I must apologise for my absence but I can't promise I'll get any better at posting these. Sorry! Onto this cupcake! It's a Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcake, the price was over £2.00 but sadly as usual I can't be more specific than that. The Primrose bakery itself was lovely! It's situated off the main piazza of Covent Garden, London. The outside was painted a light yellow and inside was just gorgeous with vintage tables and leather seats. The staff were very friendly, particularly when I had to ask for 15 cake boxes as one of the more bizarre work experience tasks...
Presentation: 5/5 (Cupcake fairyland!!)
I always feel guilty rating presentation because it's almost always very good, but I'm rating this on the presentation of the bakery as well, which really could not be faulted. I tried to take a picture of it but I just looked a bit creepy so decided against it, suffice it to say that it was yellow and pink and girly and just wonderful. I also really liked the three pronged cake fork... Is that just me...? I also saw a sign in the shop for classes in how to pipe icing which I thought was a really cool idea.
Frosting:4/5 (Pretty)
So as usual it's difficult to remember but in a moment of wisdom I made notes and apparently it tasted as though they had used too much icing sugar and that the icing wasn't very vanillary, however I suspect that this meant despite the lots of icing sugar the frosting was not too sweet, which is good. Overall I think it had a good texture, was very good frosting, and a very liberal amount of chocolate swirls!
Sponge: 4/5 (Hmmmm...)
I also noted down for this that it was very chocolatey! This is obviously a good thing for a chocolate sponge however, I also noted that this made it a little dry, however the middle was perfect so the edges of the cake were a 3/5 and the middle was a 5/5 so I've compromised the score,which is a shame. I'm not sure what could have been done to change this as I'm clearly not an expert although I imagine it might have something to do with the temperature of the oven? or just that it had been sitting out for a while? these are just guesses. What is important to say is that is was definitely a sponge of very good quality, I always think that cheap sponges are really obvious if not done well, this was none such occasion.
Overall: 4/5 (I want more!)
Overall I really liked this cupcake and I really liked the shop. I'd definitely go back. Sadly there wasn't really a lot of seating room, but more than the hummingbird bakery, and they were proper tables not a bar with stools. Hopefully I'll get around to doing more of these, but don't hold your breath!
