Sweet and Fair

FLASH SALE!
Must be ordered tonight before I go to bed 🥱

- Box of 6 white chocolate and raspberry cupcakes £10
Six freshly baked cupcakes made with raspberries, white chocolate chunks and Madagascan vanilla. Available for collection or local delivery this weekend.

- Letterbox treats £10 (including P&P in the UK)
One slab of brownie and one slab of rocky road. Choose your favourite chocolate bar for each! Can be made without gluten. Order now to be made and posted next week.

And just a reminder, tonight is the last chance to order Afternoon Teas for April 13th, 20th or 27th! (And probably the rest of 2024 🤰)

To save you a few clicks on the website, here's the afternoon tea menu for this month! Please message to order for 13th, 20th or 27th April. For collection from NE8 3JA or available for local delivery for a small fee

Good news and bad news...

😔 The bad news is that I've made the difficult decision to cancel my pop-up afternoon tea event on 27th April. I'm sorry to let you down if you had booked or were planning to, but I'm afraid I just hadn't made enough ticket sales to make the event worthwhile, and time wasn't on my side! BUT, afternoon teas are still available to book for delivery or collection on 13th, 20th and 27th April - so please get in touch today if that's something you're interested in!

😊 The good news is that I've had an influx of orders since my last post about the costs of childcare, and I'm now less than £150 away from reaching my target! I'm overwhelmed by all your support, so thank you so much, and please keep those enquiries coming in! If I haven't reached my goal by tomorrow, expect a flash sale of cupcakes and letterbox treats!

Help a mama out!

Did you know that in order to qualify for tax-free childcare and the new 15 hours of funded childcare for 2 year olds, both parents need to earn a minimum of £8668 per year in profit (not just income)? And that's about to go up to £9518 for the 24/25 tax year!

That might not sound like a lot to some, but for a self-employed mum who runs her business part-time, it's not easy to maintain a steady profit (see graphs 📈, if you like graphs!)... especially when your child can't actually go to nursery because they're ill, you can't work for weeks on end because of pregnancy sickness, you have big expenses that put you in the red, or you have the audacity to take time off for a holiday!

With only 3 days left in the tax year, I find myself a few hundred pounds short of reaching my target. So close, yet so far! 🫠 Making sure we qualify for those 15 funded hours of childcare per week for our toddler will make a huge difference to my morale and our pockets during my maternity leave. But I can't get there without some help!

I understand afternoon teas and homemade cakes are a luxury, but if you're in a position where you're considering placing an order this month, please take a look at my previous post ('Don't delay, book today!') for some ways you can support my business, and please get in touch to book before the 5th April deadline!

Thank you so much for all your support, enabling me to do what I love ❤️

(Old pic for attention! 📸)

DON'T DELAY, BOOK TODAY!

A gentle reminder that I won't be taking new orders beyond 5th April, but I have plenty of availability throughout April, so please get those orders in ASAP!!

Whether it's a cake, afternoon tea, buffet or dessert table, please just send a message to enquire! And don't forget to book your tickets for our pop-up afternoon tea on 27th April! 🥰

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter!

Here are 200 Easter bakes delivered to this morning ⛪️

- Carrot cakes 🥕
- Mini Eggs cookie bars 🍪
- Biscoff and white chocolate nests 🪹
- Smarties Eggs rocky road 🥚
- Chocolate brownies 🍫
- Vanilla cupcakes 🧁
- Iced lemon biscuits 🐥

Purple space-themed cake from last weekend 🌌 🪐

Here's a little throwback to my pastry chef days in the Jesmond Dene House kitchen to let you all know I'm now hosting my very own Afternoon Tea event!

Join us for an afternoon tea to remember on
⭐️Saturday 27th April, 1-2-30pm, at Bensham Grove⭐️
as we celebrate one last hurrah before I go on maternity leave!

The afternoon tea menu will include an array of homemade sandwiches, savoury pastries, scones and sweet treats, including some favourites from the past four years and some new additions (plus plenty of tea and coffee). It will be held in the beautiful and historical setting of Bensham Grove, and served buffet style so you can choose all your favourites, and eat as much as you like until it's all gone!

Early bird tickets (available until 5th April): £20pp
Full price tickets: £25pp

Please message the page to book a table, letting us know any dietary requirements or if there are any under 18s in your party.

🐣 Easter Treat Boxes! 🐰

- 1 brown sugar cupcake with Biscoff buttercream, a Biscoff and white chocolate nest, and golden speckled white chocolate eggs
- 1 carrot, cinnamon and apple cupcake with vanilla buttercream
- 1 Mini Eggs cookie bar, studded with Cadbury Mini Eggs and milk chocolate chunks
- 1 chocolate bronut (donut-shaped dark chocolate brownie with white chocolate chips, dipped and drizzled in more chocolate)
- 1 Smarties tiffin egg
- 3 hand decorated iced lemon biscuits (bunny, chick, egg)

Available for collection on Thursday evening or Saturday morning (NE8 3JA). I have a very limited amount of these available, as I'm running low on packaging, so get them while you can! Please message to order.

