Known for mini-cupcakes baked from scratch in over a dozen flavours such as chocolate peppermint, red velvet chocolate, carrot, banana chocolate, and seasonal flavours like chocolate coconut and pumpkin maple, these cupcakes are easy to purchase or get delivered from multiple locations.

Baked throughout the day at this West Queen West bakery to ensure freshness, the cupcakes here are also free of preservatives, artificial flavours, hydrogenated oils, or gelatine. Using high end ingredients like Madagascar vanilla and even imported sprinkles makes the apple, dulce de leche, salted caramel, strawberry, chocolate peanut butter and many other cupcakes here pop.

This midtown bakery is known for epic donuts and cakes, but they also make cupcakes with the same mind-blowing level of whimsy, even creating the most rich and spongy chocolate cupcakes topped to look like little unicorns.

The offerings at this small shop on College show that simplicity can be divine with their little vanilla bean, red velvet and chocolate truffle cupcakes and occasional special flavours like raspberry with lemon buttercream.

Locations in Leslieville and near Yonge and Lawrence are where to find ultra-gourmet cupcakes towering with peaks of icing in flavours like mango passionfruit, gianduja, chocolate fudge and salted caramel.

This cupcake specialist on Avenue Road offers a cast of daily flavours including chocolate with sprinkles, red velvet with raspberry filling, and banana chocolate chip topped with banana icing. Individual cupcakes sell for $3, while a dozen is priced at $30.

The cupcakes at this Leslieville bakery are topped with perfectly piped icing and are absolutely dreamy in simple flavours like the fudgiest chocolate topped with adorable rainbow sprinkles.

Located on Broadview north of Danforth, this bakery with a spunky name makes their famous cupcakes infused with rum in small batches.

With locations in Kensington Market and the Junction, this bakery lets vegans enjoy the bliss of a cupcake too. There’s no need to miss out on the simple joys of vanilla, chocolate and red velvet cupcakes just because you don’t eat gluten, soy, dairy or eggs.