This was my first time eating jello cake and it was so delicious! The chocolate cake was also perfect. Not too sweet and there seem to be almost like a cream cheese-like topping rather than frosting. I also picked up a small plate of savory food to go, it was a ton of food for around $8. read more

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Needed a last minute cake fast! They delivered and forever grateful. Thank you. Quick and easy to find. read more

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We usually dine in or have quick stops for pan dulce (sweet bread), but today I placed an order through Yelp! The food was being prepared as I was arriving, Mary was attentive as I entered and said she was working on my order. The gorditas are fulfilling and delicious. In the past, we've had their Tres Leches cakes, gelatina on the cup, frozen treats, elote and tortas-- all very well served and yummy. Great service each time. read more

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Siempre nos gusta ordenar comida de Elviras's Cake pero el servicio es malísimo. Estuvimos parados esperando como 5 minutos para ordenar unas gorditas y nadie nos tomó la orden y no había nadie más esperando por otra orden tuvimos que decir que queríamos tres gorditas y ni así la mujer Cubana que estaba ahí en ese momento nos ignoró. Después pedimos tamales y los pagamos con Sheila y le preguntamos que si no tenían gorditas y ella no dijo nada. Pésimo servicio. read more

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I ordered a Tres Leches Cake and a Flan for a family gathering. They tasted awesome! The staff was very helpful and pleasant. I will definitely go back to eat some of their food and more bakery items. I'm sure it's great just like the desserts. read more

Yesterday was the 2nd time in the past couple of months that I have bought cakes at Elvira's for wedding celebrations of coworkers at my office. On both occasions I have received rave reviews from the staff of 15 and have even been told "this is the best cake I've ever had". Today's double layer Mocha Tres Leche was sublime with it's dense spongy interior, creamy frosting and fruit decoration. For $40 we fed 15 and the bride had plenty to take home to share with family and friends. A bargain in my book, and certainly not something that I could create at home. While I was there , I also had lunch. The barbacoa quesadilla was also a bargain for $6. A hot off the grill cheesy and meaty mess - and I mean mess in a good way! Lots of marinated beef chunks cooked in seasonings that took the quesadilla to a whole other dimension. With Thanksgiving week on us, I wanna give thanks to Elvira's for always making me look good at work with your amazing bakery and giving us those amazing and traditional Mexican taqueria style dishes from your kitchen. read more

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So this was the first time that I've ever tried Tres leches as a cake. The flavor of the cake was amazing. My brother got me the mocha Tres leches cake as a birthday gift. And again the flavor was great but the cake itself was a weird texture that I did not enjoy. In my mind I thought that the trace leches liquid would go into a moist dense cake and it just went into a dry cake so it was leaking all over the bottom. I will say that I shared it with my coworkers and they all absolutely loved it so it could also be my experience or lack of experience with Tres leches. read more

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Ordered a large Tres Leches cake and was pleased with it overall. Flavor was good. It had options for a filling with a few flavors to choose from. I prefer no filling but it didn't provide an option on their website when ordering to opt out. I chose a fruit filling and it wasn't overpowering. Cake was moist from the milks and the frosting was tasty. Ordering process was painless other than not being able to pass on a filling. Great spot to indulge in tres leches among other goodies. I will be returning to try some of their other offerings. read more

We stopped here today for Mexican bread. They had a large selection and it all looked yummy. We got a few pieces and they were very good. We'll be back. read more

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Tres LEches for THE WIN I love the Mocha Flavor. The snacks here are also good and I love the frosting work in the gelatin. They have a great selection pastries and snacks. read more

The most delicious cake in Kansas City.!! Professional Services and responsible.! I bought a cake from there before and I will continue.! Customers have the options to choose his and what they want in.!! Love it.! read more

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It's like a bakery combine with a restaurant inside. Who knew?! I love coming here to tried out something new. I had their tres leche cake and their pastries. I like how their sweets are not to sweet like the average American Bakeries. I decided to try their food last night and had their gorditas, elotes, and their tamales. It's all so delicious and their season of their food was spicy yet not too overpowering. They make their food right there so you know it's very authentic. It's very hard to understand the cook/clerk if you don't speak or know spanish well. So brush up on your Spanish skills a little bit and they will be very much helpful to let get what you want. Definitely will go back. read more

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I love stoping in for lunch when time permits. Food is good, and plenty of options to choose from.

