I should have known it was too good to be true. I rarely buy any baked goods from the store, much less bake things myself. When I was at a neighborhood grocery store today, I noticed they started selling individual slices of store-made carrot cake. I had noticed the carrot cakes in the bakery area a while ago and I thought they looked mighty good, but since I live alone, there was no way I would be able to eat one myself so I never tried them.
Today, I saw individual slices for sale for a buck. Each slice was packaged in a plastic container. I figured it couldn't hurt to try a slice. After I finished my lunch, I served myself that slice of carrot cake and I discovered why the store was selling the cake in indivual slices. My piece was dry and stale. Definitely day old cake. Blech! It had hardly any taste and it was bone dry. I am sure the whole cakes would taste better. Oh well. Live and learn, but I can't believe the store's management expects peoplt to try those individual cake slices more than once.
Has anyone else noticed this type of trick at the store where you shop?
Today, I saw individual slices for sale for a buck. Each slice was packaged in a plastic container. I figured it couldn't hurt to try a slice. After I finished my lunch, I served myself that slice of carrot cake and I discovered why the store was selling the cake in indivual slices. My piece was dry and stale.
Has anyone else noticed this type of trick at the store where you shop?
Yep, it happens all too frequently. Baked good in any package are at best mediocre, but sometimes they can be dreadful. They also have high priced "dessert for two" packages that are not much better and a poor value.
I just cannot imagine so many people that buy some of the cupcakes and cookines in the package. they j ust look horrilbe. -- Ed [email hidden] pages.cthome.netedhomeOpen ↗
I had noticed the carrot cakes in the bakery area a while ago and I thought they looked mighty good, but since I live alone, there was no way I would be able to eat one myself so I never tried them.
Today, I saw individual slices for sale for a buck. Each slice was packaged in a plastic container. I figured it couldn't hurt to try a slice. After I finished my lunch, I served myself that slice of carrot cake and I discovered why the store was selling the cake in indivual slices. My piece was dry and stale. Definitely day old cake. Blech! It had hardly any taste and it was bone dry. I am sure the whole cakes would taste better. Oh well. Live and learn, but I can't believe the store's management expects peoplt to try those individual cake slices more than once.
That's surprising, Stan, mostly because most carrot cakes are so heavy and moist that "old" cake tends to get overly soggy rather than dry. I'm thinking the one you got started out too dry and only got worse with age.
That's surprising, Stan, mostly because most carrot cakes are so heavy and moist that "old" cake tends to get overly soggy rather than dry. I'm thinking the one you got started out too dry and only got worse with age.
That's a possibility I had not considered. You make a good point Gloria. Not ever having tasted a freshly made carrot cake from that grocery store (they have a bakery on-site), I have no basis for comparison, but you may be right.
That's surprising, Stan, mostly because most carrot cakes are so heavy and moist that "old" cake tends to get overly soggy rather than dry. I'm thinking the one you got started out too dry and only got worse with age.
That's a possibility I had not considered. You make a good point Gloria. Not ever having tasted a freshly made carrot cake from that grocery store (they have a bakery on-site), I have no basis for comparison, but you may be right.
It would seem that carrot cake would be difficult to screw up, as even my most unfavorite attempts have been rather good. However, commercial bakeries sometimes have a knack for producing nearly inedible products, regardless of how pretty and appealing they look. Last fall I bought a Black Forest Cake that looked absolutely gorgeous and also looked moist. When I cut it, the cake almost fell apart like powder and didn't taste any better. Being on Weight Watchers, we don't have baked goods (commercial or homemade) very often, but I won't make the mistake of buying them again. I can do much better.
Today, I saw individual slices for sale for a buck. Each slice was packaged in a plastic container. I figured it couldn't hurt to try a slice. After I finished my lunch, I served myself that slice of carrot cake and I discovered why the store was selling the cake in indivual slices. My piece was dry and stale. Definitely day old cake. Blech! It had hardly any taste and it was bone dry. I am sure the whole cakes would taste better. Oh well. Live and learn, but I can't believe the store's management expects peoplt to try those individual cake slices more than once.
A "real" carrot cake would't be dry following day.
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Has anyone else noticed this type of trick at the store where you shop?
That used to be the case in days gone bye, but I haven't come across it in years.
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I should have known it was too good to be true. I rarely buy any baked goods from the store, much less bake things myself. When I was at a neighborhood grocery store today, I noticed they started selling individual slices of store-made carrot cake. I had noticed the carrot cakes in the bakery area a while ago and I thought they looked mighty good, but since I live alone, there was no way I would be able to eat one myself so I never tried them.
Today, I saw individual slices for sale for a buck. Each slice was packaged in a plastic container. I figured it couldn't hurt to try a slice. After I finished my lunch, I served myself that slice of carrot cake and I discovered why the store was selling the cake in indivual slices. My piece was dry and stale. Definitely day old cake. Blech! It had hardly any taste and it was bone dry. I am sure the whole cakes would taste better. Oh well. Live and learn, but I can't believe the store's management expects peoplt to try those individual cake slices more than once.
Has anyone else noticed this type of trick at the store where you shop?
The place that I get ice-cream also has a bakery - a pretty good one at that. They will take cakes that don't sell and cut them up. I sometimes get a slice of cake and a scoop of ice-cream. There have been a couple of time that the pieces were a bit dry, but that is the exception. One the other hand, grocery store bakeries are generally so bad to begin with that a piece of day old cake is inevitably going to be bad. I have noticed that the carrot cakes they sell look like they must have waived a carrot over the cake as they were mixing the batter. The cakes don't look very substantial and have a strange color. I assume that the amount of carrot is very small and they use food coloring to make you think there are a lot of carrots in the cake.
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I should have known it was too good to be true. I rarely buy any baked goods from the store, much less bake things myself. When I was at a neighborhood grocery store today, I noticed they started selling individual slices of store-made carrot cake. I had noticed the carrot cakes in the bakery area a while ago and I thought they looked mighty good, but since I live alone, there was no way I would be able to eat one myself so I never tried them.
Today, I saw individual slices for sale for a buck. Each slice was packaged in a plastic container. I figured it couldn't hurt to try a slice. After I finished my lunch, I served myself that slice of carrot cake and I discovered why the store was selling the cake in indivual slices. My piece was dry and stale. Definitely day old cake. Blech! It had hardly any taste and it was bone dry. I am sure the whole cakes would taste better. Oh well. Live and learn, but I can't believe the store's management expects peoplt to try those individual cake slices more than once.
Has anyone else noticed this type of trick at the store where you shop?
I'm not sure whether it's a trick, but the Safeway sells individual pieces of cake. I really really wanted some German chocolate cake so bought a piece. There was no flavor and I would have been better off making a mix. I don't know if it was day-old or not. Most of the cakes we got from grocery stores for work parties were too sugary with no flavor. Of course, the cakes my mother used to buy for my birthday at a bakery were like that, too. I told my mother I wanted pies for my birthday. For awhile, we had a dietary guy at work who had worked as a chef. His cakes were delicious and so beautiful you didn't want to cut into them.
