Cakey Muto – caked in love on Valentine’s Day

Hearty fare: Cakey Muto’s Valentine’s Day cakes. Photograph: Colm McAfee

If you are among the many millions of love birds who each year dutifully buy a box of Milk Tray or red rose for your partner, this year might be the time to think again.

Instead, Cakey Muto is offering the loved up the chance to side-step cheesy Valentine’s traditions with a range of cakes and cupcakes sporting tokens of affection –  that come in varying degrees.

The Chatsworth Road cafe’s Valentine’s cake range is already on display in its window, with cakes and cupcakes bearing such heartfelt proclamations as ‘You move me’ and ‘You move me…to vomit’.

Recognising that, for many of us, the annual feast of St Valentine tends to induce a somewhat queasy sensation, Cakey Muto has helpfully created a fun anti-Valentine’s Day range, consisting of mutilated hearts and cupcakes bedecked with messages of doom – all of which, the Citizen can reveal, are extremely tasty.

Little over 14 months ago, Cakey Muto sprang into existence, inspired by creative haunts in Berlin basements and New York art house hang outs.

It was founded by Octavia Landy, who started her career working in music production for MTV but soon desired a more creative project, and dreamed of a space that merged all of her favourite things together – namely music, parties, cakes and beer.

Throughout the day, from 10am to 6pm, the café serves Monmouth coffee and an ever-changing array of cakes as well as savoury pies from Mr Hair’s in Brighton.

There is also a killer jukebox, and Octavia invites customers to bring their own mix CDs, which are added to those already supplied by Toy, The Hives and The Horrors.

Things liven up as the weekend draws near, and from Thursday until Saturday there’s late opening until midnight, with live gigs, DJs and the occasional drunken karaoke session in the basement. The calendar of events, like the café, is eclectic and unique.

One reason Octavia started to make cakes was that she loved the challenge and the blank canvas that the creative process could afford her – the more complicated the better apparently!

Cakey Muto therefore offers a bespoke cake-making service for all occasions. Nothing is off limits and all cake designs, whether traditional or subversive, are catered for.

Cakey Muto is an exciting new space with big ambitions and as Chatsworth Road continues to evolve and grow so too will this quirky slice of fun.

www.cakeymuto.com

Cakey Muto

25 Chatsworth Road

E5 0LH