Dimpflmeier

Bakery: Dimpflmeier Bakery Factory Showcase
Address: 26 Advance Road, Toronto (Etobicoke) ON
Website: http://www.dimpfelmeierbakery.com
Style: German
Price: $

If you want good pastries, cakes, baked goods, breads and buns at a ridiculously good price, check out Dimpflmeiers. Yeah, you actually don't need to read the rest of the post now, because I'll pretty much do nothing except elaborate on this. Really though, I don't know how it took me so long to find out about this place.

Through these unassuming doors, you step right into a German Bäckerei and Konditorei, which just happens to be of massive proportions. On one half of the considerable store, you've got aisles of breads and buns, featuring their "famous" spring-water German ryes. On the other side, you've got German bakery heaven. *-* And not only is there everything here you can possibly imagine, it's at such prices that you can afford what you want and then some. I haven't photographed everything we've purchased here, but if you ever get down here, go for their cakes, tortes, sweet buns, doughnuts which change seasonally because of availability of local ingredients and holiday -- really, the list can go on and on.

After some time's absence and a more.. informed/paranoid/alarmed mind, I do have to add a warning that, for those ingredient-conscious customers, you really have to watch out for the stuff pre-packed on the floor which ranges from perfectly natural with only a few simply ingredients (refrigerated cakes, muffins, some cookies) to some stuff absolutely loaded with preservatives. I was pretty heartbroken to find that one thing I had enjoyed in the past, the spelt poppy seed cake, has preservatives listed as the third ingredient and is just chock full of chemical additives. I won't be getting that again! :/

My personal favourites are definitely everything and anything with poppyseeds and these *points* giant choux puffs (50 cents (!!) each): hollow and moist on the inside, and hard on the outside topped with glaze and rock sugar. They also have a chocolate-drizzled option, but really, these ones are perfect.... ;)

Another regular buy of mine is the poppyseed ring ($4.95) which is great value: this thing can easily feed 6 and is so overstuffed with poppy seed mass you wouldn't believe it. Even the icing and plain poppy seed on top is delicious. Very good! *_*

I have to add onto this that the only real miss we got was their plum cake ($5.95), which was, again, a giant slab for ~6 people and filled with plums. On the first day, when I sampled a piece of this, it was delicious... the next day (pictured), all the juice had soaked into the thin dough and the glaze on top had turned into Jello. By the third day, no one else wanted it; with the soggy dough and chunks of jello, I thought I was going to puke. X_X

Overall, though, this is a good place to go if you love baked goods of any sort and you don't necessarily want to blow too much money, and have the time and patience to sift through the better treats. ^___^

Rating: ***