Bright pink and pleasingly punchy with their sweet, tart, slightly sour flavours, try London’s best rhubarb desserts before the season comes to an end.
Rhubarb galette: E5 Bakehouse
A warming makeup of transitional seasonal flavours, bright Yorkshire rhubarb and sweetly caramelised apples wrapped in a golden, sugar-crusted galette.
396 Mentmore Terrace, London E8 3PH
Rhubarb ginger cake: Ozone Coffee Roastery
Squidgy loaf cake with small pockets of pleasingly sharp ginger-poached rhubarb and topped with pink rhubarb icing.
Emma St, London E2 9AP or 11 Leonard St, London EC2A 4AQ
Rhubarb doughnut: Bread Ahead
A nostalgically sweet, puffy and pillowy cloud of fried dough filled with vanilla custard, rhubarb jam and crowned with a fluorescent-pink poached rhubarb baton.
Multiple locations
Rhubarb rose cupcake: Gaya’s Cakes & Confections
Fragrant rose and vanilla sponge kissed with fresh raspberries, rhubarb rose jam and topped with a flower of creamy, delicately sweet rhubarb buttercream.
253 Putney Bridge Rd, London SW15 2PU
Rhubarb meringue pie: Meringue Girls
Meringue Girls’ signature pie with quintessentially British spring-time flavours, in the form of a thick, rich vanilla custard, a sharply tart rhubarb curd, and billowy blow-torched meringue that melts in the mouth.
Unit 1 Broadway Market, London E8 4TS
Rhubarb cake: Violet
The best colour combo, beautifully moist butter-yellow sponge sandwiched with sweet pastel-pink rhubarb icing and topped with a zesty poached rhubarb baton.
47 Wilton Way, London E8 3ED
Rhubarb ricotta cake: Honey & Spice
This rhubarb and ricotta cake has a satisfyingly soft, buttery, tender crumb, glossy-pink batons of juicy poached rhubarb, nutty flaked almonds plus a sprinkling of sumac as a nod to Honey & Spice’s Middle Eastern roots.
52 Warren St, London W1T 5NJ
Rhubarb victoria sponge: Violet
Buttery victoria sponge sandwiched together with soft, light-as-air whipped cream and bars of perfectly tart pink poached rhubarb.
47 Wilton Way, London E8 3ED
Rhubarb pastry: Pophams
Layers of crispy, paper-thin pastry wrapped around cool vanilla custard and boozy gin-poached rhubarb compote, topped with poached rhubarb pieces and a complexly warming, citrusy-peppery rosemary crumble.
Multiple locations
Rhubarb tart: Café Kitsune
This glossy, red-pink rhubarb tart was an absolute surprise, its centre built on a white chocolate disc with punchy yuzu custard, whipped vanilla mascarpone and cold, creamy fromage blanc mousse.
19 Motcomb St, London SW1X 8LB
