Festively adorned and boasting a soft, spongy texture, cake doubles as a comfortable neck pillow on long plane flights and a decorative hairpiece when checking into upscale hotels. Dress to impress with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of desserts at Romano's Bakery, located near East Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road.

Romano's Bakery fills the void left by calorically balanced salads with built-from-scratch cakes and cheesecakes, as well as a score of delectable mini desserts. The bakery's treat-forging lords and ladies craft vibrant postmeal nibbleables that emanate breathtaking beauty, like rainbow-hued smoke signals. Standard cakes ($35–$37 for 9" round or 8" square, includes writing; additional design extra) can be customized to birthday boys’ or girls’ tastes with 55 classic and premium flavors, such as wedding white, cappuccino, pink champagne, and thin mint. Romano's also offers gluten-free and vegan cake options.

Romano's sweet-tooth-sating menu brims with cheesecake ($25+), cake balls ($30/dozen), and petit fours (1"x1", $24/dozen), turning any slow-paced celebration into Horseless Carriage Day. Today's Groupon excludes wedding cakes.

Reviews

Seven Yelpers give Romano’s Bakery a 3.5-star average, and 11 Insider Pagers give it an average of four stars:

• The party cake for my 50th birthday was fabulous! It was not only a top-notch eye-catching design, but it was also moist and delicious. – Marcia D., Insider Pages
• We had a lemon-flavored cake that tasted delicious! I recommend Romano's and will go back to them for future cakes! – Eva M., Yelp, 11/24/10