New cake on the block: Cutter and Squidge

No matter what, there is always room in my heart and my tummy for cake. And when it is as good as what is being served up at Cutter & Squidge, then I am prone to skip everything else to make room.

One of these Biskies has my name on it

Cutter & Squidge was founded by baking-mad sisters Annabel and Emily Lui. Here, if  cake is Duke and Duchess then the biskie is the royal baby.

Biskie? Yes, it’s a “thing”. This sweet creation of the Cutter & Squidge sister team combines the  softness of cake, with the chewiness of a cookie and the short, crispness of a biscuit.

The result is stacked like a sandwich filled with whipped buttercream and jam, resembling the structure of the whoopee pie and the delicacy of the macaroon.

Annabel and Emily make everything from scratch, using only the best natural ingredients from British producers and suppliers and real butter rather than hydrolysed fats.  Their specially created buttercream is made with just half the amount of butter and sugar normally used in baking and their  home made jams are packed with real fruit for maximum flavour.

Tempting new flavours of cake

I went for the Marathon Runner and loved every last crumb. Rich chocolate and peanut with a swirl of salted caramel; creamy and chewy and soft at the same time. It didn’t last long in my mouth, but I still can’t get it out of my mind.

Hurry and get yours while the Soho pop-up store is still in open for the summer. Otherwise, order online and drool while you wait.

You can find the Cutter & Squidge summer pop-up store at
No. 4 Brewer street, Soho, London, W1F 0SB

Cutter and Squidge – sisters of cake

A Smorgasbord of Flavours on Leather Lane

Holborn is not an area I am very familiar with, but yesterday, I stumbled upon the Leather Lane weekday market. It was lunch time and the three block strip of food stalls and coffee shops unfolded to a delectable smorgasbord of flavours and cuisines; many of them cooked before my eyes and served up on steaming paper plates.

You could easily find a different something from spicy to sweet, from succulent to crispy, from decadent to meat or gluten-free. Or all of the above.

The punters were a happy mix of office workers , tradesmen and accidental visitors like myself criss-crossing from stand to stand, all wondering which delicious choice to make. Queues of people waited patiently in line at the most popular stalls. But the best bit was seeing them walking off with their tasty trophies filling both hands and a jubilant smile on their face.

Here are some impressions of these food artists at work.