The Cupcake Girls’ “Blue Hawaii” is composed of coconut cake with blue vanilla buttercream

Fans of the W Network’s reality show The Cupcake Girls rejoice! Heather White and Lori Joyce have brought their cheerful, retro-style bakery Cupcakes to Toronto. The Leaside location, the pair’s first outside their native British Columbia, features fresh-baked cupcakes and cakes in such mouth-watering flavours as Blue Hawaii (coconut cake with blue vanilla buttercream), Caramella (caramel-filled chocolate cake with praline-sprinkled caramel buttercream), and more traditional offerings like red velvet, chocolate, and cookies and cream. If a warm-from-the-oven treat isn’t enough to satisfy your sweet tooth, the shop also has an ice cream counter, as well as Cupcakes-branded items.  —Linda Luong