With lockdown restrictions keeping customers away, many of London’s dessert spots now deliver across the capital and the UK. From DIY cookie dough to ready-baked, American-style cookies, long-loved sourdough doughnuts and new squishies, these are the best desserts to order online.
Crosstown Doughnuts
The purveyors of sourdough doughnuts with bold flavours and equally good, vegan-friendly renditions, these doughnuts are fluffy with a strong crumb, bread-like and different – from the dough to the fillings and glazes. A warming, winter doughnut with cranberry apple compote and chai tea glaze or a melt-in-your-mouth, banana cake doughnut, the selection changes each season but the Crosstown classics are always there.
What to order: banana & cherry cake doughnut
Radio Lamington
Born out of a lockdown to support the NHS, Radio Lamington specialises in light, pillowy-soft lamingtons – traditionally made with raspberry jam and coconut – in a whole range of fun flavours. Sticky toffee dipped in rum butterscotch sauce or tiramisu with Pump Street dark chocolate ganache, the sponge is light and fluffy yet the flavours are so deep and decadent. For each box sold, Radio Lamington gifts one to the NHS.
What to order: mixed lamington box
Pearl & Groove
A gluten-free bakery with a new home in Clerkenwell, Pearl & Groove developed the aptly named squishies during the very first lockdown. Two brownie-style cookies with fillings from raspberry marshmallow to salted caramel buttercream, these sandwiches are squishy and sweet, soft with the perfect bite.
What to order: salted caramel squishy
Crème
Big, chunky, soft and gooey in the centre and crunchy on top, Crème quickly took the social media world by storm with its American-style cookies. Classic chocolate chip, the extra soft banana dough with deeply dark chocolate chunks or the sweet-meets-salty combination of miso white chocolate, you can get a box of 6 or 12 delivered straight to your door.
What to order: miso white chocolate
My Cookie Dough
Warm, gooey, incredibly indulgent cookie dough layered with everything from lashings of Nutella to cream cheese frosting and crumbled cookies – or a combination of them all – you can now build your own dream stack at home.
What to order: the special edition pack (includes white chocolate, red velvet and triple chocolate cookie dough)
The Brownie Box
The most underrated brownies in London, these small squares are so soft and fudgy, dark and rich – the classic kind – or extra sweet and buttery in so-called blondies (a white chocolate brownie).
What to order: postal blondie box
Chin Chin
A liquid nitrogen ice cream parlour with the smoothest scoops and the most indulgent, hot-and-cold desserts, Chin Chin has completely changed the dessert game – in London and online. DIY griddled cookie dough, hot chocolate starter kits, bags of fudgy white chocolate chunks and even ice cream, every Chin Chin classic can now be enjoyed at home.
What to order: DIY griddled cookie dough
Blondies Kitchen
Thin or chunky, DIY or pre-baked, 7-inch Nutella-stuffed delights or small cookie cups, Blondies Kitchen offers cookies in every shape and form but the textures are always the same – crispy around the edges, soft in the centre and chewy all the way through.
What to order: the blondie
Crumbs & Doilies
Starting with bake-at-home kits for cupcakes, whole layer cakes and the shop’s famous crunchy-meets-gooey, caramel cornflake brownie, Crumbs & Doilies now also does all the work for you – in their kitchen in Wandsworth – with freshly baked cookies. Red velvet, birthday cake, raspberry white chocolate and so many more, these are New York in style – chunky with a soft, melted centre – but so creative and Crumbs & Doilies-like in flavour.
What to order: freshly baked New York cookies
The South East Cakery
From s’mores cookie sandwiches with blow-torched marshmallow to buttery-sweet, birthday cake truffles for one, The South East Cakery does some of the most creative treats in London. Try a mixed box with the bakery’s best-selling items, or get a whole batch of your favourite – the truffles are terribly addictive.
What to order: birthday cake truffles
Ben’s Cookies
The most affordable, tourist-pulling cookie shop in London ships the iconic rounds all over the UK. Big chocolate buttons – not chips – in buttery, humble-sized cookies, these cookies are crispy on top and soft underneath, full on chocolatey or more tangy and sweet, small and sophisticated – not overwhelmingly filling – and as British as they come
What to order: cranberry & white chocolate cookie
A Pie Party
Nutella-stuffed cookies and peanut butter blondies, the biggest Rocky Roads and monthly specials, A Pie Party does so much more than the buttery, flaky pies. With desserts selling out fast at London food markets, follow A Pie Party on Instagram so you’re prepared when the online shop restocks.
What to order: Nutella cookie
