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| - WOW, really delicious cakes at WOW Bakery!
A recently opened bakery just north of Chinook Centre, WOW offers a plethora of baked goods. Upon entering, your senses are flooded with a warm, welcoming, carb-y goodness. This is a Korean bakery so you'll find some Asian inspired flavours like matcha and black sesame amongst the usual bakery suspects. Clean and bright, there's a wide variety of savoury and sweet pastries, cookies, macarons, Danishes, rolls and breads. But their beautifully decorated tarts and cakes are my favourite.
We have gotten the Strawberry Swiss Roll, Fruit Cocktail and Chiffon cakes and all are fabulous. They use fresh and in-season ingredients for desserts that are light, not too sweet and perfectly moist. (And who doesn't love moist things.)
Call ahead for the full-sized cakes and tarts although they have been able to accommodate last minute dessert emergencies - they'll even give you complimentary candles and a disposable knife for the cakes. There is a bit of a language barrier but they are so gracious and kind that those details are easily worked through. The ladies are so sweet you'll want to take one home too, but that would be a felony.
The individual bakery items can be hit or miss. I have found some to be too dry (perhaps a one-off loaf) or too adventurous for me (like a corn and hotdog curry bun). But good lord, skip the kidnapping and go for the (moist) cakes!
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