Prairie Girl Bakery

I LOVE Prairie Girl.
The best cupcakes in the city (in my opinion). My favourite is def the strawberry.
I have ordered multiple times for many occasions, and always get their custom cakes for events! :_

Tried a carrot cream cheese cupcake. The cake was quite moist and featured pecans. The cream cheese icing was plentiful. It was fairly well composed, although I did taste a bit of sugar, which is not what you usually are after for a cream cheese icing.
They had tons of flavours left when I came by at lunch; I asked about a gluten free option, and all they had left was a vanilla cupcake with lemon icing. Granted, this was mid-​day, so I’m sure they were pretty busy.
The cupcake was packaged into a single box and kept upright, so that’s a nice touch. A single cupcake costs $ 3.50.

Great tasting flavourful cupcakes. I wish they offered more customizable options. They sometimes have an eod sale sale on Friday evenings where they sell they sell cup cakes at 50% off regular price which is worth it. They can be a tad too sweet for some people though.

I’m not generally a fan of sweets, but I was on my way to work and thought I’d take some cupcakes for my co workers to boost staff morale.
I liked that I was able to pick only the flavours that I wanted. It’s also nice that they have smaller size cupcakes because that way you can have two and try two different flavours.
I was very pleased with the icing to cupcake ratio. Icing is the only reason I eat cupcakes and this was some of the creamiest, dreamiest icing I’ve had. You could see the vanilla specks in some of them. The Coconut vanilla was my favourite. The cake was light and fluffy with no dryness.
I would buy these again when I want to be loved at work, or at home, or by anyone. Please be my friend, I’ll buy you cupcakes…

Good call on the cutie sized cupcakes. They are smaller than a mini and the perfect size to indulge an afternoon sugar craving. Mhmmmm.

My co-​worker has been telling me about this place since last year, but I never went. Last week, I finally went a bought half a dozen for my sister’s birthday. I was somewhat disappointed in them because the chocolate cupcakes were good, they were moist, soft and just the right amount of sweetness. The vanilla cupcakes on the other hand were dry. Even the icing on them were dry. I should have just got all chocolate cupcakes. The service is excellent so no complaints there.

It’s great! Have the mini cupcakes, they’re the perfect size and the icing to cake ratio is still reasonable. It’s when the cupcake is bigger that it gets a bit out of hand.
The staff is fabulous, and is always so nice and enthusiastic! They are of great help when it comes to choosing the different flavors, and is fast and efficient.
Good place to go if you have a sweet tooth!

Let me start off by saying cupcakes are not my thing. After trying Prairie Girl’s cupcakes, my opinion has not wavered. The cake portion is very moist, which I do appreciate, but the icing is too sweet and and piled too high.
HOWEVER, this place is awarded 4 stars from me because the cupcakes are adorable and make for an excellent gift. The people that I have given the cupcakes to have all thoroughly enjoyed it. The shop also sells 50 cent decors (including ‘Happy Birthday’ ones) that you can use to jazz up the cupcake to suit any occasion. One star has been deducted because the box that holds the cupcake in place does not actually prevent the cupcake from tipping over. I urge you to carry that box upright and not swing it! Trust me, I learned this the hard way.

My co-​worker was really nice and went to buy Prairie Girl cupcakes as a mid-​day pick me up for all of us. I personally love love love red velvet cupcakes. I had purchased a dozen of the normal sized cupcakes before for my boyfriend’s birthday and found that the icing was a bit overwhelming because there was so much of it. I did think the icing was too much and wasn’t able to finish it.
However, the mini cupcakes are honestly the perfect size, with the right amount of icing. The presentation of the cupcakes are very classic and pretty.

I know there is a lot of hype about these cupcakes and tend to be a lot of people’s favourites, but to me personally I’m very indifferent about them. I like visit the PATH location as it is accessible underground. The place is always packed, so I recommend ordering online beforehand to bypass the line. However, it does require 48 hours advance ordering so be sure to order ahead of time.
I like to order to mini versions as I can’t finish the regular sized ones, but I find that even that was a bit too much for me as the icing is VERY sweet. I’m glad they came out with a tiny size so I can try two flavours at once. I have a sweet tooth, but it’s something that I don’t have cravings for as the icing is a bit too much for me

A cute cupcake store in the heart of the financial district. If you are not sure what you want, the mini sized cupcakes are a great option. I tried both the vanilla cupcake with strawberry icing and the chocolate cupcake with vanilla icing. I must say the flavors were very good and the cupcakes were very moist. Although, the «real» strawberry flavor was a little over powering, I would definitely return to try the other flavor combinations.
Beware, there is a lot of icing packing into these cupcakes; if you are not a true sweets fan this place may not be for you.

