FoodMayhem

I was so excited that a bakery had opened up by my parent’s house, so we had to give it a taste. This was obviously not part of my “going light” plan, but Martha’s Country Bakery Martha’s Country Bakery was so inviting. The space is well-lit in a warm way, with a long counter in front, and a seating area in the back. Every single dessert was beautiful and I really wanted everything.

We talked to a few people behind the counter, which gave an average service experience, and narrowed down our choices. Surprisingly, they do not sell breads, but plan to in the near future, so we chose one pastry and five cupcakes and headed home.

We ate this nicely shaped pastry (don’t know the name) on the train and while it was fresh and flaky, and lightly sweetened, it was missing something. It wasn’t at all buttery.

We used all of our restraint to save the cupcakes for after dinner, and after I taunted Lon like a 5-year-old for an hour (Can we have it now?…How about now?…..), we sat down to our feast. Now the cupcakes would be at optimal room temperature.

The Chocolate Cupcake with Peanut Butter Frosting was a dry cake with little flavor, topped with a very good peanut butter frosting.

The Oreo Cupcake was a similar case. The same dry cake with little flavor, but a good frosting, although too sweet for me.

The Red Velvet Cupcake was also a dry and flavorless cake, but the cream cheese frosting was tangy, creamy, and just heavenly. That same delicious frosting was on the Carrot Cupcake, which had the only moist cake, but it had too many raisins and the chunks of nuts were too large. The Black Forest Cake was the worst, dry flavorless cake, with a sugary frosting.

I was so disappointed because I really wanted to like Martha’s Country Bakery but it seems that the good frostings ( a bit too sweet for my taste though) can’t outweigh terrible cake. Sadly, that means, I won’t be back, no matter how good it all looks.