Aug 2017:
Tasting Session On Inauguration Day @ Bake O Cake, Loudon Street, Kolkata ☺
Date of Inauguration: 26 Aug 2017
Situated in Loudon Street, right below Little Pleasures, occupying a rectangular area of around 600 sq. feet, Bake O Cake is a 20 seater cafe cum bakery cum confectionery, well equipped to dole out delectable desserts, fresh out of the oven breads, popular multi cuisine savouries and an assortment of both hot and cold beverages.
Wherein Bake O Cake's other two outlets are pure veg, the current one being designed on the lines of a French patisserie, uses eggs, but not meat.
Mostly hued in white, the entire interior of the eatery is designed on two parallel lines. The moment you enter, on the left you will see - the see through kitchen, followed by the food display counters, ending with an enclosed cabin. While on your right, you will see the array of seating arrangements, followed by the enclosed loo.
Seating arrangement comprises of - white hued, sturdy and comfortable sofas and chairs and white, rectangular, fibreglass tables. Ceilings and walls are also hued in white. The wall on the side of the seating arrangement is textured. A couple of beautiful small chandeliers hang from the ceiling. An LED television adorns the small wall facing the main door. Music plays in the background.
A assortment of items were presented for tasting at Bake O Cake and almost an equal number of items were gift packed for tasting at home.
The items presented for tasting at Bake O Cake were -
- Wecome Drink -
- Blue Hawaiian (Rs. 110/-): It was a beautiful mocktail serving, wherein a gradient of blue liquid at the base, infused with a canned red cherry, gave way to bubbling transparent liquid, garnished with some greens on the surface and a lime roundel inserted at the glass rim.
Made of blue curacao, litchi syrup and soda, this mocktail looked quite beautiful and tasted nice.
- Breads & Savouries -
- Garlic Bread : Neatly placed on an asymmetrical stone tray, this snack item was constantly making rounds on all the tables.
The breads were toasted on grill and tasted average.
Pleaae note that, it is not a separate item on the menu, but is served as an accompaniment with few savoury main course dishes. However, the menu comprises of the food option - Cheese Garlic Bread.
- Penna Al Arabbiata (Rs. 230/-): Accompanied with a slice of Cheese Garlic Bread, a moderate mound of red sauce pasta, garnished with enough grated cheese, was served in a wide rimmed white ceramic plate.
It was well cooked and tasted good.
- Red Curry (Rs. 275/-): Two white ceramic wide rimmed dishes were served, with one carrying steamed Lemon Rice and the other carrying the popular Thai Red Curry comprising of - red curry paste, seasonal vegetables and coconut milk.
The dish tasted average.
- Pizza Focaccia (Rs. 310/-): A thick wooden dish comprising of well cut and relatively big pizza slices, decorated with some lettuce leaves on the top were in circulation on every table.
I got my share of pizza slice as well, which comprised of caramelized onion, black olive, rosemary, bell pepper, garlic and sundried tomato.
The pizza was crisp and fresh, contained good quality crunchy veggies and tasted excellent.
- Desserts -
- Flourless Black Forest (Gluten Free) (Rs. 110/-): It was a rectangular slab of flour chocolate sponge, topped with a thin chocolate slab, pastry cream and morello sour cherry.
It tasted excellent.
- Philadelphia Cheese Cake (Rs. 130/-): Made of Philadelphia Cheese with vanilla pod flavor, this rectangular soft dessert came topped with parallel placed droplets of cream cheese.
It was soft, dense and tasted excellent.
- Honey Almond Croissant (Rs. 110/-): A Croissant is a crescent shaped puff pastry made of layered yeast levened dough.
Herein, the Croissant was stuffed with sweet almond paste and glazed with honey.
With a distinct taste of thick almond paste, this savoury cum dessert was quite filling and tasted good.
The items packed for tasting at home were -
- Choux Bun Pyramid (Rs. 70/-): It was designed on the lines of Religieuse, which is made of two choux pastry cases filled with crème pâtissière, covered in a ganache of the same flavor as the filling, and then joined with piped whipped cream.
But herein, joining of both choux pastry cases was done with a chocolate disc and not whipped cream.
It tasted soft, spongy and excellent.
- Assorted Macarons (Rs. 90/-): Packed in beautiful shades pink, green and white, Macarons were meringue and almond based cookies with buttercream sandwiched between two cookies.
The cookies were freshly baked and crunchy. The sandwiched cream was fresh, melt in the mouth and quite balanced and tasty in composition.
They were the best Macarons that I had tasted till date.
- Mixed Berry Tunnel (Rs. 90/-): It was a rectangular puff pastry, topped with Crème anglaise, fresh berries and other citrus fruits.
It tasted good.
- Almond Apple Tart (Rs. 110/-): It wa a pâte sablée almond tart, garnished with thin slices of a fresh apple.
It tasted moist and nice and I paired it with my flavorsome cup of Rose Oolong Tea. The match seemed made in heaven!
- Almond Biscotti (Pack of 4) (Rs. 100/-): It was a pack of 4 long and roughly semi-hemisphere shaped crunchy biscotti, infused with enough almonds and herbs.
They were quite well baked, comprised of good quality almonds and tasted good.
All in all, it was an extensive tasting session, both at the outlet and at home, wherein, clearly the heroes were the French delicacy desserts.
If Bake O Cake can maintain the same degree of freshness, quality and taste in it's desserts, within a short time, it has the potential to become one of the top five confectioneries of Kolkata!
They also serve individual items and platters for breakfast.
Timing: 7 am - 11 pm
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