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My passion for cakes can be wholeheartedly blamed on my grandmother who spent many hours letting me mix fruit cakes at the kitchen table.  It was inevitable that one day I would derive so much pleasure from baking cakes.  These were my thoughts when I was writing my first book ‘Cakes Regional and Traditional’ and they are still descriptive of the passion from which our cake business has grown.

Baked in our farmhouse kitchen on the edge of the Vale of Belvoir in Lincolnshire we have the benefit of being in the centre of a truly delightful village, overlooking the Church. 

Our cakes are prepared and baked in exactly the way you would like, we cream the fresh butter and muscovado sugar, before adding the free range eggs and the organic flour bought from Nigel Moon at the Whissendine Windmill.  We then add the washed mixed fruit and peel, together with ground almonds, nuts, alcohol, spices, extracts. And remember  no essences, no additives, no preservatives, and the cakes simply mature beautifully because of their totally natural ingredients.

Whilst we are certainly very proud of our traditional brandy fruit cakes, the almond fruit cakes, and orange and Cointreau fruitcakes, there are many other varieties. These include lemon and lime, apple and Calvados, apricot with apricot brandy, rum fruitcake topped with glace cherries and nuts, which incidentally Prince Edward said was ‘to die for’ and not least the Ale fruitcake, which was originally devised and sent to the West Indies for our BBC Radio cricket commentators to feast on.

For many years we have baked cakes for Fortnum & Mason and other high-class outlets and received many accolades from magazines and newspapers.  We have also been featured on BBC Radio 4, both on Woman’s Hour and in a BBC series on Cakes, recorded in our kitchen, which was immense fun.  However, perhaps our greatest pleasure has always been our mail order customers, many of whom have become personal friends.

Finally, our cakes may be sold ribboned and wrapped prettily, decorated in a manner appropriate to the flavour and aroma of the particular cake, or boxed, packaged and ribboned making a lovely gift or simply a treat for yourself.  The cake books are worth perusing too!