Lake Village Bakery

Bakery: Lake Village Bakery
Address: 6511 Main St, Osoyoos BC
Website: http://thelakevillagebakery.ca/
Style: Canadian
Price: $$

Among the tumbleweed and cacti, appearing as a mirage-like oasis along the blurry horizon is... Lake Village Bakery. ;) Lake Village Bakery, the only bakery in town, is located a bit off downtown, right in the middle of a smaller, run-of-the-mill plaza. At first glance, I was worried whether it would be worth the effort of coming out here before the earlier closing time, since it was advertised as a sourdough bakery not to mention the website makes little mention of baked goods besides sourdough-based croissants and cinnamon buns. After all, a bread bakery could very well just have bread!

Although Lake Village is in itself a fairly small operation with a small shelf of rustic sourdough breads available in a variety of shapes and styles, they do also have a limited selection of sweets. Yes, going with the theme, many are indeed sourdough-based like their cinnamon buns. At the time of visiting, there was no sign of the aforementioned croissants and chocolatines, but there were a few squares, butter tarts, and two types of bread pudding.

I really did want to try the cinnamon bun, but I found it a little too expensive for what it was. Instead, I couldn't resist the bread pudding ($1.99). I love bread pudding and the loaf cake slices in either cherry and chocolate or apple and pumpkin streusel both looked good. I went with the latter. So, maybe I didn't taste much of the pumpkin, but it was stuffed with big, moist pieces of dough, nicely spiced, with a delicious crumble topping. The bread pudding could have just been bigger!

 I also grabbed a slice of carrot cake ($3.75), because it looked unique and interesting with its chunkier dough, filled with nuts, carrots and raisins. It was almost like a granola bar, something healthy, but in a good way; of course, to get that "cake" back in there, there was the layer of tasty cream cheese icing in between and another layer on top. Slightly different than your usual carrot cake, but very good.

Rating: ***