Courgette and Parmesan Muffins Recipe
These little gluten free muffins are delicious eaten straight from the oven, or served with a bowl of warming homemade soup. Makes 14 muffins Oven temp: 180 deg c/ 350F Baking time: 18 mins Ingredients 1 x Honeybuns Cornbread mix
Em’s Easy Apple Cake Recipe
October is the month we celebrate all things apple-y. Here’s the gluten free recipe for Em’s Easy Apple Cake, which went down a storm in our October Bee Shack cafe open day. We’ve included cranberries as an alternative. You can
What’s on our book shelf this month?
The Gluten-free Bible by Jax Peters Lowell. Publishers Owl Books. First published in 1995 in New York this was one of the first books I immersed myself in when first developing the Honeybuns’ gluten free range way back in 1998. As
Bird life at Naish Farm
We’d love to hear about your bird sightings, plantings, and any nature photos you’d like to send in. We’ll include selected items on this blog. Since we got busy planting in a more serious way last year, visitors to Honeybuns
Gluten free glamping at Honeybuns
We’ve had some very happy glampers to stay with us this year. It’s been lovely to share this little corner of Honeybuns Eden with fellow foodies. Happy guests to stay in the Ark has reminded us of just how many
Are you ready for the new allergen regulations?
We’ve been poring over the new Food Information for Consumers Regulation or FIR to see how this affects us as manufacturers, retailers and consumers.There are several new regulations from nutritional claims to country of origin. The change in allergenic ingredient
Honeybuns Butterfly Buffet Bar
The Hidcote lavender and assorted old fashioned roses we planted just two years ago are now truly blooming. With not much free time to lavish on weeding etc this bed in front of the Bee Shack Café really is a
Tree planting
Since last winter, 2013, we’ve been planting native trees and hedging plants like dervishes. The motivation is seeing the astonishing increase in the bird population. We see more types of bird and in greater numbers year on year. When we
Lemon Curd Cakelets Recipe
Lemon Curd Cakelets These delicately flavoured lemon cupcakes are made with our gluten free cake mix and make a great treat in lunch boxes.  Suitable for Gluten free Makes 12 cakelets Ingredients 1x Honeybuns gluten free cake mix 2x free range eggs
No Bake Blackberry Cheesecake Recipe
We love a bit of foraging in the late summer, seeing what treats we can find in the hedgerows surrounding our gluten free bakery. This No Bake Blackberry cheesecake is a great use for foraged blackberries, or for other blackberry
The new ‘go-to’ gluten free cornbread mix from Honeybuns
Our new super versatile gluten free savoury Cornbread Mix promises to become a beloved store cupboard staple. The mix makes either a cornbread bake or a pancake batter. Cornbread muffins, toad in the hole, fat crunchy croutons…and more are super
Raspberry Buns recipe
An easy gluten free recipe for fruity raspberry buns – delightful little tea time treats. Ingredients needed: 1 tube Honeybuns gluten free cake mix 200g fresh raspberries Approx. 50g mixed berries to decorate (we used blackberries, raspberries and blackcurrants) Freeze dried raspberries to decorate 100g
The Bee Shack Kitchen Garden
Graham, one of our lovely bakers who also does our design & illustration, manages to find time to look after the raised bed and other veg and fruit plants in our Bee Shack kitchen garden. The raised bed is about
Honeybuns Prop Shop
Apple crates have been used extensively and are now quite difficult to get hold of, so how about using old filing cabinet drawers instead. We’ve used wood ones, but old metal ones would work equally well, or even old haberdashers
Cornbread Pancakes Recipe
These tasty cornbread pancakes make a great lazy Sunday brunch… Have a go at our super simple gluten free recipe. 50g Polenta 25g Tapioca flour 25g Sorghum flour 1/4 tsp salt 1tsp gluten free baking powder 70ml milk 100g melted
Gorgeously gluten free veggie & butter bean broth with sage
I’ve been getting into broth making this past fortnight. The stock is a little cheat-some. I love Marigold’s Swiss vegetable bouillon. I then add in sage leaves & red onion fried in butter. Most of the remaining root veggies are
Gluten free sweet almond pastry recipe
This is our gorgeous almond pastry. Inspired by the more traditional pate sucree or sweet French pastry, we’ve replaced the flour with almonds. We just love sorghum flour but appreciate it can be hard to get hold off. You can
Gorgeous gluten free plum trifle
This is a truly luscious trifle. Great for using up plums you may have frozen from this Autumn’s glut. Fresh plums are easy to come by too.The layers are sweet & tangy by turn. A fab scene stealing festive pud!

