London’s Best Red Velvet Desserts

Red velvet sponge, made with cocoa and buttermilk, should traditionally be layered with a tangy cream cheese frosting to counterbalance its complex, deeply chocolatey flavour, but London chefs are showing new welcome ways to conjure the crimson-red, American favourite. From meltingly soft white chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream, to coconutty lamingtons, and another stateside classic, the whoopie pie (two soft cake rounds filled with frosting), these are London’s best red velvet desserts…

…not just for Valentine’s Day, btw <3  

Red velvet cake: Harrods

Luxuriously dense red velvet cake lightened with a smooth, tartly sweet cream cheese frosting and generously heaped with red velvet crumbs.             

87-135 Brompton Rd, London SW1X 7XL

Red velvet blondie: Brownie box

Fudgy red velvet blondie topped with fat cubes of white chocolate delight.

247 Old Brompton Rd, London SW5 9HP

Red velvet cake: Flavourtown Bakery

the most generous, American-style red velvet cake, with four layers of perfectly fluffy red velvet sponge sandwiching tangy, thickly smooth whipped cream cheese frosting.

771 Fulham Rd., London SW6 5HA or 3 The Quadrant, Richmond TW9 1BP

Red velvet brownie: Blondies Kitchen

Intensely rich red velvet brownie filled with wedges of white chocolate and slicked with Biscoff spread.

Selfridges Food Hall, 400 Oxford St, London W1C 1JT

Red velvet cupcake: Gaya’s Cakes & Confections

A flower of vanilla bean cream cheese with a little red white chocolate disc sat on dense, darkly sweet red velvet sponge.

253 Putney Bridge Rd, London SW15 2PU

Red velvet cake: Grove Lane Deli

An unconventional, nostalgically sweet red velvet cake, with melted Valrhona white chocolate swirled through silky smooth Swiss meringue buttercream and topped with delicate milk chocolate crumbs.     

4a Grove Ln, London SE5 8SY

Red velvet brownie: Outsider Tart

Thick, chewy and slightly fluffy red velvet brownie capped with cream cheese frosting.

Lyric Square, London W6 0QL

Red velvet lamington: Radio Lamington

A lovely, American-meets-Aussie lamington, with soft pillowy red velvet sponge sandwiching the tangiest, twice-whipped cream cheese frosting, dipped in a house raspberry hibiscus jelly and dusted with crispy desiccated coconut.

Daisy Green restaurants or online

Red velvet whoopie pie: Outsider Tart

An American favourite, the whoopie pie, two chubby red velvet sponges that have a slightly dense and chewy outer yet soft and fluffy centre wrapped around perfectly tangy cream cheese frosting.

Lyric Square, London W6 0QL

Red velvet cupcake: Crumbs & Doilies

Vibrant vegan-friendly red velvet sponge with a glob of velvety vanilla icing.  

1 Kingly Ct, Carnaby, London W1B 5PA