A couple weeks ago I posted about a trip Jeremy and I took to Oklahoma City to visit a few bakeries and cupcake shops, all in the name of research, of course! We started out our day bright and early with Sara Sara Cupcakes and from there hit up CocoFlow and Bricktown Candy Co. I won’t go into many details because either of these places because I honestly wasn’t blown away by them. But here’s a quick rundown with lots of pictures!
I choose CocoFlow because I thought it would be neat to go to a place that wasn’t cupcakes and instead focused on chocolate truffles. I was actually really excited to visit this little shop right in the heart of Bricktown. It was a very unassuming, cafe type space. When we got there, there was actually a chocolate making class in full-swing which I thought was SO cool and wanted so badly to join but we would have had to have previously signed up so it was a no-go. They had a pretty good variety of chocolate truffles to choose from, a few jars of HUGE cookies and some other miscellaneous baked goods. I choose a Chili Truffle, Marzipan Truffle, Peanut Butter Cup and Coconut Macaroon. Jeremy got a lemon bar.
My first indication of the quality of this place was when employee waiting on us unwrapped the previously made (who knows when?) lemon bar right in front of us and plopped it on the plate and then proceeded to ask if we wanted powdered sugar on it or not. Umm, sure. She then proceeded to ring up our treats (unsuccessfully) and after five or six attempts we were finally able to pay and headed outside to sit on the deck, in the lovely late morning weather.
I’m going to be honest here…the Chili Truffle was a huge bomb. We wondered if we got the right thing because there was absolutely ZERO chili/heat to this thing and it was coated in granulated sugar which I just thought was weird. The Peanut Butter Cup was actually a massive chocolate ganache truffle, dipped in chocolate and then topped with a dollop of peanut butter. The Marzipan Truffle was again, a thick layer of ganache, a very thin, barely there layer of marzipan and it was dipped in chocolate. The lemon bar was ok. Lemon goo and a shortbread crust and almost too sweet. My favorite (and the only thing I liked..actually I LOVED this thing) was the Coconut Macaroon. It was decadent and chewy, had loads of almond flavor and was dipped in a dark chocolate. It was divine. Needless to say we won’t be back to that place…unless of course, to get a coconut macaroon.
Bricktown Candy Co. was also nothing to write home about. I was kind of shocked by the aesthetics of this place. They have a prime location in the heart of a historic district but the inside is very rundown, warehouse like. It’s pretty big and divided into one side which is primarily bulk candy and the other side is gelato and almost every bottled drink and soda known to mankind.
The candy was ok but pretty much the same thing I can get at our local Mr. Bulky’s. Not the best or freshest but definitely not stale and gross. Just good, standard candy. I did try the gelato and it was actually really good…if it hadn’t been 11 in the morning I probably would have gotten some but it was just a little early for ice cream (But ya know not too early for chocolate, cupcakes and candy. Ugh.).
My biggest issue with this place? The teenager girl that was working the cash register, smacking her gum and talking on a phone the WHOLE time we were there, including while we were checking out. Gee, sorry are we interrupting your highly important conversation?? Don’t mind us, just customers wanting to GIVE YOU MONEY. I mean, really?! It was so rude. To make matters worse, one of the managers was there and knew she was on the phone and apparently didn’t think anything of it. We totally felt like we were an inconvenience to this girl’s phone call. Yeah, not going back.
Ok maybe for gelato…maybe.
Ok, so not such great choices on my part but it was still fun to try some new places. And the day definitely gets better! Next review–Pinkitzel!
