Cakes from Miette Patisserie – My Miette Cakes Review!
As a review of a few other cakes, here is one more to add to the collection. I just love cake! Miette Patisserie is a SF based (they’ve since expanded to Oakland, and I heard they have plans to expand to San Ramon as well. They are extremely cute, and they have a lot of neatly packaged candy, cookies, cakes, and cupcakes on display and for sale.
My First Exposure
I’ve noticed Miette Patisserie when I was much younger when I passed by it whenever I was at the Ferry Building in SF. Their stuff was way too expensive for me back then – think many dollars for a small bag of candy, just not as bad as Sugarfina pricing. I haven’t had a cake from Miette until someone brought one over for a birthday party at work just a few years ago, and it was pretty good! nice subtle raspberry flavor in that one.
Miette Cake Review – Let’s Go!
The header photo features their chocolate & Italian meringue cupcake, and their chocolate cupcake. I got these close to the holidays last year, and they were pretty good. The cake above is their Mocha Tomboy cake. I didn’t place an order in advance for pickup, so I checked out what they had during my lunch break. They had a vanilla tomboy and a mocha tomboy cake, and they suggested the mocha tomboy because it was seasonal and the vanilla tomboy one was all year round. Sold! Also, I love coffee.
Not Too Sweet – Win
From Miette’s website – “The tomboy-ish way we decorate this cake provides the perfect ratio of cake-to-frosting in every bite. We start with layers of our Double Chocolate Cake which is made with melted 70% Guittard chocolate and raw Scharffen Berger cocoa powder for a super-moist bittersweet flavor. Our buttercream is made the European way, starting with organic yolks and adding organic Straus butter and coffee. The result is luxuriously smooth and not too sweet.“ I love it – it really isn’t too sweet. The cake tasted great the first night and for the next couple nights. They recommended keeping it out for 4+ hours so that it’s served at room temp, but we didn’t quite follow that and it was still good. The buttercream was just a bit hard, but I liked it that way.
My First Princess Cake
Miette’s princess cake is quite dense/heavy, but it’s light and tasty at the same time. It was also my very first princess cake. I had no idea what a princess cake was. Customers were asking if we had princess cakes back when I was working at a bakery in high school, but our location didn’t carry them. Other locations had theirs super bright and it didn’t look so appealing.
Also My First Bought Miette Cake
It was a relative’s birthday, and I didn’t have time to go to my usual bakery in Berkeley to pick up a cake, so I ordered one from Miette since it was by work as I had to be in the area that day, and Miette is nearby-ish work. Miette’s online ordering was pretty self explanatory – add items to cart, select the pick up location, time/date, etc. My arms were sore carrying this cake onto BART and such, definitely the most heavy Miette cake I’ve carried.
Miette Cake Review – Princess
Other than not being their lightest cake, it was a great cake. I really liked the pastry cream portion. The fondant was quite thick on some areas, and somehow my daughter liked that portion. Sponge cake with raspberry jam wasn’t bad either. A lot of people were more impressed by the presentation than the cake flavor and textures. I love pastry cream, so I naturally enjoyed most of this cake.
Sometimes the Flowers are Missing
I ordered a couple different cakes – their Scharffen Berger cake and their Lemon Debutante cake. These have a flower on their cake as decoration on their website, but they were missing when I picked up my cakes.
Scharffen Berger Cake Review
I requested writing on the cake, and that’s all it cake with other than the cake itself. The decorative band and the flower were not present on the cake. I ordered this one in advanced, and I wasn’t sure if the store was supposed to place the decor on or if it naturally doesn’t come with the decoration if it’s ordered in advanced, but yet again, the princess cake was ordered in advanced and that cake with the flower decor. The cake itself was really good for a chocolate cake. Not too sweet as most of the sweetness comes from the ganache. Soft, yet dense-ish, really good chocolate.
Lemon Debutante Cake – Did they Remove the Flower?
I didn’t request writing for the lemon cake, and it was decorated with the piping, but again, no flower. There is a mark on the cake of where the flower should be though… weird, huh? The cake itself was alright. I’m not a lemon fan, but the guests enjoyed this one. No wonder it’s their popular wedding cake! There is lemon flavor throughout since the lemon syrup and lemon curb stands out and goes well with the sponge cake.
More Miette Cakes for me?
Absolutely. The normal bakery I get cakes from is in Berkeley, but when I need a cake nearby work to bring home, Miette is my spot. I’m looking forward to trying more in the near future.
