Candy Cakes

Atmosphere: 4/​5, cheery and playful
Service: 5
Cake decoration: 4, they use edible glitter to their supreme advantage.
Icing: 3.5
Cake itself: 0. Flavourless, hard and stale, verdicts collected from my crew of people on 2 separate dates/​times.
Sadly, would not recommend. Everything leading up to the cake itself was stellar… but the cake was a total dud.

Une charmante boutique de gâteaux située à Covent Garden, un des quartiers les plus touristiques de Londres. Sur place, gâteaux et cupcakes à gogo trônent fièrement sur les présentoirs pour attirer les gourmands à l’intérieur. Une autre de leurs spécialités: les milkshakes gourmands à l’Oréo, Ferrero Rocher, Nutella etc
Points forts :
— la cadre 100% girly, coloré (voire un peu trop) avec les cupcakes régressifs à souhait. De quoi plaire à toutes les petites filles (et les gourmandes bien sûr)
— un nombre de parfums impressionnant pour des cupcakes, au moins vous êtes sûrs qu’il y en aura un qui vous plaira à l’œil
Points faibles :
— l’accueil qui pourrait être un peu plus sympathique, et surtout quand on a des touristes comme clients (plutôt logique non? pour un Français en tout cas)
— le prix qui peuvent vraiment être excessifs pour des petits cupcakes (et ils le sont)
— le manqué de saveurs des produits: avec une carte de cupcakes aussi large, on né pouvait pas s’attendre à de la qualité en bouche et pour cause: la base reste la même pour toutes les recettes (nature quoi), seul la crème change ce qui n’a franchement rien d’original en plus de n’avoir quasi aucun goût en bouche
— des produits vraiment trop sucrés: pas de truc fin ici, né pas avoir peur d’avoir le diabète en mangeant leurs produits (autant manger une boîte de carrés de sucres c’est la même chose).
En somme une belle boutique attrape-​nigauds pour ma part car on a l’impression de plus se faire arnaquer qu’autre chose. Les petites filles trouveront leurs comptes mais pour ceux qui veulent vraiment de bonnes pâtisseries anglaises passez votre chemin. Là-​bas on joue à fond la carte de la gourmandise avec des saveurs qui marchent mais qui sont vraiment trop sucrées comme les Oréos, Nutella et compagnie. Pour en avoir testé avec des amis je peux vous dire que leurs cupcakes n’ont vraiment aucun intérêt, on né sent même pas la différence entre les parfums. Le pire: le sacrilège quand vous voyez la vendeuse balancer des tonnes de Ferrero Rocher pour vous préparer le milkshake de ce même parfum (quel gâchis!).

Nice little cake shop. The food is great but the overall feeling is not enough for a place like this. There’s just something missing in the atmosphere. The staff looks bored and without the proper working motivation. Anyway, I wish you all the best and will continue coming when I am around.

Candy cakes is a cute and fun sweets shop in Covent Garden. Originally we stopped in when my friend’s whiny child was squealing for a drink, but we ended up all grabbing a soda or juice and sat to chat for a bit. There are lots of fun confections, and the restaurant is very colorful and lively. I could feel my blood sugar rising just by being on there. The thing that was a disappointment –the cupcake. After being to dozens of gourmet cupcakeries in the State, the cupcakes looked quite unappealing and sloppy. I’m fairly certain a child was tasked with putting a messy glob of frosting, sprinkles, cookie crumbs, and a gummy worm on top. Based on appearance, I didn’t try it.
Stop in here if you want to feel like a child for a bit, but leave before your teeth begin to rot from the sweetness.

Pretty much what the majority of the people have said on here is exactly and completely how I felt about this place after I delved into what should have been a typical, «gourmet» cupcake… I bought the banoffee (seeing as how I’ve never heard of that combination before until my arrival in London) and I was disappointed. The frosting quality was the killer for me — way too sweet, and almost reminds me of the frosting they use on cheap cakes that’s made with fake butter. It just had «fake» with every bite, they could’ve at least used better flavoring, and a little less confectioner’s sugar. As for the ‘cake’ part, I didn’t think I ordered banana bread. The texture was dense and rough, no «melting in your mouth» effect to be found. I liked the touch of glitter but in the end found it less amusing when I couldn’t wash it off from my lips for days. And for the price, I felt robbed in the end.
Just one less place for my cupcake journey in England.

