Tested: these are the tastiest pink cakes from the supermarket
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Do you remember those glazed cakes you could buy in the cafeteria at high school? They rolled out of the vending machine for a few cents, or you picked them up at the counter. And the real lucky one knew there was also a pack in the pantry at home. In search of that high school feeling, we tasted the pink cakes from the supermarket's private labels – and for comparison, the one and only real Enkhuizer pink cakes.
Dozens, maybe even hundreds, we mindlessly stuffed into our mouths during exam week. When you consciously taste those pink cakes, some things stand out. The color, to start with: the cakes from Albert Heijn are more purple than pink, the glazes from Dekamarkt have a white sugar rim along the icing, and those from Jumbo are so brightly colored that they can make you colorblind.
This is The Real Deal. Plenty of fondant over the edges. And if you hold it longer, the fondant melts a bit: DELICIOUS.
Notably: the little cakes – slightly smaller than the other cookies – taste a bit like almond. Very tasty, but not what we expect from a pink cake. Doesn't matter, this pack is empty so quickly.
The cake might be a bit dry, but the creamy icing makes up for it completely. Notably purple icing.
‘When you take a bite, the fondant crumbles off.’ Very sweet, and thus a bit cough cough dry cake.
Ouch, this pink cake is way too sweet, even the worst sweet tooth in the tasting panel thinks so. The cake is greasy and sticky, the icing has a bubblegum flavor. The loser…
It wasn't easy to find a package without crumbled cake. ‘Thick icing layer, nice and sweet!’
Tasty, but not as it should be
You can also taste differences in the cake base. One cake is sweet and sticky, the other crumbles in your throat, and those little cakes have an almond flavor. Tasty, but not typical pink cakes. Strange, the cake base of the Jumbo cakes resembles a sticky cake, like the slices you know from coffee at a funeral. No, that's not a cheerful association, and this cake doesn't make us happy either.
Classic
Our favorite? That remains the real Enkhuizer glaze, even when we taste them without knowing which cake comes from which supermarket. That cake is still just as vanilla-chemical as before, and the icing layer is simply perfect. ‘You know it's a good pink cake when you see your fingerprint in the icing after holding the cake for a while,’ says Lauretta, and we can certainly call her an expert when it comes to sweets and cakes. Number two is the cake from Albert Heijn. Again that icing, ‘nice and creamy,’ says Sharon, despite the purple color. Comes from beet juice, this pink cake contains no carmine, the dye from cochineal.
From a fairy tale
Too bad, there is also cake that is a huge disappointment. And that is – sorry, we have to say it – the one from Jumbo. It looks like a cake from a cartoon or a fairy tale, due to the pink color and the nice yellow cake. But that taste, they don't score with that. The cake is sticky and spongy, the icing is so sweet that even sweet tooth Lauretta finds it too much. No, we are not going to eat this. We'd rather solve differential equations or something.
