Halloween Bakery Near Me in Covent Garden: Lola's Late-Night Spooky Cupcakes

Lola's shop at 18 Neal Street stays open until 9pm on Friday and Saturday nights, and for Halloween 2026 the bakery has a full spooky range: six cupcakes in orange buttercream and black ganache for £25.50, a Halloween bento cake for £19.50 and a layer cake from £32.50. If your search for a halloween bakery near me happens after dinner in the West End, this freshly renovated shop is still serving.

Lola's started in 2006 when two friends turned their baking into a business. The orders grew quickly enough for them to open concessions in Selfridges and Topshop and a flagship shop in Mayfair, all supplied from a first bakery in Primrose Hill, where a team of seven baked through the night and drove cupcakes to the shops three times a day. The name came from one founder's nickname, though some customers have joked it stands for Ladies Of Leisure Always.

The business has grown far beyond that night shift. Lola's says it had 40 staff in 2011 and around 400 by 2024, and it now runs shops and kiosks across London, from Greenwich Market to the ticket halls of several Underground stations, alongside collection lockers in shopping centres. It remains privately owned and has a single overseas franchisee, in Japan. The Neal Street branch was recently renovated and describes its cakes, cupcakes and brownies as baked fresh every day.

The Halloween Cupcake Box holds six regular cupcakes in vanilla and double chocolate, topped with brightly coloured buttercream and black ganache, then finished with a mix of spooky decorations, for £25.50. A box of twelve mini cupcakes with the same look costs £28.20. For guests who avoid gluten or animal products, the Halloween Gluten Free and Vegan Cupcake Box is also £25.50 for six, decorated with bats, gravestones, webs and skulls on vegan buttercream.

The Halloween Layer Cake is the showpiece, from £32.50 for a small. You choose chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream, or vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream and raspberry compote, and it arrives covered in orange buttercream and black ganache with Oreo crumbs, dark chocolate spider webs, white chocolate pumpkins and skulls, and a sugar gravestone. The Halloween Bento Cake, a mini cake in black ganache with orange and white buttercream, sugar bats and candy eyes, costs £19.50 and comes boxed for gifting.

Brownie fans get the Halloween Brownie Box, £14.99 for four, each brownie topped with black and chocolate fudge ganache, orange and white ganache, sprinkles, sugar bats and candy eyes. Our honest pick is the bento cake for two people and the cupcake box for anything bigger. Skip the mini cupcake box unless you are feeding small children, because twelve minis cost more than six full-size cupcakes and the decorations are the same.

The Halloween range is a pre-order line: every product page says to order now for delivery from 21 October, and several pieces, including the cupcake box, the brownie box and the gluten-free vegan box, are available nationwide. In London, Lola's delivers and runs collection points, and you can enter a postcode on its website to see which delivery and collection options cover your address. Plan around 21 October as the first day the spooky boxes go out.

If you just want a cupcake tonight, the shop counter is the answer. Everyday prices give a sense of scale: a single gluten-free red velvet cupcake costs £4.25 and a single vegan gluten-free fudge cupcake costs £4 on the Lola's website. Pick up a few from the counter, then order the Halloween box for the party itself, rather than hoping the shop has the seasonal range on display.

Neal Street's hours are the reason to choose this branch. It opens at 8am and closes at 8:30pm Monday to Thursday, runs from 8am to 9pm on Friday, from 9am to 9pm on Saturday, and from 10am to 8pm on Sunday. That makes it a realistic stop after a matinee or an early dinner, when most independent bakeries in the area have already closed. Bank holiday hours change, so plan around the regular week.

If the Neal Street counter is crowded, Lola's has a kiosk in Tottenham Court Road Underground station, a short walk north, which is handy if you are heading home on the Central or Northern line. For Halloween orders that need a precise pickup, the Lola's collection lockers across London are another option, and they are listed by location on the bakery's store finder.

Neal Street is a largely pedestrian lane running from Long Acre up towards Shaftesbury Avenue, so you can walk it with a cake box without dodging traffic. A few steps away, Neal's Yard is a tiny courtyard of brightly painted shopfronts, and the Seven Dials junction to the west has a pillar topped with sundials where seven streets meet. Covent Garden station on the Piccadilly line is at the southern end of Neal Street, beside the junction with Long Acre.

Walk south past the station and you reach the Covent Garden Piazza, where the nineteenth-century market hall holds shops and food stalls and street performers work the West Piazza in front of St Paul's Church, the actors' church. It is a good place to open a bento cake on a bench before heading to a show. Going north instead, Neal Street ends at Shaftesbury Avenue, the edge of the theatre district, so the walk works in either direction around a performance.

The 8am opening and the 9pm weekend close shape who uses the shop: early commuters walking up from Covent Garden station, shoppers working their way along Neal Street in the afternoon, and theatregoers leaving West End shows in the evening. Lola's founders built the brand on celebration cakes, and the counter still sells to people buying a box for someone else as often as a cupcake for themselves.

Lola's Covent Garden, 18 Neal Street, London WC2H 9LY. Hours: Monday to Thursday 8am to 8:30pm, Friday 8am to 9pm, Saturday 9am to 9pm, Sunday 10am to 8pm. The nearest Tube is Covent Garden, with Tottenham Court Road and Leicester Square also within walking distance. Halloween boxes are pre-ordered online for delivery from 21 October, and the gluten-free and vegan cupcake box is the safest choice for mixed groups.