After editing my 1^st review (I didn’t know about the «update» feature back then) to write about seeing the «baked» goods be delivered in pre-​packaged cases, I’ve only been back once. At a friend’s request.
When I first came to London, I thought this place seemed to great! Madonna used them for her 50^th! Come on! But, they seem to have gone even more downhill. The cakes/​muffins are beautiful, that’s sure. And the frosting is tasty. But I just won’t pay that kind of money for something that was baked only God knows when, is probably full of all kinds of preservatives, and came out of a cardboard box. Painting something with shnazzy frosting does not a bakery make.

This shop is so sweet it hurt my teeth before I even took a bite of my hot pink cupcake. Everything about this place is cute – there are cute little brightly coloured tables and chairs and cute sugar animals on the top of the cakes. Love!
The cupcakes themselves are huge compared to normal cupcakes. They are covered in a fondant type icing of nearly any colour you can imagine. Flavours include fruity flavours as well as the standard chocolate and vanilla. I tried the berry blast. It was nice, but a bit dry and overly sweet. I don’t know if I would fork out the £4 to have another.
Aside from cakes they offer candy, ice creams and sodas. A delicious sugar rush!

I should’ve known better… Once again, my theory that prettier the cupcakes, the less delicious proved to be correct again. Candy Cakes’ cupcakes are without any doubt one of the most aesthetically pleasing cupcakes, beautifully covered in fun and colorful artificial coloring and artery clogging butter cream. However, after the first bite, I almost threw it away. The icing was tasteless and cupcake was too dry and flavorless. It made me angry and I felt betrayed because I paid 3 GBP for this!!! As Brits would say, these cupcakes are total rubbish. Don’t waste your money and calories!!! You’ve been warned!

i’m sorry but my cake was disgusting.
the actual cake was dry and the icing was nice but nothing to shout about.
the actual cake is discusting and they just shove icing on top to make it taste better.
for real quality on both the cake, the icing and the presentation go to Bea’s of Bloomsbury.

I’m SO GLAD that everyone feels the same way about this. I really LOVED the presentation of candy cakes. but don’t judge a cake by it’s frosting (I’m going to copyright that. it’s mine)
The décor was adorable and it sucked me in like a moth to a retro pink and green cupcake shop. The Cakes all looked SO cute, and the colors are so fun and they have candy on them! I like candy… but it was a trick. Oh Cupcakes! how could you BETRAY me?! Cupcakes have NEVER steered me wrong before (I have 2 cupcake t-​shirts and one cupcake ribbon, and demand that my birthday cakes be in cup form) but these were no ordinary cakes in cup form, they were rubbish.
And to think I brought friends there to show them how cute the shop is.
But the cakes were so dry and over priced. I’m getting sad just thinking about it.

Walking into Candy Candy in Coven Garden is like walking into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. As the brilliant colours of the candy cake icing bombard the eye-​balls in a blinding blast of luminescent beauty, one can almost hear small voices chanting in the background:
Oompa Loompa, do-​ba-​dee-​doo,
I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa Loompa, do-​ba-​dee-​dee,
If you are wise you’ll listen to me
Once the senses have recovered and the music has faded, the Oompa Loompa puzzle begins: to choose which cup cake is the most delectable and worth the £3 that it will set you back. It is a conundrum that has the potential to destroy your life and send your head into a vacuous whirl. You will be forced to choose between the meringue-​centred lemon & white chocolate and the cheese cake-​centred blueberry yoghurt. Just when you think you have things sorted, that pesky triple chocolate pokes its head around the corner and ruins everything … and then you spot the one with the pink icing and the giant banana candy on top … or perhaps the mini sugared lemon halves on the blue icing would be better? Talk about brain strain. To make the process easier, it is best to remember that a) all of the candy cakes are delectable and worthy of your hard earned pounds, and b) if you are likely to break your budget by buying the whole shop out, you can return to the shop again and again … and again until you have tried all the flavours on the list. The few million brain cells that you may frazzle in the ‘Candy Cake challenge of choice’ will not be missed (what’s a few brain cells anyway?) — once the puzzle is solved, life will become very very easy as all that is left is eating. Eating and indulging and pleasuring the taste of the heavenly delight set before you. Chances are that you will be so completely mesmerised by your chosen candy cake that the beverage options also available at the shop will disappear into a void of insignificance. And when you find out that Candy Cakes is also an online store that custom bakes to order, remember the wise words of the Oompa Loompas…
If you’re not greedy you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa
Oompa Loompa doompadee do
… or don’t.

