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Madrid-style cheesecake · South Austin

Cheesecake,
the Madrid way.

Cookie crust, three cheeses, no burnt top. A center closer to custard than cake. Baked to order and handed to you in South Austin.

Choose your cakeHow it works
$10 a cakeIndividual size, serves one. Bigger cakes and parties: email us.
Baked to orderOrder up to two weeks out. We bake the day before.
Pickup or deliveryFriday evening or Saturday morning. Pickup in South Austin; delivery to central ZIPs for $3.
Flavors

Six flavors. One crust.

Individual cakes, $10 each. Every cake contains milk, eggs and wheat; two also contain soy. Need a bigger cake or a batch for a party? email us and we'll sort it out.

How it works

Order ahead.
Come get it.

We bake at home under the Texas cottage food law, so there is no shipping and no courier: we hand the cake to you ourselves, at pickup or at your door.

  1. Order by the day before

    Pick flavors and a pickup day up to two weeks out. Each day closes 24 hours before pickup, or once it reaches 15 cakes.

  2. Pay online

    Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay for an instant confirmation. Venmo or Cash App skip the card fee; we confirm once the payment lands.

  3. Pick up, or we deliver

    Friday evening or Saturday morning. Pickup in South Austin (the exact address is in your confirmation; porch pickup means your box waits in a cooler with ice packs), or delivery for $3 to 78701, 78702, 78703, 78704 and 78759 in an estimated two-hour window; we text a tighter one the day before.

Story

Two of us.
Two countries.
One small vice.

One of us is from Spain, where tarta de queso is on every menu worth reading. The other is from Brazil and met this cake, and the Spaniard, on the same trip. We have been making it together ever since; now we make it in Austin.

Some flavors are ours alone. Guava and cheese is a pairing every Brazilian already knows as Romeu & Julieta; it just had never met this crust.

Mimo means a little treat in Portuguese, and to pamper in Spanish. Both true.

Questions

Things people ask

Do you deliver or ship?

We deliver ourselves, no couriers, for $3 within 78701, 78702, 78703, 78704 and 78759, on the same Friday evening and Saturday morning slots. You get an estimated two-hour window at checkout and a tighter one by text the day before. No shipping: the cottage food law only lets us hand the cake to you directly, and a cheesecake should not spend a day in a box anyway.

Where exactly is pickup?

A home in South Austin. The exact address and the time window are in your confirmation email and on the calendar file we attach.

Can I change or cancel my order?

Every cake is baked for a specific person and day, so orders are final once placed. If something comes up, email hello@mimocakes.com with your order number and we will do our best; we look at each case individually.

What if I miss my pickup window?

Email us as soon as you know. We cannot promise a second pickup, but we will try to work something out case by case.

How do I pay?

Online, when you order. Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay go through Stripe and include a $0.30 per cake processing fee. Venmo and Cash App have no fee; we hold your box for 12 hours while the payment lands, then confirm by email. No cash at pickup.

What's in it? Allergens?

Cream cheese, heavy cream, eggs, sugar, a cookie crust, butter, condensed milk and two more cheeses. Every cake contains milk, eggs and wheat; La Negra and La Blanca also contain soy. The full label is below.

Can I order for a party or an office?

Yes. Up to six individual cakes go straight through the box. For more than six, or for a bigger cake to share, email us a week ahead so we can plan the bake.

Why “no burn”?

The famous Basque cheesecake is baked hot until the top blackens. Ours is the Madrid kind: baked low, pale on top, silky in the middle and firm at the edge. Same country, different cake.