BIG NEWS! 🤰

It's about time I let you in on a little secret... we're expecting baby #2 around the end of May! 👶

It's going to mean some big changes for the business as I wrap things up before maternity leave, but for now I'll just say:

- keep an eye out for our Easter treat boxes this week
- all orders for April must be booked and paid for by 5th April
- I'll be ending on a bang, so please save the date, 27th April, for our pop-up afternoon tea event! Tickets coming soon!

Introducing our Spring Afternoon Tea Menu! (Pictures include a mixture of both adult and children's afternoon teas)

Savoury:
- BLT in a brioche roll
- Truffle chicken finger sandwich
- Cheddar and chutney finger sandwich
- Red pepper, houmous and pesto finger sandwich
- Cumberland sausage roll bite
- Cheese scone with mustard & chive butter

Sweet:
- Rhubarb & custard scone (subject to availability of fresh rhubarb!) with jam and clotted cream
- Chocolate Malteser cheesecake
- Raspberry and white chocolate macaron
- Lemon meringue profiterole
- Carrot cake with zesty orange buttercream

Please see website for our Spring buffet menu, or message to book for March or April!

Always a relief when a batch of macarons goes to plan! These are to be filled with white chocolate and raspberry filling for our new spring afternoon tea.

Enjoyed putting these treat boxes and afternoon teas together for some deserving mums/mams. Happy Mother's Day for tomorrow!

Our Mother's Day afternoon teas are now sold out, but we have a small number of treat boxes still available to order! These are priced at £14 each and include:

- Jammie Dodger blondie
Gooey vanilla blondie with white chocolate chips and swirls of raspberry jam, topped with a Jammie Dodger biscuit

- Mini Eggs cookie bar
A slab of fudgy cookie packed with whole Mini Eggs and milk chocolate chunks, topped with crushed Mini Eggs

- Peanut butter slice
Decadent peanut butter and digestive biscuit base with a layer of dark chocolate and a sprinkling of Reese's Pieces

- Millionaire's shortbread
A thick layer of luxurious caramel on top of a shortbread base, covered with a generous helping of chocolate

- Triple chocolate brownie
Rich dark chocolate brownie studded with white and milk chocolate chunks

- Cinnamon and raisin flapjack
Buttery flapjack spiced with warm cinnamon and dotted with juicy raisins, drizzled with white chocolate

Please message to order! Collection preferred (NE8)

This weekend's cakes!

A trio of cakes for a 21st birthday
- chocolate fudge cake 🇨🇭
- orange cake 🇬🇧
- raspberry and white chocolate cake 🎂

And another chocolate fudge cake in my signature style 🍫

My poll about what to offer for Mother's Day was very split, so I've decided to do both Treat Boxes AND Afternoon Teas! Available for collection on Saturday 9th March from NE8 3JA

1. Mixed Traybake Treat Box (6 slices): £14
- Jammie Dodger blondie
- Mini Eggs cookie slice
- Millionaire's shortbread
- Triple chocolate brownie
- Peanut butter and chocolate slice
- Cinnamon raisin flapjack

2. Afternoon Tea: £17.50pp
- 4 x finger sandwiches (truffle chicken, roast beef and mustard, cheese savoury, egg and cress)
- Cheese scone with mustard and chive butter
- Lemon and blueberry scone with clotted cream and jam
- Jammie Dodger blondie
- Millionaire's shortbread
- Happy Mother's Day cupcake
+ The first 8 afternoon teas ordered will also include a homemade sausage roll bite!

Please message the page to order! We can cater for vegetarians and swap some items if you don't like them. We prefer collection, but delivery will be considered depending on your location and the size of the order!

Cupcakes and cake pops for a baby shower this weekend 💙

What a week! Daily deliveries to a marquee in Durham to keep 's Events Week Café stocked up! Bakes included:

- Biscoff cake
- Chocolate tart
- Key lime pie
- Triple chocolate brownies
- Mini Eggs cookie bars
- Carrot cake
- Lemon tart
- Orange cupcakes
- Rocky Road
- Millionaire's shortbread
- Lemon cake
- Cinnamon raisin flapjacks
- Jammie Dodger blondies
- Chocolate orange cheesecakes
- Smarties blondies
- Sticky toffee cake
- Bakewell tart
- Biscoff cheesecakes
- Chocolate fudge cake
- Butterscotch tartlets
- Vanilla and caramel cupcakes

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