The cinnamon rolls here are as good as a cinnamon roll can possibly get. Thick, well-risen dough filled with the most cinnamon flavored cinnamon possible(I suspect they add cinnamon oil to amp it up a bit) and wonderful cream cheese-style frosting. It’s the thing dreams are made of and reminds me of the ones I had made by old German ladies when I was a kid. I wish I could get them more often.
Emmalouise B.
Place rating: 2 East Bay, CA
Yikes. With all of the Dessert food porn this stall had I wonder, did I just choose the wrong thing? Everything looked so good and the reviews are all positive so what went wrong? Maybe as a Baker myself my standards are set to high. I made the mistake of getting the Snickers brownie — $ 5( ). Which was huge and looked delicious topped with chunks of Snickers and Chocolate sauce but it soon became apparent that it lacked one thing I believe every Brownie should have — Chocolate Chips! A Brownie without these are simply a Chocolate Cake. The Cake part itself was on the dry side, another faux pass in my eyes. They should be gooey and moist. As for the topping. eeek! Cheap Chocolate sauce, it totally ruined what I thought might the saving grace of this catastrophe. I was totally let down and not even my Husband wanted to eat what was left before I threw it in the trash. I’m sure as a Cake and to someone who doesn’t know quality ingredients this would be fine but for me. nope, sorry. Maybe I will return to try the Red Velvet Bundt Cake I first had my eye on.
Kathleen U.
Place rating: 4 San Francisco, CA
Found this booth at Treasure Island Flea Market! + Love the red velvet mini cupcake! Yum. + Many many variety of different pastries(pies) & sweets — No pricing listed on the booth — $ 2 for a mini cupcake :( — Cash only
Tesia J.
Place rating: 5 Hayward, CA
I don’t even care that the only thing I’ve tasted is the peach cobbler… IFYOUKNEW how hard I’ve been looking for a good cobbler, how many times I’ve been disappointed(and at times, downright DISGUSTED) and IFYOUKNEW how SPRUNG I am off of Dots cobbler… I mean to the point that right now I’m up at 3Am wishing I had some, like some kinda frickin CRACKFIEND – Then you’d understand the 5stars. I’m going to JLSTHIS Sunday SPECIFICALLY to spend a LOT of money on getting diabetes… the chocolate brownies looked RIDUNKULOUS… and that Red Velvet cupcake shall be mine all mine!(and some more peach cobbler of course)…ill report back and let you all know how it goes… that is, unless I slip into a sugar coma… happily.
Dawna Y.
Place rating: 4 Oakland, CA
The sun is shining on JLS. which gives me license for Red Velvet Cupcakes with CREAMCHEESEFROSTING for breakfast! See ya there ;)
Victor G.
Place rating: 4 Oakland, CA
Dots Baking Pantry has been around for 15 years, the vendor says approach vendor near 2, closing time. locale: jls farmers market(2⁄12) goods seen: scones, cupcakes, minipies, cakes, pineapple bars… eats: mississipi mudpie slice(3.), regularly 4.5? –crusty chocolate topping, creamy marshmallow center with nuts, fluffy chocalate cake base. –tastes on the sweet side. 3.5 stars, if $ 4.5 just 2.5 stars. crumbs –no pricing posted –guess price decreases as closing approaches –cash only
Mike B.
Place rating: 4 Long Beach, CA
best desert vote for me — red velvet cupcake. i think Sprinkles in Los Angeles is a distant 2nd to hers. You have to get there early because she’s been sold out the last two times I went. There a whole lot of other choices — which are also fantastic — but this is definitely my favorite. Cheers to you Dot.
Jen D.
Place rating: 5 San Francisco, CA
Holy hell was that slice of red velvet cake a-freaking-mazing. Dot can cook. Dot can make icing. Dot uses the absolute correct amount of icing(like… the cake is a vehicle for icing. important, and you cannot go overboard, but that cake is mostly a vehicle for icing). Most places canNOT make icing that tastes like this, and if you’re not in east bay it’s worth the trip. And the extra 5 days at the gym. The best icing I’ve had not made by my mom. Cake is good too.
Danielle W.
Place rating: 5 Seattle, WA
OMGOMGOMG. YES. I love cupcakes. So I was working at a Zip Car booth that was directly across from Dot’s bakery booth. I thought I could resist the succulent looking cupcakes(which were on rotating display – making it all that more irresistible). About 4 hours in I finally gave in and had their vanilla cupcake. AMAZING. I also sampled from my colleagues’ carrot cake – usually I hate carrot cake – and it was awesome. Definitely recommend it.
Chase S.
Place rating: 4 San Diego, CA
Fuck yes! I am so ridiculously giddy right now after having my first decent cupcake in California! I have been let down so many times I had started to become disenchanted in my search for a cupcake I like. Today, thanks to the Dots booth at the Jack London Square farmers market, I have a smile on my face and a very full tummy. I opted for the vanilla cupcake with chocolate butter-cream. FINALLY a bakery who understands how to make fucking frosting. Its so not hard: butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, milk, and extras like cocoa etc. if needed. When I asked the woman at the booth to list the ingredients and she repeated the above I was hopeful and was not disappointed. This is not a gourmet cupcake with a cute name — this is your standard simple yet yummy cake. Its very sweet and is obviously made with lots of butter, sugar, and happiness — as desserts should be made. This is the cake your grandma made that you loved as a kid — complete with confetti sprinkles. Only 4 stars right now because I only have eaten 1 kind of cake — I will be back for sure to try more as well as their amazing looking pastries. peace, love, and good booze ~ chase
Brenda G.
Place rating: 5 El Sobrante, CA
Delicious, amazing, wonderful, large portions of yumminess is what you get from Dot’s! We bought a red velvet cupcake and a piece of banana cake. Both were moist, flavorful and I reiterate, Delicious. I wish my waistline could handle these sweet treats every week! Dot’s main store is in Vallejo. I have yet to go there but … I would love to get a «whole» cake for the holidays!
Rebecca F.
Place rating: 5 Oakland, CA
I just bought a slice of red velvet cake at the Jack London Farmer’s Market, and omg it was dreamy. SO delicious. I want more!
Delilah P.
Place rating: 5 Oakland, CA
A long time ago, Merrie Melodies made a cartoon called«Pigs is Pigs» about a young swine named Piggy Hamhock who was obsessed with food. In a freaky turn of events, he is abducted by a mad scientist who straps him into a creepy S&M sorta machine that force feeds him pies, cakes, muffins, donuts, etc. while hollering, «So, it’s food you want! We’ll give you plenty of it!» Weirdly enough, the lil’ porker isn’t so much freaked out as he is excited that his lifelong dream of relentless face-stuffing is fulfilled. The reason I’m talking about this cartoon is because every time I visit Dots at the Jack London Farmers’ Market, I am reminded of it. One bite of her scrumptious Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese frosting, muffins chock-full of juicy fresh strawberries and blueberries, or the plump pecan-riddled sticky buns makes me wish someone would strap me to that contraption and shove everything she makes into my mouth. I guess that cartoon was supposed to be a morality tale warning against the vice of gluttony. I guess I should keep that in mind next time I stroll past Dots. But then again, pigs is pigs, and a pig’s gotta do what a pig’s gotta do!
