Layers Bakery Cafe
Raisin French Toast with Syrup
Baklava
Chocolate Bread Pudding
Sour Cream and Sour Cherry Coffee Cake
Blueberry Scone
Iced Coffee
Located in a strip mall off Green Valley in Henderson, Layers Bakery was seemingly the sort of place I would love – an organic artisan bakery focused on cakes, cookies, pies, and a breakfast menu both savory and sweet that looked great for a leisurely meal shared with an old friend…and save for some truly bizarre policies including refusal to use anything but raisin bread for the French toast or to slice more than one cake or pie per day it was. Sterile and commercial in design despite the local owners and organic approach it was just shortly after the 9am opening that I arrived at the restaurant and with my friend running late I was encouraged to order without her, an easy enough process entailing four pastry selections plus one from the kitchen and taking a seat with items to be plated and delivered it would not be long before my choices arrived; my friend walking in mere moments before the French Toast which she declined to taste due to the raisins just as I knew she would. Overall a decent collection with options ranging from crisp and surprisingly subtle Baklava plus one of the most buttery coffee cakes I have had in recent memory to a ‘scone’ whose texture more closely resembled that of a muffin and dense, flavorless bread pudding I cannot say I would venture down to Henderson for Layers, though perhaps if they were slicing (or willing to slice) the Golden Nugget or Bloody Good cake I’d reconsider.
