In recent years, there has been an explosion of online cake shops, some of which have transformed from online to brick-and-mortar stores, and Yao Bar Pastry is one of them. Yao Bar is not easy to find, located on the second floor of the street-facing shop, and is only accessible by an unidentified staircase, so that some new customers mistakenly believe that it has closed. Even so, with the regular customers and word-of-mouth spread accumulated during the online store, Yao Bar still has a loyal group of diners.
Yao Bar specializes in birthday cakes, cream cakes, cheesecakes and naked cakes, all of which require reservations, while the latter includes French tarpais, mousse and cupcakes, all of which can be eaten in dine-in. Yao Bar doesn't make many cakes every day, and the popular ones are sold out early, so it's best to book them in advance.
Yao Bar offers a wide variety of cakes, but they vary in standard, with the berry nude cake being the most outstanding. A naked cake is a cake that has no cream or cream on the outside, and its layers and materials are "exposed". The method of making naked cakes is not very complicated, and it is a frequent customer in cake shops, Yao Bar is better at choosing ingredients and has the advantage of matching them well.
The cake base is layered with cheese cream and is interspersed with blueberry jam. The cake is smooth and neat, with a dark chocolate sauce covering the top layer and hanging all around, and berries such as blueberries and strawberries on the surface, and mint leaves on the top. The amount of cream is small, and the chocolate topping is light and thin, and the sweet and sour berries give it a light and not greasy taste. The berries are fresh and creamy, and with the smooth, slightly acidic chocolate, the taste is mellow and fresh. Yao Bar sells berry cakes ranging from 4 to 8 inches, which can be used as afternoon tea or as a birthday cake with other elements.
Fruit tarts are quite popular in France, but cake shops in Wuhan are not common. The crust of the fruit tart is hard and not easy to break through the wall, so it is not as popular as the mousse and other sweeteners. Yao Bar offers a wide range of fata flavors, including strawberry tart, banana chocolate tart, peach tart, etc., and the raspberry tart has the highest serving rate. The cake crust and cream sauce fill the crust, the raspberry jam is poured on it, the raspberries are piled up on the surface, and the honey is pretending to be water droplets, which is very sweet.
The top raspberry and jam are sour, the bottom cream sauce is very sweet and greasy, the cake base loses its fluffiness due to moistening the raspberry water, and the tart skin is too hard, which is not harmonious in taste and texture. In addition, in addition to the fruit tart, the mousse cake is also the protagonist of dine-in afternoon tea, which is mostly orange, strawberry, apple and other imitation fruit sweetness, which has no uniqueness in appearance and decent taste.
Yao Bar is inconspicuous and not large, but the environment is acceptable, with white walls and white tablecloths with blue-green floors, and green plants and flowers decorated with fresh and clean colors. The staff is not enthusiastic, but polite and attentive, can explain the cake to customers in detail, and for the delivery of cakes is also delicately packaged, and will place ice packs.
