[Review] Yummy Cakes at Victoria Yum

I love cakes, but it has been difficult finding a decent cake shop.
Most of the good small bakeries have retired so you have to resort getting cakes from the supermarket which are just frozen cakes or cakes that have a long shelf life.
Some bakeries offer instaworthy cakes which lack substance but Victoria Yum appealed to me in the sense that their cakes are creative as well as delicious and not to mention instagrammable!
The shop owner is probably called Victoria hence the name Victoria Yum but I love the the classic British Victoria Sponge/Sandwich so somehow I just knew I was going to like it.

After browsing their website, the cake choices were exciting so it was hard deciding what to get.

Some of the creative ones include:
Matcha Chai with Cinnamon & Cardamom
Raspberry Rose & Pistachio
Poached Pear & Blueberry
Fresh Peach & Raspberry
Courgette, Pistachio & Lemon

I planned to go there in January but fortunately I found out they were doing some refurbishing as they were closed until Feb 2nd, 2020.
They are only open from Weds to Sat from 9am to 4pm so as soon as it was Wednesday I went to Victoria Yum.

However, when I got there, they didn't have the full collection so went back again on Saturday.

As expected, the cakes were like eye candy so it was hard to choose.
The special cake that day was Parsnip, Apple and Honey which shows her creativity with vegetables in cakes just like the courgette one.

It was a battle to decide which cake to get, I already had red velvet in mind because I wanted something basic to satisfy my simple cake craving.
As well as the red velvet the rhubarb raspberry also looked good, I liked the pink cream in the middle which should have a nice tartness from the rhubarb.

In the end I went for the Ruby Red Velvet which was a big generous slice!
Not only was it big but it had four layers so it was difficult to fit another slice in that day.

Digging in to my cake, the layers were so decadent and the silky vanilla cream cheese in the middle literally melts in your mouth.
Having tea with the tea is a must but then you always have tea with cakes.

Although I couldn't quite finish it, I was already thinking of another slice of cake.
I regretted not getting another cake to take home as it would mean looking forward to another Saturday for cakes!!!!