Cake-ology

I’ve had two cakes order here in the past. Both times were dry. Felt like it was made days before the pick up date. The decorations on the cake didn’t meet up with the inside of the cake. It’s a shame for the price you pay.

I recently ordered an X-​Men themed cake for my husband’s 30^th birthday. When I went in and discussed design, it seemed like they understood what I wanted. The design I had in mind was the bottom cake was to be Cyclops’ visor, middle cake Wolverine’s claws, and top cake the X-​Men symbol from Professor X’s wheel chair. None of these concepts came out at all. Cyclops’ visor looked like a blob of fondant, the claws just looked like streaks of grey, and there was no X symbol on the top, just a weird «X-​Men» text on white fondant protruding from the top.
Since pick up for the cake was the day of the party, I just bit my tongue, and paid the $ 150.00 for the cake. I had no choice as I had no other cake for the party, and buying a slab cake wasn’t going to cut it for the amount of people attending. Plus, I figured looks are not everything, as long as it tastes amazing, who cares what it looks like.
Now for the flavors, there were three different flavors for the cake, top was to be marble, middle chocolate, and bottom red velvet. I did get the three I wanted just not in the correct order. The chocolate, and marble were switched. Both were dry, and tasted like something I could have made myself. The Red velvet was moist enough, however half the cake ended up in the garbage since no one really wanted to eat dry cake, and weren’t willing to try the third flavor after the first two had bombed.
Sadly, I will never go back and order anything from Cake-​ology. I was so excited to give my husband a fantastic cake, to be remembered, and all we want to do is forget about it.

Great sweet shop. Tried the chocolate stout bite and pecan caramel bar. Preferred the chocolate stout ball. Still to try a Saskatoon imperial cookie they look so beautiful.

As DineoutGal A. writes, Cake-​Ology is mostly kitchen and very little shop. Similarly, the cake here is mostly perfect, with very little to suggest. In fact, I’m basing my entire review on the strength of one visit to buy three cake-​ettes. That’s how amazing the cake here is.
The cake-​ettes are perfect little bites of decadence. They’re fantastic on a day when you’re longing for sweets, but don’t want to eat a huge portion: a single cake-​ette is rich, moist, and very satisfying.
Chocolate: This was the heaviest of the three and seemed a cross between a truffle and a cupcake. It’s guaranteed to sate a chocolate craving.
Red Velvet: This is luscious, and is the only red velvet cake I’ve had in Winnipeg that’s just right! It has both the beautiful crimson tint and the right velvety texture.
Vanilla Chai: My favourite of the three. This has a wonderful, lightly sweet spiciness to it, and really captures the warm flavour of chai so well!
My only (very small) gripe was with the fondant coating and the sugar sprinkles on top of the cake-​ettes, which pushed them over the edge into a little too sweet. The cake-​ettes might have been better half-​covered (like a chocolate-​dipped strawberry). And having said that, I’ll add that I’m sensitive to sugar, and many things which most people love are «too sweet» to me.
If I ever need a cake for an occasion or some little desserts to bring to a gathering, I know where I’m going to get them. YUM!

This tiny little bakery is near the Line Up restaurant in the Exchange District. It’s easy to miss this place because it doesn’t stand out too much and it just opened a few weeks ago. It’s nice to see all these little boutique bakeries/​cupcake shops opening around town (now we’re only a few years behind the cupcake trend!). LOL.
Anyhow, this place is literally 90% kitchen and 10% shop. There’s a small counter that displays about 3 flavours of cupcakes at $ 2.50/each, cake-​ettes $ 1/​each (which are denser, sweeter, jaw breaker sized caked covered in icing), brownies, and some cookies. This bakery seemed to specialize in special occasion cakes with intricate designs made with fondant.
Their cupcakes are delicious and high quality. I like that the cakes are moist and taste balanced with the various icings offered. I do find the icings a tad sweet but not overly sweet — a fine line. My fav is the chocolate cupcake with mocha filling and chocolate icing. The chocolate cupcake with PB cupcake icing has a nice rich PB taste to it. The chocolate cake-​ette is definitely on the sweet side but it’s small, probably about 3 bites worth — the cake is mixed with buttercream which makes the cake more dense and rich.
Lovely little place to pick up a few sweets at reasonable prices. And remember, it’s CASH ONLY and closed on Sundays.