Need a quick chocolate fix?
Drop into your nearest Co-operative supermarket for a bag of these cocoa butter and rice flour chocolate buttons.
They are gorgeous.
Tasty and only 49p!
Extra note: this photo originally appeared on my Instagram account.
I love sugar
All vegan chocolate afternoon tea
Oh my!
New-to-London vegan café Buttercream Dreams is hosting an amazing afternoon tea event that you do not want to miss if you are in the capital on July 30, 2016.
The All Vegan Chocolate Lovers’ Afternoon Tea is priced at £15. There will be four sittings across the afternoon and attendees will be treated to a range of treats plus drink choices all with a distinct chocolate angle.
Telling by how many people have expressed interest via the Facebook event page, I think it’s safe to say this afternoon tea will be booked solid.
You need to email Sales@buttercream-dreams.c
Hurry!
New vegan baking business in Cheltenham
How cool is this?
Gloucestershire Live has reported on this home-baking endeavour jointly run by couple Natasha and Susan called Flamingo’s Vegan Bakery in Cheltenham.
The food looks divine and anyone making cupcakes topped with vegan meringue is going to get top points from me.
What better way to say I love you?! pic.twitter.com/YE2ZTHHb5z
— Natasha (@Flamingosvegan) February 12, 2016
The bakery offers a tantalising range of cakes, slices, cupcakes and biscuits all available to order on their website for local pick up.
Congratulations, Cheltenham. You’ve got vegan cake!
Vegan banana split
I know the majority of readers are based in the socially, politically and financially crumbling UK so I thought I would offer you some pure vegan food escapism to brighten up your bleak week.
During my trip to Los Angeles last week, I had the extreme pleasure of visiting a completely vegan soft serve frozen yoghurt store located in Glendale.
Yoga-Urt is a gorgeous experience from top to bottom. Friendly people, delicious yoghurt (old school, isolationist UK spelling!) and a delightful selection of vegan toppings.
Take a look at the stunning banana split below and tell me if you can even handle it!
Save your devalued Pounds and get to California for some frozen goodness at Yoga-Urt.
New vegan donut café
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Just when you thought that Berlin just couldn’t get any better for vegan food, along comes another place to make you drool. And this one is a corker!
Brammibal’s have been selling incredible vegan doughnuts at fairs and through other vegan cafés for about a year now, but finally they’ve achieved their goal of opening a café all of their own. And I’m pleased to say it’s excellent. The café is spacious and relaxing, a great place to spend an hour or so. It feels like it’s a piece of New York City transported across the Atlantic, I’m not quite sure why but that’s the feeling I get (in a good way!).
The headline product is the doughnuts, of course. A wide range of sticky, sweet confections which are well worth travelling for. But it’s not all about the sugar – even though it’s not promoted much, they also have excellent coffee and sandwiches. We had one with grilled BBQ tempeh and portobello mushroom, and another with cashew cheese and smoked “lox”, made from thinly-sliced carrot. (Lox isn’t a word I’d ever heard in Britain, but I recently learned that it’s used in North America to describe smoked salmon. And it surely comes from the German word “lachs”.) They were both magnificent.
You can find out more about Brammibal’s online.
Gorgeous vegan cake in London
UPDATE
It has been brought to my attention that this person supplied these photos to me without explaining they did not take them and that they were not even of vegan food. Follow up post coming soon!
END UPDATE
Oh my Gaga!
There is a new vegan sweet treats company starting up in London and you people have got to take a look at this goodness.
Vegan Sweet Porn is a new pop market stall selling some of the finest-looking cake on the island. Can you even stand looking at that cookie shot glass?
You can follow Vegan Sweet Porn on Twitter and Instagram.
There is also some sort of major, super impressive launch party for these vegan cake heroes on July 10, 2016 so click here to get the lowdown.
Chocolate and peanut butter swirl
Got plans to be in Los Angeles anytime soon?
Well, you had better make plans!
Today I stopped by a frozen yogurt shop on Robertson Boulevard in West Los Angeles as I had heard about dedicated vegan yogurt self service machines and toppings.
Milky’s is not a fully-vegan enterprise but they certainly do not shy away from their plant-based credentials. Check out the photos below and click play on the hypnotic video of me serving up a jumbo tub of chocolate and peanut butter swirl.
Glory!
Extra note: these photos and the video all originally appeared on my Instagram account.
Vegan chocolate bars
I don’t really enjoy teasing with food photos from a country you might not live in, but I just can’t help sharing these delights.
Check out these stunning candy bars I picked up in a Whole Foods Market store in Los Angeles yesterday.
Who knew Amy’s Kitchen had jumped into the world of sweet treats production? Do be careful with grabbing these in a supermarket though as the range does include some non-vegan bars.
How do we get these in the UK? Try tweeting Amy’s here and here.
New vegan café in Camden this week!
London. You are truly becoming a spoilt brat.
Do you remember reading about the drama vegan café Buttercream Dreams was experiencing in Croydon. You can read about it here, but the short story is owner Lauren needed new premises and was going to have to leave Croydon and mover her business to central London if she couldn’t find something suitable.
She couldn’t find a venue. Sorry Croydon.
Lauren is now set to open the Camden version of Buttercream Dreams at 126 Camden Road from Thursday 9th June, 2016. Yes, THIS week!
Before the café opens just steps away from Camden Road train station this Thursday, I wanted to share some of their tasty food photos with you.
All of the above photos have been featured on the Buttercream Dreams Facebook page, which you should like NOW!
London, get along to support this new adventure for Lauren in Camden.
Croydon, all is not lost for you either.
Lauren has advised she will continue to keep doing a stall at the Surrey Street Market in Croydon and will keep looking for a suitable shop front. When she can find one, Buttercream Dreams will have two fabulous permanent locations.
Vegan donut stall comes to London!
Do you want luscious donuts? Not baked donuts that are kinda OK and almost like the real thing, but rather fried donuts with irresistible frostings, glazes and toppings?
London, you need to get friendly with Peanut Butter Bakery.
Lauren runs this baking business out of her home and has just started trading every Saturday at the legendary Boiler House market on Brick Lane.
How good do they look?
Like the Peanut Butter Bakery Facebook page to keep up with the latest news and get along to Brick Lane this weekend to buy a few delicious donuts.
