Pastry: Impossibly thick and hard 1/10
Presentation: Certainly hand crafted and memorable 7.5/10
Value for money: $5- Large portion but not the best components 5/10
Overall score: 5.4/10
When I stumbled upon Goolwa Bakery, neatly tucked in a laneway off the main shopping strip of upmarket Stirling I got excited at what might be on offer. I was really pleased to see slabs of vanilla slices for sale, one with an unusual helping of thick blueberry jam. Taken back by the blueberry, I failed to really consider the white topping. It was only when I paid my five dollars and proceeded to unwrap the monster that I could see it for what it truly was...coconut and marshmallow.
Thankfully I took a fork with me, because any attempt of lifting this thing in the air would have ended in loss of filling, fallen pastry sheets and impossible blueberry stains on my jumper that Mrs B would have struggled to remove. The first puncture of the fork revealed a metal like resistance of the pastry. It refused to cut, tear, breakdown and enter the mix with all the other layers. Therefore it was redundant. I simply used it’s stable surface to scoop the rather nice vanilla custard and sticky, bitter blueberry jam into my mouth as astonished passers by looked on. Notably, the top later also shared the same fate, and quite honestly a coconut element to this was just over the top anyway.