The Welbeck Bakehouse

It's the final week of the Euros and football fever is growing... And with a semi final to look forward to on Wednesday,.. it's getting closer to coming home.

This week will be the last chance to try one of our football themed cakes.

Raspberry and white chocolate st George's loaf cake.
Our chocolate and vanilla football cupcakes.
St George's flag and chocolate football traybake.

Ok ok ok.... What do you get if you cross the superb Red Feather Ale with cake??
Well what you get is this stunning flavoursome delight.

Red feather is an Auburn ale with hints of caramel and walnut.
We've used this Ale in our sponge, enhanced the flavour with extra caramel and mixed in chopped walnuts.
Then used the ale to make a beer buttercream and sprinkle with extra walnuts!

All of our cake range is made with 100% British butter, organic flour and has NO artificial flavours, colours or E-numbers.

We are delighted to be a finalist in the bakery of the year category. It's testament to the hard work of our team. 🥖🥐🍞

HERE WE GO! 💥 🏆 A celebration of East Midlands food & drink independents! 🎉

After counting over 6,000 public votes and analysing our social media stats for the past 12 months, here's the GFC Awards 2024/25 Finalist List. Congratulations to all the finalists! 👏

People's Champion (the business with the highest overall number of public votes):
Hambleton Bakery, Stretton, Rutland 🏆 🙌

Food Producer of the Year Finalists
Gelston Lamb, Gelston, Lincolnshire
Mee Blueberries, Nassington, Northamptonshire
Cote Hill Cheese, Osgodby, Lincolnshire
Picks Organic, Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire

Drink Producer of the Year Finalists
White Peak Distillery, Ambergate Derbyshire
Cidentro Cider, Twyford, Leicestershire
Mallard Point Vineyard & Distillery, Essendine, Rutland
Wild & Furrow, Marston Trussell, Northamptonshire

Pub of the Year Finalists
Hercules Revived, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire
The Unicorn's Head, Langar, Nottinghamshire
White Horse Lincoln
The Lancaster Arms, Newtown Unthank, Leicestershire

Restaurant Finalists
The Carpenters Arms Italian Kitchen, Walesby, Nottinghamshire
Ember, Wellingborough, Northants
Hitchen’s Barn, Oakham, Rutland
Mallories, Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire

Shop of the Year Finalists
North's - Rothley, Leicestershire
Moor Farm Shop, Newborough, Cambridgeshire
Hartington Cheese Company, Hartington, Derbyshire
Clarkes Queniborough, Leicestershire

Bakery of the Year Finalists
The Tiny Bakery, Leicester
The Welbeck Bakehouse, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Leys Bakery, South Wheatley, Nottinghamshire
The Garage Bakehouse, Market Harborough, Leicestershire

Cafe Finalists
L’il Bo’s Cafe & Deli, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
Lamberts of Stamford, Lincolnshire
Bob’s Corby, Northamptonshire
The Deli at 58, Loughborough, Leicestershire

Food & Drink Heroes of the Year Finalists
The Radmoor Restaurant Team, Loughborough
Romail Gulzar, founder of the Leicestershire Curry Awards
The Round Corner Brewing Team, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
The Langar Hall Kitchen Team, Langar, Nottinghamshire

We'll name the winners on October 1, 2024.

It’s all about the dads this weekend 👍

⭐️Fathers Day Special ⭐️
Sirloin or rib eye steak with peppercorn butter
Pork pie
Guiness cake with Baileys buttercream
Gift wrapped and ready to be devoured 😋
£25
Pre order only
Orders to be placed by Thursday .

Guinness chocolate cake with whipped Bailey's buttercream.
Available for father's Day only.
Available as a loaf cake and traybake.

It's safe to say our new cake range has been a huge hit!

Our new cake is available right now!
A delicious Guinness chocolate cake, with a whipped Bailey's buttercream topping!

But don't worry we've got you covered with the other cakes in our range:

Mini cake selection.
Coffee and walnut.
Cherry and almond.
Lemon drizzle.
4PK cupcake selection.
Rich chocolate cake.
Carrot cake.
Sticky toffee.
Cinnabon swirl.

Did you know?
All of our cakes contain no artificial colours or flavours.
They are handmade by our amazing team of cake bakers, using Organic flour & English butter.

Sneak peek at our test bakes over three last few days!
It's a tough job, but sometimes you just have to get stuck in and eat cake!

