Late September means the start of autumn, the most comforting season for desserts. The Apple Blue Patisserie brought back their popular pumpkin loaf and Jolene launched the softest apple-filled sponge, but if you want something non-seasonal, there’s a dark fudgy chocolate cake that will definitely hit the spot.
Apple cake: Jolene Redchurch Street
Spiced brown butter sponge with apple pieces, swirls of lemony cream cheese frosting and sweet, gooey caramel on top.
67 Redchurch St, London E2 7DJ
Szarlotka: Cakehole
Polish apple pie with a biscuit-like pastry base, a chunk of dense, luxuriously buttery cake, super soft cinnamon-spiced apple slices and a classic British crumble on top.
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Pumpkin chai tea loaf: The Apple Blue Patisserie
Pumpkin sponge with a heavy mix of chai tea spices – ginger, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg and cinnamon – dark chocolate chips and flakes of milk chocolate on top, it’s earthy and wonderfully warming, tender but perfectly soft.
212 Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS
Mont Blanc: WA Café
Puff pastry layered with sponge, vanilla pastry cream, whipped cream, a whole candied chestnut in the centre and strings of sweet, nutty, chestnut purée around the outside. It’s rich and indulgent in flavour, but every layer on top of the base is so light and delicate, the snowy mountain just melts in your mouth.
5 New Row, London WC2N 4LH or 32 Haven Green, London W5 2NX
Chocolate espresso cake: Meringue Girls
Dense, super fudgy dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, the silkiest espresso Swiss meringue buttercream – featuring a shot of Climpsons & Sons – and a dusting of cocoa powder on top.
Unit 1 Broadway Market, London E8 4TS. Saturday only.
