Last week I went on a little trip up to Carnaby Street so I just
had to visit my favourite bakery on Instagram... Crumbs & Doilies!
After
quite a bit of trouble finding the shop (Google maps failed me) we arrived in
the bakery to see the selection of cupcakes for the day. I wanted to try all
the flavours so I got a box of 12 mini cupcakes for £17 which may seem a bit
pricey but after tasting them they were totally worth it.
The
pictures I got aren't the best as I took them on the go because the cupcakes were
getting a bit damaged where I'd been walking around London all
day. I love the packaging it was a mint green box with a cardboard sleeve with
a little ditsy white pattern on it, simple but beautiful; but I do think the
box might have been a bit too tall for the mini cupcakes as they were able to
fall around everywhere and when I first opened the box they were all jumbled
together some upside down so some where slightly squashed.
Going
through the flavours from top right to left (I should have taken photos of the
descriptions of each cupcake in the shop but I was too excited and forgot...My
bad!):
- Peanut Butter cupcake - a chocolate sponge with chocolate chips, with a peanut butter cream centre and icing on the top with some melted chocolate drizzle and half a mini Reese peanut butter cup on the top. This was lovely, the sponge was light and chocolatey and I was worried the peanut butter taste would be really strong in it but it was just the perfect amount so you could taste all the flavours. A Lovely cupcake that I would like to try and recreate at home. (I got two of these)
- Red Velvet
cupcake - a vivid red velvet sponge with cream cheese icing. Simple,
classic and really good. (I got two of these)
- Party ring
cupcake- vanilla sponge with sprinkles in, a butter cream that tasted like
party ring icing with white chocolate drizzled over and topped with a
party ring. So good and filled with nostalgia.
- Carrot cupcake-
simple carrot cake sponge and cream cheese frosting. These were nice and
carrot cake is probably my favourite type of cake but I prefer chunky
carrot cake I like there to be big bits of walnuts, I add sultanas, and I
like to see the grated carrot in the cake. (I'm probably just being a bit
bias to carrot cake I make- these were still really good) (I got two of
these)
- Cookies and Cream cupcake- This was my absolute favourite! Similar sponge to the peanut butter cupcake. with a lovely filling in the centre I'm not sure what it was maybe white chocolate of some sort or similar to the cream inside of an Oreo with a vanilla butter cream with crushed Oreo biscuits mixed in topped with a piece of Oreo. This cupcake was amazing and I'm not particularly a fan of Oreo's but I'm going to try and create something similar this week.
- Summer Fruit
Crumble Cupcake- This was a spiced quite dense sponge with a custard
filling with a berry butter cream top with some sort of crumble. This
wasn't as fruity as I thought it would be the custard filling was really
good though. (I got two of these)
- Bourbon Biscuit
cupcake - A chocolate sponge with the lightest chocolate butter cream I
have ever tasted and topped with a piece of bourbon biscuit. These were
one of my favourite biscuits when I was little so I was so excited about
this one and I was not disappointed. I cannot understand how the butter
cream was so good it can’t have been a normal chocolate butter cream, I can’t
figure out what it could have been but it was amazing.
- Eaton Mess
cupcake- vanilla sponge with a strawberry filling with a vanilla butter
cream topped with crushed meringue and drizzled with the strawberry
concoction. One of my absolute favourites, classic flavour combinations
and the strawberry drizzle was just delicious.
These
Cupcakes were amazing I am dying to go back to Crumbs & Doilies and get the
normal sized cupcakes of the ones that I loved.
Emily
10/10
What's your favourite dessert? Know any good London Bakeries? Comment below!
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