Lately, I’ve been going through a sweet tooth craze! While driving around West LA, we drove past Hotcakes Bakes. With my sweet tooth, actually, I should say sweet teeth; hubby and I decided to turn around and check them out.
We found a parking spot in the back behind the building and walked around to enter. We were greeted right away, and we immediately looked to see what they had to offer. They have cupcakes, cakes, tarts, brownies, croissants, gelato, coffee, etc. Hubby and I ended up getting some cupcakes (big and mini), a cake roll, and a berry tart. The lady that was helping us was new, and she was very patient with us because we kept adding more and more to our order. When it was time to check out, we wanted to order coffee. As we were about to tell the lady which coffee we wanted, another lady from the back came out and overheard us trying to order coffee, and very rude said, “she’s new, she doesn’t know how to make coffee yet, I do, but there are other people here, you’ll just have to wait.” Instead of clapping back at this lady, I just kindly said, we don’t want the coffee; we’ll go elsewhere for coffee. I felt that her tone was not needed, and we were here first, tell the other people to wait and make our coffee. The new lady could’ve helped the other folks after checking us out. Ugh!
Unfortunately, both the cake roll & berry tart were not good. The berry tart tasted old and was super hard. The cake roll tasted funny, wasn’t good. We ended up throwing both of those treats in the trash after one bite. The cupcakes were just eh. The only pretty fantastic tasting was the mango tres leches cupcake. That was fire!!! After our first bite, I made my hubby go back for more of just those. When my hubby came back out, the rude lady told him she could make our coffees now. Girl bye! It’s too late. But yet she made coffee for the people waiting in line behind when we checked out the first time.
Even though that mango cupcake was stupid delicious and the shop is super cute, I won’t be coming back. That rude lady ruined it for us. That’s ok, though; there are plenty of other bakeshops around.