Bought a cake for my son's b-day. I've heard so much about this place I though I'd give it a try. I purchased a Vanilla/Chocolate 3 leches cake .. and sadly have to say .. not buying cakes from them again. The cake was/is dry and has absolutely no taste of vanilla .. the chocolate fudge ( on top ) was good, but no chocolate taste in the cake either .. sad because I'm yet to find a good place where to buy cakes in Mo. nothing like the Cakes from Publix in Miami Fl, 2 starts because Efrain was very personable and the store was clean .. but cake deserves no Stars at all. i truly hope the bolillos don't let us down too .., read more

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This place has it all and all of it is fantastic!! Bakery that bakes delicious cakes, bread and doughnuts and out of this world good food! A must to explore. read more

Wonderful cakes! Great hot food in the morning too! Their breakfast burritos are very filling and could easily be 2-3 meals. read more

The food was disgusting and the tortillas taste like stale old store bought tortillas. We had to go somewhere else after wasting money here because the food was so rancid. read more

Pan dulce was delicious and soft, and we went in the evening. It looked like they sold food inside as well. It looked delicious but I didn't get a chance to taste any. I might have went at a bad time because it was busy inside, and kind of chaotic, it was hard to tell where the checkout line was and where to pay. I am assuming the food and custom cakes are as delicious as their pan dulce due to the high amount of customers in the store. I am giving this review 2 stars because of how chaotic the indoors is, and how limited and compact the parking spaces are. read more

The cake could have been way better if we'd receive what was ordered. The employee clearly didn't listen.

Need a piñata? This is place to be. Also have Mexican food, desserts and cakes. Lots and lots of cakes. Steady stream of customers coming for the cakes. We were looking for homemade flour tortillas and they didn't have those. read more

We had some roofers work on our house.. I asked them what their favorite beer was, and I would have it for them the next day. So, I got it for them and then they offered me some of their tamales. It was like handing me a hidden secret. I asked them where they got them, and they said a store nearby. I didn't push them for the name. I have been looking for excellent tamales for awhile. I had read an article while living in St Louis about the Tamale Kitchen here in KC.. and I finally had Tamale Kitchen's tamales at the Day of the Dead celebration at the Nelson Atkins museum. Their quality was excellent but they lacked some of the flavors I prefer. NOW.. The tamales our roofers handed us.. Were amazing! Family members ate these, and they normally do not like tamales. I texted the contractor and asked him to find out the name of the place where the Tamales came from. Well, It was Elvira's. My hearts on fire! The store had a lot going on. A lot. So be ready to get out of people's way or get right to it. Walk up and just place your order and pay. I saw people walking out with huge bags filled with these tamales. I got 3 types of tamales. Red, Green and a Cheese/Jalapeno. I wasn't sure if there were more, but I would have tried more if they had them. Typically a verde (green) tamale is my favorite but the clear winner was the red tamale. It was filled with shredded beef and was just fantastic. So much flavor. It's not a bland corn cake like you get at some places, this thing was a full flavored tamale. The others were quite good as well, but the red just had a bit more kick. We got one other burrito which had red potatoes in it? It was good too, but not tamale level in my opinion. There are all kinds of baked goods in there too. They all looked great and this place was busy, so that should tell you something. I was just zeroed in on the tamales for this trip. If you're a person who feels uncomfortable in odd places, first off.. I'm sorry, but get over yourself a bit and go in there and get these wonderful tamales. You may make some new friends and you'll definitely have some amazing tamales! read more

