Pastry: Flaky and fresh, medium bake 8/10
Presentation: white glossy icing, raw sawn rectangle 7/10
Value for money: $5 - Small/medium portion, promised more 6/10
Overall score: 7/10
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Filling: Half decent custard 7/10
Pastry: Flaky and fresh, medium bake 8/10 Presentation: white glossy icing, raw sawn rectangle 7/10 Value for money: $5 - Small/medium portion, promised more 6/10 Overall score: 7/10
With a recommendation from a colleague that lives nearby, I drove through Kew East with intent. Vienna was a lovely little bakery, with room enough for one table and two chairs in the window and cake cabinets filled to the brim with fresh cakes and desserts. Selling their vanilla slices at a slightly higher than average $5 I was intrigued to see if the price translated into real quality ingredients. I was pleased to find a real custard nestled between the pastry sheets, thick and creamy with a hint of egg and a suggestion of vanilla, though I would like more. The pastry had taken a hammering in my car en route home, so the top layer had fallen apart and needed superficial reconstruction for my photo. Nevertheless, the pastry was quite good but I’ve had better; medium bake and flaky to the bite, but a richer, more golden bake would have been even better to offset the thick custard. The icing was my least favourite component. I couldn’t place the hidden ingredient, perhaps just lemon juice, but something tainted the flavour when eaten with the pastry and custard that I didn’t quite like. Beautifully glossy, delicately thin, but somewhat distracting in flavour. Overall, not bad and a welcome stop.
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