The Cake Box is responsible for my obsession with custard…read more Dad worked nearby and would bring home custard donuts from here as a special treat. They were amazing! And pretty much diabetes inducing. Fast forward 15 years and The Cake Box and my love of custard is still going strong. The Cake Box is family owned and has been in business for over 30 years. They provide the Lalor community with high quality wedding, birthday and special occasion cakes, continental biscuits and sweets, coffee & gourmet snacks and even catering. Last year I worked in Lalor and I rediscovered this European bakery. I would drop by for a coffee and to get a sandwich and the staff were always genuine, friendly and fast. I suspect The Cake Box will succeed for another 30 years.

We paid $140 for a cake for my father 60th birthday. The cake looked like something I could make at…read morehome and was not the colour we requested !! When trying to address this on the day of pickup the owner was not at all interested and I was asked to call Monday as she was to busy making other orders. When we cut the cake we realised it wasn't even what we ordered and was extremely hard...we did not serve the cake.. raising it again on the Monday we were asked to take the cake in which we did. The owner and "pastry chef" humiliated my mother by laughing at her. Terrible cake, terrible service and i will be taking this further as no one deserves to be humiliated! !!

Be VERY aware of being ripped off at this business. This was our third visit and EVERY time we have…read morebeen overcharged. The first time $8 for a sandwich we were told was $6, the second time we were charged $15.60 for two vegetarian pies when the sign says they are $6.80 each making the total $13.60 and today we were overcharged $2 AGAIN on a donut. The same woman has overcharged us each time, short blond hair in her 60's who actually spends most of her time leaning against the counter talking to customers she obviously knows rather than actually working. Today she stood and continued her conversation with one man for around 5 minutes while we waited. We also noted that she handed him his food but he did not appear to have paid??? Is that how it works, someone she knows is given products while other customers are overcharged to make up the shortfall? We said nothing the first couple of times thinking it was a small amount and possibly a genuine mistake in a busy business but then again today we realise this is intentional. This is a very busy business, if they serve 100 customers per day and add on $2 each that's an extra $200 in clear profit per day, 5 days a week that's an extra $1000, per month $4000 and in a year $48 000. Most people won't notice a small extra charge or when walking off just let it go, but this business is ripping people off. Possibly a case for notifying Consumer Affairs. Treat your customers with respect or you will lose them.

I recommend the dusted sponge cake. Highly recommend actually…read more It is a simple, light sponge. Filled with cream and a little strawberry jam. Dusted with icing sugar. This for only $7. Someone from work shared with me. Now I'm sharing with you. If you like cake and appreciate simple and yum things ... TRY THIS CAKE. The shop looks very dated and old school and I like that. I haven't tried anything else here as yet. But I will keep coming back for the dusted sponge!

It was fortunate that I had a dentist appointment because it meant that I could leave the 5k radius…read moreduring our Covid lockdown, and I took an opportunity after my dental appointment to grab something for the ride home. This place was quite nice, and I'm sure they appreciated the custom during this time. Their cakes were quite lovely, and they made a decent coffee as well. I'd definitely give this place another shot.

I was in the middle of being served when another customer entered the store after me and simply cut…read morein and placed his order and payed. Rude and entitled on the customer's part (who realised this and apologised), however it could have been better handled by the staff, by finishing serving me. The customer actually purchased the last mushroom pie which I was about to order. This said, I have usually had a positive shopping experience over the last few years at La Panella Bakery.

Vanilla Slice. Multigrain rolls. Sausage Rolls. Yes it's another bakery!…read more The folks at Watsonia bakehouse are super friendly! Locals know this and come back for the great service as well as the yummy bakery offerings. If your looking for a cheap and quick lunch in the Watsonia area then this is the place to go. Get in line though as it can be busy. As well as a selection of breads and slices they also do gourmet pies, flaky sausage rolls and quiches. They have a sandwich bar so get your fresh roll ready for lunch here. There is a drinks fridge with a range of soft drinks and they also do coffee. They make to order birthday cakes, Novelty cakes and Continential Tortes so if your in Watsonia and need to celebrate with cake then Wastonia Bakehouse is where you should head.

Ordered steak & onion, steak & mushroom, chicken & veggies pie there. $4.40 each. And their French…read morevanilla slice ($3.50 each), almond croissant, ham & cheeses scroll. Great vanilla slices, almond croissant for afternoon tea. Love their meat pies, although the it is minced meat rather than chunky meat, it is the good one in the local area. Will definitely going back for their continental Aussie cakes.

Sweet by Nature supplies a lot of cafes and restaurants around town, so it's likely that you've had…read moretheir creation once or twice. They have a cafe at this site where they make their cakes, and you can purchase a mix box of around 6 individual cakes for around $10 - they're the ones who don't make it to the cafes or they are 'not quite pretty enough' to be sold individually - well could've fooled me they're ALL so pretty. If you're on a tighter budget, get the off-cuts slices $6.50 for a tray that will feed your whole (small) office. There is a great variety of full price cakes and slices but you have to call in to see what slices are on 'sale' that day.

From the owner: Naturelovers is a factory direct cafe for Sweet by Nature, a cake manufacturer that has been…read moreproducing amazing cakes and biscuits for foodservice customers for nearly 20 years. All of our cakes are handmade using only natural premium quality ingredients such as fresh dairy cream, fresh fruits and unsalted butter. Selling a selection of cafe lines, a huge range of cakes (of course), as well as wedding cakes, christening cakes, spectacular novelty cakes and catering available. We have a childrens play area and free meeting rooms available to our customers. Don't forget to ask about our not quite right range of heavily discount cakes available every day!

"...ANOTHER LITTLE GEM OF A PLACE ~ A TURKISH BAKERY OPEN 24/7..."…read more Drove to Barry Road Campbellfield today looking for KATIK TURKISH TAKE-AWAY - Yes found.. OMG.. What a place.. Please view separate review, posted just now.. You'll be stoked you did.. Anyway, there's a shopping strip on Barry Road, not far from the Hume Hwy/Sydney Road.. WOW... there are some serious eateries here - I intend to explore them all, one by one... One of these eateries had to be ventured into today, even though I had my arms full of foot-long Turkish kebabs - BARRY ROAD BAKERY, Campbellfield... They had some beautiful looking doughnuts - plain, sugared, jam filled, chocolate filled, nutella filled, creamed... I could have bought a heap of stuff... everything looked wonderful... Breads, Rolls, Biscuits, Simit, Boregs, Boreks, Pide, Gozleme, Baklava, Rice Pudding et al Did buy: 2 x Large Cheese and Spinach Pide 4 x Long Baguette Rolls 4 x Simit [big bread rings studded with sesame seeds] Cost: $18 Just loved the look of the assorted savoury filled pastry diamonds in those massive baking trays...!!! They're open 24 hours - the shop assistant told us they are busiest late at night and very early in the morning - locals coming to buy goods straight out of the ovens... We'll be back... Absolutely... Will go at about 3am and make an adventure of it...!!! Visited Friday 22 Jan 2016 for bakery items to take home.

Zait finally fills a long standing void in the shops at the corner of Plenty and Macdonald's Roads…read more We came to try it out and we're very impressed. The coffee (Picollo) was perfectly done and the Hot Chocolate was dark and hot. The Vegemite and Cheese Pie (a take on a traditional scroll) was amazing... I didn't order it but stole from the plate next to mine. Two of us ordered the Mahumsor breakfast for a bit of a change from standard bacon and eggs and found it was so tasty we were eating too quickly! There are a lot of bakery goods to come back for and we will definitely be back for brunch. Stop by... it's new but could definitely do with more business. Nice and quiet on Saturday morning.