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Slices of red velvet, chocolate and pistachio cake lined up in a bakery display

Cake for the table everyone remembers.

Violette is a small patisserie. We bake birthdays, weddings and ordinary Tuesdays from scratch, in small batches, with real butter and fruit that’s still in season.

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Layered honey cake with cherry filling on a dark wooden stand

We started in a home kitchen with one oven and a lot of burnt edges.

Hania baked her sister’s wedding cake in 2017 because nobody could find one that wasn’t either dry or too sweet. Forty people asked who made it. By the end of the year she was baking for strangers.

The shop is bigger now, and there are five of us, but the rules haven’t changed. Nothing is made before it’s ordered. Sponge is baked the morning you collect it. If a strawberry isn’t good, it doesn’t go on the cake.

— Hania, head baker

What’s on the counter this season

Every cake can be changed: a different flavour, a smaller size, no nuts, less sugar. Tell us what you need.

Glazed chocolate cake surrounded by caramel and berry cakes

Dark chocolate ganache

Serves 8 to 10

Three layers of cocoa sponge, a thin sheet of salted caramel, and a glaze set just before you pick it up.

Napoleon cake under a glass dome beside a chocolate cream slice

Napoleon, cut to order

Serves 8

Thin crisp pastry, vanilla cream and a few raspberries. Assembled the day you collect it.

Sponge slices with coffee cream, strawberries and blueberries

Coffee cream slices

By the box of 6

Light sponge, soaked lightly in espresso. Good for offices and awkward family visits.

Caramel drip cake with cream and cherries

Caramel drip

Serves 10 to 12

The one children ask for by name. Vanilla buttercream, burnt caramel, a cherry for every slice.

Ordering takes three steps and one conversation

  1. 1

    Tell us the occasion

    Send the date, the number of guests and anything you’d like to avoid. Photos of cakes you love help more than adjectives.

  2. 2

    Taste and decide

    We reply within a day with a sketch and a price. For weddings, you can come in and try three sponges before you commit.

  3. 3

    Collect it fresh

    Pick up from the shop, or we’ll deliver in a chilled van. Custom orders need five days’ notice; large tiered cakes, two weeks.

We ordered one cake for my dad’s seventieth and ended up ordering the next four birthdays too.
Sana Y., regular since 2021

Tell us what you’re celebrating

We read every message ourselves and reply within one working day. If your date is under five days away, message us on WhatsApp instead.

Shop hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 8pm
Phone and WhatsApp
+1 000 000 0000