Those of you that follow this blog will know well that we are huge fans of Willow Cottage Kitchen, the unbelievable cake shop based in the idyllic countryside village of Lymm. Karen and I have met the owners, Bob and Charlie, a few times now and we’ve always been really impressed with their care and consideration in catering for people with allergies as well as Charlie’s ability to make her wonderful creations also taste bloody good.
Charlie had informed me they were planning on sending me a cake, but I was unsure of when it would arrive, so it slipped my mind.
I was therefore very grateful to receive this email from DPD…
How exciting. Suddenly, I then felt my usual sense of worry when confronted by a pudding or cake that someone has gone to great lengths to make for me…. what if I don’t like it!?
It’s a continued theme throughout my life that people go to huge lengths to try and make me a pudding using various different substitutes and they just generally produce horrific degrees of disgusting. Leaving me to either force myself to eat it all or to tell them the terrible truth – their efforts were in vain.
However, when I received this cake, the note from Bob and Charlie was so friendly that I realised I was worrying about nothing.
See, how lovely are these two? They have not only managed to create a gluten-free and vegan-friendly cake that is free from the top 14 food allergens, but they have called it ‘The Rory’. I was honoured that someone would bake a safe cake for me, let alone name it after me. I was also set the task of being the ambassador of ensuring it tasted good.
I can tell you, I took this responsibility extremely seriously. I took the cake out of its immaculate packaging very carefully, but then realised I had never had a cake like this before. It was what looked like a rolled-up chocolate with a creamy filling, but I was faced with lots of questions. How did I do the following things?
- Cut it
- Heat it up
- Eat it
- Display it
- Store it
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Now, you may be laughing here, but seriously if you’ve never done something before and never bothered to see how something’s done because it has never involved you, you are likely to be quite confused about how to go about doing it. It was a similar experience to when I first tried my hand at decorating.
Anyway, I decided I would try the cake in different states. Firstly, I tried it straight from the wrapper.
What hit my mouth was a lovely soft cake with a very beautiful citrusy filling. I have to confess my pallet is terrible, so I was completely unable to identify what any of the flavours actually were, but I know what I like the taste of and I LIKED this cake.
The next test was to try it once it had been left in the fridge for a while and see what it tasted like cold.
This was a similarly rewarding experience, although the coldness did seem to make the cake more solid and there was less of a melting feeling to it. However, it was still a fantastic snack and the citrusy icing really made any of the flavour lost with the cold irrelevant. I truly believed that the icing was the true hero of this cake. I was however proved wrong about this when I did my final test…
For this test, I warmed up a slice of cake in the microwave for 30 seconds. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I’m glad I did my various tests, because if I hadn’t have done them there would have been a chance that I would not be able to inform you that such an amazing thing exists. There are 7 Wonders of the World, and when ‘The Rory’ is warmed up – it should stand alongside them as another of the greatest creations in the world.
I’m serious! When you warm this cake up, the filling melts and it turns into what I can only describe as a marshmallowy sticky toffee pudding. It melts in your mouth, and the flavours bounce off your tongue like they’re having a party. And in this taste test, the filling had to take a back seat as the warm, spongy cake took over and literally dissolved in my mouth. It really is quite a spectacular feat of engineering to make a cake that in Charlie’s words has got ‘bugger all’ in it, taste this good.
I was honoured to have this cake named after me, and now I feel ecstatic having tasted it. If I get fat whilst eating The Rory, it will have been a life well spent.
All I can say now to the allergy community is – YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS CAKE! (Then cut off a piece and warm it up in the microwave for 30 seconds).