HONEYBUNS
Naish Farm, Stony Lane,
Holwell, Sherborne,
Dorset, DT9 5LJ
The bakery - 01963 23597;
Accounts number - 01963 23706;
Fax us on - 01963 23479; Email us on - thebee@honeybuns.co.uk
THE BEE NEWSLETTER
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The Bee Newsletter 2007
News from Honeybuns Bakery Number
11 - Christmas 2007
AMONDI WINS 3 STAR GOLD GREAT TASTE AWARD
We're looking forward to putting our collective feet up for a bit once the Christmas
orders have been met. We feel that we have been extra specially Busy Bees this
year. One of 2007’s highlights was being awarded a much coveted 3 Gold
star award for our luscious Amondi cookies. Our cookies are inspired by Italian
Amaretti - the difference being that we go for a really gooey texture in the
centre, achieved by our slow baking methods and by making the cookies quite thick.
The result is a crisp, crackled outer shell and a lush - dush chewy centre. We
get extra chew by popping in some organic orange zest strips - Winning our triple
gold star award was a lovely nod of recognition from the fine food world. Our
team richly deserve praise for their never ending quest to improve on our products.
We all get slightly Anorakey about things like "which way should the cracks
go on the amondi cookies- up/down, left to right or a cheeky little mixture of
the two? If you are a retailer and would like to try the amondi, please just
give us a call and we'll arrange some samples for you.
RUDOLFS REWARD FEATURING JOANEY OUR GORGEOUS DONKEY
Our Rudolfs Rewards are wickedly decadent. They look deceptively like childrens'
rice crispy cakes - they are in fact strictly grown up territory. We melt Belgian
milk chocolate, golden syrup, butter together and then stir in the rice crispies
before setting it solid. They were only intended to stay for one Christmas season
but we had a near mutiny amongst customers when we suggested their summer retirement.
This year, just for fun, we've popped our beautiful Joaney the donkey stickers
on the Rudolfs. Mince pies aren't quite our thing but we wanted to be at
least a little bit festive.
Big Questionnaire
Honeybuns’ desire to make you happy
Please, please do take a look at our Big Questionnaire on www.honeybuns.co.uk/feedback
We'd love to hear any comments good or bad and we'll pop all the replies
we get into a grand prize draw for a luscious Honeybuns hamper. We truly appreciate
how busy everyone is and you do not need to fill all sections in, just whatever
you have time for would be great and you can still be entered for the prize hamper
draw.
TASTING ROAD SHOW
On the subject of samples, our lovely Rosie and Trish have just got back from
Dublin where they were doing a tasting for BBs Coffee and Muffin stores. Says
Yvonne at BBs:
"Honeybuns have a lovely 'manner' in the way they do business which is rare
these days. Long may the success of Honeybuns continue!!"
Well done Trish and Rosie - we are in the business of making people feel nice-
and you both do this so very well. If you are a retailer and are interested in
having an instore tasting, then please just give us a call. We can get
to the South West and London. If you're based elsewhere we can happily send you
enough "nibble" trays and point of sale for you to do your own sampling.
HONEYBUNS MINIS
After listening to our precious customer feedback many of you find our regular
75 - 85 grm bars just a little bit too much of a good thing. We thought about
this and decided to launch a little, bijou package of our plain vanilla flapjack
for Springtime 2008.
There is still quite a bit of research to be done on packaging and case sizes
- but if you'd like a sneak preview pls just call up for a sample and we'll be
happy to send one over. They'll be just a couple of nibbles big and the larger
pack will still hit the spot after your weekend ramble, housework sesh, retail
therapy spree or like us - chasing our pesky goats in order to trim their toe
nails!
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Animal magic
we've been utterly enchanted by the suprise arrival of two beautiful white doves
at Naish Farm. They've decided to make their home in our large barn round the
back of the bakery and they've been merrily multiplying ever since. They are
truly beautiful and we were intrigued as to where they came from. We asked if
anyone had mislaid any doves in our Honeybuns article in the parish magazine.
