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Sponsored Post: Win A Cupcake Masterclass With Celebrity Chef

Tesco Real Food has launched a Christmas cupcake competition to find the best cupcake decorator in the nation. Two lucky winners will be invited to London’s Make Lounge to spend an afternoon alongside a celebrity chef on Friday 10th December. There are also 10 runners’ …

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Preview: Eat Your Heart Out

Non-gory cupcake. Photo / fabienne & co Taking the tired cliche of ‘food porn’ all too literally, new Shoreditch store Maiden is to commemorate Halloween this year by hosting a morbid pop-up bakery in its basement that will serve up some beyond-the-pale delicacies. The “world’s …

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Review: Easter Cookie Course with Cakes 4 Fun

Prior to arriving at the Putney based Cakes 4 Fun on Tuesday morning for an Easter Cookie course, we wondered if there could possibly be anything more fun than spending an entire day decorating cookies. We have since come to the conclusion that there is …

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Just Desserts: Golden Gate Cake Shop

Photo by Abby Chau Golden Gate Cake Shop 13 Macclesfield Street, W1D 5BR Nearest Tube: Leiscester Square Phone: 0207 287 9862 Expect to Pay: around 80p per bun/slice of cake Chinatown is scattered with restaurants buzzing with chatter, cheesy-looking clubs pounding the latest mix, and …

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New Bakery Review: Le Dolci

Photograph courtesy of Jake Green@Response Photographic Le Dolci, offering London’s “only weekly cake club”, is the tastily inspired online enterprise of Lisa Sanguedolce. A Torontonian transplant of Sicilian heritage, Lisa gleaned her baking skills helping her mother in the kitchen as a child. We reckon …

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In Pictures: Crowds Queue For Covent Garden Cupcake

They came, they saw, they gobbled. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people brought a corner of Covent Garden to a standstill today as they waited for their slice of the world’s largest cupcake. The giant cake positively glistened in the midday sun enjoying its fifteen minutes …

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Master Baking (Har Har!) with Outsider Tart’s “Bakers Dozen” Masterclass

Not content simply to let the masses eat their cake (not to mention their walnut brownie chunk cookies), “US style cake emporium” Outsider Tart is now gonna help Londoners learn how to bake their own with the launch of its “Bakers Dozen” masterclass. These classes …

Walnut Brownie Chunk Cookie Goodness from Outsider Tart

Happiness is a walnut brownie chunk cookie. Don’t believe us? Here. Have a bite of ours and check out its makers: the “new culinary enterprise” Outsider Tart, a hobby-turned-business for David Lesniak and David Muniz, two American business and life partners who’ve set out to …

Reviews Revisited: Bea’s of Bloomsbury

Back in dreary February, Londonist was keen to sing the praises of newly opened Bea’s of Bloomsbury. Recently, we went back for a birthday cake and were pleased to find Bea et al are continuing to provide Londoners with quality yumminess. In closing, we’ll leave …

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Londonist Interviews…The Great Cake Escape

The streets of London are evolving. Once upon a time, they were paved with gold. Then came the more practical tarmac. Recently, dog turds, phlegm and spent gum have layered our thoroughfares. Now, The Great Cake Escape are on a mission to line our streets …

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Quality Cupcakes and More at Bea’s of Bloomsbury

Psst. Wanna to know about the bestest, most yummiest cupcakes in all of London? Of course you do. They’re at Bea’s of Bloomsbury, a new (as in today’s the first day they’re open to the public) café at 44 Theobald’s Road offering “inspiring cuisine, artisan …