Ugh. What happened?? Did they change bakers??
We started purchasing from the orland location last summer and the gluten free choc chip was fresh tasting and decent. In order to get a gluten free bakery cake for my family and entertaining, i tolerated the idea this cake is loaded with maltodextrin (on label they provided me)
But this last month i came in to purchase some buntletes with coupon. Got them home and they were quite stale. A week later i went in, told them so and that while i thought it might be an isolated incident, i wanted to purchase a gluten free birthday cake. The woman there said shed get me "one from the fridge" to ensure it would be fresh. (???). I thought thesr werent supposed to be refrigerated, but oh, well, i trusted she knew what was fresh better than i.
I opened box later only to discover cake appeared shrunken and much smaller than usual. We put the candles on, and hoped.....
Upon cutting into it, the caked appeared gelatinized and doughy. Just awful. Thete was slso an aftertaste, similar to sweet and lo. Two kids complained it made them feel sick. Not in a spoilt food way, but just blah. I had a few bites and ended up throwing away the rest of mine. Not worth the calories, thats for sure.
So sad to see yet another business in my area that opens promisingly, with good product initially only to faceplant shortly after. id think keeping up with quality control in an area with high demand and exposure would be a priority. I mean, its just.....cake and virtually one frosting. I dont know if its a factory supplier problem or if the cakes are actually baked there. I never smell "baking" there, so not sure what the issue is. I was under the impression the cakes were at least frosted there.
Just really bummed i lost a source of "bakery" cakes for those...
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