Betty contacted us to say they might be hers but she is more than happy to share
them. Apparently they pop round to hers for a spot of breakfast!
www.honeybuns.co.uk/blog
To find out what's been going on with the rescue animals, the bakery and new
recipe trials please pop onto Em's blog. There are regular up dates and there's
an eclectic mixture of subject matters. We also now have an online discussion
group www.honeybuns.co.uk/group
It would be lovely to hear from you via this discussion group or if you'd just rather call or e-mail us your feedback
is really important to us.
GREEN BEE
We've been busy extending the amount of recycling activity here at the bakery.
Now all of our cardboard, paper, film, plastics and glass are collected to be
recycled. Our rainwater harvesting toilets will be completed ready for
after Christmas which is another step in the right direction. There's so much
we need to improve on but we're definitely getting there.
We have planted 4 more oak trees in the front field to develop the fine pair
of "eco lungs" surrounding the bakery and old farm buildings. We've
also not cut any of the hedges this year to encourage the growth of blackberries,
hips and haws for the birds to feed on. We're also in the middle of creating
a wild life bank in the back field which we're planting up with wild meadow seeds.
This strip will be left alone to encourage voles and in turn, owls to use Naish
Farm as their sanctuary. Taking a tip from the reknown sticky wicket wildlife
garden, www.stickywicketgarden.co.uk
we are also installing willow crafted bird feeders which look a bit like walnut
whips but bigger. They are ideal for tits to use and help to keep marauding squirrels
at bay.
Honeybuns running team are limbering up for the Great South Run in aid of Myleoma UK. The Honeybuns team this time is: Mal, Rak (honorary Honeybuns members) and Matt and Em. It’s 10 miles and promises to be really good fun. We’re keen to raise as much money as possible for Myleoma UK and if you are able to help and would like to make a donation, please visit www.justgiving.com/yccc
We did the run and reached our target of £1500, thanks very much to everyone who sponsored us!
FESTIVE DORSET
Honeybuns
invites you to a sumptuous sensual feast on
Saturday 3rd November
11 am -5pm
We're taking part in a new Dorset wide intiative called Festive Dorset. The aim
is to marry up local artists and craftspeople with exisiting foodie venues including
farmshops, delis and our very own Bee Shack cafe. Customers to the foodie outlets
can then puruse and buy any of the artworks on display whilst stocking up on
their foodie provisions and Christmas gifts. It's a great way to encourage people
to shop for Christmas in a more local way but bringing artisan producers together.
It also overcomes “gallery phobia". Art can often be seen as scarily
elitist but if presented in a cosy little cafe where the artist is able to chat
one to one-what's not to love about beautiful works of art and scrummy cake?
We are therefore delighted to present
Rosie Emerson
as our Festive Dorset artist.
Rosie creates large scale contemporary works which combine collage and paint.
They are truly beautiful and highly innovative. Rosie will be in the Bee Shack
with Emma, one of Honeybuns owners to chat to visitors about the art and cakes
on sale- we'll also be welcoming visitors with complimentary mulled wine and
canapes. For more details about the day, please call 01963 23597.
NEW CAKEBOARDS
New Cakeboards
We've gently revamped our quirky and much loved cakeboards. We're the first
to admit that we tend to get carried away with all of our new ideas. We love
getting creative but sometimes our branding efforts have been a little random.
We've had to concede there's only so much information you can fit onto the
wrapper of an 85 grm flapjack. Now everything is in a set place. If you want
to know how many calories you're eating - you'll know where to look. If you
do not care about that sort of thing and are more interested in what the animals
have to say- then skip the obesity warning, eat the cake and read all the fun
bits inside. We hope you like them. Please let us know what you think!
Forthcoming Events 2007
FESTIVE DORSET
Saturday 3rd November
Art sale and cakes and gluten free food to nibble.
The Bee Shack T: 01963 23597
BEE SHACK XMAS SHOPPING
Saturday 1st December
Thursday 13th December, 5pm-7pm
Thursday 20th December, 5pm-7pm
Bee Shack Day Open for lunches and Xmas Gift Ideas.
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