Bloom Bakers at Hessian Cafe

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:...

Biscuits for International Women's Day

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 highlights of 2016

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...

Our recipe for mulled wine

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...

How the Germans celebrate 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...

Our recipe in Suburban Magazine Leeds

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,...

Bespoke biscuit collection boxes

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...

The story of cinnamon

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...

Supporting Lighthouse Union

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...

The story behind our Red Wine Cake

You might have heard or even been lucky enough to try a sample of the latest product we introduced last Saturday at Kirkstall Deli Market: red wine cake! Red wine in a cake?! That was...

Who else sells Germanic treats in Yorkshire

The more we explore Leeds and Yorkshire, the more we discover home away from home treats. We haven’t come across anyone selling the Dutch apple pies and German biscuits we do, but there are a...

Gluten-free Apple Pie

We created a gluten-free version of our classic apple pie! At our last market we gave some left-over apple pies to other stall holders. We didn’t want to throw any pies away. And a shared...