Nestled in a teensy nook in The CORE’s third floor, Buttercream Bake Shoppe is putting the icing on the cake.

Lovers of sweet bites, beware: the adorable new cake boutique is fully stocked with cupcakes, cookies, bars and sweet buns.  Creating custom cakes for your every whim and desire, you can sample some of the delish flavours they have on hand. More of a domestic goddess yourself? Their shelves are fully stocked with Martha-worthy cupcake toppers, decorations and cake plates.

Our favourite flavour? The Raspberry Cheesecake Cupcake, only available from the 9th to the 16th of each month, is a heavenly dream in your mouth. Vanilla cake with raspberry cheesecake filling and then iced up with raspberry silk buttercream – it somehow feels guilt-free. Maybe because it is just so pretty. —Kait Kucy

Buttercream Bake Shoppe, The CORE, 510 Eighth Ave. SW., Calgary, 403-228-990, www.buttercreambakeshoppe.com

Inspired by his favourite treat, the Cookie Monster creates poems about his beloved cookies.

At the new Inglewood bakery Cookie Mama, the prose turns to music with nearly two dozen types of cookies, each inspired by a classic tune.

Our favourites include Sweetest Taboo (sunflower and sesame seeds, oatmeal, wheat germ and coconut), Good Vibrations (dark chocolate and Skor chips) and the gluten-free Cocomo, a coconut macaroon with chocolate drizzle ($2.50 each). There are also egg-, dairy- and butter-free cookie options and cupcakes such as the Rocket Man (cookies and cream with chocolate oreo butter cream icing, $3 each).

“On-nom-nom-nom.”

Cookie Mama, 1420 Ninth Ave. SE, Calgary, 403-266-5431, www.cookiemamacalgary.com