The mission of Dress for Success is to promote economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support, and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

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/.

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The Cupcake Girls

You spoke, we listened, and then went back to the drawing board…

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?”

The Cupcake Girls

Cupcakes is excited to partner with BC Children’s Hospital Foundation for the month of July. BC Children’s Hospital Foundation is united with its donors by a single, simple passion – to improve the health and the lives of the young people who enter BC Children’s Hospital every day.

“Sunny” is the July cause cupcake. For the entire month of July, Cupcakes is proudly donating a portion of the proceeds from every “sunny” cause cupcake sold to support the people, places and things required to ensure BC’s kids have access to outstanding pediatric care.

“Sunny” is a vanilla cupcake finished with orange flavoured buttercream and topped with an edible sunshine fondant. The “sunny” cause cupcake will be sold throughout the month of July at all Cupcakes Bakery locations.

If you’re a fan of Cupcakes and want to be updated on our new products, events, and weekly specials, be sure to add yourself as a fan onto our Facebook page. Simply click on the “facebook” icon to the left of the screen.

Thanks for visiting!

The Cupcakes Girls,
Heather & Lori

When I moved to Vancouver in March of 2006 one of the first places my husband David said I had to go was Cupcakes on Denman. While walking around the West End with my cousin, Carolina, we were drawn into Cupcakes because of the atmosphere, the crowd that filled the tiny Denman shop, and of course since David said too!

The silver cupcake stands were filled with all sorts of Cupcakes and we had a hard time choosing just one. So we did what any rational person would do and bought a half dozen. We asked the lovely front staff to pick out the top six and add them to our order. When they put what looked like a coconut ball in the pack, I told my cousin she could have that one all to herself, since coconut was one of my least favourite things.

As we left, we could barely contain ourselves from getting into the Cupcakes. As Carolina took a bite of the Koo Koo, her face froze for a moment. Then as she regained movement in her facial nerves, she demanded that I take a bite of the coconut cupcake. So I did. Again and again until it was all gone. The Koo Koo was beyond what I had ever imagined and opened up my world to all things coconut.

Now, 3 years later, I work at Cupcakes on W. Broadway and it is no secret that Koo Koo is my favourite Cupcake of all time.

Now it’s your turn. Share your Cupcakes story with us on Facebook!

Happy Eating!!!

Alex
Cupcakes Wedding Coordinator