Muddy’s Bakeshop, Memphis TN

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Muddy’s Bakeshop

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Buttermilk Pie

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Coconut Chess Pie

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Pecan Pie

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Chocolate Chip, Pecan, Bourbon Pie

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Chocolate-Peanut Butter Layer Cake

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Chocolate with Chocolate Buttercream Cupcake, Neapolitan Cupcake, Grasshopper Cupcake, Red Velvet Cupcake

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Selected as a last stop en route from Memphis to Nashville largely as a result of location plus a menu that seemed unlikely not to wow it was just after 2:00pm that we entered Muddy’s Bakeshop, and although service from the trio of young ladies behind the counter couldn’t have been more friendly suffice it to say that a lack of puddings as well as a weekly menu of options far less fanciful than many listed on the website was only the first of many disappointments, the overall quality of all but a few options proving to be far beneath the standard set by dozens of bakeries found throughout the United States.

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Whimsical in nature with gnomes, coffee cups, and several branded items for sale speckled amidst the pastel tinged décor it was with samples of the bakeshop’s rather underwhelming toffee offered that we perused the options and with a few questions answered a nine-piece order was placed, part of it plated for immediate indulgence while the rest was boxed for later consumption – the cupcakes all exceedingly dry just a few hours later with only the ‘Prozac’ titled chocolate on chocolate proving even remotely well flavored as the grasshopper was exceedingly artificial in its ‘mint’ while the red velvet lacked any semblance of cream cheese tang.

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Again finding the simple chocolate cake to be pleasant and moist in a slice of layer-cake upgraded by rich peanut butter frosting it was mostly the pies that had caught our attention from the start and although the ‘buttermilk’ was far less flavorful than other local iterations of Chess, the coconut topped version was absolutely reference standard creaminess beneath lightly toasted curls, a true standout amongst a quartet that also included Pecan pie with too much sticky filler and “Tollhouse Jack” that mostly tasted like an soft and sweet chocolate chip cookie despite the supposed inclusion of both nuts and booze.

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