Dolce Bakery — Restaurant in Prairie Village

5 stars x 10!!! I LOVE DOLCE BAKERY! (No, they didn't pay me to declare my love.. lol) Here is why you need to lace up your sneakers and RUN to Dolce....

Their baked goods, obviously! You can taste the love and fine ingredients in everything that's in the sparkling clean, chilled display case. Chilled case, you ask? Yup! You know when you buy a pastry out of a room temperature case and it's half melted from your body heat before you can take your second bite? It doesn't happen with Dolce's slices of heaven. They are chilled just enough to let you savor each bit slowly and the last bite is just as delectable as the first. But... they don't chill a few items such as the mouth watering cinnamon rolls. Just writing this review is making me want to hop in the car and go get one! They create the obvious standard cinnamon roll that is yeasty, soft, gooey, glazed and cooked to perfection. I hate when a roll is cooked too long and gets crusty. These are always just a slight tan and melt in your mouth upon the first bite. But wait.. there is even a greater level of enjoyment in the orange cinnamon roll. Pure heaven for me. I can't resist buying one when they are still in stock. (slipping on shoe number one.. I just have to go get one) And if the mother ship is too far away for you, now you can purchase them out of the case at your local Whole Foods. Delivered fresh daily.

Ok.. back to the yumminess of Dolce....

Beyond the rolls there are a plethora of made-by-hand delights for everyone's taste buds that vary through the seasons and special occasions; delightful pumpkin concoctions, cakes (including special occasions and weddings; by order, not on display), molasses cookies, sweet potato scones, tarts, cookies of all kinds, bars, mini cupcakes, whoopie pies.. the list goes on. It's so difficult to step through the door and get just one thing. I usually have to leave with at least two items and one is gone before leaving the parking lot.

Speaking of the door and parking lot, their storefront is quite spectacular too, I must say. Whoever designed the space has great décor taste. It's simple, feels like home, everything seems to fit like it's meant to be there and is always sparkling clean. (see pictures that I've posted in the past)

The staff... wow! They are always so incredibly sweet (pun intended). As much as I love this business, I avoid them because my hips don't need to expand BUT every time I visit, I'm greeted with a warm smile and my goodies are packaged in a fantastic little (or big) box adorned with their logo. Keep up the good work,...

My goodness, our cake was good! My #1 priority for my wedding cake was for it to TASTE GOOD. I have been to countless weddings and the cake is typically my least favorite thing. When we were planning our wedding, my one request was: I do not want this cake to taste like wedding cake. Jessica and the staff at Dolce Bakery were so wonderful: from the tasting to the presentation and taste of our cake. We were presented with several options, and initially I was sold on the dark chocolate cake with salted caramel cream filling. After the tasting, this choice was SO DIFFICULT! All of their cake flavors were so delicious that I wanted all of them! The cake was light and fluffy, their filling options were all scrumptious, and I could be thrown into a vat of their vanilla cream icing and die happy. We ended up choosing the chocolate cake with salted caramel cream, carrot cake with pecan praline filling, and lemon cake with alternating layers of lemon curd and raspberry cream (the groom’s cake) all covered with their vanilla cream icing. I sent Jessica a photo of my cake choice (a watercolor cake) and then sent her a picture of the purple color I wanted to be on the cake. It was BEAUTIFUL! They did such a great job and everyone kept commenting on how pretty the cake was. And the taste was EXCEPTIONAL! All of our guests and the other vendors kept asking us who baked our cake; it was a huge hit! Additionally, the staff at Dolce Bakery are so accommodating! I wanted to surprise my groom with his cake. He is a WSU Shockers fan and I am an LSU Tigers fan, so naturally I could not let his Shockers groom’s cake go unanswered. I contacted Jessica about somehow making the inside of the cake purple (he had yellow lemon cake layers), and they jumped right in on the fun to dye the raspberry cream purple. They drove our cake 1 1/2 hours to our wedding site and set up the cake. It was gorgeous! We will definitely use Dolce Bakery in the future for birthdays, anniversaries, and...

The 1 star rating is based on customer service. Food quality is always excellent. Today is my daughter's 10th birthday. All she asked for was to go to Dolce Bakery for an orange cinnamon roll. We lived in PV for 12 years before moving south. Ever since Dolce opened we would walk from our house to get cinnamon rolls every weekend. Every birthday cake my daughter ever had was from Dolce. And for the past many years, we would commonly ask that our food be heated up if we were eating it there and this was always accommodated kindly. Today, we waited in a fairly long ling (no big deal). We ordered 2 rolls and a ham and cheese croissant. I asked the girl at the front to please heat the food. This takes literally 15 seconds in a microwave in the back. She looked at me and told me no because the line was too long today. What??? I asked if someone from the back could help. She said no, they were busy baking things. I was dumbfounded. Who wants to eat a cold ham and cheese croissant?? After my husband told her that it was pretty crappy to skimp on customer service simply because they understaffed for the day, she nastily replied that she would go heat up our food. She huffed and puffed and rolled her eyes and took our plates to the back and returned 10 seconds later with our food. She tossed it down on the counter in front of us, did not even look at us, and went to help the next customer. After a 30 minute drive across town simply to get my daughter an orange roll, I would expect at least halfway decent treatment. I have never been treated so rudely by anyone at any food establishment, let alone Dolce Bakery. I am sad to see that such a beautiful delicious place is being staffed with such rude individuals. Perhaps some customer service training should be in order. I, for one, will not be in any hurry to come back....