Never again. I bought 4 regular sized cupcakes from here on Thursday and today (Saturday) we still have two left. A big feat in our household but not really because these cupcakes suck.
The Red Velvet, the first one we tried, was grainy and chalky. The icing and the cake somehow resembled sand and left an unpleasant texture in our mouth. A few hours later we persevered and tried the Coconut one. While the cake was actually moist it was still a terrible cupcake. The icing to cupcake ratio is WAY off. I have never considered scraping off icing into the garbage until I tried these cupcakes. The coconut shreds on top were so dry and tasteless.
Update: Tried the other two: Blueberry and Cream and Peanutbutter Banana. I don’t know what to tell you Prairie Girl but the colour blue doesn’t equal the flavour blueberry. I’ve tried several crayons and the same holds true of orange, just for future reference. Peanutbutter Banana one was actually decent, but not worth $ 3.
And what about this place is meant to be anything about a Prairie or Girl? It looks like the store was designed by a corporate robot who moved to the city and couldn’t comprehend interior decorating or touches of design.
None of the cupcakes in the sparse display had name tags. Instead you had to look and pick off a wall menu with pictures. Hello, have you ever been to a bakery? Did you think it was not enticing to see the actual cupcake next to it’s name?
The icing on the cupcake was the man behind the counter didn’t want to fill up my water bottle because he wasn’t sure about the tap water. TORONTO TAP WATER. IN A BAKERY.
Wow, this place makes me so mad. I will never in my life recommend this place to anyone.

The only one that is worth try is the strawberry one and it’s because the icing does taste like real strawberries.
The rest are just standard cupcakes you can buy anywhere else.
I’ve tried cupcakes in i don’t remember how many places and all of them are the same thing: a sponge type and TONS of FAT ICING, not evenr eal fruit.
Cupcakes are out of my list as a treat.

This is one of the places I do not get at all. Why would anyone put out such a poor product? Why would anyone buy these? Probably because it’s convenient for those of us working in the financial district. Besides location, there’s absolutely nothing going for these cupcakes at all.
Trust me, I’m a cupcake connoisseuse. I blog about cupcakes.
The primary problem that I have with this (and a few other establishments, like The Cupcake Shoppe) is that I find it’s incredibly LAZY to slap different flavoured frostings on top of the same 2 – 4 cake bases. When all you do and make is cupcakes, you need to develop unique cake bases for every flavour. Or use one cake base for 2 flavours tops (3 if they contain different fillings). This is just lazy. It shows zero pride in their craft. It makes the cupcakes boring. It’s a waste of time and an absolute waste of calories. A good cupcake starts with a good cake base, and real flavour variety is what makes cupcakes. I’d rather take a 30 minute trip out to the ends of the city for a truly good quality cupcake made with effort than have one of these conveniently located under my office.
Besides that, the cupcakes taste below average at best. They are often dry, they are waaay too sweet, and they don’t have much flavour, except the banana, perhaps.
Other Unilocalers have commented that there’s too much frosting — that, I don’t think is a problem. It’s necessary to make the cupcakes look pretty. I do think they are too over the top at Prairie Girl with the frosting, but no one’s obligated to eat all the frosting that comes on a cupcake. What I do is that I’ll take an initial bite in — frosting and cake — and then peel the cupcake liner off the cupcake. Then I turn the cupcake sideways or upside down on the liner (depending on how good it is) and either eat the cake with a little bit of frosting or eat the cake alone.
But they do overcompensate the luckluster ingredients with way too much sugar, which results in cupcakes that have no distinct flavour besides overkill sweetness.
Just don’t bother!!!

I went with high hopes — we tried the strawberry daiquiri and the red velvet cupcakes. The cake parts of both were relatively flat, in that they looked compressed. I found the strawberry daiquiri one disappointing: it was too dense with too much icing. The red velvet one had a moister, lighter texture with nice cream cheese icing but it wasn’t as good as the Costco red velvet cupcakes…
Probably would not return. Undoubtedly the cupcakes are a delight to see and smell, but nothing special to eat.
Update: I tried the mini cupcakes at a later date and found them significantly better than the large ones. I revised from 2 to 3 stars. The small ones tend to be moister and have a lower icing to cake ratio. They’re just as sweet as the large ones but less daunting. Would recommend the small ones over the regular ones.

It tough times when coming here as it’s all about decisions, decisions. …and more decisions. lol.
Prairie girl cupcakes spits out over 20+ types of cupcake flavors from vanila, red velvet, and lemon to peanut butter, caramel and coconut. Though this place is small, like a kiosk, it can definitely serve to satisfy your sweet tooth… any time of the day. Just ensure you’re there latest by NOON in case you wish to reserve a case for any work meeting. Another thing to look out for is their flavors of the day (usually two type) that sell for $ 1.99 for two minis.

