The Salvation Army helps provide direct, compassionate, hands-on service to more than 1.5 million people in Canada each year, restoring hope and dignity to the most vulnerable in society. The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Campaign has grown into one of Canada’s most significant and recognizable annual charitable events.
Founded in 1882, the Army’s goal was simple – to provide spiritual and practical support to society’s most vulnerable. Among various service innovations, The Salvation Army was instrumental, in its early years, in developing the first prisoner parole system and the first Juvenile Detention facility in Canada. The Army was also an early provider of shelter and service to women in crisis and served alongside the Canadian Armed Forces during the Great War and World War II.

For the month of December, Cupcakes is proudly donating a portion of the proceeds from every sally ann cause cupcake sold to help give hope today to the local communities in need. It is a chocolate cupcake finished with white buttercream and topped with a “Salvation Army” chocolate. This is an annual cause cupcake partnership with the Salvation Army Foundation.

The sally ann cause cupcake will be sold throughout the month of December at all Cupcakes Bakery locations. Please click on the “contact us” button to see a list of all of our Cupcakes bakery locations. Also, visit the Salvation Army website for more information on the foundation at www.salvationarmy.ca.

Want more information and be more involved with Cupcakes, be a fan, and join our Cupcakes by Heather & Lori Facebook page. Simply click on the Facebook link and join us in the celebration! We’re also on twitter!

Give hope today!

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Heather & Lori

Cupcakes is excited to partner with Big Brothers Vancouver for the month of November. Cupcakes and Big  Brothers Vancouver recognizes the importance of creating friendship opportunities for every child and the benefits of one-on-one mentorship programs.

 Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver has been offering friendship-based mentoring programs for boys and girls in the Lower Mainland since 1957.

 Amigo is the November cause cupcake. It is a marble cake cupcake finished with pastel blue vanilla buttercream and topped with a fondant airplane. For the entire month of November, Cupcakes is proudly donating a portion of the proceeds from every amigo cause cupcake sold to Big Brothers Vancouver.

Come and show your support today! Please visit the website for Big Brothers at www.bigbrothersvancouver.com for more information.

The Cupcakes Girls,

Heather & Lori

 We love seeing people carry our one-of-a-kind tote bags around the city. We’ve seen highschool and university students carry their books in them, moms with their kids in tow grocery shopping with them, business professionals using them as their after-work necessities bag, celebrities sporting one as their carry-on when flying, and most importantly, we’ve seen our customers walk out of cupcakes with some delicious cupcakes and minis inside. Yum!

 For the entire month of October, we are excited to give these totes away for FREE! Every MONDAY & TUESDAY, if you come in and buy a dozen cupcakes OR 2 packs of our assorted minis, you’ll get your very own tote bag free. We have two really cute designs to choose from — the classic I♥ CUPCAKES bag, or the limited edition “sweet 16″ bag.

So please come in today and help us treat you to some yummy cupcakes and your very own cupcakes tote bag. Cause we’d love to see more Cupcakes fans carrying them around this beautiful city of ours and around the world.

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Heather’s mom, Kathie White, has been the friendly voice of the Cupcakes order desk since Heather & Lori opened Cupcakes on Denman in March 2002. During a routine mammogram in June 2007, Kathie’s doctor diagnosed her with stage one breast cancer at the age of 59. She underwent an intensive bout of radiation therapy twice a day for 5 days and is now part of a research study group to help fight breast cancer. Kathie now takes Tamoxifen and will be considered cancer free in 5 years.

October is breast cancer awareness month and Cupcakes is proudly donating a portion of the proceeds from every ‘c-cup’ cause cupcake sold to help fund research for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation BC/Yukon Region and create a future without breast cancer.

The ‘c-cup’ cupcake is a vanilla cupcake finished with pink buttercream and decorated with the breast cancer ribbon in pink fondant. C-cup cause cupcake will be sold throughout the month of October at all Cupcakes Bakery locations.

Also, visit the Canadian Breast cancer Foundation BC/Yukon Region website at www.cbcf.org for additional information.

Thanks for visiting and we hope to see you in one of our 6 locations soon!

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The new “Sweet 16” bag is now our 3rd edition to the limited collection of tote baga carried in all 5 of our Cupcake locations…soon to be 6 with Park Royal opening its doors to our Cupcakes enthusiasts next week.

These simple bags have become a huge part of our customers’ cupcake experience using them to tote a dozen of our pastel iced treats to a friend’s celebration or carrying this semester’s book load.
When we sell out of this seasonal style we will then head back to the drawing board to create a new look and design for our next edition.