Congratulations farm shop team.
Well deserved 👏👏👏

🏆 UK Large Farm Shop of the Year 🏆
We are overwhelmed with joy to have been awarded UK Large Farm Shop of the Year at the coveted Farm Shop and Deli Show and awards this afternoon.

The UK has an incredible Farm Shop industry, and we are delighted that after being shortlisted and mystery shopped by a previous winner, a panel of industry experts chose Welbeck for this prestigious award, and we also picked up ‘Midlands Retailer of the Year’

We are privileged to work with amazing colleagues and suppliers, and we all thoroughly enjoy sourcing the best food and interacting with our wonderful visitors and friends at the shop and cafe.

Thank you to all those who’ve supported us along our journey 😊🏆

There are hundreds of bakers just like us that follow these principles.
We're not trying to be almighty and prove we're better... Bread is the simplest of things and part of our everyday lives.
You don't have to be rich to eat real bread. You just need to care about what you eat.
One slice of properly made bread fills you more than 2 or 3 slices of highly processed bread.
It digests easier and shouldn't leave you feeling bloated.
The magic ingredient is time.. letting the flour, water, yeast and salt do it's natural process.
Support your local independent bakery.
They work long hard hours, mostly when everyone sleeps. They use the simplest of ingredients to create loaves that aren't square, they don't fit into plastic bags, with 7 - 14 days life.
The loaves they make will have holes, be strange shapes, not be square.... They will be tasty, healthy, and made with heart and soul.

Real Bread is additive-free.

Start throwing in chemical raising agents, undeclared ‘processing aids’ or other additives* and it’s no longer what we call bread, it’s an industrial dough product.

Bread made by the sourdough process, and unleavened flatbreads, can be made from just flour and water, though most people add salt as well.

Many bakers use liquid, compressed or dried cultured yeast (usually Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to make their Real Bread dough rise.

You might also choose to add other unprocessed or minimally processed ingredients (such as nuts, seeds, oil, malt, eggs, dairy products etc.) into your Real Bread dough.

Beyond that, things stray from processed food into Nova category 4 territory: additive-laden ultra processed food (UPF).

You can read all about Real Bread, including genuine sourdough, as well as UPF at www.realbreadcampaign.org

*with the exception of the four mandatory ‘fortificants’ added to non-wholemeal wheat flour in the UK.

(The bottom ingredients list is a hypothetical composite, including things that can be – and are – used in industrial dough fabrication, though not necessarily all in one product.)

Mmmmmm cinnabon cake 🤤🤤🤤
Our new seasonal special cake is this delightfully more-ish, Marbled cinnamon cake!
Topped with a cream cheese icing and lightly dusted with cinnamon.

Our new cake traybake range is growing...
Welcome to the newest 2 lines

* Jam and coconut sponge.

* Old school vanilla sponge with icing.

As with all of our cakes, they are made with no artificial ingredients, colours or flavourings.

Our apprentice baker Imogen, had a course observation today, and smashed it.
Making croissant dough from scratch, laminating, baking and finishing.
All to be enjoyed by our customers tomorrow!

Just look at that lamination!

Have you tried our new range of luxury granola yet?
Made with Grade A Canadian Maple syrup and British oats.
They are handmade right here on the Welbeck Estate

Luxury granola - made with a great combination of dried fruits, nuts and honey.

Luxury milk chocolate granola - our luxury granola, speckled with milk chocolate.

Luxury nut free granola - made with dried fruits and a lovely selection of toasted seeds and honey.

Luxury vegan friendly granola, made with dried fruit, nuts and deep flavoured rich date syrup.

Available to order for this weekend.
Our mother's day special cake is delicately flavoured with elderflower and lemon, topped with a lemon, elderflower and poppy seed icing, and elegantly decorated with edible flowers.

Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,
hot cross buns, hot cross buns.
One a penny, two a penny,
hot cross buns, hot cross buns

Straight out of the oven...
Oh I wish we had instasmell
These smell amazing.
Spicy, sweet and fruity, made with our sourdough starter
Finished with a chewy flour paste cross.

We love this time of year... The whole bakery smells of hot cross buns...

Let them eat cake
Have you seen our brand new range of additive free loaf cakes?? ... No??

We handmake all of our cakes right here
They are made with all butter, and all natural ingredients.

Let's start with our personal favourite.. a trio of loaf cakes! Each one just perfect to share. A mini lemon drizzle cake, a mini carrot cake and a mini rich chocolate cake.

Then there's our rich sticky toffee cake - perfect warmed and served with custard.

A true classic - coffee and walnut! Great with a coffee and cream.

