sugar baby.

[Photo courtesy of Buttercup Cake Shop website]

I can't wait til meg gets her ass back to london in june so that we can go check out Buttercup Cake Shop(pe) and gorge on sticky toffee, banofee, and Elvis (peanut butter frosting!!!!) cupcakes. There's no one else like meg (ok, except for certain female members of my family, and Diane) with whom to revel in food-love. It's probably 87% of the reason we made such fantastic roommates.

I'm salivating just reading the review of the shop on this cupcake blog (um, amazing idea. An entire blog dedicated to cupcakes. Why did i not think of that? .... oh, right. i'd be a whale after a month of blogging. I'll stick to posting about london life and music and fashion and art and other pretty things i like for now.).

England has a reputation for tea & cake, but it must be said, every cake or cupcake i've had here has fallen short of miraculous. England makes "fairy cakes" over cupcakes, which have a very dry cake base and the icing has no butter, so it's basically dry cake topped with hard sugar. Sure, delightful for one with a sweet tooth like mine, but it ain't no American cupcake. Which is why I'm excited to try Buttercup's -- they make American cupcakes, with moist cake & buttercream frosting, with nods to the English palette -- sticky toffee flavours and the like.

I might not be able to wait til June to try this. Methinks a wee taste test is in order....

Desserts that England does oh so right:

Custard pie (oh. my. god.) - tiny flaky pastry shell cups filled with delicious, smooth, milky sweet custard with a perfectly brulee'd glaze.

Fruit cake with icing, I think I'm among 1% of the population who loves this shit.

Borough Market's famous brownies

Almond/fruit/cake combinations.

Scones, obvs.

"Lardy cake" at a bustling wooden cafe across from Spitalfields Market. Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet...?