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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 & 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 Award Winning 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 Fruit & Nut Cake, which incidentally Prince Edward said was ‘to die for’, taking some home for his family. Also not least, the Ale fruitcake which was originally devised and sent to the West Indies for our BBC Radio cricket commentators to feast on which is great with cheese .We have also added 'celebration cakes' to our portfolio. Whilst not part of our standard range of cakes we have recently undertaken wedding cakes and large birthday cakes too.  Again these are all rich fruit cakes and not sponge. As these types of cake are very personal and bespoke, please call us on 01476 870150 to discuss your requirements.

Yet another request, indeed pressure,  by lots of our customers, has resulted in the introduction of Christmas Puddings and what a success they have been  together with Hampers which are well worth thinking about. Again a great success.  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. 

In addition, as a result of requests and advice from many customers and friends, we are increasing the number of Country Fairs and Foodie Markets at which we will be exhibiting.  The location and dates of the events, will be listed and updated on our Blog page.

 Finally, our cakes are beautifully decorated and enhanced with coloured ribbon, many being tucked into boxes with coloured sizzle and ribbons, making a lovely gift or simply a treat for yourself.  The cake books are worth perusing too, with 'Cakes Regional & Traditional', we were runner up to Nigel Slater in the Glennfidich Food Book of the year awards in London.  The second book 'Cakes from around the World'  being one of the British finalist in World Book Awards.

We will this year be taking part in an increasing number of Foodie Fairs, such as Belton House and Burghley, (see our blog page) so do come and talk to us - we just love to talk about cakes.