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Time flies and we hadn’t done a market since Christmas. Mainly because Lisa had a baby and I have been busy fulfilling online orders that come through our website. This meant that we hadn’t actually...

8th of March marks International Women’s Day and we feel it is the perfect day to celebrate 7 amazing women in Leeds who helped us be where we are today! We met them along the...

Towards the end of 2017 we have not only been busy with many of your tasty Christmas orders, we have also organised two biscuit decorating workshops. These offer not only the final result – a...

We have been invited to hold a number of workshops in the past couple of months and want to share some pictures with you! LOVE Roundhay talk and baking workshop at Roundhay School For LOVE...

Have you heard of Child Friendly Leeds? It is a fantastic initiative by Leeds City Council whose main objective is to make our city child friendly and a place that respects children and their rights....

Don’t dream your life, live your dream! This is exactly what we have been doing and we can more than ever vouch for living your dreams. Because it has gotten us to this mile stone:...

The world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8th and Leeds was going to host a wide range of exciting events all over the city in honour of us women. Leeds City Council had approached...

Our biscuits are available to the public 7 days a week now at Fabrication – located in The Light Shopping Centre. Of course we were already online 24/7. But we still think that a proper...

It’s been a pretty tumultuous 2016 when it came to world developments. Quite frankly, most of the world news was very hard to swallow this year. But, we hope we have been able to offset...

Early October we had this idea of hampers in our head. We thought our Christmas products would look great in a festive hamper. Small to medium size companies were our ideal target to approach with...

We bake and sell them all year round but at Christmas time they come out in most German households: jam sandwich biscuits or Spitzbuben how we call them in Germany. They are a big hit at...

Few things taste more like winter and Christmas than a hot mug of mulled wine. It is comforting and warming and a must-have on a cold winters’ night or while visiting your local German Christmas...

With only seven weeks until Christmas we are starting to feel very festive. Until I moved to the UK I had no idea how present my own culture became at Christmas time. The Christmas markets...

Remember when you were little and you played cashier? You had an imaginary stall and you sold cakes and drinks to your friends? Well, what we do is actually much like that. It’s fun! It’s...

We have been featured again 🙂 The September edition of Suburban Magazine Leeds was so friendly as to print some recipes of ours. We sent them a lovely recipe for a dish that is easy,...

There are few things that bring more joy than giving a present to someone and seeing the wide smile on their face that tells you it is a hit. On the other hand, there is...

Tuesday the 9th of August 2016 was a big day for us Bloom Bakers. When I went to buy the paper that morning, I could not help but mumble an “Oh my God” when I...

Tuesday the 9th of August 2016 was a big day for us Bloom Bakers. When I went to buy the paper that morning, I could not help but mumble an “Oh my God” when I...

Bespoke newborn biscuit box Our latest box was made to order for Jo. Living in London she wanted to celebrate the birth of her friend’s baby as soon as possible. She, however, wasn’t able to...

We use cinnamon in many of our Christmas biscuits and lebkuchen. But to be honest we both know relatively little about this spice. Reason enough to delve a bit deeper into the origins of this wonderful natural ingredient...

My mother is the inspiration behind our Apple & Beetroot Pie. People who know me will know that my father is Dutch and my mother is Cameroonian. Yet for this Dutch apple pie recipe, the inspiration...

Last month we were asked by the lovely Patricia from Search Laboratory to support an event that she organised on behalf of Lighthouse Union. Lighthouse School Leeds is a school for children with autism spectrum conditions. The...

What I dream for my children I am not someone who easily steps out into the front. I usually do things quietly and do not show my face where it hasn’t been asked for. But...