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The Bakery Review
Locals have long known of good bakeries spread
throughout town and the list is fairly short: Aurora Borealis Cakes &
Desserts, Charlie’s Bakery, Europa Bakery, Flying Dutchman European Pastry
Shop, Great Harvest Bread Company, Laroma Bakery.
Everyone knows about the cakes at Aurora and the
delicious pastries at Dutchman, or the milk bread at Charlie’s. While I
think that these are fantastic foods and great companies I’d like to
introduce my reviews of two new bakeries that have shown up in the past
few weeks/months. One will definitely be my favorite, rivaling the White
Chocolate bread at the Great Harvest Bread Company and I hope that you
visit enough to keep the deliciousness coming.
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Sugar Spoon
Yummy Bakery |
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Yummy Bakery
Recently I was re-routed because of road construction
and drove by the Yummy Bakery. While the Yummy Bakery isn't brand
new, it's in a new location. Located at 1300 W. 36th Avenue,
the Yummy Bakery is now beside a used car lot. While the outside is well
painted, the stairs to the entrance are not very inviting. Once you get
inside, however, all’s well. There are a few places to sit and eat. In
the display case there is a sharp array of deserts that just scream “buy
me.”
I loaded up with goodies. Coconut bread, lady finger
cookies, half round of sweet cake, half round of mocha sweet cake, some
other breads and cookies…the names of things do not matter. The breads
are exactly like I thought they should/would be in texture, smell and
taste. Everything, well, almost everything, was absolutely delicious.
There must be a huge push to make cupcake frosting taste like shortening.
The cup cake itself, though, was perfect.
I received all of this for $27. I bought 7 items and
most of them cost $3 or less with one item making up the difference. The
lady at the register, Yang, is the entrepreneur who brought this heavenly
shop to us. She bakes the goods herself and is a gracious host. I am so
impressed by the Yummy Bakery that I will be visiting and buying on a
weekly basis. I’m pretty sure this bakery uses real sugar…even if it
isn’t in the name (like the Sugar Spoon) or the cup cake frosting. |
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Yummy Bakery Overall
Grade: A
They would have received an A+ if they were open Sundays as
well... |
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Sugar Spoon
Located on Spenard by the big windmill near Fireweed, I had a
blueberry desert from this cozy little shop before I had actually visited
the shop. It was soft and moist, held together well and was full of
flavor. I tracked the Sugar Spoon down this spring and tried a few other products with
great hope.
Cup cakes. Everyone loves cup cakes and I think that
those who don’t like cup cakes are just trying to pull a reverse
psychology on themselves to keep from eating them for health reasons. The
cup cakes at the Sugar Spoon were definitely not sugary. In fact, none of
the deserts that I tried were sweet at all. The icing tasted like
shortening and the cake was definitely dry. I do not think that I ordered
a discounted-day+-old cup cake but it did taste like it.
Key-Lime desert: I love Key-Lime. It is one of
those things I order pretty much everywhere I eat when it’s available.
I’ve seen many different variations. Sugar Spoon's was in an edible cup
that was so tough that I broke it buy smashing it with the handle of my
fork instead of cutting it. This might not be a
bad thing except it chewed the same way as well. Maybe it was an exotic
hard candy and I’m missing the point. The Key-Lime, on the other hand,
was tart and acidic enough to take the taste buds completely out of my
mouth. It definitely tickled the tongue.
In all fairness I think the purpose of the Sugar
Spoon is to not use sugar in their deserts. Since it has sugar in the
name, I was really disappointed. For the price of $35
it was really tough to eat anything except for the blueberry desert.
My favorite part of the Sugar Spoon, though, was the
coffee. I had a cup of coffee and I tried the cocoa nut cream pie latte.
Interesting and very good. It had cocoa nut in the drink and really did
taste like pie. I’m not going back though. A lot of companies have great
coffee.
Before people who can’t eat sugar start bashing me I
can say this. I can eat sugar. I like sugar in my deserts.
While I have many flaws, I am not over weight and or contributing to the
obesity plague of the USA. This article
is about the Sugar Spoon not being as sweet as it’s name. Contact us if you
can’t eat sugar and can write a good article as to why Sugar Spoon
enriches your life. |
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Sugar Spoon Overall
Grade: C- |
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