Italian Tomato

I love cake, and I have a problem with some cafés serving ridiculously small, practically pea-​sized (okay, maybe not really!) cakes at sky-​high prices. $ 45 for a piece of cake I can finish in five bites or less? No, thank you.
And that’s where Italian Tomato comes in. If you’ve bought a slice of cake at Italian Tomato, or even passed by it, you’ll know that their cakes are strangely massive. They are approximately twice the size of regular cakes from say, Agnes B, and not as expensive too!
Italian Tomato always has a range of cakes on display, such as the classic cheesecake strawberry and cream, etc. I recently saw that they have a white peach cake, which sounds really interesting! To me, peaches are of a very soft, delicate flavor, so I can’t imagine how they cakes that are peach-​flavored would taste like.
One of my favorite Italian Tomato cakes is the strawberry and cream sponge cake. It has a couple of strawberries — yes, whole strawberries — on the cake, which is really generous! The strawberries are very sweet and the cake itself is soft and creamy. The two make a great dynamic duo and I’m craving it as we speak!
Another favorite of mine is the Black Forest. I used to eat the one from Saint Honore all the time when I was a kid, so bite after bite of any Black Forest cake just brings back a rush of memories. This isn’t just any Black Forest cake, though. Like the strawberries in the cream sponge cake, they’re very generous with the cherries here and you can taste them with every bite. The chocolate to cream ratio is just right, and the chocolate shavings add a kind of nice, contrasting texture to the otherwise very smooth cake.
This is a great place to buy cake if you’re sick of the overpriced cakes game. If you’re at the Italian Tomato at Yata in Sha Tin and you can’t wait (like me), you can buy your cake and eat it immediately at the nearby food court. Oh, and just a random musing — why’s Italian Tomato called ITALIAN Tomato? I’m pretty sure it’s a Japanese brand… And speaking of that, why tomato? They aren’t even used in cakes! Don’t let my random musings about its name throw you off though — I guarantee you’ll like the cakes here, and if you don’t, well, then it’s on me!