What’s your number one memory of school?⁣ ⁣ Head down the toilet?⁣ ⁣ School trips with a bottle of Hooch at the back of the coach?⁣ ⁣ The geography teacher with Jesus sandals, long hair and coffee breath? ⁣ ⁣ OR SCHOOL DINNERS!!! Well the puddings to be more precise 💥⁣ ⁣ Our specials this week are all Flavourtown takes on your fave retro school pud classics! All hand made by our very own ‘dinner ladies’ (who don’t smell of deep fried fish or have wrinkled stockings).

🥕🥕RAISINS OR NOT🥕🥕⁣ ⁣ Flavourtown Carrot Cake - named one of the top five in London a few years back, one of our best sellers but it does make me very sad! More on that in a second…⁣ ⁣ You can really taste the cinnamon and ginger in our Carrot Cake! So many bakeries put hardly any in, worried that that Frank from Chiswick will complain it’s too spicy for his delicate mouth! It’s meant to be warming and comforting!⁣ ⁣ Carrot Cake needs a depth of flavour you only get with brown sugar! We use Tate and Lyle light and dark brown sugar, it’s more expensive but hey it has to taste so good it’s with the calories. ⁣ ⁣ Pecan nuts always! Walnuts don’t belong in carrot cake, they are the average at everything and have just got a job in data entry for an insurance company!⁣ ⁣ Eggs are @clarence_court court obvs! (One for our competitors: we actually whip up the eggs and sugar with the sunflower oil to help with a fluffier texture, ur welcome😜)⁣ ⁣ Frosting, obviously it’s the famous Flavourtown cream cheese! It’s the goat 🐐 ⁣ ⁣ You should always judge a bakery by its carrot cake! If it tastes like you’re chewing on Aunty Edith’s bunions then run for the hills. ⁣ ⁣ Oh and that bit that makes me sad? I personally LOVE carrot cake with raisins BUT my god this is a divisive subject! Some people hate it so much you’d think their house had just been sold from underneath them by a compulsory purchase order! Let’s just see how many people comment on how much they love / hate raisins 😝⁣ ⁣ (Available by the slice every day in both stores or to order as cupcakes or a whole cake online)⁣

🐸Freddo’s - a guilty pleasure!⁣ 🐸🤫 ⁣ Let’s be 100% upfront Freddo’s are delicious but aren’t exactly world class chocolate! You know what it’s like, you get that craving for something and you’ve just got to have it!⁣ ⁣ So one thing we LOVE about Flavourtown is that we get to use our favourite remembered flavours, biscuits, chocolate bars and ingredients in our baked goodies.⁣ ⁣ So how to combine something like a Freddo with the kind of quality ingredients we’re famous for? ⁣ ⁣ So a Freddo has quite a creamy texture so we need something to compliment that, so let’s give the cupcake a core of handmade Belgian chocolate custard! We want a less sweet icing so chocolate cream cheese is always a go to option but we don’t want to go too dark .. Milk Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting 💡 ⁣ ⁣ What about texture? Crushed up Oreo’s💡 (texture and a great slightly darker moreish taste)⁣ ⁣ If you’ve read this far you’ve realised something … we take all of this way too seriously and we prob overthink how flavours / textures / taste all fit together🙈 BUT…⁣ ⁣ We are called Flavourtown so just slapping a choc bar on top of any old cupcake wouldn’t cut it 😛⁣ ⁣ We did mini versions of these for our amazing friends Freddie and Amy’s wedding last September! They were the first things hoovered up from the dessert table 🤣

🚨🎀INTRODUCING👛🚨⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Tell us about the Weekend Specials: ⁣ ⁣ Every single weekend we come up with three cupcakes that aren’t on our regular menu! These cupcakes usually have an insane amount of work involved, we typically don’t make a huge profit on them and yes they are more expensive.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Why do you do them?:⁣ ⁣ We are insanely lucky that some of our customers visit us more than once a week! Often it’s to pick up their fave Flavourtown bake and we wanted to make that second visit even more worthwhile by offering something amazing you can’t get every day. ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Why are they weekends only?: ⁣ ⁣ We are obviously busiest at weekends, and we know that all of the work our amazing store teams put into these mini masterpieces won’t go to waste! Wastage is the enemy of businesses like ours.⁣ ⁣ Do you ever repeat them?:⁣ ⁣ Yes! We have two ways of measuring cupcake success, we look at the data (yawn) and we rely on your DM’s and messages asking for something you’ve loved to return. ⁣ ⁣ Can I suggest an idea?:⁣ ⁣ Hell yes!!! We do all of this because because we love making people smile through the medium of cake.. so deffo give us your suggestions!⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Pink Wafer Cupcakes - basically a vanilla cupcake custard hug ❤️

Oh hey there 😉 ⁣ ⁣ We present the deliciousness for your weekend! If your friends are on their jollies and you feel miffed stuck at home, then come and cop some Freshly Baked Happiness™️⁣ ⁣ We’re open from 10am 🕙