This place is known for their mouth watering cakes, Mexican sweet breads (pan dulce) and freshly homemade tamales. You can either buy slices of their cakes for a quick treat or a whole sheet for special occasions. Their breads come in many flavors and some even have filling in them. It's always best to come early in the morning for their tamales as they do run out pretty fast, but they also have other foods to choose from such as elotes, tortas, burritos, quesadillas, and more. read more

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I always, always, always use Elvira's for my baking necessities! It's a bakery and restaurant combined so it's super convenient. Do you want cake or tamales? No worries, make one stop here! They have delicious champurrado and their green tamales are to die for! Personally, I do not like tres leches cake, however most people do and Elviras' are great! I always get vanilla bread with either pineapple or strawberry filling for my cakes because I'm just a strawberry and pineapple type of girl :) Their mocha cake is also very good! They also sell sweet bread, piñatas, decor for baby showers, quinceañeras and a variety of other miscellaneous items. I'm telling you, you'll find most of what you're looking for here. The owners are super friendly and their staff Is as well! read more

Amazing cakes!! I've also tried their tamales and gorditas and they are soooo good!!!

wow this place is incredible. Try the chipotle chicken, absolute fire. It's a bakery & ice cream shop but also incredible lunches, tortas & tamales. Go go go read more

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The very best tamales I've ever had!!! Lovely Mexican bakery with tons of selection. Highly recommend their cakes: beautiful and delicious!!! read more

I like Elvira's. Their specialty is various desserts, but they also offer savory items. The tamales are what appears to be the hot item here. The selection of pastries is amazing. As we were checking out all of the different things available, Victor came over to restock. I asked him what his favorite was and he selected the creme filled cone thing. I knew from that moment I needed to listen to Victor because that is my favorite too. We asked about another pastry and after describing it, Victor allowed us to taste one. How awesome is that? And it was pretty awesome, kind of a bread pudding type pastry that is pretty amazing. After selecting our pastries, Victor recommended some tamales. We weren't really planning on more than pastries here after many tacos along Independence, but I couldn't turn down Victor. I am so glad I did get a tamale, and a little disappointed I didn't bring home more. The pork tamale is delicious! Perfectly seasoned, tender pork, surrounded by some of the best masa. Before leaving Victor told me Elvira's is my new home. I think he may be right. I will be back to give the rest of the menu a try! read more

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I enjoyed my apple-filled pastry from this bakery/restaurant. I didn't see tacos, but they had gorditas, tamales, burritos, juices, etc. The dining area was clean, and the service was very helpful. read more

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We were super excited to try this place given my predeliction for tres leches since my New Haven days. So confident was I in the reviews, that I had my dad pick up a full size chocolate tres leches cake. The only options were ones with a fruit filling as well. He picked strawberry. I'm not sure why they don't serve up fruit free options. I like my tres leches straight up. The cake was overly grainy and the leches was a little lacking. Flavor was sweet more than anything else. I'll give them another shot with a plain tres leches slice sometime and revise my review. Maybe that was my mistake, going with the chocolate. There is someplace around here that serves up an amazing chocolate tres leches. Someone brought it over once. I just don't know where it came from. read more

Tengo muchos años comprando en esta panadería. hago este comentario porque tristemente hoy es la segunda vez que los tamales que ahí compré estaban crudos es segunda vez q compro tamales crudos (pintos) y también también hoy la joven que me cobró al poner mi bolsa de pan en bolsa blanca puso todo junto pan dulce bolillos tamales y medicinas en una misma bolsa y era de esperarse llegando a mi casa el pan dulce solo boronas read more

