The secret diary of Londonist, aged 15 and 3/4, reflects on Unhappy Birthday, a participatory birthday party featuring party hats, pass the parcel, cake and the memoirs of a Morrissey obsessed misfit.
40 local bakers go head-to-head in a battle to find the best
Continuing our series giving a taste of what’s on the market in London. Here are some pretty cakes from Hackney…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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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