Baker’s Krate Subscription Box Review & Coupon – March 2016

Baker’s Krate is a Canadian subscription that sends you a box of delicious desserts once a month. The bakeries featured are all Canadian and local! Last month my box arrived mid-month; this month my box did not arrive until March 29. More on this in a moment.

While February featured red, March featured a cheerful blue — perfect for spring!

The box has a cardboard separator to keep things from clunking around, and there’s liberal amounts of (pink!) bubble wrap. Baker’s Krate often includes a cake in a jar, so protecting that heavy glass is definitely appreciated!

March’s box features six goodies from four different bakeries. As you can see, five of the six items have their best before date stamped within three days of when I received my box. In short: these items are not going to be as fresh as they should be for a box of this kind. Admittedly, ‘best before’ dates are guidelines rather than hard-set rules, but the principle still stands that baked goods really aren’t something you hang onto for two weeks expecting them to taste as fresh when you eat them. Last month the boxes arrived around the middle of the month and the expiry date was a full two weeks away — everything tasted and felt fresh and edible.

Crinkle Cookie (High Tea Bakery) This is described as ‘perfectly chewy’, but mine was rock hard. It tasted fine, a standard chocolate cookie and covered in powdered icing sugar, but it did not taste fresh.

Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich (High Tea Bakery) This is a crispy cookie with mint icing inside; this one tasted fine as well — I especially liked the very light mint flavour of the icing. The cookie part was still crunchy.

Chocolate Chunk Cookie (Cookie Girl) A chocolate chip cookie with HUGE chips inside. I know exactly what kind of chocolate chips they are as a friend of mine uses them, too, so I enjoyed this. It was still sort of chewy but definitely was not fresh.

Butterscotch Quickie (Eiffel Tower Pastry Shop & Catering) In this cookie’s defense… it tastes better than it looks, but only because it just tastes like a blob of crunchy peanut butter. Any butterscotch that’s inside it is cancelled out by the mountain of peanut butter. Awesome if you’re a peanut butter fan, but for me it was a miss.

Caramilk Chocolate Chip Cookie (Cookie Girl) Honestly, this one cookie saved the entire box from being a hot mess. It was chewy, soft, and stuffed with milk and white chocolate chips along with a square of Caramilk chocolate bar inside. I need three dozen, stat.

Bacon Butter Tart in a Jar (Shut Ur Pie Hole) I didn’t even open this; while cakes and cookies are still somewhat stable even if they’re not totally fresh, this tart looked very… liquid… in the jar, and adding ingredients like eggs and bacon to it, I just didn’t want to risk it.

I’ll be brutally honest — if this had been my first month of Baker’s Krate, I would have unsubscribed. I’m unsure if everyone’s boxes were late or if it were just mine , but the quality of the items’ freshness really hurt this month’s box. However, I know Baker’s Krate is better than this — February’s box was fantastic, and arrived promptly. I’m hoping this was a delay in shipping/coordination and not something that was sent out fully aware of the quality.

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