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Thank you for popping by.  If you heard me earlier today on BBC Berkshire talking about pumpkins I was talking how to use all the pumpkin, and promised some recipes that I was talking about. You might be getting ready, or possibly already have carved your pumpkins and will no doubt have some waste.  Don’t … Continue reading Pumpkins Galore

Fancy winning a delicious 5 cake selection box of Blackberry Cottage cakes for the next 5 months? You can choose from chocolate, gluten-free or a variety selection, a little box of yumminess every month. You can enter via Twitter or Facebook       Twitter: Post a tweet with the mention @Blackbery_Cott and the answer … Continue reading Competition Time…

              This week’s blogs give us some top tips and insight into the wonderful world of cake baking at Blackberry Cottage.     Q: Kate, what is your favourite cake to make Kate: I really love making the Almond, Apricot and Carrot, it is a very complex cake, with … Continue reading Interview with Kate (part 2)

                            The genius behind Blackberry Cottage.   This week’s blog taps into the inspiration behind the cakes with secret ingredients made by founder and baker extraordinaire Kate Saunders at Blackberry Cottage     Q:  So Kate, can you remember when you first started getting an interest in baking … Continue reading An interview with Kate

Welcome to Blackberry Cottage Cake Club, the home of cakes with secret ingredients, what better way to send a gift that keeps giving month after month.   All our cakes are hand made in small batches using our own vegetables and eggs where possible, our cakes are unique, with the vegetables being the largest ingredient … Continue reading Blackberry Cottage Cake Club Launches

How about making lovely red pancakes? We have used beetroot and buckwheat in our pancakes. Why buckwheat? it’s really healthy,  related to the rhubarb family, it’s a great source for good carbs and high is essential nutrients, confusingly named Buckwheat it is actually gluten-free. Why beetroot? well why not, another really great healthy vegetable full of essential nutrients and … Continue reading February….. The month of Love and Pancakes

I love product development but never seem to have enough time to dedicate to it, however this month I have been in the kitchen developing a little cake range to celebrate Spring/Mother’s Day/Easter. What better way to celebrate than having a wonderful flower and vegetable range, delicate pinks, the wonderful hue of purples to the … Continue reading Flowers and Vegetable Cakes

We have many people ask us about shelf life, storage and delivery of our vegetable cakes. These are great questions that I wanted to write about, why because there are many factors with vegetable cakes. I always say to people when I speak to them, is, when you make a traditional cake with butter and … Continue reading Shelf life, storage and delivery

*** Competition Time *** Win 2 tickets to the BBC Good Food Show and the BBC Gardeners World Live also a Blackberry Cottage Selection Box. We have been lucky enough to secure two complimentary tickets to the above and we have added in one of our selection boxes that you can collect from us on … Continue reading Win Tickets to the BBC Good Food Summer Show and the BBC Gardeners World Live

It has been a long build up to the BBC Good Food Summer Show, and a very special one for us. Back in July last year, (I said it has been a long build up) we applied for a BBC Good Food Show Bursary, each year the Good Food Team give 20 artisan producers a … Continue reading Good Food Show NEC Birmingham