Chelsea's Bakery [RIP]

Bakery: Chelsea's Bakery 
Address: 1415 Hillside Dr, Kamloops BC
Website: http://chelseasbakery.com/
Style: Canadian 
Price: $$ 

It was a near miracle that not only did I find this bakery on my way out from Kamloops, it was still open! With one closing at 3, another at 4:30, Chelsea's closing at 6 was something worth celebrating. Of course I had to stop! Quite empty so late in the afternoon, which was not quite surprising, a great part of Chelsea's are the shelves of breads, packaged and frozen/refrigerated items. Thinking that there was more than just the small display cases of sparsely stocked sweets and baked goods, I walked around a bit and discovered that, yup, that was it.

Examining the front, there were a few squares, some cake slices, and a few baked goods. The cinnamon buns were gone, so I can't say how they were, but everything else remaining had the curious impression of looking like it came from a supermarket bakery. The products available were ones that you could find in any good bakery: danishes, chocolate cake, Nanaimo bars and cookies, so it's hard to describe. They just seemed... strangely, inexplicably generic?

The figure 8 danish ($3, available with apple, cherry or blueberry filling) was no exception to this. Fluffy yeast dough that had gone soft that was slathered in partially melted icing and filled with cherry on one side and custard on the other (all fruit variations had one half custard, unfortunately). Despite trying my best, I still could not shake off this feeling that it was like eating something from Safeway: was is the remnants of icing, the standard cherry filling and danish dough? Not sure.

Rating: **