Yes Daisy is right, time certainly does fly - we must all be having fun! Anita is also right. Eating carrot cake every day for five years would not have given my taste buds the right backdrop to sample Lidl's offering with such salivatory anticipation...
So, I must declare that I trawled back through the thread and found the original review of this cake undertaken some years back.
Cutting
a long cake short it scored 3/10 the worst result of any Carrot Cake I have ever tasted and tested.
The price hasn't gone up much over the years either.
So, what was the result?
I would love to tell you that this 2020 cake is a vast improvement. I would like to excitedly say that the 'new improved recipe' was not just marketing hype.
How keen I would be to describe the taste as delectable, moist, slightly sweet and spicy, perfectly iced, with a sumptuous, balanced creamy filling...
But as you've probably already guessed it - I can!!!
This cake was an absolute delight. It has restored my faith in the German supermakets like Lidl and Aldi's ability to improve, respond to criticism and overcome with Triumph - or Honda.
It's is one of life's mysteries why two of these cakes were on the sell off - if people knew how good these new improved carrot cakes from Lidl were would they still be bombing down to waitrose and M&S???
Then of course, delusion and suspicion crept into my mind. Is Anita right? Am I tasting this cake through a five year abstinence coloured pair of glasses?
At heart I can be quite a sceptical chap. Yes really! - Who to turn to for aid? I am the lone sampler here doing a tough job of sampling high class shop bought carrot cakes -then it struck me.
Has the solution struck you yet? Would you like someone to strike you? Julie does a good slap if you should ever need one...
I digress, back to the cake I hear you cry!!
Yes, the cake -
the cakes reviews -
by Lidl's own discerning customers. People just like you and me..
That had to be the final solution to settle my tasting dilemma!
So, I will say no more - well I might just say a bit..
Here is a small sample of the latest reviews of Lidl's
'new improved' and
'hand finished' too don't forget carrot cake:
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Still not convinced? Why not charge down to Lidl and buy one for yourself. I will of course be popping in to Aldi later this week to buy one of their's - purely to see what the competition is up to you understand of course...
Serving Tip: I Put mine in the fridge for about two or three hours before serving myself a small moderate slice with my large mug of tea.
Oh, you want its mark out of ten compared to the last terrible effort they sold a few years ago - yes of course.
For the price, this new Lidl carrot cake is by my reckoning an easy
9/10!