30/10/2011
英王麵包店 A-1 Bakery
將軍澳坑口重華路8號東港城2樓210號舖
Shop No.210, 2/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/polka-dot-rainbows-in-six-flavours-e2203244
Saw the colourful advert for these POLKA DOT cakes, my first thought was colourful donuts, however on a closer look they were donut shaped cakes with a hole in the middle.
I cannot quite correlate why they were advertised as Polka dots because the definition of polka dots is: a pattern consisting of an array of filled circles, generally equally sized and spaced relatively closely in relation to their diameters.
Nevertheless I was excited to try them because there were six fun flavours:
1)Earl grey and apple [refreshing earl grey with moist apple slices]
2)Swiss choco rum-raisin [rich chocolate flavour with rum-raisins]
3)Pistachio dark cherry [An aromatic pairing of pistachio and cherries]
4)Choco-chip very berry [Lightly sweetened with strawberry, raspberry and chocolate goodness]
5)Mango madness [An exotic flavour with mango puree and dried mangos]
6)Matcha azuki bean [flavored with Japanese dark matcha paste with sweet azuki beans]
I got all of them except for mango and matcha because I hate azuki beans and mango.
When I opened them, I was slightly disappointed because they were steamed cakes and not baked.
It ruined the taste slightly because the texture of these steamed cakes were too mushy and soggy. If they had been baked, they would have been more fragrant.
Although they could have tasted better, I was really pleased that A1 Bakery were adventurous with the flavours they came up with especially with the use of earl grey, rum raisins, and darks cherries for an Asian bakery.
Earl grey and apple:
The cake was very soggy and sticky and with the moist apple slices it was even more soggy.
The apple was pieces of sliced quarters, and in the cake were bits of earl grey.
The earl grey and apple flavour was too sweet.
Swiss choco rum-raisin:
This was quite nice especially with the rum-raisins.
Again it was too moist.
Choco-chip very berry:
Although the strawberry flavouring was a bit fake, the chocolate chips were slightly melted in the cake, which tasted nice together with the cake.
The cake itself was light pink.
Pistachio dark cherry:
This was my favorite out of the four. When I was picking them I assumed this was matcha because of the green colour.
There was generous dark cherry halves in the cake, and the pistachio flavouring was quite prominent in the cake.
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Price: $25 for 3
Service: OK
Yummy factor: Would have been nice if it was baked instead of steamed
Sweetness levels: too sweet
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