loaves, pies and so forth).
Sweet Bliss makes amazingly good Coconut Creme Pie. I mean, it's so good you (as in me) may be caught raiding the fridge in the middle of the night armed with only a fork and an insatiable craving for coconut.
Crust? Flaky and buttery
Coconut custard? Creamy and coconut-y
Whipped cream? Abundant and not too sweet
SB also has cookies, cupcakes, loaves, tarts, macaroons and such. They're all good - some more than others. I'd pass on the cookies and loaves but definitely go for the cupcakes, macaroons and tarts.
It's a small place so there's nowhere to sit. They've got lots of tchotchkes scattered amidst the food tables. They also sell coffee (Kicking Horse) by the pound.
I do wish they had more cake selection. It's a little hit and miss when you go but it's more hits than misses. But as long as they have Coconut Creme Pie, they've got me.
Walk in a circle like your trapped inside a doughnut and you might feel like youd feel were you take a gander in Sweet Bliss. And not just because that is the way the store is setup...its because the contents of said store are scrumptious like that hula hoop of a treat. except at sweet bliss the cupcake takes the cake (thanks for letting me be that cheesy.) but its true. its so beautiful and to see a whole fridge of them...sickening (you know in which way). Look around and find fresh wild honey, cookies, cakes and pies. At a certain point you dont recall each and every morsel of food youve had at a place because if its good you just sleep in it. Like your comfy bed, no?
