happy holidays!

Happy Holidays Bloomies! 2009 has been a wonderful year for inBloom Event Design and we are looking forward to an even busier and better 2010! Thanks so much for all of your support and for taking the time to read our blog and follow our events and adventures. We are signing off for the holidays for a bit of a break and will be back on Monday January 4th...Happy {belated} Chanukah, Merry Christmas, and have a wonderful New Year! See you again very soon...

The Bloomers

p.s. The image above is from the fabulously talented Bakerella...visit her blog for instructions on how to make these awesome Candy Cane Christmas Tree cuppies!

adventures of miss cuppie: the cupcake shoppe

After a brief hiatus, Miss Cuppie is back! Doing some Christmas shopping in the Yonge and Eglinton area yesterday, I decided to try out a cuppie at The Cupcake Shoppe, a cute little cupcakery with tons of deliciously decorated treats. Now I should let you know - yesterday was a sunny but frigid day in Toronto and in the morning I think the temps were around -20 degrees Celsius with the windchill. So with fingers too frozen to snap a pic of the storefront, I instead included a cute illustration from The Cupcake Shoppe's sweet website. I also nabbed a photo of their cuppies from their website too...it is just so much better than a photo I could take with my point-and-shoot!

I ended up buying two Christmassy, candy cane-topped cuppies for my hubby P. and I which we scarfed down after dinner last night. And the verdict? The icing was so-so {kind of bland} but the cake part moist and delish! I also decided that Miss Cuppie is much more fun when #1, it's a touch warmer outside, and #2 you are taste testing with a buddy. Anyone want to join me next time around?

See Miss Cuppie's other adventures here and here!

next stop for miss cuppie: the cupcakery

Miss Cuppie was at it again, and this time I checked out the cupcake goodness at The Cupcakery, near St. Clair and Dufferin in Toronto.

Again, I was really impressed with the sweet decor of this cupcake shop! I loved the pink and black touches, the displays, and the marvellously {is that a word?} coloured icing in bright blues, pinks, and yellows. And were the cuppies delish? You bet ya! I chose a chocolatey treat with caramel icing and was really quite in love. I even bought half a dozen lemon poppyseed cuppies for a cute yellow table design we did on the weekend. The store owned was very sweet and gracious as well.
I'll give The Cupcakery 5 out of 5 blooms across the board for all of the important cupcake criteria - visual appeal, eatability and tastiness! Is there really such a thing as a bad cupcake? And the store owner will get 5 out of 5 blooms for niceness too.

If you have any cupcake shop suggestions in and around Toronto, let me know and I will add it to my list!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
~The Bloomers

miss cuppie has a taste test! first stop: flour

This Bloomer has become Miss Cuppie for the next few weeks! I thought it would be a fun {and delicious} adventure to taste test at some of the wonderful cupcake shops in Toronto, and then report back here. Fun idea, hey? For my inaugural taste test, I chose a charming little shop at Eglinton and Bathurst called Flour which intrigued me with their wares: cupcakes, cakes and flowers...a bloomer's dream combination! And a clever store name too.

Flour is adorable and beautifully decorated with sweet little touches. It was very difficult to choose a cupcake to taste test, as there were so many good ones! As a cocoa addict, I chose a chocolate ganache cuppie. You just can't go wrong with ganache.

Score card:
Visual appeal of cuppie = 5/5 blooms
Eatability {was it easy to eat or did it fall apart and crumble down the front of my new jacket} = 5/5 blooms
Cuppie tastiness = 5/5 blooms
Frosting tastiness = 5/5 blooms...it's ganache
Loveliness of store = 5/5 blooms
Unexpected extra = you can pick up some fleurs while you are there! Also it looks like they make lovely wedding cakes too.

Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that we'll be seeing a lot of 5/5 blooms on this adventure?! Stay tuned for Miss Cuppie's next taste test, coming soon...

cupcake greatness

The Bloomers love a cuppie...well that's no secret! But what the Bloomers love even more is enjoying a cuppie in a beautifully designed location. H e a v e n.

Check out the digs of Enjoy Cupcakes, in California. Their location is as delightful for the eyes, as their cupcakes are for the tastebuds {or in our case tasteblooms!}. And once again I am smitten with the vintage trailer that owner Amber Vander Vliet uses for events and farmer's markets - much like this little cutie. Ah trailer envy.

Hope you are able to enjoy a cuppie this weekend! Have a good one!
{found via Design Sponge}

happy birthday...

...to my mom. She would have been 62 today. This is a photo of her not on her 17th birthday {I'm guessing we couldn't locate any other candles that day!}. My mom also loved cupcakes, so I bought this pretty one for her. And I will abandon my wheat-free diet for tonight and devour it on her behalf.


Enjoy a wonderful treat for my mom today...and don't forget to give your mom a hug! Happy weekend...

loverly baking cups

I saw this picture of muffin wrappers on Design Sponge, and I thought it was stunning! How can a picture of muffin wrappers pierce one's heart? Alas it did. I love the brown, muted exotic colour combination. Apparently, the chef, Sabra Krock, bought some of them in Israel. I'm definitely going to pick up a cup or two on my trip to Israel in August. Apparently some of them are also from this website - it has some really cool stuff if you look hard. Here are some of my favs: