Tucked away on a dying Main Street in Ohio, Central Pastry has the super-sweet icinged cakes that supermarket cakes just can't match. The icing is thick, leaving an ditch-like indent when you try to sneak a swipe. The 1/2 icing is borderline too sweet, but a little at a time keeps you going back for more again and again. The cake itself is more of a pedestal for the icing to sit on without a lot of notable flavor on its own so it can feature the sweet icing.
I know that cakes have changed to having fondant (disgusting!) to ice cream to cookie cakes. But there is something about a classic cake from Central Pastry that keeps a piece of the past alive with its old-fashioned deliciousness.
