Comments on: Hummingbird Bakery, Notting Hill

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:40:59 +0000

You can make the cakes yourself with the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook. There are 50 signed copies available from the publisher Ryland Peters & Small http://www.rylandpeters.com

By: Krista

Krista — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:46:33 +0000

Crazy Girl, check out this post on Separated by a Common Language for more on the difference (or lack thereof) between cupcakes and fairy cakes…
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2006/07/baked-goods.html

By: Crazy Girl

Crazy Girl — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:21:02 +0000

What is the difference between Fairy Cakes and Cupcakes???

By: Andy M.

Andy M. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:57:56 +0000

You didn’t find the cupcakes annoyingly small and insubstantial? And what’s up with the divot in the frosting? Cute, but I want that divot filled in with delicious frosting goodness.

Agreed, the cupcakes are really good, especially the carrot cake; but they’re so tiny and light it makes me want 3 of them. Not that there’s any problem with that, mind you, but the bill starts adding up fast and I would feel super guilty eating 3 whole cupcakes.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:30:34 +0000

The red velvet cupcakes are scrummy. I had a whole birthday cake made from one once (although it was made for me as a surprise and they literally wrote “BEN IN BIG LETTERS” across the cake rather than just “BEN” as whoever wrote it down over the phone was a numpty! They corrected this in shop immediately my partner spotted it!). The NHG branch is the original and I’ve never had a bad experience there. Am surprised the Fulham branch is rubbish but maybe that’s just disabled loos….

http://benjaminyeoh.com