So I realized I've shared a lot of London tips on this channel, but I haven't talked very much about
Sweet things to try while you're here
So why don't we go on a tour around central London and I'll show you some really good sweet treats to try while you're here
Okay, we're in the Covent Garden area on a little street called Rose Street
Which most people would not find because it's a bit away from the main parts of Covent Garden
But I was passing by the street one day a few years ago and I could smell this
Amazing smell and I follow the smell to this little Swedish cafe called jarier, and it's very small
But they make swedish bread and swedish sweet treats
They also have coffee and tea that you can get so I'm gonna pop in and get a cinnamon bun which is like my favorite
thing to get from here
Okay, they didn't have any Cinnabons made yet
so instead I went for a Danish pastry called Spandau and it's got
Pastry nests with cream and and jelly coloured raspberries on top so I get this will have to do
Mmm my favorite thing to do...eat on camera. That's very good though. Oh,
I'm already full of Marco. I don't know
we have like 10 places where I'm gonna be eating things but
Luckily I did for him
Some tupperwares to put all of the (LOL)
Sweet treats into so nothing gets wasted, but honestly, I'm already full and we have so much more to do
So st. John is a restaurant in Smithfield and it is absolutely a London institution
They're known for doing nose to tail cuisine. And what's interesting is that they also have a really famous bakery
So we here at the Neal's Yard location of the bakery and I'm gonna go get one of their very famous doughnuts
So, St. John's donuts are really light and fluffy, I think they must be baked. They're coated in sugar
And then they always have some kind of filling on the inside so you can pick whatever flavor that you want
That's available at the shop that you end up going to I got lemon today probably
My favorite is the cookies and cream custard
Like I said, we're at the $7 location
But the donuts are also at the restaurant and if you're over in Bermondsey by the Berman's Eve beer mile
they actually have a like factory bakery there and
sometimes
They'll open up the door to that and you can see inside the bakery and they also set up a little stand where you can
Get literally just the doughnuts
So if you're in the area, you should go see if the door is open and you can pick one up while you're there
Okay, should I eat this?
Delicious. Mmmmmm
Check out that filling
Okay, so there are a lot of good places to get ice cream in London, but I personally love to go super local
So just in Seven Dials here, there's an ice cream stand slash shop
It's called Hackney gelato
And that is the name of an ice cream producer here in London, and they make their ice cream handmade right in Hackney
Which is in East London, the brand was started by two guys that met while working on a Michelin star restaurant together
And they thought you know what London doesn't have any really really good gelato
So they went to Italy and they went around the country learning how to make the best gelato
Possible and then they came back to London and set up the company
So I'm gonna pop in and grab a flavour and come back out and show you what I got
Okay I opted for the raspberry sorbet
I tried the dark chocolate one as well, which is their best selling when people buy it from the tub
But I wanted this because it's a little bit lighter and I have a lot of sweets and chocolaty things to eat today
It's really nice and light and all there sorbets are vegan
So if you can't have dairy, then you can go for a sorbet totally fine, but it is
Really really really nice delicious stuff
mmmm
Okay, this place that we're at now is very niche and it's called Cafe de Nata
This is where besides coffee you can only get pastel de Nata
Which is the very famous Portuguese sweet treat. So if you've been wanting to try it
This is the place to do it because they make so many every single day fresh
So they've really gotten it down to an art. Also. We're in Soho. This is their main location
There's one also in Hammersmith in South Kensington
But their Soho location is open until midnight on the weekend so you can get yourself a little drunk snack after the bar before
You head back to your hotel
Right, so I've gone for three different kinds. One is the classic one is the blueberry and one is apple and cinnamon
I'm gonna go for the classic
for the moment
So yummy
This is Cutter and Squidge behind me and they are bakery that has a signature item that's called a biscuit and it is a
Sandwich type of dessert it's a cross between a cookie and a biscuit and then it's filled with
Some kind of cream filling or like other jam or deserty type of treat and they're salted caramel one is award-winning
But I'm gonna go in and see what they have available and bring something out
Okay, I couldn't choose just one
So I went for the s'mores one, which actually has a vegetarian marshmallow and also the chocolate brownie
So let's dig into this guy and see how it goes.
As an American I can't turn out a s'more. Mmm mmm mmm
Okay, we're gonna go down this little alleyway in Soho and go to a place called Crumbs and Doilies and this shop is the
Place to go if you just want really good homemade cakes and muffins and cupcakes and brownies
All that kind of classic stuff, but in like really interesting and delicious flavors. Everything is fresh made here
And this shop is actually the brainchild of a fellow youtuber
Cupcake Gemma and it's turned into this whole brand
Actually quite inspirational to me as I would like to one day have my own tour shop somewhere in London
but anyway
so I'm gonna go in and get a couple of things and
They share their daily menu on their Instagram
If you want to check out before you come to visit what they have available because remember everything is fresh-baked every day
We haven't done any cupcakes on this tour so far
So I went for two cupcakes one is the Homer cupcake which you can get why it's called that
Very cute. And this one is Biscoff, which is vegan
That's why I ended up going for this one because I wanted to try this.
I don't know which one to eat
I'm gonna only eat this one. I'm gonna take this one home because it's too pretty to eat at this moment
Oh my God.
You know, it's a good bakery when they can still do
Vegan and gluten-free stuff really well, and this is really good even though it's vegan
If you've ever wanted to eat raw cookie dough without getting sick then come to naked dough in Camden Lock market
so this shop was started by two friends who worked in the food industry and they saw
That there was a big craze over in America of people loving to have cookie dough
and
So they brought the craze over here and they opened up their very own shop selling very safe to eat and also very yummy cookie
dough with lots of different funky names and flavors some of them being vegan, and some of them being names like emoji poo and
Really funky stuff like that. So let's go try a little bit
Okay, so I tried the vegan cookie dough and that was...It was pretty good but I ended up going just for the chocolate chip which
Is like the classic. Like what you would make it home and you want to try so this is what it looks like
and
It tastes like when you're making cookies at home and you really want to have the cookie dough, but you know
You can't because it's dangerous
Mmmm
Okay, we're still in Camden this is Mamasons dirty ice cream
And this is a Filipino ice-cream parlor. And the thing to get here is the bill log. It is a Filipino dessert
It's essentially taking a Filipino milk bun. And then they put ice cream inside of it and then they toast it
So it makes a Hot Ice Cream Sandwich and the ice cream that you want to get because it's the traditional
Filipino one is called ube and it's made with
Purple Filipino yam. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it is and it's really nice
So I'm gonna go get one and I'll show you what it looks like.
ohhh, I actually think this is my favorite thing that we've covered today. I freaking love this. So this is the milk bun
it's called pandasol. The ube is the purple stuff in the middle and
Then there's some powdered sugar on top and it's warm. So it's like a toasted bun with ice cream
So nice
So good!
Down by nose, isn't it.
All over the place
Okay, I'm stuffed I have a backpack full of sweet treats to take home tonight and
I hope that you found some cool places to check out for sweet treats in London
And if you want more sweet treats like ice cream then click the box
That's popping up below me where you see me taste testing a bunch of really cool and quirky ice creams all around London
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