Baker's Corner

Bakery: Baker's Corner
Address: 133 Freelton Rd, Freelton ON
Website: facebook
Style: Canadian
Price: $$ 

Here's a new review from an area that hasn't been done in-depth (yet), and that's always a nice thing. That being said, despite the name, the focus at Baker's Corner seems to be on their pizza. Yes, it also happens to be the town pizzeria with a large part of their sign dedicated to different pizza options and other Eastern European lunch specials, but they do have a counter of classic pastries and baked goods including butter tarts, various cake slices ($3-something) with some more surprising offerings like cheesecake and napoleon/mille-feuille squares. A little bit of everything, a little hodgepodge, perhaps, but a bakery nonetheless. ;)

 So, two items were tried: the butter tart and the caramel chocolate cake. The butter tart looked pretty good, with chunks of pecan on the surface and a thinner tart shell. Cracking into this thing, however, I didn't really like the texture or taste of the filling. The texture was neither thick nor runny; it was reminiscent of apple pie filling: quite gloopy, but with not a lot of substance. The rich taste that I love butter tarts for was lacking. Overall, I found it... bland?

To make up for it, the caramel chocolate cake was insanely rich with a moist, intensely chocolate cake interspersed with well-balanced layers of thick caramel. It reminded me a little of (amazing) date cake with caramel icing, just chocolate. Pretty good, the highlight of the two.

Rating: **1/2