Author: Charlotte McMillan

The Shack Cafe celebrates it’s 10th Birthday!

We’d love to see you on Saturday, 5th September to celebrate the Bee Shack’s 10th Birthday. There’ll be gluten free Birthday cake, balloons and bubbles as well as the usual array of homemade cakes and drinks on offer. Little did we know that our humble café, converted from a chicken shed,

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The continuing sugar debate…

The sugar debate continues and we’re super conscious of needing to review our Honeybuns range and get refined white sugar levels down across the board. We’re achieving this by doing the obvious and reducing the levels of sugar in each recipe across our range of gluten free cakes. This includes sugar,

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Gluten free Chocolate Orange Brownies Recipe

This gluten free brownie recipe features in our book ‘Honeybuns Gluten free Baking‘ and is an adapted version of our best selling chocolate Heathcliff Brownie, If your pushed for time, why not buy them from our Honeybuns online shop.  Like the romantic hero of Wuthering Heights’, this gluten free chocolate brownie is dark

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Gluten free Glamping weekends in our gorgeous Ark caravan

Our gorgeous, one-of-a-kind caravan, The Ark, looks picture perfect perched up in our front meadow. It’s surrounded by daisies and shimmering summer grasses. We’re into our second year of sowing wild flower meadow seeds and we have now mown dreamy meandering paths in amongst the buttercups. We’ve had some lovely

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The Bee Shack Wildlife Meadow

Wow. Our front field, once a closely cropped pasture, is now full to bursting with meadow plants including: red clover, oxe eye daisies, field scabious, red campion and the charmingly named, Hedge Bedstraw. It’s utterly beautiful and has taken the past 3 to 4 years to really get established. With simple

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Pea, Feta and Mint Bake Recipe

The refreshing combination of mint and pea makes this gluten-free bake perfect for light summer lunch or supper.    Serves 8-10Baking time 15 mins Ingredients 50g polenta 50g brown rice flour ¼ tsp salt 1 tsp gluten free baking powder A pinch of pepper  3 free range eggs 200g butter, melted  2

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Be a Bee Storytelling Activity Trail at the Bee Shack Cafe

Please do join us for a very special Be a Bee’ storytelling activity trail at our next Bee Shack Café open day on Saturday 4th July, at 2.30pm. This special afternoon is all about children exploring and learning about the wonderful bee’s in our gardens. Led by the knowledgeable Hannah of

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Bird, Bee and Butterfly planting at Honeybuns Bakery

Currently we’ve been busy designing and planting out new areas in the Bee Shack Café gardens. The transformation has been wonderful to see since we started work this March. Our remit was to create gorgeous looking and smelling herb and flower beds. We wanted as many of the plants as

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Big Fat Croutons Recipe

These lovely little cornbread croutons make a tasty accompaniment to soups and salads, scattered on top for extra texture and a bit of crunch. Our gluten free recipe makes use of our versatile cornbread mix. Makes min. 40 chunky croutonsBaking time 20-24 mins Ingredients:1 Honeybuns Cornbread mix made up as per pack instructions

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Thai Red Pepper & Lentil Soup Recipe

This is a doddle to make inspired by long ago holidays to Thailand. Feel free to play around with the ginger & lemon levels. We’ve kept it quite subtle. Bake time: 200°C / 400°F / Gas 6 for 25 mins (for peppers) Ingredients: 3 red peppers, chopped and deseeded 1

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