Gunn's Bakery [International Correspondent]

Bakery: Gunn's Bakery
Address: 247 Selkirk Ave, Winnipeg MB 
Website: http://www.gunnsbakery.com/
Style: Jewish, Eastern European 
Price: $$ 

[The Great Canadian Cake Tour is back for another exciting year! This time it was a road trip from Toronto to Calgary that got me even more bakeries from Alberta and northern Ontario as well as some off-the-beaten-path bakeries through Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Some good, some not so good and all those in between. I know I'm itching to get started, aren't you? :P Thank you to both brothers for supplying me with bakeries, reviews, and the occasional baked goods brought back to yours truly!]

The (Splenda) strudel... -_-

In "gritty" north Winnipeg, there is the long-established Gunn's bakery, featuring a large selection of Jewish and Eastern European baked goods, both sweet and savoury. These include strudels, poppy seed buns, bagels, knish, etc.

We noticed the poppy seed cake, but it was too big, especially when we were kind of getting tired of baked goods at this point [what? but there's no such thing! ;___;], so we opted for other baked goods. The first item was an apple and cranberry strudel. I was lured in by the fact that they said it was no sugar added without noticing that it was with Splenda. I felt angry and disappointed afterwards; I didn't see the need to put Splenda and just wanted something without sugar and with the natural sweetness of the fruit. The strudel was cold and not so fresh. The dough was kind of soggy. The filling was alright; overall, it was okay.

Apple jack

The other item was an apple jack. We noticed only after we paid that the bakery had kefli (a hard dough with jam in the middle) which I would have liked more. The apple jack was okay and tasted like it looked: a log of dough with apples. Seeing that we were pretty much waiting all trip to come here (we went to Winnipeg on the way there, but left too early in the morning for anything to be open), Gunn's disappointed. It was.. okay.

Rating: **