Bittersweet Bakers at Socktopus this Sunday!

We are going to be serving lots of yummy treats this Sunday Feb 22, at a knitting afternoon taking place at Socktopus!

If you like cake and knitting, this is the place to be this Sunday! Come join us!

We Love Cake... especially for Valentine's day!

We had many cake lovers ring up for Valentine's treats for their sweeties... here is a bit of what we did in honour of the big love in.

Vanilla Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream and lovely romantic hearts for Valentine's.

Dark Chocolate Cake Hearts with a dark chocolate ganache glaze. Just too delicious and much better than a stale ol' box of chocs any day.

Chocolate Chip Cookies with a spicy Cinnamon twist. Guaranteed to get your heart racing!

More Chocolate! Dark Chocolate Truffle Cupcakes for chocolate lovers on Valentine's day.

Hope your Valentine's day was just as sweet!

Brrrr! I need some cake!

It's been a really chilly start to 2009! We have had record amounts of snow and low temperatures here in London but also people have been dropping their new year's resolutions in record time as well! Which is great for the cake bakers... we love naughty people who like a bit of nice cake to warm themselves up!

Classic Coconut Cake with toasted coconut frosting

Chocolate cupcakes with pink icing for Wig Out!, raising money for breast cancer research.

And more fun leaving do cakes, don't ask me what it all means....


Mocha Cake with Espresso Buttercream! Really, a coffee addicts dream come true.

Stay warm out there!

Cupcake Decorating Party!

Picture 60 naked cupcakes, bowls of multi-coloured icings, pots of every sort of sprinkle, glitter and icing flowers imaginable and a bunch of shrieking girls making the most adorable cupcakes a 9 year old can come up with. The mums especially loved taking home boxes of the cupcakes the girls didn't eat!

So much fun even the 'grown up' girls got into the act!

Masterpieces :-)

All flavours and colours of icing.
A very happy birthday girl indeed!

If you have a bunch of girls (of any age really) who like cake

and also like to decorate things, a cupcake decorating party is the way to go.

A Summary of Christmas Baking

Phew! What an exciting couple of weeks it's been! So many deliveries to so many cake lovers!

I have finally just been able to come out from the kitchen, out of the haze of flour and buttercream, on this Christmas night to tell you all about the magnificent amount of baking that has been happening over the last few weeks here at Bittersweet HQ.

We have been really busy making all sorts of magical Christmas goodies, which hopefully by now have brought lots of warmth and happiness to all the lucky recipients of the many gifts and birthday cakes we have sent out into the world!

There is so much to tell, so for now I will give you a photographic tour of some of what we have been cooking up...

Christmas Spice Dark Chocolate Truffles

Carrot and Coconut Cupcakes for hungry Ice Skaters

How cute are the decorations??

Triple Chocolate Brownies... 9 of the 400 we baked this week!

Chocolate Truffle Cupcakes with Vanilla Icing. Only 4 out of the 600 hundred we baked this week....

Special Happy Birthday Cupcakes for a very special company

Sticky Toffee Birthday Cake with Sea Salt Caramel Fudge. Truly decadent.

Big boxes for a big hearted company, my old friends Collective.
Some of the coolest and most amazing people you will ever meet.

Who happen to really like nice cupcakes!

Including devastatingly good gluten-free/wheat-free cakes!

Deep, golden, buttery Pecan Pie. Warm, nutty, toffee-licious.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.

Best wishes for a sweet 2009,

Bittersweet Bakers

Just Brilliant

We went to see Eddie Izzard in the west end last night and I picked up this t-shirt. I am not usually a fan t-shirt sort of person, but not only do I love this sketch (watch it on You Tube if you haven't seen it before) but Cake or Death pretty much sums up how I feel about eating good food. What is the point of life if you don't eat something amazing every single day?

Happy Birthday Cake for Steve!

A Ginger and Guinness Cake for Steve! Happy Birthday and thanks so much for all your help!

Also, here is an after photo of what the frozen ginger snap balls bake up into. Just perfect!

Christmas Cupcakes

I have never been one to go completely crazy for Christmas decorations, but as Christmas orders are coming in I have been thinking about how I will decorate them. I found these ridiculously cute decorations and actually can't wait to deck all the gorgeous Christmas cupcakes with these little beauties. Seriously cute...

If you don't believe me, have a look at them in action on these tasty pumpkin spice cakes.

See? Super cute.

The other stars in this box are the Tart Lemon cupcakes, Very Vanilla Cupcakes with silky chocolate glaze and then everyone's winter favourites.. Pumpkin Spice.

A whole Box of Tart Lemon Cupcakes for a particular addict. You know who you are.. and we just love you for it.

And Bittersweet to go! These are frozen balls of our cookie dough which make having Bittersweet biscuits any time a snap.

More lovely birthday cakes for London's discerning cake eaters... this time a luscious Banana Cake with Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese icing. Delicious!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Pumpkin Pie for Thanksgiving in London

Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans celebrating in London and to our loved ones across the pond!

We have so much to be thankful for this year and tonight we are giving thanks in many ways. All while eating pumpkin pie of course...

London's Sweet Tooth

Wow! It's quite amazing how the cold weather makes us all turn to a nice piece of birthday cake, a warm spicy cinnamon roll or a yummy chocolate chip cookie with our tea. We have had another really busy week here at Bittersweet and have delivered lots of deliciousness all around London to warm you all up. Especially the toffee and spice lovers, who have been out in full force!

Here's a taste of what's been baking in our ovens...

Valrhona Chocolate Chip Cookies

the very addictive Tart Lemon Cupcakes

Spicy Cinnamon Rolls just coming out of the oven

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes for a modern twist on Thanksgiving

More Birthday Cakes, this time in Vanilla Cheesecake

with ginger crumb crust and Sticky Toffee Cake

as well as Chocolate Truffle Cake

and just for a snack, some Sticky Toffee Cupcakes topped with Sea Salt Caramel Fudge

and their big brother, a Sticky Toffee Birthday Cake with Sea Salt Caramel Fudge

Stay Warm London!

Sugar High Friday!

Busy, busy today!

Lots of lovely cake, going to lots of lovely people around London.

Mini Chocolate Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream

Cheesecake Brownies... hardcore chocoholics only.

A variety of tasty cupcakes, for the lovely Tricia raising money for Children in Need!

Celebrations aplenty this weekend! Hope yours is just as fun and flavourful.