Gaby F.
Yelp
Frudeco, oh Frudeco. Did it live up to the expectations? Yes
What we ordered? A number cake and three snack cakes.
Excellent service and decoration/presentation of everything we took home with us.
Their store is very small but a couple of guest can still sit inside if desired.
Parking is a different story... I wish they grow enough to open another location (Kendall maybe?) with more parking available and indoor seating. Add two very simple but good coffees and people would probably start filling the place up fairly quickly. Afternoon snack, after meal dessert, dessert-version night cap...
Our cake was delicious and beautiful. The request was passion fruit and vanilla creams, tropical fruits, flowers (they are pretty, yet I do not know why we asked for flowers) and macarons.
It all looked and tasted fresh. However, for my personal taste I'd change the vanilla cream and just have passion fruit for both layers, get rid of the pretty flowers that no one will eat and ask for extra macarons.
Advice, if you are picky about fruits ask them which ones are the available ones at the moment. They vary and although berries are yummy I did not have them in my list of 'tropical fruits'. Note that this is still something minor.
The macarons were well made and had strong colors. Of course do not leave them for last or they will loose its crunch, as it is expected since they are in contact with the cream.
The creams were flawless. I preferred the passion fruit though. It had a more pungent flavor that went very well with the cookie and the fruits.
The cookie was just thick enough to hold the weight from all the toppings and thin enough to neither be undercooked nor burned.
The snack cakes in order of favorites:
1. Ferrero (dark): 5/5 My husband took it by mistake because I meant to try the white Ferrero but it ended up being an awesome mistake. This was the best one. The 'moistest' cake with lots of flavor, pieces of crunch from the Ferrero and overall balanced.
2. Passion Fruit: 4/5 Again, enjoyable. This one also had some extra sauce/syrup that made the cake pleasantly moist. The best part, since the actual cake was very sweet to me, was the passion fruit top. It reminded me of a lemon curd... bright and citrusy. I ate half the cake with almost the whole top. Hence, the husband had to eat what remained without almost any passionfruit. Well, that's what they are here for.
3. Pistachio: 2/5 I always gravitate towards anything with pistachio but I also know they are hard to successfully accomplish desserts. The cake/batter was dry and, to me, it lacked flavor. It had pieces of pistachio, which helped with the contrast of textures, but besides that there was not much. Did not take more than three bites. Would not order it again.
I already have plans in mind for the next cake and this time I want to give a try to one with chocolate and passionfruit creams, just berries and a few macarons. I wonder how their chocolate cookie tastes... hmmm... Should we try it?
Almost forgot: they are not cheap ( around $150 plus) but their work, quality of ingredients and final product deserve it.