CARROT CAKE REVIEW No 27 - Agh!! No!!! A Walnut Cake!!!!

Holt, Norfolk

I will be kind - I will be kind - I will be kind - I will be kind - I will be kind.  But.......sometimes cafe's do not make it easy to be kind. So what follows is my best effort at trying to remain kind.

Hubby and I have during the lock down taken a few longer walks around a country park. This time, because the cafe was now open, we had a coffee and a carrot cake - en plein air. I had no great expectations for either. I was disappointed, but stopped just short of being driven to spluttering expletives. There was something very very wrong about this carrot cake. Quite apart from the cake, which we will come to soon enough, it was the butter cream, it had the most peculiar flavour. Hubby had the same cake and reliably informed me that the buttercream, rather than being made with butter which its name you would have thought made it obvious what the main ingredient of it should be, was substituted with baking margarine. Yes, I was shocked rigid too, if not jaw droppingly appalled. Hubby is sure it must have been done purely for reasons of cheapness, because its flavour was truly one of the most awful things I've placed in my mouth in a long time.

When we come, as we now do, to the cake I'm aware that it doesn't get any better I'm afraid. The predominant flavour was of walnuts. The texture was sort of OK ish, but I'd say a carrot had been magically waved over it in a homeopathic ritual. Then a carton of mixed peel was thrown in, because it certainly needed something to bring it textural ecstasy and satisfaction. 

If I was reviewing a walnut cake then this would be quite a nice walnut cake, with walnut brains decorating its bizarre tasting frosting. But as I'm supposed to be reviewing a carrot cake, which this most certainly is not, I think they should be pleased they got any carrot score at all. What they have been given, is there purely as a reward for the effort of getting out of bed to make it.

Oh boy, that was difficult, but I hope you are impressed - I kept myself f-----g kind.

CARROT CAKE SCORE - 1/8