Bliss & Co. Cupcakes & Desserts

Solid 3.5 stars; usually any cupcake’s presentation that seems to skew ratings and this is no different. Marketed well, and pretty colours but I’ve had better in New York (of course) but for a mall quality, it’s good but not worth the lineups unless you have a huge craving.
Hope the owner got a real good lease rate as it’s under the escalators, hard to get to with the Starbucks kiosk lineup right in front too.
Ordered the caramel one, and as mentioned, it’s above average.
Kudos for having gluten free options.

Something happened to these cupcakes and they are a lot smaller! Maybe they thought nobody would notice, but I noticed. Very sad. I used to like this place but now I’m going to avoid it.

I had the vanilla gluten free cupcake here, and the flavour of it was good, however the cupcake was completely sunken and falling apart. There was more icing than actual cake. For the price of the cupcake I would have expected better quality, I’m surprised they would have served them in that state –however I was craving something sweet, and it satisfied that.

Best red velvet cupcakes I’ve ever had, and I constantly crave them. Their marble cupcake is also pretty good. Their cakes are perfectly moist and not too crumbly. Yummmm!

I don’t always like cupcakes. Generally speaking, they are just lifeless cake smothered in sugary frosting. Not exactly a complex palate-​pleaser. However I have to say, I find it really hard to go to Chinook mall without getting a Bliss cupcake (or 6).
First off, they are SO MUCH BETTER THAN CRAVE CUPCAKES! I apologize to all of you die-​hard Crave fans. But… no. The cake portion of Bliss cupcakes varies from red velvet to carrot cake to lemon cake to classic chocolate and vanilla. And the icing (while a little too abundant for my taste) actually tastes like something other than goo. Muddled strawberries in the strawberry icing, cream cheese frosting for the carrot cake, a bright lemony zing for the lemon cake! But I do end up slicing some of the frosting off the top. Just a little much for me. And I’m sure my dentist would concur. At any rate, Bliss cupcakes are much better quality cupcakes than most one-​trick pony bakeries.
The mini cupcakes they have are great if you don’t want a diabetes-​inducing giant cupcake. And, best of all for us nut/​peanut allergy people, they run a nut free kitchen :)

I so love this location. I really do. This would be one of those locations that if given the chance, I would gladly re-​enact the scene from the movie Chocolat and dive into the cupcakes with my whole body and probably end up covered in icing from head to toe.
Now that I’ve probably given you a horrific image in your mind, I’ll try to atone by simply stating about how it’s an awesome cupcake. The cake are moist, the icings flavourful and definately a wonderful treat. My especial fav is the 14k carrot cake one, and it’s routinely sold out when I make it there after work (which works in my wife’s favour as she hates it when I feast on them). Still, on the odd time, I still manage to get it every 2 to 3 weeks by pure luck and savour them like I would a long lost lover from Man vs. Food to a perfectly done roast leg of lamb.
My especial positives… Bliss is by far the best value for cupcake than any of the other ones. Their dozen mini cupcake deal with assorted flavours absolutely rocks, and the evil glares my dragon boat teammates gave me when I brought it as a snack AFTER a hard team workout said volumes (still left with an empty container and 10 or so teammates with guilty looks).

Bliss & Co. Cupcakes is conveniently located right inside Chinook mall in Calgary. Its on the lower floor, right near the Starbucks.
It was about 5:15PM on a Sunday and I really wanted a cupcake. In all honestly, I was actually craving a crave cupcake… but they were closed. I remembered there was a cupcake place in Chinook mall, and we were heading that way anyway so we made the stop. I actually tried a Bliss & Co cupcake before and I didn’t think it measured up to Crave. I gave this place another shot under the circumstance that I reeeeeally wanted a cupcake (and didn’t want to bake them myself). I got a strawberry cupcake and Spence got a vanilla buttercream cupcake. I found their cupcakes to be very… pretty. My stawberry cupcake was a light strawberry buttercream topped with pink sprinkles that sat on top of a moist vanilla cake. Spence’s cupcake was a blue vanilla buttercream topped with blue sprinkles with a moist chocolate cake. *SEE PICTURE* (though, my pictures don’t do justice). They were absolutley deeeeelicious! It was cute, like a his and her cupcake. :)
I found that they improved on the cake AND icing. They give a generous amount of icing (just the way I like it), the cake is very moist and the cupcakes are definitley eye candy. I will be back… and not because someplace else is closed.
MUST TRY!