🚨🚨RED VELVET🚨🚨⁣ ⁣ We didn’t invent em BUT you tell us ours is the best in London, some of you lovely guys even say the best in the country! ⁣ ⁣ See how flat the tops are? This is because we bake lower and slower for a fluffier sponge that doesn’t dome in the middle!⁣ ⁣ Our butter comes from @lescure_uk and it’s an AOP product that comes from the Charentes region of France, it has a really high butterfat content which gives you a luscious buttery non greasy sponge⁣ ⁣ Our flour is made from organic English wheat 🌾 with a lower protein content (basically it makes our sponges sooooo squishy)⁣ ⁣ Our cocoa is from Valrhona and is the best in the world! RV doesn’t have much cocoa in it, so what it does have needs a real depth of flavour!⁣ ⁣ Our vanilla.. we’re working with the most amazing company @vanillaguys who make a small-batch artisanal vanilla that just slaps 💥 ⁣ ⁣ Eggs? Clarence Court .. just the colour of those yolks 🥰⁣ ⁣ Our sugar is always Tate and Lyle! ⁣ ⁣ And then the best part! Our cream cheese icing is the 🐐 .. Not super sweet, the right amount of tang and I have to be stopped form eating it with a spoon! ⁣ ⁣ So is this a sexy humorous post? ❎ ⁣ ⁣ Is this a post to show you exactly what makes a best-in-class product with the snootiest ingredients money can buy! ✔️ ⁣ ⁣ (Is this a post that our competitors will be feverishly taking screen shots of ✔️)⁣ ⁣ Red Velvets are still our biggest selling cupcake 🧁⁣ ⁣ If you’d like to see more of these nerdy product posts just give us a thumbs up or comment below! You can even suggest which flavour we tackle next 😛 (None of the above is sponsored! We pay a 💰 of money to get the best ingredients so we’re shouting about it)

Human Catnip (AKA Chocolate Salted Caramel Brownie)⁣ ⁣ The first product we ever won an award 🥇 for! I’m so proud of this brownie because it’s pretty much everything we’re about!⁣ ⁣ The ingredients are so damn good! 70% Belgian chocolate, Valrhona cocoa powder, Tate and Lyle sugar, Doves Farm flour, Clarence Court eggs and the holy grail Lescure butter. We’ve tested using cheaper ingredients BUT you get out what you put in!⁣ ⁣ Oh and I’ve said this before any brownie recipe that tells you to whip eggs and sugar and add baking powder / soda = DEAD WRONG 🤭⁣ ⁣ Minimal mixing + right ingredient temperature + lower oven temp until barely done = THE BEST BROWNIES

👩‍🔬 BALANCE 👩‍🔬 There is a perfect frosting to sponge ratio and for us … this is it! When we work on new cake and cupcake flavours we always test the sponge first without any icing! If it’s not moist enough then it doesn’t make it to stage two! We’ve been doing this for ten years because the icing shouldn’t ever be hiding a cake drier than Granny’s bunions! Some of our cakes and cupcakes are all jazz hands and have that ‘most popular kid in school’ vibes but this Carrot Cupcake is the ‘I’m just getting on with it because I’ve already won a scholarship to Oxford” kinda kid. Carrot Cake slices are an everyday flavour in our bakeries and you can order cupcakes and mini cupcakes to scoff at home 🚨

🍓THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT⁣🍓 ⁣ Last year we were busily filling cupcakes ready for the counter and someone (may have been me ‘helping’ the team) accidentally filled the chocolate cupcakes with strawberry 🍓 compote 🤪⁣ ⁣ Throwing away dozens of cupcakes is never an option so we quickly looked at what we had around us and cobbled together Strawberry Oreo Cupcakes (the mini bars are pretty quick to make)!⁣ ⁣ They went up to the counter that Saturday morning and I was bricking it (obv when you’re the boss and you screw up it’s more than a little embarrassing)!⁣ ⁣ By lunchtime most of the first batch of these beauties had gone! Fast forward ⏩ and when we asked on stories the other week, which specials would you like to see back? These got LOADS of votes! I actually intended to make these all along and I was only pretending I’d made a mistake 🤭😝⁣ ⁣ 💥Available all day today💥

💥🧨🔥Modesty is nowhere to be found here!, because I’m going to put it out there that this weekends specials lineup is one of our best EVER Key Lime Doughnut 🍩 Strawberry Oreo cupcake 🧁 Life In Plastic 🎥 The oven is hot 🥵 the counter is set and we’re waiting for you 🚨

💕🎀👛Life in plastic, it’s fantastic! ⁣👛🎀💕 ⁣ The big question this weekend isn’t Barbie v Oppenheimer!!! It’s this…⁣ ⁣ Barbie V Sindy! Imagine the two of them got into a late night slightly tipsy altercation .. who would win?⁣ ⁣ I’ve always thought that Sindy was the good wholesome girl and Barbie was more Christina Aguilera ‘Dirrty’ BUT who would win?⁣ ⁣ Vote below ⬇️⁣ ⁣ (This beauty by the way is filled with handmade raspberry compote and has both style and substance 😜)

You guys ❤️⁣ ⁣ We know you like seeing behind the scenes so across the next few months we’re going to let our ‘nightdress’ slip and reveal a little more 😝⁣ ⁣ Frosting cupcakes, decorating cupcakes and perhaps making icing or cookies? ⁣ ⁣ Let us know below ⬇️ what you’d like to see 😇