Cakes made to order, pastries out of the oven every morning and sourdough that is usually gone by lunchtime. Come in for a coffee while it is still warm.
All of it baked here each morning. Prices are current; whatever is in season turns up in the counter without warning. Allergen information is on every label and in the folder by the till.
Choux pastry, filled to order, dark chocolate on top.
Sweet pastry case, crème pâtissière and whatever fruit is in.
Dark chocolate ganache, caramel and a little sea salt.
Baked cheesecake with a raspberry coulis.
Box of six macarons, five flavours, made on Thursdays.
Vanilla panna cotta with a spoonful of berries.
The counter changes with the season. Gluten free and dairy free versions are made to order — we need a day’s notice, and we will be straight with you about what we can and cannot keep separate in a small kitchen.
Sponge, jam and cream. 8 inch, cuts into ten.
Chocolate sponge with a dark ganache. 8 inch.
Designed with you. The price shown is for two tiers, serving about fifty.
Whatever they are into this month, in the right colours.
Tell us the date, the number of people and the flavour and we will price it the same day. Three days’ notice for a cake, three weeks for a wedding or tiered cake.
Wheat and rye, long fermented, 800g.
Laminated here, baked here, real butter only.
Apricot, cherry or apple, depending on the day.
Enriched dough, cinnamon butter, rolled on Fridays.
We bake again at two, so there is bread left for tea. Ring ahead for larger orders and we will put them by.
Beans roasted in Nottingham, ground per cup.
Lemon, mint and whatever fruit is over from the tarts.
Proper melted chocolate, not a powder, with cream.
Loose leaf, in a pot, and our own herb blends.
Any coffee comes with 50p off the cake of the day.
Some of what comes out of the kitchen, in the shop and at other people’s parties.
Tiered cake
Cheesecake
Macarons
Sourdough loaf
Croissants
Tell us the occasion, how many people and what they like. We will come back with a design, a filling and a price — and if the idea will not survive a warm marquee in July, we will say so rather than let it collapse on the day.
The date, the occasion and roughly how many portions.
A suggested flavour and design, with a price, usually the same day.
Baked the day before at the earliest, ready to collect at the time we agree.
We took the shop on in 2011, after years of baking for other people’s businesses. The idea was simple enough: bread and cakes made properly, in a town where you can still sell out by two o’clock.
The ovens go on at five. Flour comes from a mill twenty miles away, the eggs are free range, and the butter is butter — there is no margarine in the building. It costs more and it shows.
There are five of us. Everything on the counter was made by one of them that morning, and if something is not right, tell whoever is serving — we would rather remake it.
The counter is fullest before eleven. Bread comes out again at two.
| Monday | 7:30 – 18:00 |
| Tuesday | 7:30 – 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 7:30 – 18:00 |
| Thursday | 7:30 – 18:00 |
| Friday | 7:30 – 18:30 |
| Saturday | 8:00 – 12:00 |
| Sunday | closed |
Not testimonials — the awkward answers, given before you have paid.
Allergens. Every label carries the fourteen, and the folder by the till has the full ingredient list for everything in the counter. What we cannot promise is a nut-free kitchen — there are nuts in the building every day, and no small bakery that says otherwise is telling the truth.
Notice. Three days for a cake, three weeks for a wedding. Ask on a Thursday for a Saturday and the honest answer is usually no — which is better than a rushed cake with a seam down the side.
What a photo will and will not survive. Buttercream in a warm room moves. If you have found a picture of a cake that needs air conditioning to stand up, we will say so and suggest something that will still look like the picture at six in the evening.
Ask about a cake, an allergen or a big order. The form comes to the same place as the phone.
Pop in, or send the form and we will ring you.
No obligation — we answer the same day, or first thing the next.