Cake

• Viral Basque cheesecake folk La Maritxu are heading to Carnaby

  

  I think we can safely say that anyone opening a Basque cheesecake shop in London right now is on to a good thing. Certainly, that was the experience of La Maritxu which went down a storm with its original cake shop in Connaught Village. Within days there were queues down the road and a slew of videos on TikTok rhapsodising about it. 

  Now the three Spanish sisters behind this one dish wonder are

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• Viral Leeds bakery Get Baked is popping up at Fortnum's

  

  Leeds bakery Get Baked makes a cake so viral that mere minutes after sales go live on their website every slice is gone in a flash. Now, Get Baked by Rich Myers is coming to London.

  Best known for its Bruce cake - a towering 24-layered chocolate cake - the London pop-up will showcase the creation of Bruce's successor, the Bertha which is exactly the same except for one detail, the ganache will be a mix of milk and

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• Lola's Cupcakes are making Harry Potter and house reveal cakes

  

  If you've got a Harry Potter fan in your life then the arrival of a new range at Lola's Cupcakes is going to make picking their next birthday cake a whole lot easier. The cake company has teamed up with Warner Bros. for a range of Potter-themed delighted that include the "Happy Birthdae" cake that Hagrid presents young Harry with on his 11th birthday.

  We think the most fun cake in the collection is the House Reveal cake. Choose

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• Lily Vanilli's Birthday Project is giving birthday cakes to kids who wouldn't normally get one

  

  Well, this is a lovely story to warm the cockles of anyone's heart in the throes of freezing January. East London bakery Lily Vanilli is celebrating its 15th birthday and has decided that giving back is the best way to do that.

  Baker and owner Lily Jones, who's made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Lady Gaga to Madonna, has decided to launch the Lily Vanilli Birthday Project. The aim is to get a birthday

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• The #BakeForUkraine bake sale is back, and this year's list of bakers are amazing

  

  Hot on the heels of the bake sale that took place in Islington on Sunday for Earthquake Relief comes another cakeathon where every penny raised is going to do good.

  This weekend marks the return of Bake For Ukraine - a charity event seeing London’s best-loved bakeries and patisseries raising funds for the Legacy of War Foundation.

  The event's being hosted by Instagrammer Clerkenwell Boy, and

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• The Proof is bringing cakes and a profiterole bar to Dalston

  

  Dalston is getting a brand new bakery as Francesca Strange's The Proof has found a permanent home there for a bakery, coffee shop and dessert bar. 

  A self-taught baker, The Proof has been delivering amazing-looking puddings (hence their name), cakes, and sweet treats across London, as well as a fairly big focus on profiteroles. Those profiteroles are going to be a big part of the

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• Bake for Ukraine charity cake sale brings in the big bakers

  

  We're always happy when doing good tastes good, and next weekend's bake sale in aid of Ukraine definitely sounds as though it'll achieve both those aims.

  The event, dreamt up by Toklas Bakery and Instagrammer Clerkenwell Boy, sees some of London's best known restaurants and bakeries taking part. The impressive line-up includes BAO, Flor Bakery, Meringue Girls, Ottolenghi, Violet Bakes and more.

  While

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• Bakery deliveries - the best places delivering bread and pastries in London

  

  Searching for sourdough? On a quest for cakes? Or desperately seeking scones? We've rounded up bakers and bread makers all doing delivery across the city. 

• Tokyo Diner's future rests on their new Fakey Cakey sushi cakes

  

  If you prefer savoury to sweet, then the next time you're searching for something special for your birthday, look no further than Chinatown's Fakey Cakey. This new venture, set up by Tokyo Diner during lockdown, is selling amazing looking cakes made entirely from sushi.

  There's the vegan asparagus garden option, a sashimi cake topped with sliced avocado and ikura-caviar and even a katsu cake (choose from meaty or veggie

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• Deliveroo and Adidas team up for cake trainers

  

  If you're on the hunt for a new special-edition pair of trainers, these might fit the bill - but they're not going to stay in mint condition for long. Adidas and Deliveroo are joining forces to launch the ZX 2K BOOST (alongside the launch of a more traditional version of the trainers). 

  Created by Sugar Street Studios, it does look rather impressive, we have to admit. Cut it open and you're promised "chocolate

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• Violet are opening a new bakery and wine bar in London Fields - there will be cake

  

  They sprang to instant fame when they created the wedding cake for Harry and Meghan and now Violet are about to open a new wine bar in Hackney - tentatively called Violet Corner (after The Corner building that it's in) - 

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• Cutter and Squidge are coming to Victoria with a pop-up bakery

   

  Fans of Cutter and Squidge - best known for their biskies (a cake/cookie sandwich concoction) - can rejoice as they're about to get another location - this time as a pop-up in Victoria. Already set up in The City and Soho, they're now heading to

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• Maitre Choux are bringing their eclairs to Canary Wharf

  

  Got a sweet tooth and live or work near Canary Wharf? If so then put 7 August in your diary. That's when Maître Choux are opening their new outlet there.

  This will be the fourth London opening for the eclair specialist. The Jubilee Walk spot will be a takeaway-only space serving up all manner of gorgeous patisserie. But, unlike their other places, this City spot will be open from early in day -

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• The 2018 Great Architectural Bake-off's best cakes of London buildings

  This weekend, bakers from London's top architectural firms and colleges got together for the annual WATG Great Architectural Bake-off. And if you're a fan of the showstopper section of the Great British Bake Off, then you're in for a treat.

  Here are our favourite of this year's entries of London buildings rendered in sponge and buttercream. Enjoy.

  Harry and Megan choose Hackney's Violet Cakes as their wedding cake baker

  

  Well today is a red letter day for East London bakery Violet Cakes as Kensington Palace announced this morning that she'll be the baker responsible for the royal wedding cake.

  In a formal announcement this morning, Kensington Palace confirmed that Claire Ptak had been chosen by Prince Harry and Megan Markle to make their wedding cake.

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