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Honeybuns Cookies

I wrote a review a while ago (and here it is again for those who missed it) about Honeybuns cakes and the company. Well, now I can add cookies to the list of products that it’s been my pleasure to sample.

They are all gluten-free and delectable. Being individually wrapped, they are ideal for summer outdoor eating. They are moist and almost a cake, and they actually taste of the ingredients, which sounds an obvious statement but there are lots of cookies out there that taste of nothing but refined sugar.

Almond and Salted Pistachio Cookie is 50% almonds and 14% pistachio. Those are high percentages of the good stuff.

Honeyed Apple Cookie has over 30% apple in various forms as well as real honey.

Triple Chocolate Tinker Cookies are perhaps the best chocolate cookies I have eaten. They contain a whopping 35% Belgian chocolate and you can tell it’s there. A box of these cookies would make an ideal gift for any chocolate lover and a change from a box of chocolates, and I very much hope my husband is reading this.

I am now off to apply for a job with Honeybuns as chief sampler.

Honeybuns and Cakes

This little company, Honeybuns, is another BBC Good Food Show find. The stand was a delight, the proprietor, Emma, is lovely, young and enthusiastic, and the cakes are to die for.

Emma says “I had a hare-brained scheme to pedal around Oxford delivering my home-made cakes to delis and cafes during the late 1990s. We've still got the bike leant up against our Bee Shack Cafe wall. Some visitors assume it's just an attractive prop, but it truly is the original facilitator of the Honeybuns enterprise!

Now based at Naish Farm in beautiful Dorset, our growth has been organic and gentle. Everything is still made completely by hand without rushing and we take a holistic approach, considering our environment and community in everything we do.”

I have had the pleasure of tasting a selection of Honeybuns products. Many are gluten-free and all are moist and utterly delicious. It’s not only this humble writer who reckons these cakes are high-end. Honeybuns have a list of awards as long as your arm, culminating with the Blackmore Vale Media Taste of Dorset Awards 2008 - Most Inspirational Food Business, and The Great Taste Awards 2007 Gold*** Great Taste Award.

Heathcliffe Brownie, Cranberry and Pecan Flapjack, and Coppice Cake were my selections from the tin of Minis. Each of the individually-wrapped squares of cake was fresh, moist and had the texture of freshly baked and home-made goods. The Heathcliff Brownie has a subtle orange flavour which is admired even by those who don’t normally enjoy anything chocolatey (I had to hide the tin after I foolishly allowed my husband to try a brownie). The Cranberry and Pecan Flapjack has a lovely hint of maple syrup, and the Coppice Cake would be a marvellous afternoon tea-time treat, fruity and scrumptious.

The quality of these cakes is unbeatable and the packaging makes them ideal gifts. Emma offers a choice of attractive tins of cakes that would be brilliant presents for almost anyone of any age. Because the cakes are individually wrapped they stay fresh for quite a while but they can equally be frozen with no ill effects.

You can visit Honeybuns at www.honeybuns.co.uk where you will find an online shop as well as all kinds of nutritional information.