Violet
Cupcakes and Cakes
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Violet is a small bakery based in East London. Best known for American-style baked goods, Violet sells out nearly every Saturday at its stall on Broadway Market. The cakes are made with limited edition buttercream icings that change with the seasons. Chocolate or vanilla sponge cakes are baked with organic flour, sugar, milk and eggs. Many of the other ingredients are organic as well, like our Madagascan vanilla pods and pure cane molasses. The icings that top the moist little sponge cakes, are made by whipping up butter and sugar then gently folding in fresh fruit purees, melted Valrhona dark chocolate, freshly brewed espresso, home-made flower cordials or dark caramel made with sea salt.
Spring brings Elderflowers, gooseberries, rhubarb and Alphonso Mango icings; in the Summer they use Kentish cherries and strawberries, raspberries and blackberries from Suffolk and Dorset blueberries. In the Autumn they use puree figs, Fragola grapes from Italy, and local apples and quinces. Winter is the time for oranges, lemons, clementines, and grapefruit. They can’t live without coconut, so they always offer it and occasionally they also make passion fruit and honey and lavender icings when fruits are sparse.
