Cox Cookies & Cakes, Soho
I heard a lot about Cox Cookies & Cakes upon my return to the country and my good friend Lauren and I decided to head there after work on a rainy Monday evening. Arriving at the bakery I was really impressed with the concept, lots of black and neon to fit in with the sex shops on Brewer Street. I had high expectations seeing as both Patrick Cox and Eric Lanlard's reputations have been used to market the bakery.
The cakes all looked great although there was a distinct lack of cookies as the name of the bakery implied . Lauren and I bought 5 cakes to share with another friend, and because we couldn't resist the idea of a boobie cake! However when they rang up our purchase I wish we hadn't. Five cakes came to a whopping £20! Anyway, I handed the money over and we had planned to sit in and have some tea but the shop was essentially a black tiled box without even so much as a stool so we had no choice but to take our cake elsewhere.
Please excuse my phone's inability to take a focused picture, always blame your tools!
So the cakes were incredibly over priced but we had hoped the taste would be worth it. However we were all sorely disappointed. We were faced with cakes that were supposed to be filled with compote were instead cakes with holes and shrivelled up fruit. Cakes topped with chocolate skulls tasted as if they were made with Asda Smart Price cooking chocolate. There was nothing juicy, delicious, oozy, or sensuous about these cupcakes to quote just a few of Cox Cookies & Cakes own adjectives.
Definitely give this place a miss, your taste buds and wallet will thank you!
Betty Blythe, Shepherds Bush
I met my very good friend Becca for lunch on the Monday of National Cupcake Week with the intention of working in some cake to our lunch date. I had already read about Betty Blythe's seeing as they have donated a prize to Cupcake Camp London and was really pleased when Becca, who works around the corner, suggested we go there. Betty Blythe is a lovely vintage tea shop and although there was only one choice of cupcake it was gorgeously pink and tasted home made!
I have to say when I heard that the Hummingbird Bakery were launching a range of cupcakes based on American Sodas I was more than a little dubious however I keeping an open mind I went to the Portobello Road branch on a bustling Friday morning to get try their new Cola cupcake. I have to say it was the best customer service I've ever had at any of their stores, having often found their staff to be rude and rushed. I was pleasantly surprised by the cupcake, I liked the playfulness of the popping candy was happy the cake itself wasn't overly sweet. All in all a success.
More to come!!!
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I can't believe how many bad reviews Cox, Cookies & Cake has got. Considering the apparent calibre of the people behind it (and the prices), I think it's shocking!
ReplyDeleteI got my mitts on one of Hummingbird's Root Beer cupcakes and was impressed at the taste, it being my first Hummingbird, not so much at the cost :-o