Category: Commercial bakery

Gift wrap

A Consumer Guide to buying online, ethical and eco friendly gifts

Charlotte McMillan 28 February, 2022 Tags: , , , , No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Gifts, Sustainability

Today, the plethora of “eco-friendly” business and marketing claims can be confusing for customers wanting to buy ethically. How can you be sure that a gift you’ve found online is truly sustainable? How can you wise up to the dreaded green wash?

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Mke your own christmas stocking

Step by step guide to making your own Xmas tree stocking

Charlotte McMillan 26 January, 2022 Tags: , , , , No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Gifts, Sustainability

How do I make home made Christmas stockings? Hallo, Our online Honeybuns Christmas shop is now open. Gorgeous gluten free cakes are a-plenty, plus we’ve rounded up some beautiful, handmade and unique gifts for you to browse too. Honeybuns Christmas gifts online Our cute, handmade mini Christmas stockings are crafted here in Dorset by

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Ancient droveway at Honeybuns Dorset

Restoring the ancient droveway next to our bakery

Charlotte McMillan 22 June, 2021 Tags: , , , , No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Sustainability

We have exciting news on our environmental projects at Naish Farm, home to Honeybuns Bakery. Honeybuns has purchased the lane next to our site. It’s an ancient part of Holwell, most likely a part of the village in medieval times and possibly much earlier. Honeybuns has been based at Naish

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Pop up factory cake shop

Honeybuns pop up shop

Charlotte McMillan 27 April, 2021 Tags: , , No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery

Our lovely Honeybuns pop up shop is back this Saturday from 09.30am to 12.00 noon and we’re really looking forward to greeting friends, old and new again. What gluten free cakes are you selling on the day? We’ll be selling a range of less than perfect cakes at perfect prices.

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tree planting

Easy effective ideas to offset your small business carbon footprint

Charlotte McMillan 21 January, 2021 Tags: , , , , No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Sustainability

Tips on greening up your small sustainable business. Happy Veganuary to everyone, following on from our previous blog when I was just getting to grips with a daunting delivery of 100s of hedging plants, I’d like to share with you an update on our tree planting and other muddy welly

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Free from Mincemeat Christmas cake

Honeybuns festive traybakes for free-from foodies

Charlotte McMillan 19 November, 2020 Tags: , , , , No Comments Categories: Cakes, Commercial bakery, Gifts, Gluten Free, Sweet, Trade, Vegetarian

2020 has been the most turbulent year we’ve had since starting Honeybuns in 1998, but it hasn’t just affected us. Our suppliers, customers, consumers, friends, neighbours and family have all been shaken by the events of this year and the pandemic that caused this chaotic time. Being terribly British though,

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Honeybuns founder Emma on armchair

Em’s top 10 gluten free and vegan festive gift ideas

Charlotte McMillan 3 November, 2020 Tags: , , , , , No Comments Categories: Commercial bakery, Environmental, Gifts

Hi from all of us at Honeybuns bakery in Dorset. I’d like to thank all of our loyal customers on behalf of all of us here at Honeybuns bakery. Your online custom and fabulous feedback has kept us all motivated and crucially, enabled us to keep trading and protect jobs.

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Gluten free Dark Chocolate Orange brownie

Under the bonnet of our gluten free chocolate orange brownie (with recipe!)

Charlotte McMillan 20 October, 2020 Tags: , , , No Comments Categories: Cakes, Commercial bakery, Gluten Free, Pudding, Recipes, Sweet, Vegetarian

What makes our gluten free dark chocolate brownie with orange so special? With a plethora of chocolate brownies now available to buy online, I wanted to re evaluate the brownies we make here at Honeybuns bakery in Dorset. We regularly revisit all of our gluten free cake recipes and methods

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