cupcakes

Our roving search for London’s best desserts takes us to SW18, where we enter the sugary lair of celebrity Cake Boy Eric Lanlard.

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’ …

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 …

Neon: Cox, Cookies & Cake Unless you’re particularly into that kind of thing, a new sex shop in Soho isn’t big news. But at Brewer Street’s latest unsavoury* opening, things aren’t what they seem. There’s no stripping, no adult toys, and not even any “massages” …

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 …

With the proliferation of cupcakeries around London of late, you could certainly be forgiven for taking the easy option and ordering a boxed dozen of goodies to be delivered to your door, rather than getting out the weighing scales and preheating the oven when you …

A flavour of London Fashion Week came to the shopping masses yesterday with a village fete style event in Covent Garden piazza. Featuring many feathers, costume changes and couture cupcakes highlights were a parade of pampered pooches on the podium for the Top Dog Fashion …

Our continuing, caffeine-fuelled quest to show you some of our favourite coffee shops in London. A small but charming coffee shop in Belsize Park, Chewie’s, is a welcome addition to the coffee revolution that is currently stimulating the city. This shop is special not only …

Image by sue_n_alex Sure, our love of all things cupcake-ular is well documented, but does the prospect of a giant-sized, all-conquering cupcake makes us a feel a little queasy and e-number crunched? Does it ‘eck. This Thursday, at the Covent Garden Real Food Market, the …

Power baking wonder woman Shikhita Singh was so chuffed when her Fair Cake white chocolate and limoncello cupcakes won our recent Londonist Cupcake Throwdown that she decided to share her winning recipe with us. Awesome! Image courtesy of Shikhita Singh Keep reading for the scrummy …