Your London Wedding - Jul/Aug 2019 (Issue 66)

64 CAKEMAKER Q&A Q What’s your favourite London Landmark? A “I’m not sure it’s strictly a landmark, but I love Regent’s Canal. Travelling along it by foot, bicycle or boat, you get such a variation of sights and atmospheres, from Little Venice to Camden Lock, London Zoo to Limehouse Basin. There are always surprises and reasons to stop such as the floating bookshop, breweries, wonderful parks and pockets of wildlife.” – Sarah, Bea’s of Bloomsbury. “A wheat-free Noisette cake would be best suited to this part of town, a delicious cake with a hazelnut sponge.” – Gerhard Jenne, founder, Konditor Looking for the perfect cheese for your Hackney wedding? Danielle Bliss, of Jermyn Street-based cheesemonger Paxton & Whitfield advises: “Our counter is full of classics but we also love to seek out the quirky, while maintaining a strong ethos of supporting small ethical businesses. Rollright is made by young cheesemaker David Jowett. This oozing washed rind cheese is wrapped in spruce bark and is the perfect foil for a hoppy craft ale.”  “Hackney evokes a laid-back, slightly more ‘undone’ decorative style for me; think petal confetti or stencilled wildflowers,” says Sarah Charter, wedding cake specialist at Bea’s of Bloomsbury. This paired-back semi-naked design provides the perfect antidote to the heavy fruitcake and fondant cakes of yore. Its light buttercream covering is a great canvas to embellish with fresh fruit or flowers. This Monet’s Garden design from Rosalind Miller captures Hackney’s arty roots thanks to its abstract layered buttercream, and popular ‘fault line’ design. H A C K N E Y A favourite haunt of hipsters everywhere, Hackney’s food personality is all about the locally produced, the quirky and on trend