The bright colours and huge display of cakes in the window attracted us to this little cafe off the side of on the seven dials streets in Covent Garden. £2.60 will buy you one of these colourful cakes with plenty of flavours including Banoffee, Lemon and White Chocolate, Carrot, Raspberry and Peach and many more, with all of them uniquely decorated and distinctly eye catching.

When I bought one, it seemed too big to be a cupcake, yet too iced to be a reasonable sort of muffin and I guess when I tasted it, also seemed to have that confused identity just as well. If it was a muffin, it was a little bit too tough, and if it was a cupcake, definitely not moist enough – either way the batter seemed like it’d been overmixed when put together. I made the mistake you normally don’t make with a balanced muffin/cupcake by eating the top bit separately from the rest of the cake. Without the super sweet icing, the base cake just seemed rather bland, and then with just the icing top and the top, the sweetness and raw flavour overpowered what cake was left.

Unfortunately I don’t think these cakes are for me – the excessive sweetness imbalance out weighing the attractiveness of this cakes. Had I needed something to display on a table, or needed a super sugar rush, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy them though I think it’d be a plain waste. It might suit some people out there though.

Details: Candy Cakes
Found at: 36 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9HB
Highlights: Eye catching colourful cakes attract you to an equivalently brightly decorated cafe
Room for improvement: Excessively sweet (at least for me) and the cake wasn’t light enough or crumbly enough to make it a truly satisfying cake.
The Kua Rating: 6 out of 10