Randolph’s Bakery

On Thursday July 23 2015 I purchased a cannoli cake from Randolphs Bakery for my coworkers birthday. The cake was only 24.95 and it was beautiful! So I was pleased! Well pretty is as pretty does. This cake was awful, it tastes old. We didn’t even cut it. All we did was taste the cannolis and they are so horrible we immediately spit them out. When we called to tell them and get a refund they said they could only give us credit. No thanks! I was busy today so one of my coworkers went over to return it and came back with no money! The girl at the counter said she had to wait for the owner to refund the money! I’m currently waiting on a phone call. Meanwhile I will be contacting the health department. Please avoid this place at all costs. Someone could have gotten sick.

Not a fan of this place. We’ve tried a few different items from this bakery and none were real winners.
The different cookies we tried were all quite hard and stale tasting. Cupcakes vary — the «regular» size cake-​wise are fine but the frosting is so thick, heavy/​dense, and sweet we’ve usually just had to take the frosting straight off. The bigger «refrigerated» ones are slightly better, but again the frosting is just too much, too dense, too sweet. And it seems they use that same frosting concoction for birthday cakes. For my daughter’s first birthday, we got a cake and everyone had to leave the frosting to the side. For the prices they charge, I expect better baked goods.
I love to support local businesses but the quality at this place is just not there. I wish they’d try a light fluffy frosting, or make some moist, chewy cookies for a change and maybe we’d give them another try. But for now we’ll have to look elsewhere for yummy baked goods.

I love donuts and Randolph’s have the best around. I was a huge McMillan’s fan but Randolph’s donuts are fluffy, fresher, and lighter. The taste is phenomenal!

We got a variety of items, cookies, tarts, and cupcakes, and some pastry items. Spent almost 50 $ in sweets and I am so sad to say that it was not worth it. I had to spit out one of the cream tarts because it seemed so old that it just tasted like rotten milk. The Italian cookies looked great, but also didn’t taste very fresh at all. Now I really have a pet peeve of bakeries selling «Jumbo Cupcakes». No one wants to eat a huge gigantic cupcake. Took one bite of the red velvet, and didn’t go back for a second bite, and sadly that’s my favorite kind :(. The one surprise was the carrot cake– very good. It should be the only thing you buy there– if you even bother to go at all. Also, the teenagers working could care less about working. No signage or prices to tell you about anything so your forced to ask them what things are, or how much they cost. Total bummer.

I was pleased to hear that Randolph’s Bakery of Marlton had opened a branch in Maple Shade. Their Marlton branch has very good pastries and cakes (Their bread is mostly made from cotton bolls, unfortunately.)
Entering the Maple Shade branch, you are hit with two sensory slaps, and not the usual bakery smells of their products. First is a smell of bleach; comforting, if you’re worried about the hygiene of the place (It IS clean.), but not what you want to inhale when visiting a bakery. Second is the din from the compressors for the refrigerated cases; the ceiling is low and combined with the hard floors it makes for an uncomfortable atmosphere.
When I visited, early on a Sunday afternoon, the place was almost devoid of pastries, and the ones left and the cookies and regular small cakes were very sad looking and unappetizing. There were expensive, fancy cakes that looked very good, though. There were also boxes of the usual factory-​made Italian-​type cookies, doughnuts, and some wan soft rolls. Just to try their wares, I grudgingly asked for two not-​so-​good-​looking pastries and two onion-​poppy seed rolls. Maybe the girl behind the counter had her brain addled from the vibrations of the compressors, because she put all four items — oniony rolls and pastries — in one bag. Oy. Both items, once separated, were okay, just okay.
I think 1 pm is not too late to ask for a good selection of good-​looking pastries and cakes on a Sunday. I was very disappointed. This is not the Randolph’s I fondly remembered from Marlton. Hopefully the Maple Shade branch will rise to Marlton’s standard.