Dragonfly Cakes

Dragonfly Cakes makes exactly one product.  As you may have guessed, given the name, cake.  Or, cake adjacent I guess, as they literally only make petit fours.

" Our petits fours are created with three layers of moist cake and filled with velvety butter cream. A layer of jam accents that balances the fruit flavors, while dark chocolate ganache enriches the flavor of the chocolate cake. All of the cakes are finished with a smooth coat of chocolate draping."

The cakes are fairly easy to care for, lasting approximately two weeks in the refrigerator, even though they say they use no preservatives.  The cakes are all hand decorated.

For a company that specialized in just one thing, I was fairly shocked at how not tasty that one product is.  I don't recommend these at all, but I'll give them credit for nice decoration.

Raspberry Signature Tea Cake.

"Three layers of vanilla cake, two layers of raspberry buttercream and a layer of raspberry preserves enrobed in naturally pink colored white chocolate and decorated with a white chocolate drizzle and naturally colored sprinkles. "

"This quintessential summer fruit, further exalted. Raspberry buttercream is sandwiched between impossibly moist vanilla cake with an accent of raspberry jam."

This was not very good.

The white chocolate shell was fine, a good thickness, nice creamy sweet white chocolate.  The cake however was very dry and boring.  The buttercream was a bit too firm, barely any raspberry flavor.  The thin layer of raspberry preserves was fine, fruity.

But overall, the very dry lackluster cake made this not a winner.  **.

Chocolate Signature Tea Cake.

"Three layers of chocolate cake and two layers of chocolate buttercream enrobed in dark chocolate and decorated with a white chocolate drizzle and naturally colored sprinkles. "

"Layers of delicate chocolate cake collide with rich chocolate butter cream and dark chocolate ganache to satisfy even the most serious chocolate devotee."

I next tried the chocolate one, thinking that all the chocolate alone could possibly save it.

It didn't.

This featured equally dry and flavorless cake as the previous.  While the cake was pale brown, I didn't taste any chocolate.  It had zero moisture to it.  The buttercream was not particularly compelling either - no real chocolate flavor, just a bit sweet.  "Rich chocolate" it most certainly was not.

The exterior dark chocolate coating was fine.  Yay for sprinkles.  But, another dry fairly flavorless cake.  My least favorite. *+.

Holiday Tea Cakes.

For the holidays, they make their tea cakes in festive shapes, like presents and trees.  I didn't realize when I grabbed these that they came from Dragonfly Cakes ... if I had, I certainly wouldn't have bothered.  Spoiler: cute shapes doesn't improve these.

Tree Tea Cake: 

"Three layers of chocolate cake and two layers of peppermint buttercream enrobed in naturally green colored white chocolate and hand decorated with white chocolate. "

As with the raspberry cake, I liked the white chocolate coating well enough.  The peppermint buttercream had decent peppermint flavor, the first one to really taste like anything, although there was just two thin layers inside.  The chocolate cake though was again pretty boring, a "blonde" style, very light and mild, not really any chocolate flavor although it was light brown.  And so dry.  It tasted much like a packaged Little Debbie product, nothing more.  **+.  I guess my favorite of the cakes I had, but I have zero interest in trying any more.