Bakewell is a town in Derbyshire, part of the Peak District. There is debate as to whether it’s the Bakewell Tart or the Bakewell Pudding that originated there and there are a few shops in the town that all claim to sell the “original” we tried a couple of them while we were there and [...]

Firstly a Happy New Year to you all, we’re back and ready to start 2011 with a bang! We hope your holiday season was everything you wanted it to be. – As we have done the past couple of years we decided to treat our guinea pigs… er.. um.. I mean friends, with a selection [...]

The name biscotti derives from the Italian meaning twice baked, telling us how they are cooked. Biscotti however is the English name for them, in Italy they are called Cantucci, with biscotti referring to any type of crunchy cookie, the way American’s say cookie and the English say biscuit. Originally baked for the Romans to [...]

A wedding cake for the lovely ladies over at Freak Revolution, it’s a 9″ square white almond cake filled with vanilla buttercream. Wanting traditional with a twist we gave them the classic cherry blossom cake but with the blooms in rainbow colours. The flowers are made out of gumpaste, with some on wires to give [...]