Caked Las Vegas
Vanilla Dossant
Cinnamon Sugar Dossant
Red Velvet Cupcake
Chocolate Cupcake
Having tried to visit Caked once prior, when a sign on the door pronounced them closed “on 11/28,” during a day that was in fact the twenty-eighth of April, I decided to give the small bakery a second chance on the Saturday before Mother’s Day, the result experience I’ll not soon forget as snooty service, limited selection, and truly awful product collided in disastrous fashion. Citing slow sales as an excuse for a mere four cupcakes and three styles of “Dossant” for sale just ten minutes after opening I stood rather perplexed as the short server glared at me and asked “so, what do you want?” and deciding I’d rather not have wasted the trip a quartet was selected – the low $10.58 tab yielding hastily bagged rings and cakes smashed in a plastic clamshell. Limited in seating and unpleasant in demeanor it was to the Starbucks next door that I proceeded for my tasting and sampling each item in the warm sun a “get what you pay for” theme soon emerged, the copyright-infringement skirting crispy fried croissants tasting suspiciously of old oil while cupcakes proved dry and dull beneath competent, mildly sweet frosting – my unconfirmed suspicion that “slow sales” meant I was purchasing Friday’s unlabeled leftovers from people unhappy to be at work on a Saturday.
ONE STAR: One of the worst bakeries I’ve experienced in Las Vegas or elsewhere I can only assume something has changed dramatically at Caked in recent months as older reports suggest both variety and skill. Poor in selection and unpleasant in manner there are far better bakeries throughout Las Vegas and having left more than 75% of what I purchased in the Starbucks wastebasket I’m rather certain even that overpriced corporate giant proves a better value on the dollar.
RECOMMENDED: Going elsewhere
AVOID: Caked Las Vegas
TIP: With a website clearly focused on the custom baked cake side of the business perhaps Caked shows better in that setting but with Freeds just up the street I’m not sure why anyone would choose to find out for themselves.
WHAT THE STARS MEAN: 5 World Class, 4 Excellent, 3 Good, 2 Fair, 1 Poor
http://www.cakedlasvegas.com/
