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| - So this review is not based on their regular food menu, but a specific specialty cake. I hate giving a bad review, especially to a Vegan business but I'm hoping this will encourage some improvement. So yesterday was my birthday & my family surprised me with a Strawberry Cassata cake. It's my favorite, and is the dessert Cleveland is most known for. If you want Cassata & can't afford to go to Italy, then Cleveland is where you'll want to go. No one else does it better, so it was disappointing that an establishment that has Cleveland in its name didn't make the grade....not even close. I've had Cassata from Giant Eagle-- a supermarket bakery-- that was divine, so it's not that hard to mess up. It's not the fact that it was Vegan, it's that the density of the cake was reminiscent of banana bread rather than pound cake. There was one layer of custard (if it can be called that) that tasted more like the frosting it was topped with and no sign of vegan ricotta in sight. And the proportion of custard to cake to frosting was off. The "custard" layer was so thin, that if it hadn't been for the strawberries in between, I'd have assumed they forgot to put in any layers. The outer frosting was also minimal & layered thin on the sides, you could see a lot of the cake peeking through. The top of the cake was pretty & as it should look. But the sides ruined the effect, and so if you've browsed their facebook page then be forewarned that it may not come out looking as great as those photos.
I'm not sure if they ran out of product, but apparently this was ordered a week in advance, so not sure how they skimped on supply. Normally, I just pay for bad food & chalk it up to a hit and miss. But b/c we're minimalists who rarely go out, this was supposed to be a birthday treat for me. An expensive one at that ($30 for a 6" cake isn't cheap, especially to an unemployed person). For the cost, there should've been more substance to that cake (where it counted) or at the very least taste like the name it was given (otherwise, just call it Strawberry-Layered Banana Bread).
What sucks the most is that I've drooled over that facebook page for over a year, hinting to my family how much I missed Cassata cake & that my birthday is getting closer. I feel bad I got them to pay for this cake, hyping it up only to see them struggling to swallow it down. My mom ordered a Whole Foods Vegan cake awhile back for my sister for $10 less, but as amazing as it was I encouraged the support of a Vegan Establishment, especially one that had a specialized bakery. And I will continue to support them, but probably will stick with making my vegan baked goods at home or trying their cheesecakes instead (I mean they can't mess up cheesecakes too, can they?). Based on the reviews, I'm hoping that I just got a dud & will come back to give them a second shot.
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