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It’s a sweet little place. I absolutely love how they cater for vegans and for those who have special dietary needs. I totally recommend their snicker…
Sheryl
Sweet Bakery & Cakery
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The baking is always great and the hot chocolates are the best in Wellington. Love the variety that this place has and the customer service is great. …
Eatbites
Sweet Bakery & Cakery
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A wonderful little café that my friend and I came across, with a nice touch of charm with a retro bicycle out the front matching the inside colours.Wo…
Adam Kupani
Sweet Bakery & Cakery
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8 Reviews on “Sweet Bakery & Cakery”
The baking is always great and the hot chocolates are the best in Wellington. Love the variety that this place has and the customer service is great. The look of the shop is very cute and suits the place well.
A wonderful little café that my friend and I came across, with a nice touch of charm with a retro bicycle out the front matching the inside colours.Wow it was hard to choose from the tempting sweet treats on offer! I ended up choosing a s’mores slice which has a delicately caramelised marshmallow which complimented the coffee perfectly.The service was prompt and friendly, and the coffee was made perfectly.A shame our lovely time there had to come to an end so quickly with two screaming brats brought in by their equally loud mothers, but I guess we can’t have everything all the time.
Our family adores sweet bakery! We like to take the kids here as a treat, there is always excitement on the way as we discuss what possible cupcake flavours there could be on that particular day. Donut Friday, Milkshake of the Month this place always comes up with the goods! We even order our families birthday cakes here now, they not only look great they taste amazing! Awesome coffee and such a cute wee shop. (It would be a solid 5 if they weren’t such a hike away)
Dropped in for afternoon tea on a cold and miserable day. Had a Soy Mocha (which was OK) and a slice of Pinky Bar cake which was delicious. Also tried the Peanut Butter Jelly cupcake, the pb frosting was really full of flavour and the cake a lovely delicate sponge. Cute, cozy shop and friendly service.
If only there was a cafe closer to the central city. The cakes are amazing. $2.90 for a mini cupcake which is good and bad. Good since it’s thee perfect bite size amount and for that price you don’t mind buying several. Bad since having just that little amount leaves you wanting more. jenjaroo.com
Continuing on from “Hey George” in Kilbirnie, next (7th) stop in my quest for a good cup of tea was “Sweet Bakery and Cakery.”A very cute little shop – although from the outside it looks a little uncool and off-putting – like a retirement home café – but is slightly more interesting inside. White walls, purple spots, lime green plastic lights, turquoise cushions and a two group espresso machine. The sign outside says “cake and coffee” but there’s a display inside with tins of tea from Harney’s (American and already, at Soho Browns and Kirkaldies, Ive seen some issues with their recommendations as to the correct ratio of water to tea – I’m starting to wonder whether American tea is the same beast as English).There was one black tea – English Breakfast, but there were plenty of cakes – A delicious looking mars bar cake, indulgent brownies, cup cakes and some donuts with a chocolate ganache filling. I had two of the latter to take away.The EBT arrived in a cute green-blue pot, one called a Stump Pot advertised by Harneys on their web site and containing 530 ml. Which translates as 18oz. But wait, on the web advert it says that you add one of their tea sachets to the Stump pot, but elsewhere they say to add one to 12oz and in other places 1 to one cup and elsewhere one to two cups. A cup can be many sizes but cappuccinos are often 5-6oz but can go to 8-10 or I guess higher. Peering inside the stump I saw one sachet – it was doomed. Harneys may have been wildly optimistic in suggesting one sachet to one stump or perhaps Americans like weak tea. And yes indeed out came (after 5 minutes) the weakest tea I’d had since my visit to Astoria. It was flavourless, fawny grey, bouquet-less except for the milk. Oh dear – it had the best of intentions but it fell at the finishing line.1. Specialist tea offerings (the variety of unflavoured teas): 1/52. Brew temperature (the likelihood that the tea was brewed with boiling water): 5/53. Cup temperature (how much of a heat sink was the cup – a thick, cold pottery cup scores 0, a warm thin china cup scores 5): 2/54. Milk requirements (was I asked about milk and what type of milk): 0/55. Strength (too weak or strong =0, just right = 5): 0/56. Taste (bad=0, excellent=5): 1/5Sweet Bakery and Cakery Total 9/30Scoreboard:Soho Brown : 8/30Sweet Bakery and Cakery : 9/30Bellagio : 11/30K and S Cafe : 11/30Astoria : 11/30Hey George 16/30The Little Tea Shop : 18/30My suggestion : Add two sachets per pot, ask about milk requirements, add other specialist black teas to the menu. Also the little milk jug is very cute but because it has no handle its hard to get out of the cup if you tuck it there. Maybe put it to the side.OK so I’m starting to understand things a bit better. There’s a real issue in cafes about 1) brew temperature – you need to put the water into the tea, not present the bag separately (even though Harneys pyramidal sachets look “luxurious” they should be in the pot, not on display – as at Soho Brown’s) 2) the ratio of tea to water – you need to ignore American recommendations (especially Harney’s) and 3) the flavor of the brew – stop using teabags and use a quality loose leaf tea in the right proportions. What is becoming surprising to me is that no two cafes do things the same way, there’s so much variation, and so many that are simply wrong.Where next? – “Rosina’s” in Karori, a bog standard café in the Karori Mall that seems to cater for a lot of older customers.
What an an adorable place in an unlikely location, lots of yummy treats, I’m supposed to be on a diet but this place is going to cause me some issues I think. I grabbed a massive slice of mars bar cake and a raspberry cupcake. Can’t wait to eat this in the privacy of my own home.