Anyone ever heard of the Hummingbird Bakery? We had a recipe book once and they had these brownies that were brownie, cheesecake and raspberry cream
Yummy!
I used to work around the corner from the Spitalsfield Hummingbird Bakery years ago back when I had this thing called a “disposable income”.
Very very expensive, but very delicious. So much better than L’Etto Caffe which was pretty much a hipster’s Patisserie Valerie, or Hummingbird’s main rival Lola’s Cupcakes which was the equivalent of a sooper duper expensive Millie’s Cookies (not sure if either have changed over the past five years).
Hummingbird’s cupcakes were better than their brownies. The full sized cake slices were okay, but all you could taste was sugar...and their sponges were not dry either.
If you’re reading Finch, all the bakers / patisseries I have mentioned still exist after many years of operation...