I sold my soul to seitan: Miss Cupcake (Brixton)

I had heard about Miss Cupcake quite a few times, mainly through the internet but recently through a new vegan acquaintance. I have lived near Brixton for a couple of years but as I have a massive tendency to get lost I don't tend to wander off the main streets and so, as much as I hoped, never stumbled upon Miss Cupcake. Recently I had a friend stay with me for a couple of weeks so armed with her sense of direction and an address we set off in search of the illusive cake shop.

In my head I expected all 70 flavours to be there but there were a selection of about 18 flavours to choose from which rather than being disappointing probably saved us about 4 hours as it still took us ages to pick our four flavours.

In a much deliberated decision ("..well that one does look good but we already have 2 chocolate ones we want..." "..maybe we should go for two chocolate ones and two non-chocolate ones.." "..how about all different colours..." etc) we went for: Jaffa Cake, Ferrero Rocher, Apple Crumble and Pumpkin Pie. During our deliberation we even got to meet Miss Cupcake herself which almost felt like meeting someone famous!

THEY WERE AMAZING! They are probably about half icing but so well flavoured and deliciously moist cake. You cannot manage more than one. In fact we had 1/3 of one and had to take a break. My favourite was Pumpkin Pie but we had chosen it because Miss cupcake had told us it tastes a bit like carrot cake and I ADORE carrot cake. This was closely followed by Ferrero Rocher which was so perfected it tasted identical to the chocolate. Jen's favourite was Jaffa Cake. All of them were so good though- it was only personal preferences which made us choose our favourites. The apple crumble cake even had pieces of apple in it. I think the only disappointment was that the apple crumble was just slightly drier than it should have been.

That visit was so cupcake orientated that we forgot to check out the rest of the shop but before Jen left I decided to go back to get her a cupcake as a present to eat on the train and this time I spent a little longer checking out the rest of the wares. There was so much to look at for a shop that size! There was a lot of cupcake themed products e.g. mugs, cupcake stands, icing equipment but there was also other vegan products like chocolates, marshmallows, "jerky" style snacks and more. I bought her a Mocha cupcake (feedback was very good!), some marshmallows (one banana and one vanilla- they are quite expensive and I'm only a lowly student!) and also my first ever GoMaxGo Chocolate bar- the Jokerz one which is like a snickers.

The marshmallows were very authentic- I definitely wouldn't be able to tell the difference between "real" ones and those. My only criticism is that the banana one didn't have a very strong banana flavour at all and I couldn't tell them apart easily. But the Jokerz bar! My god that was good!! I didn't even realise quite how much I missed Snickers until tasting this. Even Jen (a non-vegan by the way) was raving about it days later. I definitely want to try some more.