The products sold were savoury pastries, cookies and cakes - including a delicious Pudsey cake, with money raised going to Children in Need and Childline.

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Smartly attired executives from start-ups such as SolFocus, Solaicx and Ice Energy sipped wine and munched on gourmet appetizers, including mini crab tacos and Guinness ginger cake, while they talked shop.

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We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).

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There are also fresh juices and a selection of desserts, including the excellent matcha (tea) and raspberry cake.

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Ask any experienced parent, and minivans still takes the cake as the best family vacation car, including the ease of automatic sliding doors, spacious seating and an interior design attuned to the needs of little passengers and frazzled parents.

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That said, they still ended up having about 31 musicians involved, including appearances from Leslie Feist, Emily Haines, Amy Millan, The Sea and Cake's Sam Prekop and more.

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