I had no idea that cakes and pastries are such a big deal in hispanic culture. Elvira's has a bigger variety of sweet stuff than any place I can think of; the entire front wall is pastries from floor to ceiling! They're all beautiful, and delicious! Then along the back wall is another case of decorated cakes, and a counter serving hot food. I narrowed it down to a doughnut with chocolate frosting and what looked like Oreo crumbs and a square of dense, sweet cake that I can best describe as fruitcake without all the nasty candied fruit. A sweet older gentleman named Victor gave us a tour of the pastry case and a taste of that cake. It was so good that even Yelper Daughter, who hates fruitcake, loved it and ate more than her share. The texture of the raised doughnut was different-more spongy than I'm used to, and not as sweet. But the more I ate, the more I liked it. We were almost ready to pay for our treats and leave, when Victor decided we needed to know about the tamales, too. So I walked out with one of each, pork, chicken, cheese & chile, and a sweet one I haven't tried yet. They were all great, even without any chili or sauce over them; one word of warning, they don't remove the seeds from the chile pepper, so it's HOT! I didn't see any prices on the pastries, but I walked out of the place spending less than $10. I liked everything about Elvira's; Victor alone is worth another visit, not to mention so many good things to eat. read more

I love their cakes, bread, food! Their cakes are really detailed, there is many designs they is to offer. The workers provide good service. Their kitchen is amazing, serves great tasty food. I recommend getting tamales in the morning or Gorditas to eat for lunch. read more

This is an excellent place. Wonderful selection of Mexican baked goods (Pan-Dulce), fresh fruit flavored ice cream, Juices, Smithies, Coffee, incredible and beautiful cakes, tasty Tortas and a whole lot more that I have yet to try. If you haven't been down the avenue lately you should hit this place up and see the new face of independence avenue. read more

Beyond thrilled with our daughter's cake. It was truly a beautiful piece of art and tasted even more amazing than it looked! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I am so glad that we found your bakery! read more

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Love this little pasteleria! We bought a slice of Tres Leches cake for a snack and a nice flan to take to a party. They have lots of beautiful pasty and other food items. Nice parking lot and clean store. Helpful, friendly staff also very willing to communicate in English as well as Spanish. I will be back. read more

Let me start off by saying their cakes and pastries are amazing. I did run into a bit of an issue with them recently when I ordered a cake. I originally wanted a two-tiered tres leches cake and the man at the counter insisted that a tres leches cake can only be only one tier because if they put one on top of the other, it will make the one underneath it soggy, etc etc. He even mentioned how people always try to get him to do it but he always refuses to do it. That seemed reasonable so I went ahead and ordered a one tier tres leches cake with the design I wanted. Fast forward a week later when I go pick up my cake, lo and behold they come out with a two tiered tres leches cake! I was shocked because that's what I originally wanted but a two tier wasn't in my budget anymore. I let them know that I can only pay for one cake and I had already been told they couldn't do two tiers. The workers had a five minute conversation behind the counter with some laughing involved and then they bring out my corrected cake. I had to wait an extra 20 minutes for it and I wasn't too happy that the purple was so dark and the flowers didn't really match. Not super happy with this experience but I just hope it doesn't happen again. I drove all the way from Overland Park to kcmo just because I love the taste of their cakes. read more

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Best chocolate mousse cake ever! And had one ready! I can only imagine what else they had as I called in for a pick up and was not there on site. Definitely recommend!! read more

Want some sweets? How about a bite to eat? If you answered yes to either of those questions then you'd better head down to Elvira's! As a resident of Northeast KC, it's been so great watching this place evolve. Just think: authentic Mexican food and pastries. It doesn't get any better than a slice of tres leches with some horchata. Great place to grab lunch. read more

Love this sweet place! Best pan dulce,I compare everything to my grandmothers and although to me nothing will ever be as good, Elvira's is solid. It's tasty, lots of varieties and it stays soft! Some pan doesn't stay soft which to me is a waste. They also have a delicious hot food counter. We also get our tamales here and they too are very good. read more

I've heard nothing but good things about the cakes and tamales and was highly disappointed. I got a tres leches cake with a strawberry filing. There was no fruit on top and Please tell me how a tres leches cake can be dry? Well it was.. They are also overpriced and I will not be going back read more