The range of cakes at Angel food bakery
Ah, it was two years ago that I sat in Cafe Nero and thought, ‘This is rubbish, something must be done’ and the idea for this blog was born.
In that time I’ve clocked up over 100 reviews and sampled tea in five different countries. It’s had over 4,000 visits and the most read review has been Angel food bakery.
I’d love to mark the occasion by finding some new gem of a tea provider, anyone got any suggestions?
Happy Birthday Tea for you and me!
20 Meeting House Lane, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1HB
The range of cakes at Angel food bakery
Angel food bakery is another cup cake cafe. It seems they are popping up all over the place now, a few streets away there was another shop being fitted out that seemed to be called ‘Madame Cupcake’ though it wasn’t open yet. The Hummingbird Bakery is the first one I heard of, and the one that is mentioned in the press as being the originator of the cupcake craze, but I’ve not made it there yet. I have been to Sweet tooth cupcakery and preferred that to Angel food bakery because of the attention to tea and the atmosphere.
The Angel food bakery offered a range of cupcakes and had a steady stream of customers. It also had double height chocolate cake for sale. Or you could order your very own giant cupcake for a party, two were picked up in the 20 minutes I was there.
Red velvet cupcake and tea at Angel food bakery
I picked a ‘red velvet’ cupcake that looked good but I think was just a normal sponge mix with red food colouring and cream cheese or buttercream topping. I knew I’d heard of the ‘red velvet’ cupcake before, and thought that perhaps it was famous from being from Angel food bakery. I’ve just checked and it’s famous for being from The Hummingbird Bakery. I’m not that keen on the toppings and after eating the cupcake I did feel a bit sick, but otherwise it was very nice. I bought a blue topped one with stars on to take home to R, which he said was excellent.
Teapot? No.
Leaf tea? No.
Milk jug? Yes.
Price? £3.60 for tea and a red velvet cupcake.
Cake? Yes.
Go again? Yes, but I’ll try the double height chocolate cake next time.
40 Kensington Gardens, Brighton, BN1 4AL
Brighton Pier
Cafe Delice is one of many small quirky cafes in this area of Brighton but I picked it because it was purple and had a lot of people in it compared to the others. I chose tea and a brownie. I don’t know why I keep trying to find a brownie to beat the ones that Delicious… has, I should just spend more time in Delicious….
Anyway, I had tea in a mug with a teabag and a brownie that was not as good as the ones in Delicious… but was really quite strange. Normally the easiest way to get brownies wrong is to overcook them so they aren’t gooey in the middle. This was very solid and very stodgy, but also tasted uncooked. I’m making it sound much worse than it was, I did like it, I’ve just never come across that form of brownie before.
Teapot? No.
Leaf tea? No.
Milk jug? Yes.
Price? £1.50 for the tea and £2.10 for the bizarre brownie.
Cake? Yes.
Go again? Yes, it’s also got free wifi.
Tea for you and me 