Mummy Dearest

With Mother's Day just around the corner (April 3rd) and Easter in the not too distant future, our online shop has some inspiring gift ideas. The gorgeous Honeybuns Mothers Day Gift Tin is the perfect way to treat your beloved Ma, filled with our Snowy Hills collection, including two regular Snowy Hills and four mini cakes, a Snowy Hills lip balm

(a luscious indulgence for your lips) and a pretty Honeybuns tea towel with the Snowy Hills design, all for £24.99 (including p&p).

Or spoil her with a visit to the Bee Shack Cafe on Saturday 2nd April.

Treat friends and family with our Easter Gift Tin (£19.99 including p&p), full with melt in the mouth Amondi cookies, or make your own tin up from a selection of our award winning gluten free cakes. Order your Gift Tins through our online shop and it will be delivered to the address of your choice. You can also choose to have it charmingly gift wrapped!

"March winds and April showers, bring forth May flowers"

Charlotte has been busy getting our raised veg beds and polytunnel in the Bee Shack garden ready for new plantings, with a bit of help from Ollie, our German Shepherd dog! We try and grow as much as we can here to be used in our delicious team and Bee Shack day lunches and we're hoping we'll get a bumper crop this year. As well as planting vegetable seeds, potato chittings and fruit bushes, Charlotte and Graham have also been busy hedge laying fuelled by lots of hot mugs of cocoa and, of course, cake. You can follow more of our BeeGreen news at Charlotte's BeeGreen blog which has some top tips on all things green. She also has a mean repertoire in ye olde country sayings!

WIN HONEYBUNS CAKES

Tuesday's will never be the same again!

Every Tuesday we run our Tinker Tuesday competition with the chance to win a lovely Honeybuns tin full of delicious Triple Chocolate Tinkers. It's really easy to take part - just visit our Tinker Tuesday competition page for the question and enter before 2pm. And keep your fingers crossed! The first name out of our Tinker tin with the correct answer wins.

We are also celebrating exceeding 1000 Likes on Facebook with a new competition called 'Share Your Honeybuns Moment'. All you have to do is email a photo of you or your friends and family enjoying your Honeybuns cake in the most interesting / unusual / fun place before 30th April and the best one will win a Honeybuns Gift Bag full of all sorts of gorgeous Honeybuns goodies.

All competitions are announced on our facebook page along with lots of other Honeybuns news.

The A-Team

We're very proud of our team here at Honeybuns. They're a hard working and dedicated bunch of people and we'd like to share them with you.

Graham is our Honeybuns nomad, working in the bakery, packing and anywhere else needed, as well as attending food fairs and tasting days. He joined Honeybuns 4 years ago.

Tell us a bit about yourself?

After many years of working in London for design agencies, I moved to Dorset illustrating children's books. Sadly I was made redundant and that was when I joined Honeybuns. Although I still do freelance design and illustration, I really enjoy my varied working life here. I am a keen nature lover and do lots of bird surveys for the RSPB.

What inspires your artwork?

My illustrations range from patterened animal linework to very detailed pencil drawings. I love patterns in nature and the character of old buildings.

What artwork are you currently doing for Honeybuns?

At the moment I'm lettering a few signs for our signpost and doing an aerial view of Honeybuns HQ.

What is your favourite cake?

I love the Chocolate Caramel Shortbread. The taste of the chocolate and caramel is fantastic!

Things you love

"In a world with so much confected and poorly-procured flapjacks....I must say how I enjoyed chewing and tasting your flapjack and look forward to the other 'bookmarks' you include for me to see as reference material.."

P. Crumpton

"I tasted your products on BMI flights in the last week and was so impressed. This kind of food elevates airline catering.....I can't recommend your baking highly enough!"

S. Salmon