I seem to have unwittingly found myself on a quest for the best brownie. It feels like a challenge I can't refuse.
While my friend Nicole assures me that Leon do the best brownie in London (I'll try that another day), today I already had my sights set on an offering by Kastner and Ovens in Floral Street, Covent Garden.
It's a very pleasant little deli, which does hot food and soups at lunchtime, a few sandwiches and chilled food and has an amazing array of cakes, tarts, biscuits and all things sweet. And you can choose your own delicacy from the arrangement of plates - I always like that.
And the brownie? Well, it's a nutty type - it contains chunks of walnuts, the perfect amount in fact, if you are to have nuts at all in your brownie (I'm not always convinced they're necessary). It looks home-made, like it was turned out of the tray this morning. It's slightly crumbly and flaky on the outside, but it is the inside that kills the competition. It's cloyingly sweet, so moist and chewy it glistens in the light and is sticky on your fingers like a perfectly-made meringue.
Wow, this is very, very nice. The only downside I can see to this brownie is that at £1.80 it's pretty pricey, and it is verging being too sweet for me. Sadly I haven't got my camera today, so it seems I'll have to go back to obtain photographic evidence. Shame. I give it a rating of 4.5/5 - it loses its 0.5 as it is on the cusp of being too sweet, and I'm not sure about the walnuts - I would prefer it without. The best so far.
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Too sweet? What are you, crazy?
Ok, I did say 'verging on' - sometimes brownies can be so sugary it takes away from the depth of the flavour of the chocolate.
The disgusting 'baked' product that best sums this situation up is the 'creme' inside Krispy Kreme filled doughnuts (yuk) - no depth of flavour and far too much sweetness - it's like plunging your face into a tub of icing sugar. No sophistication at all. Anything made of chocolate should have an element of class - just something that nods to the sense of luxury that chocolate embodies. Or something.
It was good, although think I prefer the Honeyrose Organic brownies. Want to try lunch there though.
And Krispy Kreme doughnuts are alright, but not as good as Dunkin Doughnuts. Or the Sainsbury's jam ones. Yum.
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