Heather L.
Yelp
We happened to be in the neighborhood... and had it not been for Mr. Snarky leading me away from the goodness of the Real Food Market to Konditor and Cook, I may have missed out on the brownies. The store front is wonderful and enough to make you press your face against the window and drool. I resisted that urge, but did take a cheeky picture. The store itself is quite small, with no real place to sit. In the front room there are the sweets and cakes, in the next room, the savouries. It was busy so I was finding it a bit claustrophobic and also worried about knocking cakes and brownies off the shelves in the window. They have a deal on brownies... 3 for 5 quid. Mr. Snarky convinced me we should get three, two Curly Wurly Brownies and one classic. I also spied some other goodies and decided on a Passion Fruit Meringue Tartlet. He spied a Raspberry Meringue. I popped outside while he paid because I just couldn't cope.
When Mr. Snarky looked at the receipt, he noticed that the lady had charged him the wrong price... for the wrong item. We pulled out the box and discovered a Raspberry Tartlet instead of the Raspberry Meringue. No wonder she had asked us if she could put everything in one small box. Mr. Snarky went back inside to clear things up. Eventually we ended up in the shadow of the London Eye, sprawled out on the grass, and eating our sweets. The Passion Fruit Meringue Tartlet was lovely... but extremely sweet. The Raspberry Meringue that we thought was filled inside with some kind of raspberry goo... was really just a huge puff of Meringue with Raspberries folded in. Mr. Snarky had to give up halfway through because it was just too much and too sweet.
We did split a Curly Wurly and saved the rest of the brownies for later. I must admit when Mr. Snarky said Curly Wurly Brownie, I imagined a Brownie made with the Cadbury Curly Wurly candy (one of my favourites). However, it turns out that it is a cream cheese brownie. If the brownie had been less than spectacular, I would have been disappointed, but this was great, regardless how I had interpreted Curly Wurly. The brownie (including the classic which was split for Breakfast on the day I departed) was the right consistency of moist, chewy, but still a bit cakey. Often I find that people get that consistency wrong and end up either more like cake or more like fudge... this was the balance! I would love to go back and try their cakes as they looked heavenly. Even took one of their pamphlets on cake decorating classes... don't know if I will get the chance, but would love to do it!