Hye L.
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$48?? Seriously??? For this???
I don't want to give any star.
My family always bought our anniversary cakes from this bakery, and ever since we fell in love with their green tea strawberry cake, we've only ever gotten that one. I was sad because we hadn't had a chance to buy a cake from there since last year. I was happy to finally get one this time, even though the decoration looked too simple and much less elaborate than before. However, the excitement turned into deep disappointment because the condition of the cake was unbelievably awful!
Considering the price increase, we may be able to excuse the lack of berries, but the cake has also become way more expensive than the price we got before!!
I kept the cake in a cooler bag and refrigerated it immediately. But just two hours later, I already noticed it was too firm as I cut it. Looking at the slice, the cream had already melted as a photo attached. A nasty green color, seriously making it look like a Halloween joke. Melted cream means they didn't whip the cream enough, or they use the cream had already made a few days earlier, or applied the cream on the cake sheet didn't cool completely or cake was frozen.
Selling this cheap looking cake for almost 50 bucks? Nonsense!
We could forgive the strange and ugly appearance if only it tasted good, but this was no longer the cake my family used to love. The cake layers, once rich and flavorful with a nice green tea taste and cloud like cream, were now just dry, generic sponge sheets and runny cream. As for the cream inside, it seemed they only pretended to use green tea powder; it tasted nothing like green tea, it didn't even have the aroma of it, making us suspect it was just food coloring.
It was marked up by $5 compared to the other varieties, and that price difference is supposedly for the GREEN TEA. Yet, it has absolutely ZERO green tea flavor. It's ridiculous to pay a premium for a nonexistent ingredient.
This is the first time I've ever felt that the money spent on a cake was a complete waste. It's incredibly sad and disappointing to realize that the cake we loved doesn't exist anymore.