Crave Cookies & Cupcakes

Sooo good! Initial reaction is shock when you see how much they are but definitely worth it!
I recommend getting the mini’s so you can sample different kinds!

Review #26 of Unilocal’s 30 Day Challenge 2012
I love crave. I love Crave so much that although I can tell from every bite the high fat content of their cupcakes, I never stop myself from finishing one or two or three regular sized cakes while watching TV. My husband and I once ordered a dozen each and finished them in 3 days but we didn’t mind cos they were so moist and just have that right amount of sweetness to them. Compared to Bliss, both their regular and bite sized cupcakes are bigger. I like their Willow Park location cos it’s not too busy and they always have the cupcakes we like. I like crave-​o-​licious (super moist!!!), red velvet, and dirty blonde… and also the peppy pattie. alright just go to their menu and that’s basically the list of cupcakes I like.:)

«Do you have»
«Yeah we have that here, we HAVE IT ALL»
The Filipino tradition of pasalubong is both a blessing and curse. There is nothing like getting gifts from someone visiting but nothing like the stress of finding things to bring to your relatives, especially in a city like YVR where the things that grow on their sidewalk are the sort of things you’d have to dig deep in your wallet for at the farmer’s market.
ZOUNDS! (It’s a real saying look it up)
But suddenly my cousin texted me
«Bring me crave cupcakes.»
SALVATION!
So I rushed over to Crave in willow park. For approx 40 $ I got a variety of cupcakes. They had 13 flavours which made it awkward to have everything for a dozen, but it makes me want to come back. When I brought it to my host family, they somewhat overlooked it until the lil one decided to take a bite. Soon they all praised me for bringing them a cupcake that was «so good it was like MAgIC» and «are so cute buts so tasty» and the majority of this family were dudes.
My cousin on the other hand loved her dozen. Apparently you can freeze cupcakes and have them later as frozen threats?
I’ve only tried a total of 3 crave cupcakes. They were amazing and anything I ate afterwards tasted like barf (don’t eat veggies after a crave cupcake) my favourite is the one with lime. Why not anymore? Because those are calorie beasts and what kind of visitor am I if I polished off the pasalubong I brought?
Answer: A terrible one.
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You can never go wrong with Crave! There are 5 locations, but the location on 17^th avenue is closing! During the Christmas season, they’re selling different squares and bars, you must try them all! They all look so delicious. Also, they do have raspberry icing, but they only put them in the whoopie pies!
Any Crave location will hit your sweet spot and then some!

Ah, who does not love Crave Cupcakes? The butter cream icing is splendid. I remember one time taking a good hour to finish off my cupcake because of how filling it was, then again another time I was pretty hungry and I downed it faster than I probably should have.
I remember seeing the price and thinking «HOH!» but in a way, it’s justifiable. Yes, you could go to your local grocery store and buy half a dozen cupcakes there for half the price, but those cupcakes are likely to be a couple days old, are smaller, and don’t have the same quality that Crave does.
The location is pretty good too, as a local business it is set up in an area full of lesser known, and, I believe, local businesses. Service has been pretty good to. Sometimes I wish it was open longer hours. I also wish that if you went later in the day that they had more variety.
I wonder… if they’re baked fresh every morning, what happens to the cupcakes left over at night? Do staff members get to take it home? Hm, if so, I need to apply for a job!

Sure, they are delicious, but who can ever get here early enough to ensure actually getting the flavor they want? I am partial to red velvet myself, but because of my scheduling, I rarely get to walk in here and get one of those heavenly cakes.
The price is largely negated by the size of the cupcakes, and the absolute flavor and heavy dose of sweetness contained within: one large cupcake and you are halfway to a diabetic coma. I think Man v. Food needs to do a segment where he tries to down six of them in 20 minutes. That would make for a fine show!

Nothing satisfies the sweet tooth like a crave cupcake… red velvet in particular… does anyone know even what red velvet actually is… I mean what is in it? chocolate or just red: S…actually, come to think of it I’d rather be left mystified about the best cupcake i’ve ever hard by far.
Theres quite a variety of different flavour’s (second favourite is the princess) and the regular sizes are like $ 3. But not to worry cuz they are pretty massive. Getting through one can be a arduous yet delicious chore. And getting through two will push you sweetness taste buds to the brink albeit a heavenly brink.
The setup is pretty sweet as well. Its simplistic yet I always feel like i’m in a disney movie when i walk in. Maybe its cause you get bambarded with all the different colors of frosting in a row.
easily one of the best desserts in town!

