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Need acake for aspecial occasion?
GEMA MORAL gives her pick of some of the
best of the rest in South London. Icing on
DAISY CAKES BAKE SHOP
THIS cake shop specialises in making cakes to your own It may inhabit an unassuming corner of South
specifications.All itsproductsare freshand bakedonsiteusing
freerange eggs and real butter. Choose from avariety of flavours – East London, but The Cake Store in Sydenham
from vanilla to lemon, chocolate, carrot and coconut. They make has helped stars including Cheryl and Ashley
fabulous cupcakes you can buy at the shop or order in advance
(minimum order 12 cupcakes). Cole, Ronnie Wood and Bruce Forsyth celebrate
❑ DaisyCakes Bake Shop is at 11 TurnpinLane, Greenwich, special occasions.
SE10 9JA. Tel: 020 3248 3047. Opening times: Tue to Sun ZOE WALKER finds out why it’ssopopular...
11am-5.30pm, Closed Monday.
ANAGING instance £325for an 8in square
director of The cakewhen acomparablecreationKONDITOR &COOK
Cake Store in at TheCakeStore wouldcostfromTHIS cake-maker with five branches –two of them in Lambeth –
Sydenham, around £25.offers all-roundfavouritesincluding lemoncake, carrot cake,coffee
Kevin Slatter, The shop has been based forand walnut cake alongside its own curly wurly cake –layers of
is aman years on the Slatter family’schocolate sponge filled and frostedwithvanillabeanfrosting. It M
passionate ancestral home turf of Sydenhamalso makes delicious seasonal cakes for Valentine’s Day, Easter,
about cakes. They’reinhis blood. in suburban South LondonHalloween and Christmas.
The family business, on the (long-term residentswill❑ Konditor &Cookisat22CornwallRoad, London,SE1 8TW.
corner of Mayowand Sydenham remember the business’s formerTel: 020 7261 0456. Also at 10 Stoney Street, SE1 9AD.
Roads, SE26,proudly displaysa name of Slatter’sBakery).KevinTel: 020 7407 5100. Openingtimes: Mon to Fri 7.30am-6pm,
vast array of delicious looking says it has an established clientSat and Sun 8.30am-5.00pm.
creations –from spectacular base butnew customersare
celebration cakes to pastries, pies always beingdrawn from further
and bread. afield. South Londoners certainlyPEGGY PORSCHEN
If you’ve got an idea for a love abargain and in acredit
special cake The Cake Storecan crunch everyone’s afteradeal.PEGGYPorschen came to London from Germany 10 yearsago to
make it areality–invanilla He explains that the shop doestake acordon bleu course. She stayed in town working for
sponge,chocolate,carrot or fruit alot of business for tabloidrestaurantsand bakeries in Londonand is now running her own
cake.Choosefrom kids’ cakes, newspapers such as The Sun.Ifitbusiness making cakes and cookies in her own style. Her cakes
traditionalcakes, celebrity cakes needs acaketopresenttoacelebhave the celebrityseal of approval –she made Stella
and seasonal cakes –whatever or for aphoto shoot they’ll get onMcCartney’s wedding cake, as well as cakes for
theoccasion, TheCakeStore to The Cake Store. As well aspartiesfor Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow and
has acake for it. those names mentioned above,chocolate Faberge eggs for Elton John’s White
“We aim to bridge the gap otherstars whohavegorgedonTie and Tiara Ball.
between supermarket and Cake Store creations include❑ Peggy Porschen is at 32 Madison
bespoke cakes,” says Prince Charles, PeterAndre,OzzyStudios, TheVillage,101 AmiesStreet,
Kevin. Osbourne, Johnny Vaughan, CarolBattersea, SW11 2JW. Tel: 020 7738 1339.
“Celebration cakesare Vorderman, Elton John andCake tastings and consultations,
our main business and politician Diane Abbott.Mon-Fri 10am to 6pm. Call in advance.
we’ve tried to keep our But, farfrombeing exclusive,
prices realistic and fair.” localsuse the shopregularly toJOANNE’S CAKE
This dedication to good, order cakes for birthdays,parties
honest cakes and fair and other special occasions.HEAVEN
pricingbecomes apparent “A lot of people come in to
when Kevinturns to the order something for kids’ parties,AS WELL as alaw degree,Lewisham
internet andshows weddings, christenings,”resident Joanne Harvey had
me the top whack says Kevin.more than 20 years’
prices some of Butthe business is no overnightexperience making and
his north-of- success –it’s practically aSouthdecorating cakestoorder
the-river London institution.so turned herbackonthe
competitors Set up from premises inCity to start up her own
are Brockley in theearly 1900s, tocake shop instead.
charging – startoff theSlatter family’s mainOpened in 2003, this
in one trade was bread.shop makes elaborate
But, Kevin, nowthe thirdcakes for special
generation of Slatters to runoccasions. They also
stock ahuge range of TASTY TREAT:
cake decorating Sylvia Appleton
equipment and serves cream
accessories. buns
❑ Joanne’s Cake
Heaven is at
Bellingham
Station,
Randlesdown
Road, London,
SE6 3BT. Tel:
020 8695 6573.
Opening times: Tue
to Sat 10am to 5pm
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