Pastry: Crispy, flavourless puff pastry 5 /10
Presentation: Average, white fondant icing, rugged 5/10
Value for money: 130p ($2.70), Cheap, unfulfilling, most thrown away 3/10
Overall score: 4/10
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Filling: Unusual (almost fishy tasting) sloppy custard 2/10
Pastry: Crispy, flavourless puff pastry 5 /10 Presentation: Average, white fondant icing, rugged 5/10 Value for money: 130p ($2.70), Cheap, unfulfilling, most thrown away 3/10 Overall score: 4/10
My first slice of my UK trip and what appeared to be promising turned out to be a mostly throw-away job. I just could not get past the fishy taste in the so called custard. Whilst it looked like custard and felt like custard, it tasted rank. The pastry and icing weren't too bad, but not enough to save it from the bin.
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Filling: Tasteless, thickened, sloppy custard 3/10
Pastry: Soggy, cardboard pastry 3 /10 Presentation: Average, white fondant icing 5/10 Value for money: 120p ($2.50), Cheap, unfulfilling, most thrown away 3/10 Overall score: 3.5/10
With over 1,600 stores across the UK, its sad that people everywhere might be eating this rubbish. Whilst I enjoy their hot savoury pastries (like sausage and beans slice), this custard slice was pretty useless. After two small bites I realised it wasn't worth my time eating any more.
Filling: Smooth, airy unsweetened custard 7/10
Pastry: Crisp, risen puff pastry 6 /10 Presentation: Thorough dusting of icing sugar 6/10 Value for money: $4, freshly baked, generous portion 7/10 Overall score: 6.5/10
I finally got out to the lush Yarra Valley and visited the popular Gladysdale Bakehouse. For a measly $33 I walked away with two freshly baked pies, two Byron Bay coffee company lattes and the four cakes as pictured. My butter chicken pie was extremely tasty, as was the coffee. The cakes were consumed later on with Em and Lynsey and the reviews are as follows:
Byron: The double chocolate brownie was dense and rich, the salted caramel mud cake was highly sweet, salty and moist. Then the vanilla slice divided the group; with some great attributes and some slight disappointments. I ate my share of the vanilla slices but felt like I could have eaten more. The custard had the homemade custard powder taste to it which was quite pleasant, but not sweetened. It's texture as smooth as you'll get and as light as air and with a good 'squidge' factor when eaten freestyle. The pastry was crisp, but not like most other multi-layer slices you buy. It's single layer construction did the job and made cutting into portions straight forward, but I think it could have been more buttery and flaky. Em: I thought that this vanilla slice was reasonably priced at $4. The pastry was flaky and had a nice texture whilst the custard consistency was firm, but had a softness to it. The only fault for me was the lack of flavour. 5/10 Lynsey: Beautifully presented, I expected this vanilla slice to have an above average taste. Unfortunately, the custard lacked flavour and I was a bit disappointed. Great price at $4 and the pastry had a lovely flaky texture. 6/10
Filling: Flavourles, jelly texture 3/10
Pastry: Dark, soggy in places 5 /10 Presentation: Good proportions, sugar paste topping 6/10 Value for money: $3.90, not freshly baked, tasteless 4/10 Overall score: 4.5/10
Ray's Patisserie mis-sold there vanilla slice to me through their glass cabinet. I thought they looked pretty good, nicely proportioned and freshly baked. It's only when I got it home and out of the bag that the truth started to unravel. Firstly, its texture was much like a milk jelly sandwiched between two sheets of pastry with a soggy sugar paste on top that annoyingly sticks to anything it touches. Then I tasted it, or tried to taste it at least. There was just no flavour or richness present. Not a custard, not whipped cream, no vanilla. Pretty poor overall.
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