Wow. I mean, full disclosure, I just really love Russian Honey cake generally. My sister-in-law makes a great one. This was even better! Soft, laden with honey but not sickly sweet (the filling is sour-cream based, I believe?). Just a lovely lovely cake.

DO NOT BE FOOLED by the humble appearance of this little cake! I thought it looked a little basic but took a gamble as I’ve had good cake experiences at this little cafe (“these taste like something you’d bake” says the husband). I was not disappointed! Soft, dense, tangy deliciousness - I was genuinely sad when it was finished. Yum! #bakedgoods #caketime #independentcafe

I had intended to take a nicer photo of the pre-cut cake, but we got a bit excited! It’s a delicious cake with great texture and a lovely orange marscarpone icing which isn’t sweet at all, so perfect complement to the cake without adding unnecessary sugar. If I were making this, I would have ramped up the spices (MOAR CINNAMON PLS!!!) but it’s a minor grumble. Lovely cake overall.

“Holding too many things” photo aside, this was a delicious little orange and almond cake - dense, moist, tangy, yum. #bakedgoods

A lovely cake that tastes home-made. Nice texture, good amount of pineapple on top, yum.

This was much better, nice dense yet fluffy texture, nicely spiced and zingy pieces of stem ginger both in and on the cake. The fresh raspberries went really well with it too.

It’s not winning any beauty contests but I was really pleasantly surprised by this cake! Lovely texture, strong clementine flavour and the icing had some nice textural elements as well. Not bad, Costa!

I had fairly average expectations so was pleasantly surprised but this flavoursome little cake!

Served warm, with a side of custard and (tinned? Poached?) blueberries, the cake was soft and rich but I didn’t love the gritty polenta texture in this cake.

So my brain interpreted “Sea salt lava cheese” to mean “sea salt (caramel) lava cheese(cake)” so as a result I spent a good part of this thinking “WTF am I eating?!” because friends, it’s not a cheesecake at all. It’s a light springy chiffon cake covered in this very salty “cheese” sauce/topping with some light crisp pancakey bits on top and some dried fruits. Honestly I think the cheese was perhaps too salt for me/it needed more of the fruit to balance, but it was certainly unusual and interesting with lots of good textures.

It was ok; starting to go a little dry/stale from being pre-cut and I really didn’t like the chalky dried banana pieces on top, but otherwise it was pretty tasty.

Here’s the thing. This cake had a lovely taste but it was DRY. Think about that. A pear (WET) and almond (moisture-enhancing) cake with an actual layer of WET pear slices in it and yet it was dry. So either it was super old, or something went wrong in the baking... my prejudice against vegan baked goods continues...

This tasted like a cold hash brown that was also sweet. No. The ice cream on the flip side was really nice with some nutty textural elements but this cake! Cold! Dry! Chewy! Potatoey! No!

So disappointing! The banana cake I bought for my son (not pictured) was really good, so I had high hopes for this but it was so dry and crumbly. I mean it’s a *drizzle cake* - by its very nature it should be soaked in syrup! To serve one that’s dry and crumbly is a grave error indeed. 👎

The actual flavour wasn’t bad, especially the raspberry in the filling, but it was super dry, like it had been left cut for way too long.

It tasted like sugar and regret.

Not orangey enough and it tasted like sand.

Insufficient lemon, non-existent rosemary flavour/smell, and the overall experience was... oily? I don’t know what was going on, but it wasn’t good.

More disappointment! I love orange and poppyseed cake! I expect it to be dense, moist and full of zesty orange flavour. This was dry (had probably been sitting there a while) and tasted of little more than sugar.

The husband’s cake, but I had a bite to see if it was better than mine. It was not. And that’s saying something. Another stale cake that tasted like sugar.