I’m really not a big fan of the hype surrounding neither cupcakes nor New Year’s Eve. But I think I’ve found the perfect cake for that last night of the year…and it’s a cupcake.
Last night I walked past this blingy, shiny multi-coloured shop front in Brewer Street in Soho and was nailed to the ground, hypnotised by all the bright lights.
This cupcake and cookie shop is called Cox Cookies and Cake and it’s the brainchild of Canadian-British designer & shoemaker Patrick Cox and master patissier Eric Lanlard and it’s nothing like your average cutesy and cheerful pink cupcake shop.
Oh no, this place is like a psychedelic stripper cave, filled with neon signs, skull-clad cakes and handsome staff wearing studded leather aprons.
Mesmerised by the interior I decided to pop into the shop today and try one of their crazy looking cakes.
I took a long hard look at the different choices: should I choose the Pop Cake – a vanilla cake with a blueberry compote centre, vanilla frosting and decorated with a chocolate Marilyn Monroe? Or maybe the Bling Cake – A raspberry cake with raspberry compote centre and decorated with pink icing and sugar diamonds?
Nah, too ordinary. I left the shop with this one:
The Black Skull Cake. A triple Valrhona chocolate cake with goth black frosting and a dark chocolate jewelled skull. This is one of the shop’s special cupcakes that cost £4 (yes I know, that’s bloody expensive), the classic ones cost a more reasonable £2.50.
But this one was actually worth the money. The cream cheese based frosting was perfect and the skull made of bitter dark chocolate. Even the normally boring sponge cake base was lovely. I’ll definitely be back for more.
So with that last blingy picture there’s just one thing left to say:
A very happy new year to all my dear readers. I hope 2011 will be a good one!
COX COOKIES AND CAKE
13 Brewer Street
Soho, London
Website
Mette Bassett 
Yet another informative and beautifully illustrated post! Droooling at the cupcake pix, and am now seriously in need of a Shawarma.
Soho is such a fantastic place – it changes so much all the time so there’s always something new to find.
Happy New Year to you too, Mette. See you on the 25th?
Helena xx
Yes, I’ll be there Helena. Can’t wait. And how lucky was I that I’m not going to miss out on the What I Loved discussion . See you soon, xx