Short & Sweet Cupcakes

I preordered 36 cupcakes for a baby shower and chose from the daily menu; placing the order by phone with the store manager 2 days before the event. My order was chocolate with mint icing, lemon cupcake with raspberry icing, vanilla with pink icing and red velvet.
The cupcakes were ready when I arrived (I was late for pick up). We checked the order to ensure it was all okay and they looked delicious! So delicious, I asked for an extra one, their white chocolate berry flavour for the road!
Unfortunately I only got to try the lemon cupcake at the shower The icing was too sweet for me to be able to finish it but the filling was a little tart so there was a good balance. I very much enjoyed the cake part of it. It seems like the guests enjoyed it as they were finished pretty quickly. The berry flavour we tried later was also very good. Dave really liked it! Said the super sweet icing was perfect *rolls eyes* the overall cupcake was delicious.
I would recommend for anyone to order from here.

This place is great! The cupcakes are delicious, dense, rich and very sweet. Its definitely a treat, not a daily indulgence unless you never want to fit into your jeans again. I wish theyd bring back their boston cream pie cupcake hnnggg, so good. They use high quality ingredients unlike the sketchy chemical foam some places try to pass off as frosting. All in all, you get a generous amount of both frosting and cake and they have great flavor combos. Worth a visit if youre in the area and love cupcakes!

I love the way the shop looks and how pretty the cupcakes are decorated.
My favourite flavours are: Short & Sweet, Ice Ice baby, and their Oreo cupcake.
Their red velvet is good, however, I’m not a fan of the raspberry filling (or any filling in that case). I wish they would make a normal red velvet with no filling.
They have certain flavours for each day of the week.
The icing can be a bit too much since it is on the sweeter side, so I sometimes end up scraping off some.
I’ve gotten their giant custom cupcake before for my birthday and it was absolutely beautiful and just as good as the regular sized one.
Their Sammies are pretty good too (you will like it if you like really sweet icings).

I think this place deserves at least four stars. They have a wonderful variety of cupcake flavours. the staff is friendly, these cupcakes are deeeeelicious, an excellent one is caramela soprano and the red velvet is to die for. a guilty pleasure indeed

A couple of years ago, I had a wagjag for this place and went with just under week before it expired. They printed a sign that said they would not be honouring the coupons. We said that we would not be able to come during the week and the man behind the counter said that he would accept the coupon up to a week after expiry. Trusting the man, we left without getting anything in writing.
We came back a week later for our cupcakes and the same man said that the coupon expired. We explained that just a week ago, he said that he would honour the coupon because he was not accepting them the week prior. His excuse was that it must have been his son that told us this! This was unbelievable.
Following this, I called Wagjag and they refunded me my money. They also acknowledged that I was not their first return and that they had previously heard the same thing from other disappointed customers.
It could have been a positive review if I got to try their cupcakes but now it’ll never happen.

Tasty cupcakes. Had the lime and orange chocolate. Icing is a little sweet.

Love their dense cake batter whether it was the vanilla cake, chocolate banana, red velvet, or the spice cake. I generally prefer the sweet icing and sour cream over butter cream… yet i find it just a bit too sweet! Still a fan though!
Really nice staff.

I love sweet icing and I’m a cupcake connoisseur. Cupcakes are fantastic… there’s loads of icing…
Simply the «ONLY» place where I will be buying mine in the future!

My sister and I went out of our way to try this little bakery because it is nut free and I need nut free cupcakes for my daughter’s birthday.
The owner and one of her employees greeted us very kindly and enthusiastically as we entered. I told her we were sampling cupcakes and about my daughter’s party. The owner, Orli, quickly asked us what we wanted to try and we said red velvet. it was moist and quite yummy with a cream cheese frosting. We spoke for a bit about her business, what she could do for our cake and I found her very friendly and accommodating. She asked us what other flavors we wanted and we tried marble. The marble was a little drier and crumbly but had come fresh out of the oven. My only complaint was that the frosting is too sweet for me. However, I am sure they would make it less sweet if asked.
Orli gave me options and prices on the cupcakes including a jumbo center cupcake and they were reasonable and cheaper if not in line with other bakeries in the city.
Even if I didn’t buy from her for this party, I would certainly go back because of her service and to try more flavors.
The cupcakes were obviously all fresh as I could see them baking up a storm and quite a few people came in to buy or order cakes while we were there.

