Treacle - Columbia Road, Shoreditch

I've been neglecting my Dick Van Dyke-Londoner duties of late, so decided to take a stroll down Columbia Road to top up the tourist points.

Nestled amongst the barrow-boy calling ("Three bunches for a fiver!!"), the ornamental pineapples and wilting Americans, is a very pleasingly-designed bakery. Though it's strictly take out - there's no where to perch.

Treacle is a pastel delight is a sugar-trap for any cupcake afficionado. They come in two sizes and, at the time of visiting, three flavours all nestled by colour in very gorgeous tiered drawers. All good so far, but, yes my friends, there is a catch.

The midget ones, though undeniably moreish and too-cute to resist, are a lip-smacking 90p. But judging by the amount of traffic, they must be raking it in!

My heavily pregnant companion had a vanilla one complete with sugar butterfly and I chose a glittered lemon bite. Disappointingly, they weren't as fresh as they could have been and they were a bit too sweet for my taste - a large one would have had me on a sugar high.

A nice accompaniment to a riot of flowers, but not one to go out of the way for.

http://www.treacleworld.com/
110-112 Columbia Rd, E2 7RJ
020 7729 5657