A couple of nights ago, we were having dinner at Nandos in The Alpha Angle. While waiting for our food to arrive, I suddenly had an attack of the cravings – something I hadn’t felt since I was in my first trimester. Anyway, the craving was for cake and upstairs, conveniently, was Secret Recipe. To be quite frank, whenever I think of Secret Recipe, I think of cheesecake. Not any of their other cakes, but specifically cheesecake because I don’t like many of their other cakes.
Thinking it might have been the hunger pangs speaking to me in a rather unhealthy way, I thought I would wait until after dinner to see if I still wanted my cake. Well, I did. So off to Secret Recipe we went…
After looking through all the cakes on display, I settled for one called “Hazelnut Cheese”. Since no one had ordered it, the cake was whole and I couldn’t see the inside but I figured the name “Hazelnut Cheese” left little to the imagine. It was basically a hazelnut flavoured cheesecake with possibly some hazelnut pieces in it. Sounded good to me.
Imagine my shock and surprise when this arrived:
This looks like a Hazelnut cream cake, not a cheese cake! Rarely in my right mind do I ever order cream cakes because I don’t like cream. I took the cake back and told them, “This isn’t a cheesecake.”
The staff replied, “Yes it is.”
Are you f***ing kidding me? You call this a cheesecake?
“Oh, the cream is cream cheese,” they say.
Right… Let’s take a closer look at that “cream cheese”:
Let’s just give them the benefit of the doubt and say that it really is cream cheese frosting in there, that still doesn’t change the fact that this is NOT a cheesecake. Carrot cakes have cream cheese frosting but that doesn’t make it a Carrot Cheesecake.
Some idiot in Secret Recipe really has no idea about cakes. After that enormous letdown (hey, I’m pregnant with a craving for cheesecake, okay?), I don’t think I will be going back there again…
