2025 Pyneys Pie Reviews
Review No 2
Kings Home Style Cakes
(Townsville QLD)
OCT 2025
With the Townsville leg almost over i still had one more bakery to visit before I continued my journey south. I initially didn’t have Kings Homestyle Cakes on my rador but when I found out the place made 🥧’s I soon added it to my schedule.
It was there I met Lional and Keryn. This awesome couple have been here for a tick over 20 years and still going strong. The moment I walked into the shop I was greeted by cakes !!! Everywhere I looked I saw cakes, cakes, and more cakes. This is predominantly a bakery than specializes in all things cakes. From birthday to weddings or any special occasion, the staff will tailor any cake for you. To my surprise the place also did 🥧’s and that was the purpose of my visit.
Lional took me out the back, showed me around and introduced me to all the staff. Two things stood out, firstly the work area out the back is quite small, but it’s eenough and they make it work. Secondly the big fella is massively outnumbered to the tune of 7 to 1. All of the staff are ladies and gee wizz they do a sterling job. After meeting the team it was time to smash a few 🥧’s.
Easy choice this week !!! One of the ladies out the back r old me that the pepper 🥧 had a bit of a kick to it and that’s all the convincing I needed. With the decision made we headed over to the warmer to get cracking.
🥧 THE REVIEW 🥧
1. Value for Money – $7.10 is starting to creep up there in price, but nothing over the top or outrageous. The 🥧 was normal in size and without weighing it looked to be around industry standard. 6/10
2. Meat/Fill Ratio – To be honest it wasn’t a huge 🥧 but it was totally full. 10/10
3. Flavour – Pretty good !!! Nicely cooked mince in a gravy sauce that included littered peppercorns. The gravy mix was spot on and it wasn’t gluggy at all. I have to admit the flavour was on the hotter than normal side which I thoughly enjoyed. This overall flavour in this 🥧 was more than acceptable. 8/10
4. Pastry – A real mixed bag here !!!! The shape, color and stability were all on song, while there was a little bit of shrinkage on one side of the 🥧. The top and bottom bakes where underdone, but the pastry thicknesses really let the score down. Both the top and bottom bakes were way too thick. This could have been a once off, but I need to review what’s in front of me. Although too thick the pastry did have a nice flavour to it. 5/10
5. Serving Temperature – No problems here the temp was spot on.
Overall Rating
🥧🥧 39/50 🥧🥧
Apart from the pastry thickness this was a nice product. You need to factor in that baking 🥧’s isn’t their core business. Yes, the 🥧 I reviewed was in need of a tweak here and there, but nothing that cannot be sorted. The flavour was really nice and if you like your pepper 🥧’s on the hotter side your going to enjoy the flavour in this one. Price point is creeping up there for a “pepper pie” but nothing outrageous and while it was only a smallish 🥧 it was completely full and industry standard. Overall this was solid product, but sadly the bake and the bake thickness let the overall score down .
A huge thanks to Lionel and Keryn for having me. These two have worked their butts off in this joint and deserve every success that comes there way. The cakes I saw were sensational and all the girls in the engine room do a phenomenal job. All the best guys and when I’m back in the Ville I will pop back in for sure. A special mention to David from MOI who helped me line up a heap of these NQ reviews.
Also a huge thanks to the staff at Coral Coast Tourist Park, this was a really nice stay. The park is in a good location, nice and clean and the staff were terrific. Would 100% stay there again.
