Sweetheart Bakery - Chinese Bakery

Sweetheart Bakery
8111 160 avenue
Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Closed Tuesday)
Saturday 9 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday and Holidays 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
780 457 2238

To my friend Corey. Who didn't believe in me.

Welcome to Sweetheart Bakery, a typical chinese Bakery in Edmonton. Walking in, there are small plastic showcases on both sides of the bakery where you can grab a tray and tongs, walk from showcase to showcase and pick out your goodies. Most of these goodies are buns; they have fillings such as shredded coconut, pineapple, taro, or sweet plain. Other buns have meat fillings: beef, BBQ pork, chicken curry, pizza... They also have cookies, biscuits, tarts, red bean snowballs and rice cakes, puffs, and long doughnuts; quite the selection.

In the larger showcases they sell tortes, slices of cheesecake, and a variety of pastries. Their cream puffs are unbelievably tall and very tempting, they stand about 4 inches high! They have what in my world and the french world are called petit fours, small confectionary or savoury appetizers. It is pretty much a very small version of a cake; of which there was vanilla, chocolate and coffee flavours. The cheesecake slices I mentioned don't look like they are made in house but bought from someplace like Wow Factor desserts in Sherwood Park (they sell large cheesecakes there mostly to restaurants).

No bread or plain buns are sold here.

The pastries and buns I bought today put on a good show; they all looked almost perfect. My purchases: cream puffs, chocolate and coffee petit four, mini coffee roll, ham bun and a coconut bun.

The buns were great, especially since I only paid a buck a piece for them! The coconut bun was slightly sweet with the perfect amount of coconut inside and the ham bun was a great lunchtime snack.

I have no complaints about the pastries since again, the price was right and they were tasty. Don't get me wrong, this bakery is not one of my favourites, but the place was clean and well organized, staff were friendly, prices were good, and the goodies they sell don't lack in the temptation field. I like it.