Moon Maiden's Delights

As usually vegan with a milk allergy I am super grateful to have moon maiden in charlottesville. a bit pricy, but they have a wonderful selection and almost everything I had been very tasty. one or two items are just in order, and a few are exceptional (I am a sucker for the chocolate chip cookies and the chocolate donuts.) and everything is very nice.

That is a small one room bakery hidden in the back of the shopping center, they have a lot of baked but were usable! I had a donut and it was amazing, but a little creepy

We came to Charlottesville for the marathon. My wife runs, I write reviews while she's doing that. Anyway, I was intrigued by the website for this bakery, and we stopped in yesterday. Unfortunately, the website looked more promising than the offerings we encountered. This could be twofold: the bakery itself is in a kind of mall with no windows to the outside, just to the indoor walkway. And the day we went there was very rainy and gloomy. We entered the bakery and found the décor somewhat bland. The walls are painted a pastel pinkish color that could be cheery, but which I found a bit depressing. There were not many things on display in the cases, either. I guess mostly it's because I have gotten used to very mainstream vegan sugary treats, and these strike me more like the kind of treats from the early 1990s healthfoodish, not necessarily bad, but not exactly what I crave these days. HOWEVER I want to stress that I did not even buy a slice of cake (I'm not gluten-free, just regular vegan, and sometimes I find the gluten-free stuff a bit dry) but it could be excellent. Because we did buy a savory carrot muffin and it was OUTSTANDING! DELICIOUS! Still, I was a little afraid to try some of the other things, like the apple tarts, because I like to buy things that I feel I cannot make myself. Again, this is not completely fair of me. Those apple tarts could be delicious. I'm just less a fan of gluten-free flour than I could be. Based on the muffin, I bet the baked goods here are wonderful, particularly if you're gluten-free. The main hitch is that the muffin cost $6.00 for one. And that kind of pricing, while I understand it, can really be prohibitive. Nevertheless, I feel comfortable recommending this place for gluten-free people for sure, and also for the more health-conscious vegan who may wish for a sweet but not all the cane sugar and junk that I so enjoy myself.

On the construction market. I had the cinnamon roll, not very cinnamon, more chocolate, but still really good! Mom, who is very much not vegan, had a donut and thought it would be so good!

My man and I needed a vegan high-time cake for our high-time in May 2019, and we approached sidney after having their delicious vegan tasty eggs both on the market of charlottesville farmer and on their bakery. (in May 2019, she was also the only baker in the Charlottesville area that could make a vegan high-time cake, at least after my research go sidney we had a three-stage cake with lemon poppy and lemon icing for the outer two cedars and mandelkuchen and maple pecan icing for the middle animal. These flavor combinations could sound a bit strange, but they were incredible! Apart from the aromen, I absolutely loved the fresh flowers of a local florist decorate the cake. but what I most appreciated about my high-time cake was that I could fully enjoy it without feeling hard after eating because it was actually healthy! I am sensitive to sugar, and I can be treated quite quickly after bakery, especially with icing crashing. I didn't want this to happen at my high time. I also didn't want, especially from vegan butter, that's just a buck of oil and shortening. sidney’s cake was delicious and ingenious and beautiful, but healthy and elevated at the same time! I didn't have to compromise.