You can find and purchase these brightly printed totes at all of our Cupcake locations. Remember we only have a limited supply of this bag, get them while there here!!!!!

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Founded in 1996 in New York City, Dress for Success is a global, non-profit network of affiliated organizations that provide interview suits, a support network and career development tools to clients in over 75 cities.

For the month of September, Cupcakes is proudly donating a portion of the proceeds from every dress you up cupcake sold to help fund the Dress for Success Vancouver Society and create a future for disadvantaged women who want to take charge of their lives.

The dress you up is a vanilla cupcake finished with purple buttercream and decorated with a fondant bow.

This is an annual cause cupcake in partnership with the Dress for Success Vancouver Society to help create awareness for the local organization and help disadvantaged women re-enter the work force. The Dress for Success cause cupcake will be sold throughout the month of September at all 5 Cupcakes Bakery locations.

For additional information on Dress for Success and to help out in your own way, please visit http://www.dressforsuccess.org/.

Yum yum!

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We are super excited to introduce red velvet CAKE to the Cupcakes family. Kathie, who takes all of your cake orders placed on-line and on the phone, consistently tells us how so many people ask for a red velvet cake, triple-layered with cream cheese. For a long time, we had to say ’sorry, no-can-do.’ However, our talented bake & pastry teams have worked together and have come up with the perfect red velvet cake recipe, for all of your special occasions.

Most popular in the Southern United States, Red Velvet cake can be best descibed as a creamy and decadent cake infused with cocoa and then dyed red to give it its distinctive personality. The most common and favorite pairing with the cake is a cream cheese frosting, whipped until fluffy and white.

Although red velvet cake has been around for quite some time now, numerous legends surround its place of origin, and on its method on turning the color of the cake to its rich, deep red. Some say that during World War II, bakers used boiled beets instead of food coloring, while others claim that the deep red color emerges when mixing buttermilk and vinegar with the cocoa. Whatever the truth may be, there is no denying that over the last decade, red velvet cake has gained popularity among celebrities (Oprah Winfrey is a HUGE fan) and has emerged as a favourite in North American households.

If you love our ‘red velvet’ cupcake, which is available on weekends or by special request, we know you’ll be excited about ordering a cake just like it for your next celebration.

A friendly reminder that when ordering the cake, it is triple-layered, and covered in cream cheese frosting. If you’d like any decoration or writing on the cake, it will be covered in a creamy white vanilla buttercream instead of the cream cheese frosting. If you’re not a fan of cream cheese, you do have the option to have your whole cake layered and covered in the white vanilla buttercream. All cake orders must be placed at least 36 hours in advance.
Call our orders desk today! 604.974.1300 ext 1

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Cupcakes and Arts Umbrella recognizes the importance for every child to experience the joy of creation and to discover their own creative potential. Arts Umbrella provides the highest quality visual and performing arts education to Metro Vancouver children and youth ages 2-19. regardless of their financial circumstances. Established in 1979 by a few enthusiastic, artistic parents, the non-profit Arts Umbrella has become a national leader in children’s art education. The mission is to inspire kids for life through the arts.

For the entire month of August, Cupcakes is proudly donating a portion of the proceeds from every ella cause cupcakes sold to Arts Umbrella. Ella is the August cause cupcake. It is a coconut cupcake finished with an assortment of colored vanilla buttercream and topped with a paper umbrella.

Come and show your support today! Also, for more updates, please sign on to be a fan on our Facebook page. For more information on Arts Umbrella, please visit: www.artsumbrella.com.

Thank you for your continued support.

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At Cupcakes, we trust and care about our customers’ feedback. We have comment cards at every one of our locations and our management team goes through them every week, taking note of your concerns, suggestions and praises. We also take our facebook page very seriously and appreciate all the feedback and especially questions that get posted by our fans every day.

Repeatedly, we hear that our buttercream is too sweet and sometimes too heavy. So, for the last month, we had our bake team at Cupcakes working together to recreate a NEW butter cream recipe. After sampling over 20 attempts we were finally excited about a new swiss-style buttercream. It’s deliciously fluffy, and at the same time, a lot lighter in flavour.

For the entire month of August, we will be featuring our new buttercream on the ‘confetti’ cupcake. This vanilla cake with the NEW white vanilla buttercream, topped with colourful confetti sprinkles, will soon be another favourite amongst our cupcake enthusiasts.

Please be sure to stop by any one of our five locations and try the ‘confetti’ with our new buttercream. We appreciate your feedback, whether it be via facebook, or you can simply fill out one of our customer feedback cards and hand them back to one of our cupcake girls behind the counter. “Because who doesn’t love a cupcake?”

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