Old Post Bakery

Bakery: Old Post Bakery 
Address: 4474 Ontario St, Beamsville ON 
Website: n/a
Style: Canadian, Dutch
Price: $-$$ 

Also in Beamsville, there was Old Post bakery, which seems to be, to an overwhelming point, the local brownie destination. That's right. If there's one thing that this bakery specializes in, it's brownies. And they have several varieties of them, all in petite square-form. Similar to the selection of brownies, they also have quite a few bite-size squares along with a few tarts and baked goods -- not to mention the advertised Dutch almond cookies, though besides this they are not as definitively "Dutch" in style as other bakeries in the area.

At around $1.25 for their small squares, they're certainly a nice, affordable way to have a tasty treat, and if you want more you can always get another one. ;) The squares sampled were the carrot cake and Nanaimo bar. Canadian classics. The most notable thing about the Nanaimo bar was the great brownie bottom (obviously going back to being the brownie specialists), though the other components were equally tasty. Very good.

 As for the carrot cake, it was good, but not amazing. It had a homemade taste, which was a good thing, but I would have liked if it had more carrots in the dough, and carrot cakes always have a lot of icing, so a little more of that icing would have been nice here.

Then there was the maple tart. This was a bit of a surprise, since I was expecting the more runny centre of a Quebec maple tart, but this was more of a maple-infused almond tart with its hard icing and dough-like nut filling. I would say the most maple flavour was in the icing on top, though the filling was also fragrant and flavourful; I even think that the jam layer on the bottom was totally necessary, especially when the taste of the maple syrup was enough. Nothing was needed to add or detract from it. Overall, interesting and yummy.

Rating: ***