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Well done Philippa Craddock for those pollinator friendly royal wedding flowers!
Well done Philippa Craddock for those pollinator friendly royal wedding flowers!
Beloved Flower Lover,
Royal florist Philippa Craddock’s was preparing Pink roses and white blossoms and more for the wedding. Harry and Meghan chose Craddock to create the floral design for their wedding, both for the ceremony at St. George’s Chapel and the reception at Windsor Castle.
“I am excited and honoured to have been chosen by Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle to design and create…
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Violet Cakes - Hackney
Violet Cakes
Claire Ptak, a talented baker who used to work at the famous Chez Panisse, sells out her range of American-style cupcakes at Broadway Market every Sunday. So a few months ago she opened a little bakery/cakeshop/coffeeshop on Wilton Way near(ish) London Fields.
I stumbled across it today and nearly kept going, making a mental note to try it another time, but couldn't break through the buttercream icing forcefield. It's quite sticky, as forcefields go.
In the interests of science I had to take a representative sample, but reined it in a bit with a couple of minis - a mini salted caramel cupcake, and mini whoopie pie, both of which just made the polenta and almond cupcake with lemon icing look even more decadently large.
I fell in love with salted caramel in Paris, and the pink sugar ball in the centre of Violet's salted caramel cupcake seemed to add a bit of gay Paree sophistication to this divine salt-sweet-buttery bite.
After this wee amuse bouche, I investigated what was to be my first Whoopie Pie (I know, I'm in the slow stream at cake school). I think I'm a convert. It offers greater variety of flavour and texture and greater ease of eating than the cupcake. This version had pistachio nubbins in its sponge and on the icing, along with intense candied rose petals.
The lemon iced cupcake, with grainy polenta sponge was delicious and intriguing, but the polenta gave too much of a gritty texture for my liking. But this won't be enough to stop Violet being an obligatory stop on the way to and from London Fields - I'll just have to add a few lengths at the Lido.