About the Author

Lily Vanilli, aka Lily Jones, is a baker and cake designer. Originally a graphic designer, she began baking as a hobby and then started selling her cakes at Swanfield market near Brick Lane. Now she has a bakery on London’s Columbia Road and consults for bakeries and brands all around the world. Lily is known for her unusual recipes – she experiments with savoury ingredients such as avocado and bacon – and for her spectacular designs, such as the marzipan insects she made for an Alexander McQueen film project, the blood and gore cupcakes created for Maaike Meeking’s show at London Fashion Week and the fabulous treats devised for Thomasina Miers’s incredible Day of the Dead festival. Lily has been hugely successful, has written two books and has recently launched her own brand of light wheat beer. Lily is based in London.