Pink Sweetheart Cake

This cake came from a very simple brief to myself: make something pink, joyful and completely unapologetic, but still delicious underneath all the prettiness. It is built with soft vanilla sponge, silky Swiss meringue buttercream, pink and white stripes, a glossy chocolate drip, glazed buttermilk doughnuts, macarons, candied popcorn, chocolate pearls and buttercream flowers. It has the sugar-rush charm of a proper sweetheart cake, but with the balance, sponge and buttercream doing the real work beneath the pink.

Vanilla Sponge: Wheat flour (gluten), eggs, milk, buttermilk (milk), sugar, baking powder, vanilla extract

Buttercream: Sugar, egg white, butter (milk), vanilla extract, salt, colouring Pink (Glycerol, Propylene, Glycol, E551, Food Colour: E104, E155, E129)

Glaze: dark chocolate [(Min cocoa 54.5%) Sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier; soyalecithin, natural vanilla], butter (milk).

Decorations:

Macarons: Icing sugar, almonds (nuts), sugar, butter (milk), egg white, raspberry, tonka bean extract, Strawberry compound (flavouring substances, glucose syrup, invert sugar syrup, strawberries, vegetable extracts (carrots, red beet), modified starch, ethyl alcohol, citric acid, maltodextrin)

Candied popcorn: Popped maize, Rapeseed Oil , Salt , Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithins), cream (milk), invert sugar syrup, sugar, colouring Pink (Glycerol, Propylene, Glycol, E551, Food Colour: E104, E155, E129) 

Baked Doughnuts: Flour (wheat, gluten), corn flour, egg, buttermilk (milk), butter (milk), sugar, baking powder, salt, vanilla extract, white chocolate (milk, soya lecithin), double cream (milk), colouring Pink (Glycerol, Propylene, Glycol, E551, Food Colour: E104, E155, E129), Sprinkles [Sugar, Wheat Starch, Glucose Syrup, Colours (Curcumin, Chlorophyll), Concentrated Beetroot Juice, Glazing Agent (White and Yellow Beeswax)]

Buttercream Flowers: Sugar, egg white, butter (milk), vanilla extract, salt, colouring Green (Glycerol, Propylene, Glycol, E551, Food Colour: E104, E133), colouring Pink (Glycerol, Propylene, Glycol, E551, Food Colour: E104, E155, E129).

Strawberry crispearls: Sugar, Cocoa fat, Whole milk powder, Whey powder (milk), Emulsifier; Soya lecithin, Natural and artificial flavour, Cochineal extract colour, Natural vanilla flavour, Crisped cereals (wheat flour, sugar, wheat malt flour, starch (wheat), sodium bicarbonate, salt, cocoa fat, natural flavour), glucose syrup, sugar, confectioners glaze (arabic gum), vegetable fat (palm, kernal, coconut), modified corn starch added as glazing agents).

*The colours used across the entire icing colouring range may include the colours E102, E104, E110, E122 & E129 - which may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in some children.

All products are produced on premises handling eggs, gluten, nuts, peanuts, milk, sesame and soya hence may contain traces. Please note cakes may contain cocktail sticks and dowelling for support.

Our cakes are vegetarian and made in bakeries that handle wheat, gluten, eggs, milk and nuts. We do not offer vegan or gluten-free cakes. Standard delivery is by our own drivers within the London and Surrey areas we serve; further-afield delivery may be arranged in advance. Our bakeries are not customer collection points.