London - January 19, 2010

Cool as Icing

MyChelle's Baketique Opens

Admit it: saving the planet is kind of boring. Battery-operated cars are slow. And when you turn off all the lights … well, it’s pretty hard to see.

We’ve found a better way to rack up green credentials.

Energy-efficient MyChelle’s Baketique — the adorable cupcake shop inside new ecofriendly hotel Rafayel on the Left Bank — uses farm-fresh ingredients and recyclable packaging. New Yorker Michelle Husserl bakes delicious cakes and cupcakes in gourmet flavours like margarita, lemon meringue, carrot, fig, and peanut butter and jelly with an oozing centre. A cupcake bar serves icing shots — perfect for a quick, intense sugar high.

As for the boutique hotel itself, it has 65 energy-saving rooms, a well-being spa, an Asian fusion resto and a fair trade florist.

Who said you can’t have your cake and eat it?

MyChelle’s Baketique, inside Rafayel on the Left Bank, Falcon Wharf Building, 34 Lombard Road, SW11 3RF (020 7801 3630 or baketique.com).

Photo: Courtesy of MyChelle’s Baketique

  Cupcakes, Delivery, Ecofriendly, Sweet Tooth