It was the day before my special someone's birthday.
I was stressed out thinking how to make it extra special so that she could smile thinking about this day in the future.
Madly looking for unique gifts, jewellery etc, I just got reminded about the elephant in the room. I hadn't thought about the most important thing, the CAKE!!!
So when it comes to Cakes I generally think of only two places, Hummingbird Bakery or Patisserie Valerie. I had no idea about other cake places. There is a reason for that. I work around Liverpool Street and for all office events, we generally get pastry and cakes from these places. But I knew, I couldn't come to Liverpool Street to collect cakes on the special day. Ordering for delivery was too late. And I also had to make sure the cake was vegetarian as my special someone is Vegetarian. Cake mission just got harder.
So I googled some vegetarian cake shops near Lewisham and this one popped up! Right next to my place, barely half a mile.
But their website is absolutely shit! Try it, I'm not joking, I told them too. They said they were working on upgrading it. But this is absolute shit. Even a child can design a better website. Any cake you select, it gives you the same description and every cake has a 7 character long identification number which only makes sense to them and not the customers. Being a software engineer, that irritates me a lot. It even made me wonder if the place was trust worthy. See what a bad website does to your business... Keep that in mind the next time you think about starting a business and call me if you need a good website.
But having seen their shop before on the high road, I decided to trust them. I made a choice online and paid via Paypal and silently wished there was an Undo button.
But next day morning, they called me and confirmed the order and said that the cake would be ready for collection by 3. As mentioned earlier the shitty website didn't give them much information to make the cake, so they had to ask me again what size the cake was etc.
And long story short, I collected the cake, planned the surprise and it was the moment of truth.
The CAKE was fabulous! Absolutely mouthwateringly soft and delicious. Not too sweet, nor too creamy, just the right consistency, the perfect balance. I was perplexed but also very happy. After all my choice had only two outcomes, good cake or bad cake and this one was positive! Phew! Looks are deceptive, I mean, if I were to judge the shop by the horrible website I wouldn't have ordered this. But this was uniquely unbelievable! It was quite a lot of cake for the money, for 42 pounds you get an 8 inch chocolate/vanilla cake surrounded by chocolate/vanilla cupcakes with your choice of fruits or cream on top and of course the writing on top of the cake.
The special day was two days ago and I have been eating cake every day since then :D And trust me, I want to stop, but I just can't. I'm totally a fan so is she. read more