The Bee Newsletter Number 16 Spring 2009

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Bee Newsletter Number 16 Spring 2009
Bee Newsletter Number 16 Spring 2009
Bee Newsletter Number 16 Spring 2009
Honeybuns logo Bake Gorgeous New Cookies

 

Honey, Almond and Salted Pistachio Cookie

The much awaited new cookies from Honeybuns are here. If you are a trade wholesaler or retailer then please contact us on T: 01963 23597 to find out how to order. The flavours are delicious and totally different to anything else we've found on the market. All three cookies are gluten free AND they are all extremely low in refined sugars. They taste amazing and the feedback we've had from our Bee Shack customers has been.... "YUM!" The Triple Chocolate Tinker cookie and the Honeyed Apple Cookie.
The tricky thing is deciding which one to select for elevenses. Would your favourite be the Triple Chocolate Tinker, the Honeyed Apple Cookie or the Honey, Almond and Salted Pistachio...? The cookies will be popped onto our online shop soon too www.honeybuns.co.uk/shop.

The Honeybuns Safari

BAKERY SAFARIS - BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT...
We're going on Safari to visit some of our suppliers and to eat a scrumptious lunch at Washingpool Farm Shop, www.washingpool.co.uk. If you are a Honeybuns trade customer and would like join us please call us T 01963 23597. We'll treat you to lunch and a lovely day out on the wild plains of Dorsetshire. You'll have lots of goodies to take home too.
It's a great way to get your teams excited about proper local ingredients and to meet passionate suppliers.
The Honeybuns goody bag.
If you are not a trade customer - you can enter our "Win a Safari Competition" - you need to take a fun picture of a Honeybuns cake or tin and send it to us. For full details, please see: www.honeybuns.co.uk/competition. We'll treat you to a gorgeous day out if your pic is selected as the funniest, craziest or most charming. The Honeybuns Landrover

 

Blooming Great Tea Party for Marie Curie
Blooming Great Tea Party for Marie Curie
Honeybuns and Marie Curie meet up for cuppa and a cake.
Honeybuns are donating cakes to the Marie Curie Blooming
Great Tea Party Campaign. To get involved and hold your own
Blooming Great Tea Party, pop onto www.mariecurie.org.uk/teaparty.
If you are in the South West region and are holding a party. We
may be able to give you some cakes. Please call us on
T 01963 23597.
Our Current bun
Milk Chocolate Browni

Our current favourite bun is... our best selling Milk Chocolate Brownie. We think people love it because it has a good portion of dark chocolate to balance the milk chocolate. It's an intense chocolate experience and we add nice chunky pieces of toasted almond and chocolate to the molten mix. This is the cake we always include on our visitor welcome platters. If you happen to have a meeting at Honeybuns we pop the kettle on and unveil the brownies. Sadly we can't reveal the recipe just yet............. but a little bit of coffee added to any chocolate mix does wonders. It really brings the chocolateyness out - as does a cheeky pinch of sea salt.

All the other things we do beside cake.

Hedgelaying

Charlotte and Graham (and Ollie and Ben) have transformed one of our old wonky hedges into a super duper streamlined stretch of flora. Back in the day, Charlotte's gran was a hedge laying Champion and Char has definitely inherited these rural skills genes. The idea is to transform a "leggy", straggly hedge into a denser, more animal proof version by "laying" the branches of the hedge horizontally and weaving all the bits in. Says Charlotte, "At the Start Graham and I were unsure of how to tackle the monstrous tangle of Blackthorn! But several Triple Chocolate Tinkers and mugs of tea later we got stuck in. We removed a lot of dead wood and left an ash and a mayple growing and laid the rest in, resulting in a wonderfully thick, healthy hedge. Graham also turned out to be a natural and we can't wait until the autumn to get cracking on the other hedges on the farm and teaching Barry from the bakery, who also wants to have a go.”

TIP TOP TEAM

Welcome to our new Tip Top Team Bit where we ask one of the Honeybuns team a few questions. Obviously we think everyone is lovely here at Honeybuns, So we thought we'd introduce you. Victoria is part of our office team and she is first up for our new questions and answers section

Victoria Beer

“So, Victoria, What is your favourite cake and why?”
‘Snowy hills’, is a gorgeous mix of lemon frangipane, on a polenta and stem ginger base, topped with sparkling sugar. I like to put mine into the Aga to warm up and then add a dollop of vanilla bean ice cream. Mmmm! It really does glisten with joy!

“Your favourite rescue animal and why?”
He’s a handsome, rather inquisitive little collie cross - called Benjamin. He enjoys patrolling Naish farm with his pals and ‘giving the eye’ to anyone who will willingly wing a ball for him.

“What does Honeybuns mean to you?”
Honeybuns = a caring team of gorgeous, creative people who work together in the beautiful Dorset countryside to produce scrumptious cakes for one and all to enjoy!!

“Fave part of your job and why”
From welcoming visitors, to customer account management and attending the occasional film premier, my job is soo wonderfully varied.

“Something you would change at Honeybuns?”
Oooo, what a toughie! Quite honestly there is nothing I would like to change…maybe ask me again in a years time!!

“Your fave era and why”
As a big Jane Austen fan it would have to be the early 19th century… It portrays life in genteel rural society, where one would have travelled only by foot or horseback/carriage and when letter writing meant everything. The frocks were pretty too!

animal magic
Welcome to Scrumpy Jack
Our latest recruit to the menagerie. He is a big beef cake of a chap but as soft as West Country butter. He'd climb inside your coatpocket if he could. This chap cannot get enough cuddles. He loves going for rides with his friends and he loves Bee - If you come to a Bee Shack Day chances are you'll see Scrumps and Bee dozing underneath the apple trees or contentedly munching away.
PS: Molly - Mad as a March Hare Mare - is now a transformed character. She is Little Miss Laidback - we're delighted for her.
 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Wed 22nd April:
Honeybuns host a Slow Food Event in the Bee Shack

Sat 2nd May, 11am - 4pm:
Bee Shack is open for snacks and gift ideas.

Sat 2nd May:
Shaftesbury Food Festival

Thu 7th - Sun 10th May:
Matt and Em at Badminton Horse Trials (in the Food Hall)

Wed 20th - Thu 21st May:
Matt and Em at Caffe Culture - Trade Show at Olympia

Fri 22nd - Sun 24th May
Leckford Food Festival - on the Waitrose Estate in Leckford

Mon 25th May, 10am - 6pm:
Sherborne Castle Country Fair

Thanks for reading we all need a little slice of Honeybuns in our life.

The Bee Newsletter Number 16 Spring 2009

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