LOLA's is a unique bakery dedicated to achieving one simple goal. Every day, they handcraft the most delicious cupcakes, slices and celebration cakes you have ever tasted. Using only the finest ingredients, LOLA's bakers mix, bake and decorate every single cake by hand, giving their customers a fresh, fun, delicious and truly wholesome experience. And now you can try their wonderful handcrafted bakes at home. There are more than 70 mouth-watering recipes for everything from the LOLA classic flavours to deliciously original ideas like Cosmopolitan, Chocolate Chilli, Maple Syrup and Rose Pistachio. Also included are recipes for scrumptious bars and slices – try a Salted Caramel Brownie or an Apricot and Pistachio Flapjack – or delicious larger bakes, such as the sophisticated Chocolate and Mandarin Cake, Earl Grey Tea Fruit Loaf and Chocolate Fudge Cake.

Chic recipes from London's fashionable cupcake bakery, where each luxurious cupcake is freshly baked and handcrafted to ensure that it is utterly delicious. Now everyone can create a little of LOLA's magic at home! The enduring popularity of the cupcake knows no bounds, and they remain the most stylish of bakery treats. Their versatility is what makes them so successful, from simple classics that are perfect with afternoon tea or mid-morning coffee to extravagantly decorated creations that make delightful gifts at any time of year. In this little book, we want to let you in on some of LOLA's secrets, and share our favourite recipes. Our best-loved cupcakes from LOLA's classic range are included here, so you can create our famous Chocolate, Vanilla and Red Velvet cupcakes at home. You can also try your hand at some of our unique LOLA's specialities - Maple Syrup, Peanut Butter, Banoffee, Raspberry Pavlova and Apple Crumble never fail to please. For grown-up palates, there is an array of cocktail-inspired delights, such as Cosmopolitan, Mojito and Piña Colada, as well as decadently rich chocolate bakes, such as Chocolate Chilli, Dark Chocolate Truffle and Chocolate Mint. Although cupcakes are our first and foremost passion at LOLA's, we have also included some of our much-loved traybakes and bars. They are too irresistible not to share with you all! With something at LOLA's for every occasion, what are you waiting for, it's time to get baking!

Discover 70 popular cakes from across the globe, brought to you by London's famous bakery. From American and Middle Eastern delicacies to European delights –bake your way across the continents with this exciting range of recipes.

The author, an anthropologist, tells the story of her relationship with Lola, a gypsy, while observing and experiencing the gypsy way of life, and their struggle to maintain their culture in the modern world.

Ivola Hoffman was once a vibrant, bubbly and charming twenty-four-year-old woman who now found life to be mundane and routine. Coming home from work one afternoon, she experiences a phenomenon that flings her world into darkness. Her friends abandon her, her dreams turn to nightmares and her touch turns deadly. What is she? Why is an evil entity after her? And why does the name Lola resonate in her mind?Far away from home and people that love her, Ivy tries hopelessly to stay alive in a strange world that has suddenly turned against her.

�â�€�œStories of desire, chance, promise, brought from the down below. Against the rules of heaven, what hope is there?�â�€� Ted tells stories. High on a cloud above Mount Washington, he peers down at the earth, listening to the memories of the mortal folk he watches. Lola, once a famous Hollywood bombshell, now a god, listens to his stories. Ted�â�€�™s words capture her heart, just as she captured the hearts of her fans. Down on Earth, three families experience joy, tragedy, hope, and loss. Milton and Theresa are activists, conservationists, parents, lovers, fighters. Johnnie Cochan is a self-styled ecological leader, haunted by sadness and fear. And Carney is a disaster recovery specialist who can quench an oil-platform fire but finds love hard to hold onto. Through their attractions and battles, their futures become bound, as Cochan�â�€�™s vision for a new utopia, a massive construction project, threatens to rupture everything. Whatever Lola Wants is story about stories�â�€�”those we tell others, and those that fill us up. It is also about the stories we tell ourselves and the ways they make us who we are�â�€�”admired artists, despised monsters, adored immortals.

Although she was renowned as a dancer and actress and as a power behind the throne in politics, "her true story has always been obscured by the web of lies that she herself contructed." The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the truths.