I saw some cake in the airport in San Francisco and thought it’d be interesting to try.

It tasted like stale box mix cake with icing that was left on a shelf unsealed and then they pressed some chocolate onto the side.

Just because it looks good doesn’t mean it tastes good.

I’m in Chicago until Friday (then I leave for San Francisco) and was super excited to grab some delicious cupcakes. I’ve had a few bakeries recommended to me and I tried out a bunch so far.

I wanted to get a picture for this post that really summed up the essence of Chicago…so I took a (bad) picture of this wall that said “Chicago” on it.

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Tim Horton’s is one of my favorite things about Canada. There are a couple in the states but not by me. They are kind of like Dunkin’ Donuts (coffee and doughnuts) but they offer a bit more and it tastes much better.

I went in for breakfast and I was going to get a vanilla doughnut but I saw this chocolate danish, something I had never seen before (maybe I’ve been living under a rock and they’re everywhere, but it was new to me). I had to get it. It was super chocolatey with flakey crust, kind of dry but it was about $1.50, no complaints here.

Right now I’m off to Chicago for four days, they just opened up a Sprinkles location there a couple weeks ago and I have been dying to try it, I will make sure to make a big post devoted to them! I have five or six flavors on my list to try.

This is just a short post about For The Love Of Cake in Toronto
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**NOTE: I’m on vacation from August 5th to the 16th to Toronto, Chicago, and San Francisco. I will still try to put up some recipes but I might not be able to bake while I’m gone. I’ll be making posts about the different bakeries I visit though!**

A couple friends and I went out to East Earl, PA to a place called Shady Maple. It is a big buffet, a farm market, and has a banquet hall. We drove through suburban Pennsylvania and through the countryside. It’s out by Lancaster.

It was $20 to get in the buffet and barely anything was vegetarian so I decided to just skip eating and go in free. However, they had a little stand with baked goods and I have heard good things about their whoopie pies.

They are a good price and are pretty big. They are super soft and moist with a creamy center. They have a perfect frosting to pie ratio. I picked up a couple more to bring back to the city.
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Yesterday my roommate and I took a day trip up to Boston. Megabus offers really cheap tickets to a bunch of places like New York, Toronto, Boston, Washington DC, and a bunch more. We booked our tickets almost 2 month ago so they were $2 round trip each.

A few people recommended Sweet to me, a cupcake shop with a few locations around Boston. I went to the one in Harvard Square and later the one on Mass Ave (they were THAT good).

They have a ton of flavors and offer normal sized and mini cupcakes. $3.25 for a normal size and $1.95 for a mini. A little on the pricey side but these were actually worth the price (compared to SOME cupcake shops I’ve been to). It was also a beautiful shop, very clean, and the staff in both of the ones I went to were really nice. They also offer frosting shots, a small cup filled with delicious frosting.
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