Bakery

Vegan cinnamon roll bakeshop founded in 2010 in Berkeley, CA. Has grown into a franchise with outlets across North America. Offers many flavors of rolls as well as the option to build-your-own from a range of flavors and toppings. Also sells cookies, brownies, and coffee. Open Mon-Sat 10:00am-9:00pm, Sun 10:00am-8:00pm.


2 Reviews

First Review by Tigra220

LJYoung

Points +46

Vegan
05 Sep 2024

A guilty pleasure

Vegan food isn't always health food as we know but when you just need a hot, gooey cinnamon roll (I always go Old Skool), this place...yes yes yes. Even my non-vegan family members love them. I am pretending I don't know there is one in a nearby suburb outside Chicago because it's more special to enjoy with family in Indy. It's a tradition now!

Pros: Hot gooey deliciousness

Cons: Spendy

Tigra220

Points +10644

Vegan
06 Aug 2023

Newest Location Still Working Out Kinks

I have been a Cinnaholic fan since the 2010 Berkeley location with it’s line out the door and around the corner. I’ve visited multiple locations since they’ve expanded, and I understand that as franchises go, sometimes things will not be what they used to be. That being said, I’m happy for the owner of the Cinnaholic brand and all that she accomplished.

This new franchise is located about 30 minutes outside of Indianapolis proper, in a cute little outdoor mall area. It was easy to find as its right off of a roundabout (across from the Red Robin). Both this and the Carmel location are the smallest Cinnaholics I’ve ever seen. No restrooms to wash your hands, no seating, and no free water stations to wash down your sweets. The employees were very nice though.

Presentation-
The presentation of both the displays and the actual rolls was lacking. The display case had no signage so you couldn’t tell which roll was what. The rolls in the display case and my Monster roll were nowhere near the beautiful rolls that Cinnaholic are known for making (See the stock photos they used on this Yelp listing from their franchisee marketing package. THAT is what they are supposed to look like.)

Taste -
The rolls were fresh but just did not taste the same. I had the Cookie Monster Roll in Gilbert, AZ and baby it was the business! This one… not so much. It was more of a cookie minion. You know it was sad if I didn’t even take a picture. It’s supposed to be a big, buttery, melt in your mouth mound of sweet delight, rich with the cream cheese frosting, a heaping of cookie dough and chocolate sauce toppings. I barely tasted any cookie dough or cream cheese frosting. The roll, although very fresh, sadly wasn’t that buttery melt in your mouth roll that I’ve loved for 13 years.

For the road-
DD wanted Cinnadoodle cookies and the lemon-berry cake. It’s served as a coffee cake in Chicago, but as a muffin here. I also grabbed some take n bake cookie dough. Haven’t yet tried the aforementioned items, so I’ll update if there are any issues. I got a roll to go and asked for the frosting and toppings on the side. I’m hella peeved by that lil dab of caramel sauce.

I understand that they’ve just opened and are likely going through those new business learning curves. I say give them a couple of months and hopefully they’ll get it together and do great. In the meantime, I encourage this location’s owner to visit some of the older locations as a refresher on how the rolls should taste

RisBurton

06 Aug 2023

Sorry, I couldn't read it all. That's a lot. 😀




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