Erin Mckenna's Bakery - Santa Monica

I think this place is overrated and I?ve had better vegan sweets. The Brooklyn bites were too sweet for me, the maple donut was just ok, and the veggie bomb and the cheddar biscuits were on the dry side.

I don't ever leave reviews but this one annoyed me. Called to order gluten free strawberry tarts and was told they don't make them and the worker suggested a strawberry pie for $45.00 dollars. Told me they taste the same. I don't know anything about baking so I agreed. Four days later and two days before I'm supposed to be picking up the pie and my brother's birthday, I got a call from the bakery that it is now $90.00. Which I would have declined that if that's what I was told in the first place and moved on to the next bakery. Shouldn't suggest an alternative item to someone, sell them on it for an agreed price, wait four days then call them and double the price.

This location is the only location serves savory good as far as I know. Good gluten free options but not the best. Their sweets are soooooooo sweet, but cuteness makes up for it if you eat at the bakery.

I ordered a birthday cake with lilac flowers. I showed them a picture of what we wanted and the cashier/baker wrote in detail what was wanted for decorations. I have a copy of that detail in the receipt. When I picked up the cake, no flowers, just white icing and purple border. The baker said I didn?t pay the extra price for flowers and did a plain, Safeway type birthday cake. I was so disappointed. It was a mistake on their end when they charged me $72 for a small round cake with no decorations. They did not want to make it right by maybe offering to put some decorations on it. She wanted another $20 to put anything on it. Not going back.

I ordered the vegan brownie cupcake and the birthday cake slice through door dash. The brownie cupcake was out of stock replaced by a vanilla one with zero attempt to contact me to see if I just want a refund instead. It was dry and disgusting. The frosting didn 't taste like frosting at all. The birthday cake slice looked nothing like the photo. It was this rectangle shaped really dry cake with gobs and gobs of gross, inedible frosting. Also, it said your cute not happy birthday