Stanley is not a complicated place: you have a lazy weekend lunch at one of the waterside restaurants and then you thoroughly exhaust yourself bargaining for tat at the market. The taxi ride home is always a bit of a blur because you've hit such a sugar low from all that intensive shopping. Luckily, however, my latest trip to Stanley lead to the discovery of a bakery which solves this problem. Saffron Bakery, a little gem of a place in Stanley Plaza, sells everything you could need to recover from the market experience - whether your fix is a cute little cupcake, a gingerbread man or a more traditional slice of loaf-cake.
The bakery / cafe has a rather over-whelming selection of traditional cakes, muffins, gingerbread men and cupcakes, with some of them piled up temptingly on a stand in the window. The items are not fancy, delicate little numbers like you might get in the cake shops in Central, rather, they are hearty, traditional, home-baked cakes. The place plays on your, possibly rose-tinted, view of an old-fashioned cakeshop and indeed, goes further by having a sweet corner filled with everything you ever overindulged in as a child - remember Nerds anyone? Or the sweets you can wear as a bracelet?
I tried the ginger cake which was not terribly photogenic but was delicious, moist and flavoursome. I managed to resist the cupcakes and gingerbread men but I've heard good things. Definitely one for the wekend...
Saffron Bakery Stanley Plaza
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