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.
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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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March 23rd, 2011
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Time always flies and before we know it we are always behind with our blogging! So here is a brief update to keep you posted with what we have been doing here at The Angel Bakery.
No sooner had we turned the corner into 2011, than we were straight into an array of weddings and parties. We’ve supplied our tiers of cupcakes at venues across the Cotswolds including Cripps Barn, Barnsley House, The Great Tythe Barn and the Manor House Hotel in Moreton-in-the-Marsh.
Our wedding diary is now fully booked for 2011 and we have some fantastic weddings lined up throughout the year so we will keep you posted.
We took a breather from the Cirencester Farmers Market in January, but we have now been back on our regular stall for the past couple of months.
Our cupcakes are as popular as ever and we have now introduced our new RetroBakes range.
RetroBakes is a range of old forgotten favourites including Maids of Honour, Congress Tarts, Muckymouth Tart and of course deliciously traditional Custard tarts. We will also be adding to the range as we go through the season with an elderflower Sambocade and a Strawberry & Verjuice tart.
We’ve got some exciting events lined up over the next few months, and we’ve been asked to provide a wedding cake for a very special event that is happening in April of this year. No, not THAT special event, but another royal celebration that is happening on the same day in our fabulous town of Tetbury! Keep an eye out for it in future blogs.
Cheers for now!
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February 4th, 2011
The New Year kicked off with a bang and having had a mad Christmas, we were hoping to gently ease into the new year but there has been no let up. Cupcakes have been baked in abundance throughout January with some fab birthday bashes supplied – whether for an 18th, 21st or a 40th, we have done them all and had fun in the process.
We took a break from the Cirencester Farmers Market for a couple of weeks so that we could concentrate on our new range of products which we will be launching on our return in February. Our regular market customers will know that not only do we do a delicious range of cupcakes and layer cakes, but we also make fabulous tarts and a range of gluten-free brownies.
Staying true to our belief in using quality, local ingredients our new ‘RetroBakes’ range of pies and tarts will be making the most of fresh, seasonal produce and will vary throughout the year. Our Pear Frangipane and Prune and Almagnac tartlets went down a storm at the farmers market and we will be adding some old fashioned favourites such as Custard, Maids of Honour, Lemon Pudding and Congress Tarts as well as featuring some seasonal forgotten recipes such as Muckymouth tart and Sambocade.
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Tags: Bakery, birthday cupcakes, Cirencester Farmers Market, layer cakes, Pies, RetroBakes, Seasonal produce, Tetbury
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