Trends · data through September 2026

Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts in London

Iceflower tracks 1,226 stores from 520 bakeries, donuts & desserts in London. Lola's Cupcakes grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Urban Chocolatier and Coughlan's Bakery.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
520
Tracked stores
1,226
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bakeries, donuts & desserts

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Lola's Cupcakes and The Urban Chocolatier sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Lola's Cupcakes logo Lola's Cupcakes - +17.9%
2 T The Urban Chocolatier logo The Urban Chocolatier ▲3 +16.9%
3 C Coughlan's Bakery logo Coughlan's Bakery - +16.0%
4 C Cake Box logo Cake Box - +15.4%
5 N Nirala ▲1 +12.5%
6 P Paris Baguette logo Paris Baguette ▲4 +11.5%
7 H Heavenly Desserts logo Heavenly Desserts ▲4 +10.8%
8 P Paul logo Paul ▲1 +10.3%
9 L Ladurée logo Ladurée ▲2 +8.9%
10 W Wafflemeister - +6.3%
11 F Fabrique ▲3 +4.4%
12 M Millie's Cookies logo Millie's Cookies ▲2 +3.4%
13 G Greggs logo Greggs - +1.9%
14 B Bonne Bouche ▲1 +0.6%
15 B Ben's Cookies logo Ben's Cookies ▲3 +0.5%
  • Greggs
  • GAIL's
  • Cake Box
  • Lola's Cupcakes
  • Paul
  • Krispy Kreme
  • Nirala
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,226 tracked store locations in London. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Greggs (230)
  • GAIL's (105)
  • Cake Box (63)
  • Lola's Cupcakes (9)
  • Paul (33)
  • Krispy Kreme (34)
  • Nirala (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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