North Wales bakery with 'Mold's most expensive sausage rolls' and 'sugar rush' cakes
Shane's baking heritage goes back to 1968 and he is incredibly proud of his range of handmade products, produced at his small bakery in Neston.
Cravin' is known for its old school cakes, ice cream, milkshakes and hot desserts as well as a fantastic savoury range of delicious gourmet sausage rolls, handmade pasties and tasty quiches. It's really difficult to walk past the Cravin' shop window, without gazing lovingly at the cakes.
Cravin' recently caused a bit of a fuss in the town by advertising the sausage rolls as 'Mold's most expensive sausage rolls' and they even released a mug, which had the words 'I am the mug who paid £4 for a sausage roll' on them.
Mold's most expensive sausage rolls may be the talk of the town, but these gourmet rolls are much bigger and tastier than your usual bog-standard sausage rolls. They are named things like 'Get Stuffed' 'Boss Hog' 'Pigin Pickle' or 'Cheesy Trotter' although they did have a traditional one called 'Olde English' as well.
We decided to see what the fuss was about and popped into the shop. Be warned, the smell of sugar in the store, might play havoc with your sweet tooth. The head spinning cake display is worth a visit in its own right. But first, we took a gander at the controversial pork savoury snacks.
We saw a sign that offered three sausage rolls for £10, which seemed like too many sausage snacks for me, but the lady behind the counter handily suggested that you can also mix and match with the fine-looking cakes as well.
I decided to go with a 'Bombay Bad Hog' although I did feel a little self-conscious saying it out loud. This sausage roll included top quality seasoned pork with red onion and Indian spice, wrapped in a flaky puff pastry. This puff pastry bite had a little bit of a kick to it, but it was fairly lightly spiced compared to the ominous name.
I also went for one entitled 'El Matador'. This Spanish sounding sausage roll was made with chorizo and paprika. Just by adding a tiny bit of chorizo, took this sausage rolls from standard to fabulous. The paprika added a smoky, sweet tang to the crisp red-tinged outer layer of pastry. The moist underbelly was tightly packed with tasty peppery pork.
It was impossible to pick one cake from the wondrous display of sweet baked goods, but needs must. They had everything here from silky buttercreams, loaf cakes to golden sponges. Reece's or Freddo brownies and Jammy dodger tarts were all competing for your attention, alongside all manner of old school cakes.
A lot of the cakes were taking advantage of the Dubai Chocolate Pistachio craze with Pistachio éclairs, Pistachio brownies or Pistachio lemon tarts on sale.
I decided to try the Pistachio rocky road. It was a door stopper of smashed up salted green pistachio nuts, mixed with fluffy pink and white marshmallows, dense digestive biscuits and coated in a heavenly mixture of melted milk chocolate and syrup.
Before you knew it, your taste buds were having an affair with a mouth-wateringly good, salted pistachio bar, full of squidgy slabs of deliciousness.
In truth, it was too big for one person, so we cut into half and shared it. The sugar rush to the head was amazing.
We didn't partake with any beverages but noticed that they offered 'Milkshake madness" with thick, creamy, dreamy shakes with flavours such as chocolate, vanilla or strawberry for £3.50 each or 2 for £5.
You could also upgrade and create your own masterpiece using any of their chocolate bars or sweets. Think Oreo overload, Kinder chaos, Biscoff heaven or Haribo happiness, the choice is yours.
They also offered tea, coffee and hot chocolate but that sounded a bit boring after looking at the milkshake machine. However, I had craved enough sugar and carbs for one day, so decided to leave the milkshake machine alone.
The Mold sausage roll controversy just seemed like a bit of good marketing to me. Their super tasty gourmet sausage rolls were packed with quality pork with a variety of fun names, which could turn the head of even the fussiest of sausage roll desperadoes.
Yep, in summary, it looks like Craven' is on a roll, when it comes to serving up a perfectly good baked sausage gourmet delight.
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