Six Spooky Bakes, Italian Brioche And Generously Filled Centres
Bombolone’s Halloween range brings six spooky designs to its handmade Italian brioche doughnuts, with generous fillings, available from its central London café for £4.90 each and by box for delivery.
Central London café Bombolone is giving the Italian filled doughnut a Halloween makeover with a limited-edition range of six spooky bakes, all built on its signature brioche dough.
The bombolone takes its name from the Italian bomba, a nod to how generously it is filled; unlike a ring doughnut, it comes stuffed with cream or chocolate right to the edges. Founders Sonia and Paweł tasted their first in the hills of Tuscany and couldn’t stop thinking about it once they were back in London. They spent more than six months testing dozens of versions before opening their café at 21 Whitcomb Street, just behind Trafalgar Square. The dough is slow-proved Italian brioche, lighter and softer than the cake-style doughnut most Brits know. Every batch is made from scratch from 4am each day, never frozen, and when they sell out, they’re gone. The fillings rely on carefully sourced ingredients, including real vanilla pods, Italian mascarpone and Callebaut Belgian chocolate. Within its first month, Bombolone had climbed to the top of Tripadvisor’s list of London bakeries.
The Halloween range swaps la dolce vita for something a little more sinister. Mummy Mia is filled with cheesecake cream and wrapped in white fondant and white chocolate. Strawberry Scream pairs strawberry cream with a white chocolate coating and a blood-red drizzle. Ripple Pie offers a cosier take on autumn, with a cinnamon-spiced apple filling under a Belgian white chocolate glaze. Eye Love Choco is the one for chocolate lovers: dark chocolate ganache inside, a chocolate glaze outside, and a scattering of candy eyes staring back at you. Biscoff Spell combines Biscoff cream with a caramel glaze, and White Hazel Web finishes a white chocolate and hazelnut filling with Belgian white chocolate and a chocolate cobweb.
The doughnuts are available to eat in or take away at the café, or by the box for collection and delivery across London. That makes them as good a fit for an office Halloween party as for a trick-or-treat reward.
Each doughnut in the Halloween range is priced at £4.90.
