Pajamas & Jam Eatery in Strand was named highly commended in the Best Coffee Shop category at our recent Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Best Everyday Eateries, our reader-voted awards. And we think we may know why.

The café serves up great breakfasts and lunches, freshly baked breads, homemade preserves, barista-produced coffee and free Wifi – but it’s their cakes that have us really swooning. We asked the lovely team to show us how they make their Lady Loveberry strawberry cake. Featuring strawberries in the cake batter and in the cream cheese icing, and finished off with spikes of pink Italian meringue, it’s quite something to behold.

Other cakes have included this triple chocolate creation:

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This rose cake layered with Turkish delight and white marshmallows:

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This nougat cheesecake layered with beetroot cake:

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This lemon and Earl Grey tart:

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This chocolate and Italian meringue masterpiece:

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These peanut butter and chocolate cupcakes:

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This pink ombré beet cake:

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These impossibly pretty vanilla cupcakes:

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This nut-encrusted caramel cake:

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These pretty pink berry cakes:

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And this borderline obscene Oreo cake:

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