We nearly didn’t write this post because our motivation was at a low point following the disappointment of this month’s cake experience: we look forward to our cake consumption with gusto and feel slightly let down by the latest sweet treat.  I’ll hasten to add that the picture in question is NOT the cake we consumed; we were not motivated to take a photo of said cake which was a “Tesco’s Finest” number which was neither “Fine” nor “Drizzly” but it was from Tesco’s, did have a hint of lemon and probably was a cake so they got some of the name right.

Out of obligation I have written this post as a warning to other would be consumers of the “Tesco’s Finest Lemon Drizzle Cake”; beware of frauds in your midst and avoid at all costs.

With the recent shock revelation that Mrs Kipling does actually exist and was once an actress in Corontation St we thought we should make sure that the exceedingly good cakes were as good as we remembered.

Safe to say that the despite the implications of some sort of power shift within the Mr Kipling marketing machine, the cakes are still high quality. Just take a look at Patrick’s face. He’s loving that Bakewell.

Halloween special – Mooncake! And what a cake; brought back as a present from Hong Kong this cake holds a dirty little secret. Inside, AKA Scotch egg style is a duck egg yolk. You might think this is normal, ‘cakes are made with egg’ I hear you say. But this one actually has a solid egg in the middle and so deserves another picture (below). Suffice to say that it didn’t go down particularly well in the office. In fact, I was the only one who tried a second bite and certainly the only person to partake in the egg. According to Wikipedia Mooncakes are ‘rich, heavy, and dense compared with most Western cakes and pastries.’ You can say that again.

Still, in the spirit of Halloween, these cakes are for the Zhongqiu Festival for lunar worship and moon watching. So fill your boots!

This is the first of our cake of the month posts. Today we found inspiration from an M&S Coffee & Walnut cake. Whilst discussing the finer details of our ongoing redesign we enjoyed moist coffee flavoured sponge with just the right amount of buttercream. Highly recommended by the whole team.

Future cake of the month reviews will consist of a wide variety of butter filled, sugar coated blog posts. Our intrepid team of eaters will be happy to accept free dessert based gifts from readers who wish to raise the profile of their cake making enterprises. Sponge, pie or flan; biscuit, Battenburg or birthday. We will eat it all. Stay tuned.