Rachel Antonio

Review of The Flying Monkey Bakery

Flying Monkey is one of those spots at Reading Ter...

Flying Monkey is one of those spots at Reading Terminal where you just have to try once. Heard of the Pumpple Cake? It's an apple pie and pumpkin pie baked into vanilla cake and chocolate cake laced in buttercream. The cake is massive and 1800 calories a slice! They only make one cake a day and it sells out by noon. Get it fast and get it early so you can burn off the calories for the rest of the day. I feel like the 1800 calorie advertisement is more of a gimmick. It becomes sort of a bragging right to eat this cake and a true guilty pleasure.

As for taste, the cake is just okay. The way the cake is built is more intriguing and since you bought the whole slice, you will just feel like chipping away at it until it is all gone. It's worth it, but only once. Staff is great and couldn't be friendlier. Flying Monkey is all part of the Philly experience.