A rich, indulgent, moist chocolate cake, topped with a milk chocolate ganache and chocolate curls.

Cherry and almonds combine in this original take on the flavour of a Bakewell tart.

The lemon drizzle cake is light and fluffy, topped with a zingy icing and lemon zest.

Fruity and spicy, our carrot cake isn't to be missed.. but don't forget to share the pecans out!

And finally, our latest seasonal cake (just in time for mothering Sunday) is an elderflower and lemon cake, topped with a lemon and elderflower icing and edible flowers.

But what does actually mean?
To us, it's just bread, bread how it should be made!

Water, flour, salt and yeast or sourdough starter.
This is the base for how bread should be made.

Additives are there to...
* increase the volume of bread meaning that the size of the loaf is inflated with gas to make it seem bigger.
* Increase the life of the loaf, to reach 7, 10 or even 14 days shelf life.
* Soften the bread. Make it more "gloopy" and eat easier. But this means that it's harder to digest.

Bread should be crunchy, chewy, easily digestible and taste great.
Buying locally produced bread supports the craft of the baker and the skill of an age old process.

Please Support your local bakery.

As continues, we thought we'd share some of our favourite lines!

Our real English muffins are absolutely delightful, light and fluffy, great served with poached eggs!

Kalamata olives and oregano run through our general managers favourite - olive bread!

The ever popular 100% rye and sunflower seed vollkornbrot, dense and packed with flavour.

Our Welbeck teacakes are bursting with fruit and spices.. great toasted, and Also available in a loaf, for easier toasting!

Our brioche buns are sweet and savoury! Packed with all British butter and glazed with a free range egg wash.

During , we feel it's also very important to highlight that real bakers make real bread.

We limited the amount of machinery to an absolute minimum, which means that around half a million loaves are scaled, moulded and shaped by hand, every year!

Whilst real bread Week primarily focuses on additive free bread, we keep the focus on additive free in all of our products.

By combining great ingredients and using our bakers skills and expertise, we believe that no artificial additives need to be used.
Our brand new granola range uses only British oats, grade A Canadian maple syrup with dried fruits, seeds and nuts.

Real bread Week celebrates everything that's great about additive free bread.
Our croissants are made using the finest french butter and organic croissant flour with nothing artificial added!
Flour, water, sugar, butter, salt and bakers yeast... That's it!

Did you know...
We hand roll every single one of our four and a half thousand croissants per week!

REAL BREAD WEEK: 17th-25th Feb 🥖🍞

Created and run by the Real Bread Campaign since 2010, is the annual celebration of real bread with nothing added!
We take great pride in baking great breads with nothing added and we distribute them across a huge range of cafes, restaurants, farmshops and other small businesses across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the Peak District.

Our bread is available to buy every day
Please support your local independent businesses who support us in making real bread every day.

Just in time for valentine's day.. our Raspberry and white chocolate cake is great to share with your loved one on valentine's day.
Packed with fresh raspberries & topped with white chocolate buttercream and dried raspberry pieces.

💕💕💕 Love is in the air 😍🥰🥰

Have you tried our new range of luxury granola yet?
Made with Grade A Maple syrup and British oats.
They are handmade right here on the Welbeck Estate

Luxury granola - made with a great combination of dried fruits, nuts and honey.

Luxury milk chocolate granola - our luxury granola, speckled with milk chocolate.

Luxury nut free granola - made with dried fruits and a lovely selection of toasted seeds and honey.

Luxury vegan friendly granola, made with dried fruit, nuts and deep flavoured rich date syrup.

Sorry for the late update, but power was restored a few hours ago.
This has meant that our baking is 4 hours behind schedule.
Please bear with us whilst we catch up... We are pulling out all the stops to make sure we get as much bread as we can made and sent out tonight.
This will also have a knock on effect with our driving team, but please bear with us if we are running late.

Much Xmas love going out to all our brilliant wholesale customers.. thank you for your patience.

The Welbeck Bakehouse team.

EMERGENCY UPDATE
We are currently experiencing a full power cut.
Our phone lines and emails are down.
We will try and respond as soon as possible and will update as the situation changes.
Please note this has affected every part of the business.
Without power we CANNOT mix any dough, or bake anything.
Please bear with us whilst we await a resolution to this issue.

We all know how tough things are at the moment. It is so important to keep coming out and seeing friends and family. Our All Day Dining doesn’t break the bank the light bites really aren’t light! Everything is made in house apart from our bread we leave the experts to do that The Welbeck Bakehouse. Pop in and see us we open at 11am. ❤️