Two Magpies Bakery

Walking into Two Magpies, you’d easily double take — have I stumbled back into Manchester? No, this little place is a new addition to the ever-​expanding Southwold ‘high street’ (use this term loosely people!). Competition isn’t exactly rife; much of Southwold still revolves around the blue rinse idea of what cakes should be, so something with this hand-​written/​brown paper edge is very appealing to the younger generations.
The cake display outside is inviting, with hand written brown label price tags and a variety of different sized cake stands. You’re faced with amaretto chocolate cupcakes topped with edible gold, huge praline meringues, and slabs of brownies. Stepping inside, it feels a touch chaotic, but it sort of (sort of) adds to the charm.
We visited on two occasions — naughty — and had a raspberry bakewell slice, pecan nut brownie, the aforementioned chocolate cupcake, and a huge slice of sponge cake with raspberries and limoncello sauce. Service on the first visit was much quicker than the second; our cakes were selected, popped into a white box and stickered ready for us to go on our merry way. Our second visit and there was only one person behind the counter, doing his best but struggling slightly under the demand!
I hope that Two Magpies doesn’t fly away too soon; Southwold is changing in many respects and, as long as the prices don’t shoot up much further, I think they’ve found a good niche to sit in.