July 5th, 2011
The great thing about this time of year is the abundance of luscious fruit available from the UK. The strawberry season kicked off slightly earlier this year with the warm spring and we are now starting to get delicious gooseberries and raspberries.
All the better for us here at The Angel Bakery as we love to make the best of the seasonal produce and with the added advantage of having a stall next to Hayles Fruit Farm at Cirencester Farmers Market, we are spoilt for choice.
Back in the Spring we launched some new tasty treats, our Retro Bakes range. A range of delicious tarts and pies made to old English recipes. Maids of Honour, Congress Tarts and Sambocade are just some of the baked treats available and are going down a storm at farmers markets and food festivals. And with Hayles’ new season redcurrants and blackcurrants now available we can’t wait to use them for our Muckymouth Tarts.
I am often asked why they are called Muckymouth tarts. These tasty little pastries derive their name from that age old problem that any child faces when picking sweet tasting fruits! If, like me as a child, you were ever sent out to pick blackberries from the hedgerows or blackcurrants from the garden you will know that inevitably you end up eating handfuls of the delicious fruits. No matter how much you protested at your innocence, there was always the tell-tale sign of fruit smeared chops, hence the Muckymouth!
All of the Retro Bakes range are made with a hand-made rich, shortcrust butter pastry and filled with an array of scrumptious fillings such as vanilla and lemon custards, rich almond frangipanes or jam-packed with fabulous fruits, making them the perfect treat or dessert.
You can find us at Cirencester Farmers Market
Check out our Where to Find Us link to see when we will be there next
Tags: Angel Bakery, Cirencester Farmers Market, Free range eggs, Hayles Fruit Farm, Home Made, Local baked goods, local food, Local ingredients, Old Recipes, RetroBakes, Seasonal Fruit Pies, Seasonal produce, Shortcrust Pastry
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August 10th, 2010
Whilst the cupcake is thought of as quintessentially American, here at the Angel Bakery we are keen to put our very own British spin on cupcake couture by creating classic, elegant and, above all, delicious cupcakes.
Creating cupcakes is our passion and we like nothing better than to come up with delicious new recipes using the best in locally sourced, seasonal, free-range and fairtrade ingredients. Take our latest cupcake creation, Fresh Raspberry, a heavenly cupcake filled with fresh english raspberries, topped with a light frosting and finished with touch of fresh raspberry coulis. Or Gooseberry & Elderflower made with fresh gooseberries from Hayles fruit farm.
With Victoria plums ripening on the trees and hopefully a good blackberry season ahead, we can’t wait to add some more delicious flavours to our cupcake range.
Tags: cup cakes, Cupcakes, Fruit, gooseberries, local, Raspberries, Seasonal
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July 5th, 2010
Well, the last few weeks have gone by in a blur. Firstly we had the Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival to attend in the Montpellier Gardens towards the end of June and we had a very successful 3 days coming away feeling tired but very happy. So many people remembered us from the Cheltenham festival we attended in 2009 and we had great feedback about our cute little cupcakes.
On our return to cupcake headquarters there was no time to sit back and relax as we ploughed on with more baking for our stall at Cirencester Farmers Market, lots more wedding cupcakes and a sprinkling of summer party cupcakes for good measure.
We were allowed a little time off for good behaviour though and high tailed it to the party at Shipton Mill to let our hair down. Live music, good food and a stunning location all made for a fantastic night. Sadly for the men present, the belly dancer didn’t make an appearance at this year’s bash, but the group of african drummers got everyone on their feet for a bit of tribal dancing and the SKA band ensured everyone strutted their stuff on the dancefloor.
For those who survived the late night revelry there was talk of a hearty breakfast on offer at dawn, but with early morning baking duties beckoning, it was time to bid adieu for a bit of shut-eye!
Our next cupcake baking marathon was for Bath Food Festival which took place in the Royal Victoria Park. The setting couldn’t have been more perfect with stunning weather and the beautiful and imposing Royal Crescent just a stones throw away. With the chance to meet lots of new customers came the opportunity to showcase a new flavour and we plumped for the humble gooseberry as our little star.
Here at The Angel Bakery we’re renowned for simple, sophisticated cupcakes and we like nothing more than to use fresh seasonal fruits and freshly made fruit coulis to adorn our creations.
And with the British gooseberry season underway it seemed a shame not to make more of this fantastic fruit and so our Gooseberry & Elderflower cupcake was born.
Proving to be a big hit over the festival weekend, especially for those who don’t have such a sweet tooth, this cupcake flavour will definitely be on the Angel Bakery menu whilst gooseberries remain in season.
We are now knuckling down to do more baking for the farmers markets, more weddings and lots more parties but you can catch us on our stall at Cirencester Farmers Market on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month and we will also be at the Tetbury Food and Drink Festival on Sunday 26th September, 2010 See you there!
Tags: Bath Food Festival, Cheltenham Food Festival, Cirencester Farmers Market, Cupcakes, Flour, Gooseberry, Royal Crescent, Royal Victorial Park, Seasonal fruit, Shipton Mill, Tetbury, Tetbury Food Festival, Wedding Cupcakes
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June 21st, 2010
With Cheltenham Food Festival now behind us it is time to take a breather and then crack on with more baking. Thank you to everyone who came up to the stand over the 3 days and we are flattered by all your wonderful comments about our cakes – thank you.
This was the 2nd year that we had attended the event and we were astounded back then at the response to our cupcakes and this year was no exception with many people remembering us from last year and making a beeline for our stand.
When we attended the Food Festival back in 2009 we created a display of cupcakes just for a bit of fun and the amount of photos and videos taken of it was staggering. So we thought we would do something similar this year and put our thinking caps on to decide what we could do.
Here at The Angel Bakery we are well known for our simple, sophisticated designs but on this occasion we decided to go all out for a bit of a wow factor and so we created a tower of ‘Bollywood’ cupcakes.
Shrinking violets these cakes definitely were not! Bold, brash and bling was the order of the day and it certainly had the desired effect with hundreds of photos taken over the duration of the festival and it attracted a lot of attention.
As well as our colourful creation on display we had our signature cupcake range on sale for those in ineed of a cake pick- me- up during the day.
We also launched a few new flavours at the festival including French Apricot, Chocolate Mint and fresh Raspberry and our ‘Whisper Campaign’ gained a lot of new followers. Well done to all those brave cupcake fans who put aside their inhibitions and managed to bag themselves a FREE cupcake in the process.
We met a lot of lovely fans and lots of new fans and at one point we were visited by a rather cute Cupcake Angel who judging by this photo was pondering which cupcake was going to take her fancy.
Thank you to everyone for your support especially the cupcake angels working behind the scenes (you know who you are) who made this possible.
You can catch us at Cirencester Farmers Market on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month. Check out our events page to see where we will be next.
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May 14th, 2010
The Angel Bakery was the original bakery to bring cupcakes to the Cotswolds and then we were the first to sell Whoopie Pies. Now we find that we are on trend with our latest cupcake flavour combination, Salted Caramel. The sweet/salt combo is now a big flavour in the cupcake capital, the U.S.A
Here at The Angel Bakery we are always trying out new flavours for our cupcakes and we like nothing more that whipping up different varieties. Our Salted Caramel cupcake is one that we have done for some time now and it is good to hear that even in our humble kitchen we are trendy!
Check out this article for the latest flavour trend
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