Ohhh boy! Crave makes some damn fine little cakes! They have a wide variety for sale and also they have a flavor of the month (this month is carrot cake) but make sure you come early because they often run out of cupcakes by the end of the day.
I remember I first tried these cupcakes around 5 or so years ago. My oldest sister was getting married and she invited me to come to a «cake» tasting, of course I obliged and tagged along. I remember we went downtown and met up with a lady (one of the sisters who started crave) and she talked about their story and how their mom was the inspiration and the source of some of the recipes for crave. Then we tried the cupcakes. «CUPCAKES for a wedding?» I thought that was weird, but I guess my sister fancied herself for being different so a tiered cupcake «cake» it was! After I tried them (it was the signature crave cupcake chocolate cake with their mind blowing vanilla buttercream icing) I was hooked, and commended my sister for her choice, I probably ate 3 at her wedding because the dinner was blah, but at least the crave cupcakes made up for it! hahaha
So anyhow I just adore this place! When they started expanding the locations and when I found out willow park was getting one I got so pumped! These cakes pack a flavour punch! A lot of people say they put too much icing or that they are too rich (which I don’t understand???) That is a BIG bonus in my mind, I cant get enough these. I have to be very careful…
5 years later I am still eating crave, in fact just yesterday I tried the carrot cake at a birthday, it was really moist and quite sweet. On friday I tried a red velvet elvis whoopie pie, it was amazing and made for a clean snack (no spilling or icing on my face)! whoopies iz a reaaaddyyy!
I honestly can say I have never had better cake than crave. My all time favorite is the Va va vanilla. Simple and so amazing, I have often wondered how I can get the recipe for that icing! Its so freakin good! I should just get a summer job and find out the recipe that way!
If you haven’t tried their cupcakes then go A.S.A.P And please don’t complain that you got to much icing! just eat the stinkin thing and let the sugar rush kick in!

Surprising that I haven’t yet written a review for Crave, I’ve certainly eaten enough of their cupcakes. Now that I think about it, I’ve only ever had them at office gatherings, parties and Canadian Blood Services. I’ve never actually had to seek them out.
But today I was out and about and got a hankering for a cupcake. Surprise! Crave was the first store that came to mind. I pulled out my trusty Unilocal app and found that there was one nearby in Willow Park.
The interior surprised me a bit. I didn’t expect it to be so… white. This seems to be a trend in cake and pastry shop décor. I guess that makes them trendy along with the entire cupcake craze? At any rate, it was 4 pm and this location was nearing the end of their cupcake stock for the day. Thankfully there were still 4 or 5 kinds to choose from. Even more thankfully, I discovered something I love even more than a cupcake. The Whoopie Pie. Not entirely cookie, and not entirely cupcake. It’s two flat muffin tops with icing in the middle. And it’s fiendishly delicious. I’ll have a dozen of those please! Actually, I test drove one and opted for half a dozen mini cupcakes as well. That counts as self-​control, right?

Absolutely some of the best cupcakes I have ever had.
My first impression when I walked into my first Crave location (on 17^th Ave) was «DAAAANG! These are expensive!»
I would now like to retract that initial reaction.
One cupcake is always MORE than enough, so I actually find the $ 2.95 price tag somewhat justified. Jessica and I can easily split one between us and be satisfied.
Crave’s buttercream recipe takes the … *ahem* … cake.
Easily the best frosting I’ve ever tasted.
I heard it is a family recipe and now matter how hard I have tried, I have never been able to recreate a recipe nearly as good as theirs.
This location SHOULD have 5 stars although I vaguely remember an altercation with an extremely unhelpful and rude employee at one time.
While this incident was probably a year or so ago, and I do not remember it that well, I remember at the time I intended to never come back to this particular location.
I have since then gotten over it, and have found the service to be decent ever since.

After never being able to get down to their 17^th Ave location I’m glad they opened one up in the south. If you haven’t tried their cupcakes WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?
If I hadn’t resisted the urge to open the ½ dozen pack I bought before I got home they probably wouldn’t have made it.