My man is one of those poor souls with a birthday 2 days before Christmas. I try to make his birthday an occasion still though and was debating where to get him a cake (for the three of us) when I spied Bliss at the mall while last minute Christmas shopping. I have heard they give Crave some good competition so I thought it was a safe purchase.
I got a half dozen and chose three flavours-​lemon, caramel bliss and chocolate bliss. They looked beautiful. The staff were very chatty but not overly helpful-​the one girl seemed more interested in telling her story about some kind of drum ritual that was performed at her home the night before. I had to wait till she was done her story before she’d load the cupcakes into the container. At least she was friendly though.
I found the pricing to be reasonable-​they are pricey for what they are but not terribly so.
AS for the taste-​the cake part was better than Crave-​more moist and dense but there was WAY too much icing on them… over powering and kind of crunchy. Even my boyfriend who I swear could eat a bag of sugar with a spoon said they were too much. I think if there was half the icing they would have been better.
I’m not a huge cake fan but I’d probably consider them again if I needed cupcakes (vs some other dessert option) for something and wasn’t near Crave.

I love me some cupcakes! And I was quiet pleased when I tried a Bliss Cupcake just this past Professional Administrative Day (yay for me being an admin!) I have tried Crave cupcakes before, which are delicious and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Bliss.
My reasoning for only a 3 star, is I do not like icing, and I do not like how much they put on their cupcakes. I know alot of people love JUST the icing, but for me its far too sweet and too heavy for me that by the time I get to the cake (my favorite part) Im too full of sugar from the icing.
Pricing is reasonable consider the size and quality of the cupcake. (I dont see how that one guy can think they are too expensive when people are willing to spend $ 5 on a coffee from Starbucks)
If your by a Bliss, try it, but I wouldnt say go out of your way to try them because they are very similar to Crave cupcakes and located in different areas of the city.

It doesn’t have the same prestige factor that Crave enjoys, but head-​to-​head comparisons of the two reveal the same quality of cupcake, especially the red velvet. Throw in a more reasonable price (especially in bulk), a better location where I can actually get a fresh cupcake at times convenient for me (because I work in the mall), and I would give Bliss the leg up on Crave.

Bliss’ cupcakes are not as good as Crave’s. I stil llike Crave Cupcakes a lot better. The cake mixture at Bliss is lacking in butteriness. Could be they make their cupcakes with cooking oil instead of butter. The icing is not as good as Crave’s. Sorry, Bliss, it didn’t make it to my list of good eats.

I am pretty picky about my cupcakes and Bliss did not impress me at all. I might pick one up at the mall if I am craving something sweet followed by regret but will not think of Bliss when I think of cupcakes…
Overall I found the cupcakes to be tooooo sweet and greasy. I’ve had better.
I am sorry cupcakes for the hostile review.

What I’ll give these guys over any other cupcake place I’ve been is the location. Being inside a mall is very convenient.
Having done two Unilocal cupcake crawls in Toronto I’ve had my share of cupcakes. Bliss’ cupcakes are very good but not the best I’ve had. I like that Bliss has taken some liberties with their icing flavours but they still leave me wanting more. Where are the bacon cupcakes people?
And to answer your question Dana E. yes, you are being cheap. The premium cupcake is here to stay… for now…

Its a cupcake right?! How much does it cost to make a cupcake? And why the heck do they have to charge so much for a piece of pastry?!
I couldn’t stomach the price for 1 cupcake ($ 3.10). At least I can enjoy a nice latte for around this price for quite some time, but a cupcake is here now and gone in moments.
Sorry, this is one business model I would not want to invest in. Now if they sold these things at the price of a cookie (less than $ 2.00) I think they would find they are in JUST the right price range. I am no economist but I can’t see the rationale behind selling a loaded sugar bomb for more than $ 3.00!
Is it just me? Am I being cheap?

Oh Boy Crave, your in some trouble here!
I would have to say these Cupcakes are exactly as good as Crave
BUT
Bliss is taking the cake on the new winner in town!
Here’s are the two reasons why.
#1. Better Pricing!
Thanks BLISS for listening,
Price:
1 cupcake $ 3.10
6 cupcake $ 16.00
YES!!! a DEAL! Hooray!
#2 More Flavours to pick from!
There must have been a dozen different options
Pros:
–More Flavours!
–Convenient mall location! (right behind the Starbucks in the middle of the mall)
–Good price point
Cons:
–They wont sell you the first cupcake in the row, They say is a old display cake. very odd… very very odd… don’t tease me with a display cake…
–Craves are a little bigger…
Soo in closing, I am equally as happy to have both in my mouth.