The Little Book of Dorset, published 2011

DORSET DOES MAKE SOME EXTREMELY GOOD GOODIES.

If you're after gluten-free goodies, Dorset's got some lovely buns for you.

Honeybuns of Holwell, just outside Sherborne, is home to the makers of award-winning, handmade gluten, wheat and dairy free cakes.

Over the last 12 year, Emma Goss-Custard has adapted, with anorakish attention to detail, handed down family recipes and now creates delicious cakes, cookies, brownies and flapjacks without wheat or the usual milk based products.

Emma's hair-brained bun making scheme began in 1998, when she bought a bike and pedalled round Oxford selling a selection of sandwiches and her own, home made cakes.

As the business grew, Honeybuns began to supply local deli's and within just a few years Emma and her friend Rachel had scored a few large caking making contracts with Virgin trains and a number of high street and supermarket coffee shops.

And the recipe for Honeybuns success? Well, after a few clever culinary experiments they came up with some unique recipes that replace wheat-flour with ingredients like polenta and ground nuts. Although they didn't set out to craft cakes for coeliacs, they seem to have cracked it (and found a nice little slice of the cake making market).

Honeybuns moved to its home at Naish Farm, Holwell, in 2002. Over the last few years they've slowly updated the farm but taken careful steps to support their local environment. If you manage to make one of their monthly tea parties, you can enjoy Stickey Wicket, their local nature reserve and see the work of some of their Bee Green projects.