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
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
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
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
The Bee Shack Wildlife Meadow
Wow. Our front field, once a closely cropped pasture, is now full to bursting with meadow plants including:Â red clover, oxe eye daisies, field scabious, red campion and the charmingly named, Hedge Bedstraw. It’s utterly beautiful and has taken the past
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
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
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
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. 40Â chunky croutonsBaking time
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
Gluten free Triple Chocolate Tinkers Cookie Recipe
Glastonbury 2015
Unveiling our new look cafe and takeaway tea & cake bar at Glastonbury Festival 2015Â in June is going to be exciting. The cafe has comfy seats for the weary and the muddy. Pretty tables, teapots and our beloved stripy china
Spring bird life at Naish Farm
Graham, our resident ornithologist, reports on the bird life here at Naish Farm: Spring has sprung well and truly, and things are really on the move with this spell of warm weather. Most of the frog spawn is turning into
Chickpea, Olive & Red Pepper Salad Recipe
This is a beautifully simple, Greek holidays inspired, side salad.Our second Honeybuns cook book will feature lots of gorgeous gluten free breads to serve alongside. Not long to wait as book 2 will be out Spring 2016. Serves 4-6 people.Â
Roasted Pepper & Paprika Muffins Recipe
These delectable little muffins are really easy to make and delicious served with a veggie bean chilli – have a go at our easy gluten free recipe and see for yourself! Makes 12 muffins Ingredients: 1 cornbread mix made up as per
Recycling and Composting at Honeybuns
At Honeybuns we’ve been on a mission to increase our recyling and composting activity. By stepping up our onsite composting we are now very nearly zero to landfill. This means all of our bakery waste is either recycled or composted
Mother’s Day Cake Recipe
Our gluten free cake mix makes a scrumptious and very easy celebration cake. Follow the instructions on the back of the tube to make up the gluten free cake mix but using 2x 18cm sandwich tins. Brush the tins with
What’s on our book shelf this month?
‘A Perfectly kept house is a misspent life’ Mary Randolph Carter. Rizzoli This is a divergence form our usual foodie focus and boy is it a lovely visual treat! Personally, page 15 sums it up for me. An utterly, utterly

