Let’s imagine you’re in the hip, supper-club-a-plenty area of King West.  You know that an equally hip and busy Liberty Village is just a few blocks west. In between these areas, it’s a destination ghost town.

Which makes the opening of ps by prettysweet such a welcome surprise for the many condo dwellers and commuters who pass through those boring few blocks with an empty gaze and low blood sugar, painfully uncaffeinated. Hey, Queen Westers: this place is a few stumbling steps from you. But King Street has decidedly less plaid.

Adjoa Duncan opened up ps by prettysweet less than two months ago. Her previous baking business was purely custom orders so this new shop allows her to bake as many of her favourite treats as she likes without requiring customers to plan and order ahead. Her giant chewy chocolate chunk cookies ($1.75) are already popular among the growing list of regulars. Butter tarts ($1.75) have a thin crisp pastry and to my great pleasure — no raisins.

You might think putting dessert in a jar is too cute or trendy — in a restaurant, yes – but for a shop where most items are taken to go? Nay, I say. It is so damn practical. If you’re on your way to work or picking up dessert for a dinner party, you don’t have to worry about your delicate cheesecake or chocolate mouse (both $5.50) sliding around in a box, or getting smooshed by the streetcar passenger who shoves past you. Heck, how often can you ride your bike or jog to pick up dessert? I can run to cheesecake and run home with it and it cancels everything out! Adjoa has a fondness for combining her desserts and encourages customers to do the same. Let’s say, eating chocolate mousse with a chocolate chunk cookie, or layering a spoonful of cheesecake on a blondie.

A beautiful lemon and raspberry cake ($23.00) looks like spring. Vanilla sour cream cake is spread with layers of lemon buttercream and raspberry buttercream, then fully covered in more raspberry buttercream. With warm weather on its way, expect local and in-season fruit to make their way into cakes, pies, crumbles, and anything else you can imagine.

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