To celebrate last week's National Cupcake Week and our new range of fun baking lessons in London, we'll be featuring a different cupcake-related post every day this week! First up, we present some of the most exciting cake bakers in London... Prepare to be inspired!
Please note all images featured are borrowed from the bakers' sites - please click them to be taken to their homepages!
THE A-LISTER'S FAVOURITE: Lily Vanilli
Lily Vanilli was working in graphic design when the recession struck and she turned to the one thing she knew could get her instant cash - baking. She set up a stall at local market and turned her home kitchen into a cake conveyor belt. But you can forget your fairy cakes and victoria sponges - Lily combines her design aesthetics with a love of baking to create alternative designs ranging from bleeding hearts, cupcakes stabbed with shards of edible glass and life-size lobsters. Here 2010 cookbook A Zombie Ate My Cupcake includes meringue bones, marzipan beetles and dracula's bite cupcakes. Today Lily's cakes are loved by fashion and foodie mags alike and she counts Elton John, Victoria Beckham and Heidi Klum amongst her fans.
THE FASHIONISTA'S TREAT: Molly Bakes
When Molly Bakes took her promising cake business to Brick Lane she was embraced by the hip Shoreditch scenesters who went crazy for her innovative new cake creations. Cake Pops, cute little cakes perched on top of lollipops and decorated in a multitude of different styles, suddenly became the snack to be seen with. Made by combining fully baked cake crumbs with frosting to form a mixture similar to fudge, they're rolled into balls and then covered with a hard candy coating. With different styles ranging from demure wedding styles in ivory with pearl detail to candy coloured love hearts and carebears, Molly also sells Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Anna Wintour cake pops.
THE CANDY STORE KING: Candy Cakes
If you've been shopping in London recently, chances are you would have stopped and gazed longingly in the store window of a Candy Cakes shop. Set up in the mid 90s, they started to experience with unconventional flavours and novelty designs after receiving exciting requests for custom birthday cakes. Nowadays, Candy Cakes are renowned for their mouthwatering and eye-catching cup cakes in vivid pinks, blues and greens. Designs change frequently, with flavours ranging from banoffee (chewy banana cake with a toffee centre and decorated with crushed biscuits and toffee sauce) to peanut butter and peaches and cream. Their wonderfully retro cake stores are a truly indulgent delight.
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