91A, 5th Lane, Colombo 3
Open until 07:00 PM
The Cake Factory has opened a small cafe on 5th Lane that offers a slightly limited range of their cakes and desserts. The cakes were so-so, but their cheesecake was the real winner.
Within the past few of years, we've managed to see the cake scene in Colombo expand from just The Fab and P&S to a whole bunch of home bakers and independent cake shops. And amongst this new gaggle of baking places do we find an adorable little dessert bar with one of the nicest ambiences in all of Colombo, The Cake Factory down 5th Lane.
We've been to Cake Factory before and while we weren't entirely blown away by it, we did thoroughly enjoy their Chocolate Treat. So, this year, we decided to drop in for another look. Here's how it went.
This is the absolute best part of our experience at The Cake Factory. While the cafe itself is quite small, it was covered with a gorgeous tangle of flowers. As a whole, it gives out a very Disney princess at a tea party vibe to it and we are desperately in love with it. They have very limited seating but since most people get their food to go, so it's all good.
The Cakes
The Cake Factory, as the name suggests does cake and a bunch of other desserts. Since they already had a table full of caked options, we went with the Nutella Brownie (Rs. 180), a Red Velvet Cupcake (Rs.200), the Chocolate Treat (Rs. 400) and the Hazelnut Caramel Sponge (Rs. 500).
Starting with the Hazelnut Caramel Sponge. It was huge with two pretty dense layers of vanilla cake and a thick layer of peanut butter tucked in between, it was quite good. The whole concept of peanut butter in the place of icing was a stroke of genius which we really enjoyed. But, we would have liked the cake to be a little lighter because the denseness of the cake and the peanut butter was a bit much.
Moving on to the Nutella Brownie. While the brownie did have a really nice layer of Nutella smothered on top, it has room for improvement. I, personally like my brownies fudgier than ones which are predominantly crumbly. This, unfortunately, was more on the crumbly side. Plus, most of the chocolate taste was coming off the Nutella, and not the brownie. We suggest getting a brownie from Smokey's instead.
Then came the Red Velvet Cupcake. Although stunningly beautiful, we weren't quite impressed by it. The cake felt relatively dry and the cream cheese was excessively sweet.
The Chocolate Treat is one of Vishvi's favourites and was the winner of our Colpetty's Chocolate Cake Contest. Unfortunately, the piece we got was a bit dry, probably because we got the last piece on the display. While the ganache was rich, absolutely chocolatey, and all in all sublime, it wasn't entirely moist in texture. Again, maybe it's because it dried up in the air conditioning, we'll never know.
The Cake Factory does a couple of other desserts apart from their cakes so, after much thought, we finally decided to go with the Passion Fruit Meringue (Rs. 350).
Let's get this straight. I don't like meringues, generally. I find them too sweet and altogether just a bore. BUT! the Meringue at The Cake Factory was brilliant!! Positively drowned in a beautiful rendition of passion fruit custard, we absolutely loved it. The sweetness of the meringue was balanced out by the custard and the littering of cashew nuts was the cherry on top. If you're looking for something tangy, sweet and gorgeously fresh, we suggest going with this. You will not regret it.
In terms of service, we really can't complain. They didn't really dally around and were pretty nice about packing up leftover food (we ordered a lot).
At the end of it all, it's pretty much in the middle of things. They've got some good stuff, but also the room for improvement. Nonetheless, they seem to be pretty popular amongst the people in the area and they do have a bunch of options we didn't even get close to trying so, check them out and let us know how it goes.
A cafe down 5th lane that does cake.
The Cake Factory has opened a small cafe on 5th Lane that offers a slightly limited range of their cakes and desserts. The cakes were so-so, but their cheesecake was the real winner.
සිංහල කිව්වත් වගේ පහුගිය කාලේ තිබුණට වඩා දැන් කේක් ෆැක්ටරි එකේ කේක්වල කොලිටිය සහ රස සෑහෙන්න වැඩි වෙලා කියලා කියන්න පුළුවන්.
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Cake Factory is on 5th Lane, just a few metres past Cafe on the 5th.
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Sweets Cakes Cupcakes Chocolate Biscuit Pudding
Ratings Breakdown
Good place for snacks & short eats, but other food are ?
One of the best place to eat delicious authentic Sri Lankan…
I have to say that I had a piece of their ribbon today and it was freaking awesome….moist to boot and the icing just delicious….buttery and not too sweet!
The ribbon cake is usually fantastic! Have had it many a time and the cheese cake is great as well!
Their ribbon cake is usually awesome. We've discovered that if you buy the whole cake, it's fresher than when buying a slice. Their CBP and even the meringue is awesome. Believe me because we don't fail to bring them with us each time we visit SL.
Love their cakes and brownies. Winni's Cakes collection is also pretty great, check here: https://www.winni.in/cake/womens-day
Lovely cakes they got there, definitely go and check.
Also check- https://www.giftsnroses.com/india-flowers.html
The ribbon cake is usually fantastic! Have had it many a time and the cheese cake is great as well. you can promote your ideas on Instagram! https://followerscart.com/buy-instagram-followers-uk/
4/5
SirJAM
still making good cakes and things….visit again and recommend…