Chatime Bake Code

Jan 4, 2021 @ 4910 Yonge Street

$15 for 6 macarons

Clockwise from top left: Earl Grey, Chocolate Raspberry, Mango, Pistachio, Lavendar and White Sesame (centre)

Earl Grey: sadly no earl grey flavour whatsoever. 

Chocolate raspberry: good raspberry flavour, but the raspberry jam inside wasn't that good. 

Mango: really good macaron with a soft inside and crispy outside and lots of mango flavour. 

Pistachio: super crumbly macaron with decent pistachio flavour

Lavender: excellent floral lavender flavour and it was super fragrant with a cookbook perfect macaron finish

White sesame: good white sesame flavour - distinct Asian flavour (pretty neat)

Overall: These macarons will do in a pinch! But there's definitely better macarons in Toronto. 

Aug 29, 2020 @ 9255 Woodbine Ave

Taro Mini Loaf $6.50

The taro loaf looked pretty nice with all the braids, almond slivers and what looked like coconut shreds outside. 

There was some taro flavour inside with the taro paste, but it was pretty light and it wasn't easy to slice it (so I just ripped some pieces to eat). The loaf was sweet, but it wasn't anything special (and was a little pricey relative to the size of it).

August 8, 2020 @ 9255 Woodbine Ave

Tea of the Month $4.50 for a Large

Oolong Milk Tea!

Strong oolong flavour (which is fantastic for oolong tea lovers) and it was really good without sugar since it has a slight sweetness from the milk

Mille Crepe Cake

Custard-y in between the layers of crepe. I liked this one better than the Earl Grey and it had no powdery stuff on top! 

June 16, 2020 @ 4910 Yonge Street

In the month of June, Chatime was offering a promo code every Tuesday for $3 off order of $15 or more, so I decided to order some croissants and desserts from Bake Code through their online system. 

Unfortunately, my Charcoal Thai Milk Tea croissant got lost somewhere in the order delivery process. It was a bit of a trial getting a refund for it (they say it takes up to two weeks to process the refund, but the store ended up offering me a coupon instead)

Purple Potato Latte $5.30 (a Bake Code specialty)

I was pretty excited about this drink at first since I've really wanted a purple potato/taro/ube dessert for a while. I was rather disappointed with this whole experience since it tasted like purple potato mush mixed with water (or skim milk?) and it was super bland as a drink. I wonder if adding sugar would have helped? I wouldn't order this again.

Vietnamese Coffee Cruffin $4.70 and Ube Croissant $4.50

The croissant baked into a muffin was okay, but definitely mushy in the middle. It had a fantastic strong Vietnamese coffee flavour. 

Ube croissant

The ube filling was more milky flavour than ube and it was really sweet. An interesting French-Asian fusion dessert. 

Charcoal Chatime Roasted Milk Tea Custard Croissant $4.90

The croissant was really flaky and it had a strong roasted milk tea flavour in the custard. It was sweet as well, but I found it slightly better than the ube croissant. I would get this one again. 

Earl Grey Crepe Cake $8.50

I got this mostly for comparison purposes of the Earl Grey crepe cake at Millie Patisserie. I previously got this in January at another Chatime location.

The Earl Grey flavour was pretty good, but not as good as Millie's. I found this cake really sweet and I wasn't a fan of the powdered chocolate on top since it leaves a strong powdery chocolate taste and after-taste. The crepes weren't as good as Millie's either and they were slightly more dried out than Millie. However, it was still a pretty decent crepe cake (and it's not as expensive). 

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