Assorted Desserts, Cakes and sweet stuff!

So January and February seem to have been all about sweets, which ain't half bad :D 

Asda Café -Fudge cake & Cookies and cream -£3.50 each.


The local store where me and my friend tend to go when we get bored/hungry has a little eat in section which Kirsty and I decided to try out, slightly apprehensively. Took us a little while but we managed to settle on a couple of cakes and some cappuccino. It's all very school cafeteria styled, you take a tray along the counter and grab what you want then you go make your own drink on the coffee machine. The coffee itself was nice, the cakes were really disappointing. They looked really nice, can't fault them on that but they were SO dry. They must have been left out for hours. The fudge cake was okay, the fondant was nice but it was way too dry to finish. The cookies had gone hard and the amount of cream was immense. The strawberries were good though. :I 




Asda - Chocolate Mini Doughnut Balls £1 for 15.

I'm a massive fan of chocolate doughnuts, Asda used to do really nice chocolate doughnuts covered in powdered sugar but they decided to stop making them for some reason </3 so I found these and decided to try them out. They're nice enough for £1 a box but they just felt a little too... doughy. Sounds weird, right? The texture was just off, I have no way of describing it other than they were undercooked in the bakery. They tasted good, just felt strange. They were nommed up pretty fast though :D




The Cheesecake Shop


I've pretty much fallen in love with The Cheesecake shop! Massive slabs of amazing cakes for £3.50! I've only tried two so far, of course they're chocolate flavour. 

Boston Mud

The Cheesecake Shop's Boston Mudcake was absolutely delish. Really moist and chocolatey, not too heavy and the chocolate shavings on top melted in your mouth. I almost ate myself into a chocolate coma :] And the bonus of getting it half off because it had to be sold made it even sweeter. ;D 

Jamaican Chocolate Cheesecake

If I thought the Boston Mudcake was chocolatey, this is just... I don't even know. This cake almost exploded my tastebuds with chocolate. It's so, so, so, so rich & nice and soft. The base is sweet and crunchy which works well with the almost melted feeling of the chocolate :D Awesome cakes. 

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The Fails of 2010

[I've been needing to update my blog for a while now, but I haven't really had anything interesting enough to blog about :I Quite a few new posts will be up soon seeing as I've found a new favourite place to OMNOMNOM at The Cheesecake Shop.]


Happy belated New Year! :D Yes, I know this is very late but I've been rather busy. I seem to be 22 now, as of January 15th :] But before we go onto 2011, we really should take a look at a few of the FAILS of 2010. 


The Plough Christmas Dinner. 


Seriously, what the hell was that all about? I know we only paid about £10 each for a 3 course meal but it was pretty darn shoddy. We came here for our work christmas dinner and someone who works with me knows the owner so we got a good deal. You couldn't fault the staff and the prices but I'll let you take a look at the food for yourself. 

It started out nice enough, the bubble coated prawns with sweet chilli sauce were really nice, all crunchy and salty goodness. I'm a huge fan of prawns, especially these kind so I also ate the tails. Crunchy goodness. So after the starter I was pretty excited for the rest of the meal. My friend Charlotte unfortunately didn't have the same experience...

Mmm, tempting. Charlotte chose the garlic mushrooms for her starter and we just stared at them blankly for a moment before bursting out into fits of laughter at these sad looking balls. She took a bite out and got squirted with grease, before watching what looked like an eyeball roll out of the breadcrumbs. Fun stuff. 

Next up was the main course, what I was so looking forward to. Well, my steak had cheese on it for some reason, which wasn't on the menu, but hey I like cheese. Until I tasted it. Rubbery mild cheddar makes me so sad. The steak itself was nice, they cooked it rare like I  wanted (much to the gagging noises of my colleagues. :P). The veg was overcooked I'm afraid and the potatoes were soggy, so I was pretty disappointed. But, again there was worse. 

Christmas dinner. Heh. Looks yummy right? :I I don't think I even need to describe this. 


Flipz

I'd been having cravings for these for a long, long, long, long, long, long time. I mean years and years. I'd had these when I was little and always remembered liking them so I tried making my own a few times just by dipping pretzels in melted chocolate and they were always great, I'm a massive fan of saltiness in chocolate. So I ordered some off the internet, thinking I'd get something EPIC to snack on and have something to blog about. I got them from American Food UK and I was really excited but they were all stuck together and had turned white in places. 

So sad. 


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