Not a bad little place, but this B.S. with the WagJag coupons has GOT to stop.
Four times — FOUR TIMES — I’ve gone into Short & Sweet, all in January 2012, to try and use a WagJag voucher they offered late last year. And four times I’ve been met by a sign by the registers telling me I was out of luck, even as I looked at cake trays LOADED with cupcakes of all flavours.
NOT cool, guys.
I first discovered Short & Sweet using a couple of group-​buy coupons I purchased last year (can’t remember which company they partnered with) and had no trouble using either voucher. And this was when they were at their tiny previous location down on Old Orchard, just off Avenue, a little south of where they are now. I was impressed ENOUGH to go back and order cupcakes at full price on three more occasions, usually birthdays, etc.
So along comes another voucher deal, via WagJag (whose parent company I work for no less!). I bought one, but after driving to the store to redeem it, I discover they’ve revised rules applicable to it, AFTER THE FACT. This is something retailers are discouraged from doing by companies like WagJag (remember the issues with that butcher joint in downtown T.O. that got in over their heads?).
Anyways, the first time I tried to use the voucher on a Saturday early in January, I didn’t notice the sign on the wall by the register stating they were no longer accepting WagJags for the remainder of the day (perhaps the FRONT DOOR would be a better location, folks?), so like a fool I had the guy load up a 12-​pack of cupcakes destined for an event (though probably not as special as the ones held by the toffee-​noses who live in the area surrounding Short & Sweet). Arriving back at the register, I suddenly spot the sign, nodded toward it in disappointment, and said that it looked like I wasn’t going to be able to get them after all. The guy apparently agreed and started PUTTING THEM BACK!!! No conciliatory offer. No «oh, don’t worry about it, I’ve already boxed them up». Nothing.
They had PLENTY to go around that day. Yet he still preferred to let an order — even a discounted one — walk out the door unfulfilled.
So, instead of cupcakes, as planned, we picked up a cake at another bakery along the strip, since we were in the vicinity. Good enough, I suppose.
I tried Short & Sweet a week later, also on a Saturday, this time just figuring on getting the cupcakes for me and my girlfriend to split, but once again, the sign was still up. I didn’t ask. I shouldn’t have had to. I left.
Tried again mid-​week the following week. The sign was still up. I tipped back out the door.
Tried again yesterday (another Saturday), and once again spotted the sign as I opened the door. Only this time, the sign was different. It now stated that WagJag customers HAD to place their orders 48 hours before pickup to avoid disappointment. Disappointment?!? The cake trays behind the counter were nearly FULL of fresh new cupcakes, but apparently I wasn’t allowed to have any of those.
W.
T.
F?
So now, in what I think is a clear violation of the WagJag rules — and if not, then a clear violation of good customer relations — Short and Sweet expects me to place an order TWO DAYS IN ADVANCE for pretty much the same selection of cupcakes I’ll see on display in the store when I go to pick it up?
Seriously?
Short and Sweet is a decent little cupcake shop in a city increasingly full of them. Were it not for this ridiculous «sign» business, I’d rate them a solid 4-​stars (they’d only lose one because their cupcakes are a bit too firm).
I’m going to try to use my WagJag one more time. Perhaps a second time if I’m feeling particularly masochistic. If all goes smoothly, I’ll post a followup review here that gives them the 4-​stars they would otherwise deserve. Failing that, however, I’ll probably just ask WagJag for a refund on the voucher and make the trek to For The Love Of Cake downtown in Liberty Village, which is about four times the distance from my home, but they don’t greet you with signs at the cash register when you show up to redeem them. You get your pick of whatever happens to be on display that day. If there’s nothing you like that particular day, THEN you can decide to go back later. Or perhaps I’ll return to Crumbs & Co. up in Richmond Hill. Don’t remember any signs there, either.
Look, here’s some advice for businesses that sign up for WagJags, Groupons, TeamBuys, etc.: if you suspect there’s even the SLIGHTEST chance that you’ll sell several hundred vouchers requiring you to alter the rules after the fact, put those rules on the voucher website AND the voucher itself before anyone even hits the «buy» button. Far better to relax voucher rules later on (happy customers) then to restrict their usage at the point of transaction (unhappy customers), especially when many potential repeat customers aren’t within walking distance of your store and have to factor in transportation costs, time, etc.
You can fix this.

Short & Sweet Cupcakes is a cute bakery store… If you like pink, you would have fit right in… pink chairs, pale pink walls… and of course some cute pink cupcakes too!
I love how all the cupcakes were displayed on the shelf… with all the descriptions… no guessing, no need to ask them to describe every single one!
Free mini cupcake samples was also offered! I tried out the red velvet and vanilla cream, both deliciously good… in fact better than the one I got!
Carrot Cakecup ($ 2.95) was cute. The little carrot decoration on top is just adorable. But the icing was a bit on the sweet side, the cake itself was quite moist though!

I’m not a cupcake connoisseur, but I thought the cupcakes were great. I brought them to a dinner party for dessert and they were a hit!
Only negative would be that I found the staff to be a bit quiet and unhelpful.
They have actually moved locations and are now directly on avenue road.

I found the cake to be quite moist and flavourful but my main problem with their cupcakes is the icing. It is overly sweet and doesn’t taste like buttercream should. Also the ratio of cupcake to icing is off. I found there was more icing than cupcake and I ended up removing half of it.

Tried:
1. Pumpkin Spice Cupcake (Adorable bite-​sized)
2. Oreo cupcake ($ 3.16 tax included)
Atmosphere: This place is easily missed since it’s beat off on the side of Avenue Rd, but I had read about this place and since it’s fairly close to my area, I thought I’d give it a try.
The sign is bright pink so I guess if you’re walking, towards it, it’d strike out. But inside, it is very VERY small. There is no seating and can only fit around 3 – 4 people. 5 would be a crowd. But, I was my own crowd today.
The Pumpkin cupcake was actually just a sample, and I found it to be delicious! All the flavours came out perfectly and the icing complimented it well, you could taste the cream cheesiness in the icing.
On the other hand… the oreo cupcake was a big dissapointment. First of all, it didn’t even taste like oreo. Second, the icing was just plain and really oily. And as for the actual cupcake itself… someone give me some water, this cupcake is dehydrating! Yah. It was dry. NOT cool. I should of ordered another Pumpkin Spice! akjdflajldfjalkdfj waste of my $ 3.16 considering Pusateri’s is just down the road. Grrrr…
In all honestly, there are much better places to spend $ 3.16 on a cupcake. Sorry short and sweet. Ya’ll ain’t that sweet.