I decided to make a quick stop here to grab a cupcake to surprise a friend the other day. It’s underground at First Canadian Place in what must be like a bakers row or something because it’s literally surrounded by four other bakeries. Haha. Anyways, the cupcakes are reasonable priced (3.40 something for the one I ordered) and come in a nicely made carrier and bag if you want. Makes a nice looking gift for the price.
In terms of the actual cupcake, I ordered a Chocolate Peanut Butter and it was pretty good… if not great. I don’t understand the current trend of putting way too much icing on the top of the cupcake. It shouldn’t be to the point that the icing has the same volume as the cake itself, but anyways someone must like them like this because they’re pretty common. The icing WAS rich and delicious however: very peanut buttery and decadent. The cake, on the other hand, was a little dry and unimpressive and indiscernible from the made-​from-​a-​box variety. Slightly disappointing.
2.5÷5 for the cupcake itself and ⁴⁄₅ for price and presentation.

Ok, I’m going to start off by saying that I’m not a big sweets fan in general, so maybe that’s what came between me and liking Prairie Girl.
I’ve had quite a few of their cupcakes, and they’ve grossed me out every single time. These little cakes are seriously 50% cake, 50% icing. Their chocolate one is ok, and they make a peanut butter cupcake that’s actually pretty delicious, but I would have to say their vanilla is downright nasty. The cupcake has an almost sponge-​cake-​like consistency, and the mountain of saccharine icing does not help the situation. I always feel dumb paying $ 4-​ish dollars for a cupcake, only to throw away half of it when I invariably end up scraping off the icing.
I don’t understand why there’s always a line when I pass this place.

I am a total cupcake fan girl so when my friend hyped about PG cupcakes I had to try them. I don’t live in Toronto so I was really hoping that their cupcakes were amazing.
PG cupcakes isn’t easy to find if you don’t know the area. It’s hidden underground in the First Canadian Place right by the food court.
There was a line when I got there around mid afternoon. The line wasn’t slow yet fast. I bought a dozen mini cupcakes to share with my family and friends so I got the chocolate with strawberry and vanilla icing, vanilla with chocolate icing, and the red velvet cupcakes. These came up to $ 18.95 (no tax included). The packaging is very nice and the storefront is cute… but did the cupcakes taste amazing? I thought the cake tasted like any other cupcake and there was a bit too much icing. However, I liked the strawberry icing because you can actually tell that they used real strawberries.
Next time I’ll just stick to buying cupcakes around the Mississauga area or just make them myself. PG cupcakes weren’t worth the drive to Toronto.

I literally just picked up an order of 6 cupcakes from Prairie Girl for my manager’s birthday. Other than the fact I wound up having to trek there during the worst snowstorm we’ve had this year, I was very pleased with my first Prairie Girl Bakery experience.
First of all, their online ordering system is great. Actually, better than great. It was one of the best and most user-​friendly online ordering systems I’ve ever encountered (just try ordering pizza through Pizza Pizza’s new website. I dare you). I was able to mix and match easily and efficiently before finally settling on my final six choices. I was also able to see the price change as I went along AND I was able to add a single gluten-​free cupcake to my order. It was so nice to have the option to order just one GF cupcake (and not a whole batch) and join in on the celebrations back at the office. Traditionally when we order cake at work, I’m left out of the festivities, so this was a wonderful change.
Finding the place. This was a little tricky, because I didn’t see their name on the directory and had NO CLUE where I was going. Your best bet is to just go to 100 King St. West, go downstairs and head towards the food court. They are right across from the Longo’s. Once I found it, even though there was a line, I was able to stroll up to the pre-​order section and get my cupcakes right away. I love that they put the GF cupcake in a separate box with clear labelling so I knew for sure which one was mine. They also put them in a really sturdy bag for easy transport.
The storefront itself is magical and features a large wall of cupcakes in different colours and sizes, waiting for enjoyment by the masses. The smell, even though in the middle of a busy food court, is intoxicating.
The cupcakes were a huge hit at the office. Everyone got a flavour they enjoyed, and the little sugar «Happy Birthday» toppers added the perfect ‘je né sais quoi’ to the already beautiful cupcakes. The strawberry icing (on the cupcake I enjoyed) was clearly made from real strawberries, and the chocolate and vanilla bean icings also received rave reviews. The cake itself is a bit denser than you would get from a box mix, but it was very enjoyable. You could definitely cut one of these guys in half and enjoy them throughout the day (though scarfing one back in a single sitting isn’t entire implausible either).
For six cupcakes (including a GF one) and the sugar toppers, it came to just slightly over $ 20 (and that includes tax). I find this perfectly reasonable given the quality and size of the cupcakes, and the fact I’ve seen similar treats go for much much more at other bakeries. All in all, I would definitely order from here again for an office birthday or personal occasion.