#coupleofmacarons

If you’ve ever been to downtown Waterloo, you may have noticed a curious store sign decorated with a colourful hexagonal pattern.  Occasionally, the colours are parted by a black hexagon that wears a single white bee upon it reminding passerbys of a bee in it’s beehive.  What makes this sign curious is that there in not a single word on it, giving no details as to what kind of store it is.  Thankfully, the windows give a hint to the mysteries of the shop – shelves of cakes and pastries with small tables that allow for intimate conversations between close friends having coffee or the solo student typing on the laptop with a snack on the side.  For those of you who have never been there, this little café is called the Honeybake Shop; a magnificent wonderland of cupcakes, cookies, custom cakes, and of course, macarons. We got a pack of 6 for $10, 6 different flavours of standard 2 inch diameter sized macarons, neatly packed in a sliding rectangular prism decorated with the signature hexagons and white bees – classy, colourful, and convenient. The macarons themselves, however, were of plain design, possibly to match the solid colours of the bakery’s hexagons. Every macaron had a chewy, almost fudgy consistency (which we at first mistook for the macarons being old….. we’re pretty sure that was their style though) with mild flavours except for the expresso. Unfortunately, their scent was as mild as their flavour. The two other notable flavours would be the strawberry – similar to those strawberry marshmellows that have the artificial flavour; and the salted caramel, which had real caramel as the filling rather than our preferred caramel flavoured butter cream. The upside to this store was that its service was good and the store seemed well kept. Do we recommend? Nope. Sorry Honeybake Shop. You’re a cute, colourful store but when it comes to macarons, you’d only win for packaging.