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Yesterday we hosted our Craft Bakers bakery tour, we really enjoyed showing some lovely locals around our bakery. We ran a competition for National Craft Baker’s week via Facebook. The prize was a tour of our Bakery in Chipping Sodbury. We also invited along our very loyal 99 year old customer Charles and Angie from... Read more »

In this traditional lardy cake recipe video you can watch Tom make our bakery’s Lardy cake recipe from the Fabulous Baker Brothers programme Lard has a bad reputation. But it’s a great ingredient, it cooks beautifully and is the main ingredient in this traditional cake. If you have any lard hanging about the house then... Read more »

As we leave this delicious Indian Summer we are bringing you Autumn cakes galore. Our shops are going to be full to the brim of exciting new products. The custard tart is having an autumnal twist with the addition of apple and cinnamon. We are relaunching our bakewell, packed with even more fruit to give... Read more »

It’s that time of year again our Chipping Sodbury Bake off as part of the Chipping Sodbury Food Festival this weekend, 27th September We are delighted to be running a bake off in our Chipping Sodbury shop, bring your very own creations into our shop and they will be judged by our patisserie chef Sam and... Read more »

Last week we were delighted to conquer Scotland, we got our bread, bought online successfully delivered to Kilcohan the most westerly point on the British Isles. A great Scottish “yes” vote for Hobbs House Bakery online bread delivery. This is her experience that she shared with us; Just to let you know that the bread... Read more »

TEARFUND’S BAKE OFF TOURNAMENT  Love food and love people? So do we. Get behind Tearfund by supporting their Big Bake as part of their No Child Taken campaign. Tom and Milo went to Laos with Tearfund in January 2014, here they shared in some desperate stories and witnessed the amazing work done by Tearfund and their partners.... Read more »

Drum roll please………. It has been an almighty competition, we have loved seeing your incredible bakes and sourdough on the rise. Lots of you have consistently entered, special mentions to Anne Hudson and Andrew Weston to your weekly entries. This weeks winner has consistently entered and we have loved seeing his range and quality of bakes... Read more »

Here at Hobbs House Bakery we are very excited about the Tour of Britain cycling through our local towns on Wednesday 10th September. The tour is set to cycle from Stroud through Nailsworth right past our bakery heading off into Horsley down into Wotton-Under-Edge onto Rangeworthy and finally finishing that evening in Bristol. Lots of us... Read more »

As the Harvest’s are being gathered it seems appropriate that September is the month for food festivals. We start next weekend at an exciting new festival in Bristol, the Grape and Grain Festival at the Millennium Square from 11th to 14th September.  We will be there selling our bread and brownies, running cookery school demonstrations... Read more »

We’ve reached the penultimate week of our #KingOfTheSourdough showdown, where we have seen a fantastic range of talent and creativity. From inventive Sourdough baguettes to expertly crafted traditional loaves it’s been an inspiration to see so much passion for baking, week after week.   This weeks title of super sourdough champion goes to Steve Richardson... Read more »

Following last weeks record number of entries, it’s fantastic to see so many bakers getting involved week after week demonstrating such a high level of expertise. We have been blown away by your entries! Special mentions go to Andrew Weston, Euan Greig and Lucas Hogg for their continued delicious looking efforts. Unfortunately we can only... Read more »

We are delighted to say we have received a record number of entries in this week’s #KingOfTheSourdough competition, with a phenomenal standard of baking. This week’s Super Sourdough Champion is Victoria Harley with this mouthwatering loaf, closely followed by Euan Geig’s semolina, olive oil & honey Sourdough. Proud of this one…the mouse holes in the... Read more »