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Home » M&S Café cupcakes… yuk!

M&S Café cupcakes… yuk!

August 8, 2009 by Sarah / Maison Cupcake


My mother and I are having a shopping mission in Oxford Street today.  Our day started in the basement of John Lewis looking at baking equipment and we continued to Divertimenti in Marylebone High Street, then onto Emma Bridgewater and Cath Kidston in Marylebone High Street followed by M&S at Marble Arch and Selfridges.

Our trip was punctuated as ever by nearly as many coffee stops as shop visits.  Mother wanted a cup of tea in John Lewis, we had lunch at Carluccios in St Christopher’s Place and later in the afternoon stopped for a drink in M&S.  In the interests of continued research I bought a cupcake in their cafe (pictured above).  I have to say it was quite revolting.  I wish I could remember the price – it was maybe £2, possibly bit less.  The base was dry.  The topping was sickly sweet and quite hard – not really like meringue either.  The strands of lemon zest were also hard.  It’s only redeeming feature was a blob of lemon curd in the middle but there wasn’t enough of this either.  Rubbish!

Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: bakeries, Cakes, cupcakes

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Sarah has published recipes on Maison Cupcake since 2009 and lives in London.
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Comments

  1. I heart cupcakes says

    September 25, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Have you tried the boxes of M&S cupcakes – I have a feeling they're the same ones they sell in their cafe – they really are horrid. The bases are just bland/dry and the frostings are sickly sweet. I actually had toothache after a couple of bites. Another company jumping on the cupcake bandwagon I think!!
    Great blog btw

  2. Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:48 am

    No but you've put me off. Sampled a Waitrose chocolate one last week and it was ok. Not mind blowing but ok.

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