I really hate to say it but the cakes here are so disappointing, the shop and the cakes look to die for but the cakes are dry, tasteless and really expensive.
I could do better and that’s saying something.

Girls, i’m with you on this! I had one before a meeting and felt v ill for the rest of the day… far too sickly.
If you’re in the area go to Muffinski’s instead! (I’ll go and review that now shall I?)

I totally agree with the ladies here — these cupcakes are what my grandma would say ‘all dress and no knickers’. In other words they look great but are not the tastiest.
The problem is that they look so damn good — bright colours with lovely sweeties plonked on top of their glossy iced tops. But if you bite into one of these bad boys they will make you sad. They definitely made me sad anyway, they weren’t moist and how can you eat a cake if it’s not moist? Also £3.50 a cake — daylight robbery!
So anyway — worth a look in the area but you will be disappointed!

I stepped into Candy Cakes to rest my feet after a long day of walking. I picked up a chocolate cake for my boyfriend and had a cup of their creamy hot chocolate which looked absolutely freaking nuts in the picture. The picture was a mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows topping the cup (literally, falling over the rim of the mug, that many marshmallows!) The minute I saw the picture, I knew I had to have it.
My hot chocolate was presented as follows: big mug of hot chocolate, heaping mountain of whipped cream, topped with a handful of mini-​marshmallows. The chocolate was creamy, and sweet, and piping hot — but aside from the presentation, the hot chocolate itself didn’t live up to the hype I had built up in my head after looking at the picture.
The shop is cozy with a good amount of seating for the limited space it occupies. Service was friendly enough (although I felt a bit rushed when ordering). My boyfriend said the cake was very rich but the frosting was not so good.

I was sitting in a shop in Covent Garden waiting for my husband and I saw a lady carrying a bag from this super cute little shop!
I stopped the lady and asked her where she got that bag from because I didn’t know what the shop was about being from the U.S. She was a traveler too, and couldn’t properly explain to me where it was, so when I asked someone for directions they helped me out.
OMG!!! Just looking in the shop at the cute little cupcakes all lined up in their bright colors was enough to draw me in!!! And when you walk inside the cute décor and pastel colors on the walls and chairs is the cutest thing ever!
I’m beyond obsessed with all things cupcakes and was pleasantly surprised that my obsession is catching on outside of the US! The cupcakes themselves are good and moist enough, but the frosting was pretty hard and not rich and creamy like I hoped it would be. I will visit this shop the next time I’m in London because I can’t resist cute places like this and who doesn’t love a cupcake!

If the neon colouring of the Candy Cakes Shop and icing does not make you feel physically sick, then this shop is amazing. Their tempting windows are filled with fairy cakes piled high with rich thick icing.
The fairy cakes, however amazing they look, are very pricey and neither the tastiest nor freshest. Much better in my opinion to admire than to actually buy.
Candy Cakes is not the healthiest looking of shops but pretty impressive.

These cakes always look so so good, in a «those bright colours can’t be good for me, but I want them nonetheless» kind of way. The window is piled high with big cup cakes covered in different coloured icing and topped with all manner of different sweets from jelly spiders to red laces. The colours and creativity draw you in, and my hopes were high for the taste.
But sadly, these cakes are a let-​down — the cake itself is tasteless and a little on the dry-​side and the taste of the icing fails to live up to its colourful promise and is bland rather than beautiful.
I’ve been back here a couple of times, hoping that I’d made the wrong choice of cake the previous time, but every time has been bad. It’s a shame as they look so good, and the kitsch décor of the shop itself makes for a novelty tea and cake experience, but the price is far too high and the quality terrible.

Sister shop to the one up the road, this is essentially one of the best cake shops in London aimed mainly for the tourists. The cakes themselves are fantastic and come in a wide variety of unique flavours — my personal fave is the lemon and poppyseed. They’re not cheap but they are quite a nice indulgence.
This specific shop is probably too busy unless you’re passing or showing people around so I’d recommend a small walk to Seven Dials to avoid the slow tourists staring at their strange currency!