the small * bakehouse

*** Order gifts for your friends,

teachers, family or yourself!! ***

Christmas Brownies

Double Chocolate * Pistachio and Cardamom *

Chocolate Hazelnut * Festive Nut and Berry

* Salted Caramel Cream * Minter Wonderland *

Cranberry and Mandarin * Mochachino

wrapped in brown paper and string or ribbon

choose one flavour or a selection

Oreo * Marshmallow * Rocky Road * Very Chocolatey

Special xmas offer – single brownie square wrapped in glassine bag

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Cake*Jars

Minter Wonderland * Sticky Mandarin

Hazelnut and Chocolate

Festive Chocolate Panettone

Cranberry with Pecans and Orange

Festive Berry & Marshmallow

Custom flavours, personalised wrapping and labelling & gift vouchers are available on request

Please order by Friday December 15th for delivery by the end of term or Christmas posting (which we can arrange direct for you) – See us at Pembrokeshire College Christmas Market on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th December and STP Christmas Market on Thursday 13th December or confirm your order by e-mailing cake@thesmallbakehouse.co.uk   

Payment is required when ordering. We can accept paypal. Gluten free available on request. Please note that both the brownies and the cake*jars require keeping in the fridge to stay fresh.                                

And here’s wishing you a very happy festive season,

lots of love, India and Ella Gee XX

 

In the Bakehouse oven for Christmas

We've been working hard – mostly on school work and exams L but also in the kitchen on some new recipes J

Our brownies have been such a huge hit, everyone seems to love them so we've introduced some new flavours especially for the festive season;

Double Chocolate,

Pistachio and Cardamom,

Cranberry and Mandarin,

Black Mitcham Minter Wonderland,

Chocolate Hazelnut,

and Mochachino.

 

 


Our cake*jars have also had a christmas makeover;
 

Minter Wonderland,

Sticky Mandarin,

Cranberry, Pecan and Orange,

Hazelnut and Chocolate,

and Festive Panettone

All delicious and perfect for sharing XX

PS. photos on their way when we get a chance to take them before the cake get eaten!!

end of summer rice pudding

At the end of the summer holidays we made up a big batch of rice pudding to experiment with flavours.
 

We decided we loved the chocolate one but our favourite is the coconut and cardamom. We ate it cold with fresh raspberries and banana outside in the late summer evening sun.
 

 

Here's what we use.....

Italian Arborio risotto rice – yes the kind of rice risotto is made from. Calon Wen organic milk and cream, fresh grated coconut plus it's milk, cardamom seeds, brown unrefined sugar, plump organic raisins and lots and lots of stirring.

It really was delicious.  That seems so long ago now, looking forward to eating it hot by the fire. Homemade comfort food. XX

in the bakehouse oven .....

We've been busy working towards exams. That hasn't stopped the flow of requests for our brownies so The Small Bakehouse has baking and baking and baking brownies in between maths and chemistry revision.
 
Here's what we use as our ingredients ......

Organic wheat flour from Shipton Mill or Dove's Farm organic gluten free flour, Calon Wen unsalted organic butter, local free range eggs and unrefined, unbleached sugar. Green and Black's organic AND fairtrade chocolate and cocoa. A little magic and a lot of love.
 

Wrapped in brown paper and stripy cotton string with a hand stamped label made from recycled paper and a little bit of washi tape.

That's it. Simple and completely natural. Ethically sound.
That said, we do like a good brownie with something special added to it like pecans or almonds, though our favourite is Oreo cookies. Yum.
 

                                                                                                                                       
Last week we had a big school stage production of Phantom of the Opera and on the last night we baked up a double batch of brownies, wrapped them up in a huge parcel and took them to share with our friends.

One problem we are having is that we now have to hide from our teachers as if they spot us in the corrider they want to know where our stash of brownies is hidden and why they haven't had any delivered to them at breaktime! XX

 

in the bakehouse oven.....

baking banoffee pie cake ....order now! XX

sisterhood of the travelling cake queens

We spent nearly a year travelling across Europe. We intended to embrace local culture and eat as much as possible like the locals. Every now again we couldn't help but be tempted and enticed by the amazing cake shops we found along the way, often tucked away down a back street.

  

Family search for fresh chocolate pasta and cake, Italy





Iced nut milks and italian pastries, Lecce, Southern Italy



Enjoying pastries in Paris, France.

Wherever we explored, once the vegetables were in our basket, we went in search of cake....

Choosing pastries in Rome, Italy.

Our love of small cups of thick Spanish hot chocolate was well and truly developed in Barcelona. Never had we tasted anything so delicious that could be called a drink - more like a cup of slightly bitter chocolate creamy custard. Especially delicious to dip churros in, and yes they look like chips but taste more like fresh donuts bought off Brighton Pier, crisp and sugary.

Chocolate con churros, Barcelona.

Chocolate brownies, Amsterdam.

And then we came back to some of our favourite places in Soho, London - Patisserie Valerie in Old Compton Street, who made our parents' wedding cake and Bar Italia in Frith Street where we used to hang out at a pavement table or in the back of the car nibbling at pasteis de nata (custard tarts) 

Patisserie Valerie, Soho, London.

Pasteis de Nata, Bar Italia, London

And after tasting cake from all over Europe, cake is definitely our thing! Our own version of pasteis de nata is going into the oven now. XX

And Dad said it wouldn’t work!

The latest addition to our ever expanding small bakehouse collection – especially made for our dad who would rather eat pudding than cake.

Made with Italian Arborio risotto rice, organic milk and cream, cinnamon, Green and Black's fair trade chocolate, and topped with a dollop of sweetened mascarpone – in a jar. Hot or cold.
It tastes like Me-Mum's homemade rice pudding with thick Spanish hot chocolate mixed in. Yum.

We made a vegan friend a coconut and cardamon version with fresh almond milk, raisins, agave syrup, and topped with coconut cream and pistachios - dairy and gluten free and no refined sugar.

And everyone's been telling us just how much they like eating cake and now pudding out of the jar. Sustainable packaging at it's best – recyclable, reusable, and no chemicals leaching into the food from plastic containers or wrapping. When you've eaten enough – just screw the lid back on. Perfect. XX