A food critic spent £ 130 heavy to try the new range of Marks & Spencer cakes and found a big problem.
Billy, also known as Big Daddy B on social networks, is a creator of the Food Review Club – the best food revision platform in the United Kingdom. He recently sampered Easter eggs from a range of brands and supermarkets and has now been on M&S cakes.
The criticism of food has tested the style of Neapolitan ice cream, the mini chocolate bite, speculoos, salt caramel latte, caramel and millionaire, ultimate cookies and cream and raspberry cakes. He assessed them one by one in a video published on Tiktok.
Billy said: “My least preferred was the chocolate & Caramel Millionaire cake. He looked great and I would say that the cake was really wet but it was a little too sweet and overwhelming for me.
“Not many flavors compared to others either – five out of ten. Then, the raspberry ripple – a nice cake with the WOW postman.
“Unfortunately, it did not indulge. I really liked the sharpness of the jam and the pieces of the meringue on the top were good but again, really too sweet, which dropped it – six out of ten.”
He then passed on the Speculoos cake with the Lotus Biscoff flavor. The description on the M&S website can be read as follows: “The cookie flavor you know and that you like can now take the front of the stage during a celebration with our speculoos cake. A speculoos flavor sponge meets the spicy caramel in caramel butter and a rich salted heart sauce, surmounted by chocolate decorations. ”
Billy admitted that he thought that this cake “would be better” but he “always really appreciated him”. He discovered that there was “a very strong spicy flavor in sponge and buttercream”.
The treat was “quite well balanced and not too soft”, but he said that the sponge “could have been a little more frothy”. He assessed seven in ten.
Then, the chocolate chocolate cake, at a price of £ 40, a “four -layer chocolate cake” filled with “velvety chocolate ganache and generously covered with smooth chocolate butter cream”. It is decorated with a mixture of milk chocolate bars, mini chocolate chocolate chocolate, chocolate cornflake clusters, mini-millionaire mini and pieces of cookie dough covered with chocolate.
Billy described it as a “decent chocolate cake but it’s just a chocolate cake”, so he gave him one out of ten. After that, he tried the Neapolitan iced style cake which, according to him, was “very decadent” and he “loved the diapers” which give him a “WoW factor”.
The three flavors presented in this cake are chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. The food critic mentioned that the strawberry jam “cut the softness” and the sponge was “quite wet”.
He evaluated this cake at 7.5 out of 10. The ultimate cookies and the cream cake, at the price of £ 40, were “really good” and the diapers “seemed to strike”, according to Billy.
The four -layer dessert has a chocolate sponge and chocolate chips, filled with crumb to cookie crumbs and covered with butter cream with cookie flavor. Billy appreciated this one more than the others because he ranked it eight out of ten.
He concluded: “And my favorite was the salt caramel latte. It was a banger sponge – strong coffee and caramel flavors that worked perfectly, not too sweet.
“Chocolate balls on the top to give it a little crunch – 8.5 out of 10.” Billy’s Tiktok video has raised 1.3 million views, 40,700 likes and more than 700 comments.
In the comments section, he revealed that “not bad” cakes were dry because it is a remark that many users made. A person said, “It looks dry … why spend all this money for what ??”
Billy replied: “Many were dry. Another user echoes: “I never had a cake bought in stores which is not as dry as a bone.”
However, there have been positive comments, including “the carrot cake is delicious”, “if I had so much money, I would buy them all, but I must say that you must try their chocolate birthday cake and their white and raspberry chocolate a ufffff so good in my opinion” and “Marques and Spencer make the best cakes”. Another user thanked Billy for sharing this video saying: “Thank you for examining them, I’m dying to see what the interior looks like, so I appreciate that you show us before buying one.”
