Butter Wouldn't Melt

 Great Cafes rather likes this Christmas present from caterer Baxter Storey and the Benugo influence - Butter Wouldn't Melt is their Guide to Baking compiled by Philip Skinazi, their Exec Pastry Development Chef and covers many cafe favourites.

Sweet Tooth in Lille

 Sugar Tarts - the local speciality.

 Bread Pudding cake

 Artfully displayed Waffle and chocolate pommes de terre.

Mini Bakes

Konditor & Cook have mini bake Banana Walnut Corks and Passionfruit Meringue Pies for £1.  Not everyone wants large size pastries and it is still a very healthy price. See our 2011 post on Starbucks Petites http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/mini-cakes.html

Feast of Food Colouring

Hummingbird Bakery's Rainbow Cake.

Marmalade Queen Whoopee

 Marmalade Queen of Pudding Cake

 and Chocolate Whoopee Cakes at the new, second, Albion at NEO on Bankside

Follow the Pink Bison

Wonderful quirky tea shop and garden at Sussex Prairies in West Sussex.  You park among the sheep, wander through an oak wood, pass rare breed pigs and emerge at the tea shop and gardens.

Open afternoons only June through October.

 Cakes and tea - simple.

 Atmospheric tea room and terrace

 Only in England!  Paul & Pauline McBride are to be congratulated.

Whoopies still Whooping

Whoopie Pies may not have taken off here in the UK but Kookybakes (seen here at Kings Cross' Kerb street food pitch) has some great products - Malteser and Salted Caramel Whoopie Pies

 Red Velvet Whoopie Pie

 Strawberry Cheesecake and Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies

 Peanut Butter Cup Whoopie Pie plus their Signature Slice

Royal Cafe

The Cafe Royal's new Regent Street cafe has some great individual items -a best selling £5 strawberry cheesecake plus their version of apple struzel.

It's not all fancy marble and prices - check out their £1 wattleseed shortbread biscuit wedges.

Snack Bombs

 Sea salt snack bombs and Vanilla pecan bars from Bittersweet Bakers http://bittersweetbakers.com/ at the Attendant cafe.

Have Your Cake and Eat It

Leon's £3.50 any coffee and cake offer.

Swedish Princess

Cinnamon Buns - the traditional Swedish treat - at new Swedish Bakery Bageriet in Covent Garden

 Princess Cake - Sweden's national cake with light sponge, custard, raspberry compote and cream

Traces of Nuts

Not sure this counter sign helps the sale of Coffee Walnut Cake and "This product may contain traces of nuts" is a classic howler.  See more howlers at http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/cafe-howlers/

Barcake

 Barcake had a great display at IFE with new product development Salted Caramel Bubble Bar

 and Red Velvet Squares

Fortnum Pop Up

 Stacie Stewart popping up at Fortnum & Mason.

Counter Treats

Lemon & Polenta Gugelhupf - a gugelhupf is a bundt cake - at The Counter cafe at the Delaunay.

 Hazelnut Crunch

Apple Poppy Seed cake

Cosmic Hearts

"A fudgey chocolate hazelnut cake enrobed in marzipan and chocolate fondant, decked out in spacey bling, and inscribed with 'Take Me to the Moon and Back' for a cosmic Valentine's Day"  at Konditor & Cook.

Cuore (Heart) at Princi

Coffee with Mastic

Kahve Dünyasi has cafes throughout Turkey and have opened up on Piccadilly.  Coffee with Mastic may suffer in the translation - mastic is a resin obtained from the mastic tree.

There are some interesting cakes and pastries - chocolate pizza and mozaic cake for example -  in addition to the UK staples. 

 The chocolate spoon is a fun touch.

Fruit Cake

Blackberry & Poire William Pear cake at Benugo

Orange & Plum cakes at Peyton & Byrne

Pop Up at Fortnums

 Fortnum & Mason have a pop up British Bakery cafe on their first floor.

Mark Hix's shortbread, garibaldi biscuits and more are on until 10th February.

 The Torta Di Ricotta cake with warm chocolate sauce is proving a winner.

 It sounds as if a fortnightly trip to Fortnums will be required until April.