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New Designs For Fourth Plinth Unveiled

The contenders for the next artwork on the Fourth Plinth have been released. And yes, before you ask, that is a giant Battenberg pictured above. The tumescent cake is called, obviously enough, Battenberg. The brick sculpture is by artist Brian Griffiths, who wants us to …

Covent Garden celebrates its 180th birthday with a giant cake. Photography by Chris Osburn

In Pictures: Giant Birthday Cake and Card at Covent Garden

Giant birthday cake slicing is underway at the Covent Garden Piazza with a friendly all ages crowd queued up and keen to enjoy a free taste of celebratory Victoria sponge. With the Real Food Market in full swing and more than the usual buskers drawing …

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Giant Birthday Cake and Card at Covent Garden This Morning

Photo by mor2sphotography.com How do you follow a birthday celebrated with a giant cupcake? Simple. A giant cake accompanied by a giant birthday card. To celebrate the 180th anniversary of Covent Garden’s Market Building, a weekend of freebie festivities will commence at CG with the …

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Preview: Easter Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies Courses

Easter cookies from Cakes 4 Fun The Putney based cake company, Cakes 4 Fun, is offering Easter cake courses for amateur and semi-professional cake makers and decorators. Keen cake enthusiasts can either learn the art of pouring chocolate fondant and ganache on to a chocolate …

Photograph of Outsider Tart's oatmeal pumpkin whoopee pie by Chris Osburn

Move Over Cupcakes, Here Comes the Whoopee Pie!

Photograph of Outsider Tart’s oatmeal pumpkin whoopee pie by Chris Osburn Oh cupcake, you’re so 2008. We still love you but, maybe it’s time we started eating other treats. “US style boutique bakery” Outsider Tart has recently added whoopie pies to its autumn/winter roster. These …

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In Pictures: Londonist 5th Birthday Party

The problem with really great parties – like the one we threw on Friday night – is that they pass in a whizzy, drink fuelled, chit chat blur, are over too soon and are often tricky to recall. Thankfully, we had Tiki Chris on hand …

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In Pictures: Fat Of The Land Harvest Festival

We feared it might be a “wicker man meets village fete” affair but the Queer Chub Harvest Festival was a rip-roaring, face stuffing, carrot grabbing, vegetable monster of a success bursting at the seams with fabulous, colourful harvest produce and overflowing – appropriately – with …

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Happy Belated 300th Birthday

Dr Samuel Johnson! Sorry we missed it. Fortunately our Flickr friend McTumshie was at your house on Friday to immortalise your stupendous dictionary birthday cake for posterity. More photos from Dr Johnson’s house in Gough Square here. Many thanks McTumshie

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Just Desserts: Loafing

Loafing Victoria Park Village 79 Lauriston Rd London, E9 7HJ 020 89860777 Expect to pay: around £3 per cake Open for less than a year, Loafing sits perfectly in the gentile and ever so slightly twee surroundings of Victoria Park village in south Hackney. A …

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New (and Awesome) Coffee Cakes from Outsider Tart

Life is good – especially when the baking geniuses behind Outsider Tart decide to update their menu! Not content to keep London yummy with the simple likes of walnut brownie chunk cookies and such, OT have (graciously) added caramel apple coffee cake with a pecan …

What’s for Lunch? Kipferl

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Kipferl 70 Long Lane, EC1A 9EJ tel: 020 7796 2229 MAP Monday to Friday: 8am-17pm Mon-Fri, 9am-17pm Sat (Call for extended December opening hours and Sundays) Expect to Pay: from …