Location: 755 Queensway East, Mississauga
Website: https://lacasadolce.ca/

My first time hearing about La Casa Dolce, an Italian bakery in Mississauga that specializes in desserts, was when I recently saw a photo of the Pumpkin Butter Tart on Instagram.

Obviously, I felt an immediate and overwhelming urge to eat it ASAP.  Why?  Look at it, that’s why.

Butter tarts are delicious.  Pumpkin pies are delicious.  Surely when you cram the two desserts together, you must end up with something magical.  Right…?

Well, maybe not.

It’s certainly not bad; it’s one of those things that would be very difficult to completely mess up.  But the one-note sweet butter tart is nothing special, and it completely overwhelms the comparatively subtle pumpkin pie filling.

The crust is the weakest part — it’s soft, doughy, and bland.  The tart is mostly inoffensively tasty, but that crust does its best to bring the whole thing down.  It definitely makes me wary to go back and try some of La Casa Dolce’s other baked goods.

Oh, and that stuff on top that looks like cream?  It’s actually Cool Whip or something similar.  It’s not great.