Cakes Ordered at the Restaurant Podium: Sara Lee vs. WDW Bakery

[lurkyloo]

I posted this in the massive cake thread, but here it is again if you don't want to wade through 85+ pages....

So a few months ago I got all agitated when I heard Disney had jacked up the price of the 6-inch non-custom cakes you can order at the restaurant podium to $21 and then outsourced them to Sara Lee.

Then I found out that only parks and resorts without their own bakery were serving Sara Lee cakes, so I decided to do a taste test of both kinds of cakes and report back....

Cake Made By WDW Resort Bakeries

This was a measly 3 inches high (it looked like an EasyBake Oven cake!) and tasted like a stale Twinkie covered in whipped cream... I ordered it from our server at Coral Reef restaurant, which uses Epcot’s bakery.

Cake Made By Sara Lee

This was the size of a cake you’d buy at a grocery store – about 6 inches high – and tasted like one too. The frosting was thick buttercream and the cake was moist. I ordered it at the podium at Tony’s Town Square in the Magic Kingdom.

I happen to think grocery store cakes are decent for what they are and what they cost, and I hate whipped cream frosting, so that’s the way this taste test skewed.... I declare Sara Lee cake the WINNER!!!

 

[tink645]

Thanks for the photo. I was curious as to what they looked like. You have helped answer one of my questions.

Judy