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Baked Goods

Cupcakes

All the neat little cupcakes standing to attention are parties in themselves. Pick up half a dozen ($16) or a dozen minis ($13) in flavours like Obsession, 24 Carrot, and Blue Hawaii and see how many actually make it home. Nothing organic here—they’re just like Mom used to make.

Wild Fire Bakery

Artisanal is serious business here. Organic levain breads and pastries are baked in wood-fired brick ovens. Varieties include apricot-anise, spelt, raisin-walnut, and sprouted wheat breads; for a sweet treat, try the vegan chocolate cake—Wild Fire’s decadent top seller.   

 

True Grain

Bruce and Leslie Stewart and resident dough guru Jenn Dixon create an array of delicious breads, with over 20 styles to choose from every day. Find stone-ground, naturally leavened, full-on organic breads, pastries, and baguettes. Customers love the kamut pumpkin seed loaf and the salt-sprinkled German-style pretzels. Soft, sweet French rolls burst with organic chocolate chunks. True Grain gets bonus points, too: they’re working on sourcing their Red Fife Wheat flour from a farm just three miles down the road.

Rendezvous French Patisserie

Pure butter and organic ingredients drive Brigitte Gonzalez’s pastry wonders, inspired by recipes from her French hometown of Pyla Sur Mer. Perfect canneles de Bordeaux are lighter than air, chocolate and almond incroyables, and lemon macaroons compete for first place, along with seasonal fruit tarts, perfect companions with a mug of fair trade coffee. Savouries are equally parfait with quiche Lorraine or luscious tomato tarts. Voilà!

Ooh La La Cupcakes

Hot on the cupcake craze comes Sherryl Andrews’s adventurous menu of 12 staple cakes, shamelessly decadent—each topped with a luscious Swiss meringue buttercream and blessed with a crazy name to match. Best-selling Triple Bypass starts with a brownie cake filled with dolce caramel, drizzled with chocolate, and dotted with Skor bits. Seasonal specialty blackberry lemon cake swathed in a blackberry buttercream finds a blackberry cream cheese centre (changing soon), and autumn heralds the arrival of local pumpkin and apple streusel.

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