An EGGCELENT Blog Post..

Well, its not long now till Easter Sunday and we can all open up and enjoy our chocolate eggs, so we thought we would write up a blog on all the wonderful different eggs we've seen out there.

Hotel Chocolat

William Curley winner of Best Chocolatier four times!

These go inside! Amazing!!

Lakeland eggs.

Nicky Grant eggs.

Fortnum and Mason. www.fortnumandmason.com

Another William Curley masterpiece.

Competition winner and our sweet of the week...

Congratulations to Kelly Boyd who won our sweet of the week competition, grabbing herself a prize of her favorite sweet shop treats themselves - Cough Candies!

Cough Candy!

With a texture similar to Scots Tablet, and a taste of Aniseed too, they are a massive hit in the sweet shop already, seems to us that whichever sweetie makes the sweet of the week, it increases in popularity even more!

We will be running this competition again next weekend, asking you which is your favorite sweet, and why it should be our sweet of the week. If your sweet is chosen, you'll win a prize!!

Stay 'chew'ned xx

Pontefract Cakes, tell me more!

Pontefract cakes have been very popular already this morning in the shop, so it made us think about where it all started? Whats behind these little Yorkshire liquorice treats?

 

Its all in a name really, they started in Pontefract of Yorkshire, and are also reffered to as 'Pomfrey cakes' or 'Pomfret cakes'. Traditionally they were called 'Pomfret' cakes, because this was the old Norman name for Pontefract itself, but over time the name changed and became what we now know them as!

 

Originally, the sweets were embossed by hand with a stamp, by workers who were known as 'cakers' (They were able to produce upwards of 30,000 Pontefract cakes per day!!), but now they are usually machinery formed. With the demand for the cakes we can imagine it makes things a little bit easier...and a little bit quicker!

 

 

The stamp was originally a stylised image of Pontefract Castle. When the first secret ballot in the Northern Hemisphere was held in Pontefract on 15th August 1872, the ballot box used was sealed using a Pontefract cake stamp from Frank Dunhill’s factory, which shows the image of a castle and an owl!

Its amazing what fun facts and interesting information there are on sweets, stay 'chew'ned for more sweet treats and exciting reads! x

Like Grandad Bailey used to do..

Hello to all you sweet readers out there and thank you for checking out our brand new blog!!

We are indeed opening the most amazing sweet shop you have ever experienced..(Mr Willy Wonka himself is jealous of Dr Sweetness..)

 

 

 Oh yes,we are very excited to tell you that Dr Sweetness himself, will be bringing all things cooky, wonderful and sweet to the beautiful town of Boroughbridge!! Just like Grandad Harry Bailey used to do!!





Thats him!



There are so many different and exciting treats that he can’t wait to get up on the shelves for everyone to try, but we don’t just do sweeties; we do ice cream, drinks, crisps, and all things newsagent too, that means you can pick up your favourite newspaper or magazine in our shop, and that something sweet to munch on as you read ;)

 

Dr Sweetness himself will be blogging his way through all our different sweets, sharing the latest news and flavours of the week with all of our lucky readers. He will even let you in on what special offers are running that week on a particular sweet, and let you know what the headlines are on the papers that day!

The sweet of this week are BonBons, oh they are just too good, and come in lots of different flavours. It's actually Ruths favorite sweet too with the champion flavour being lemon. YUM!

 

And as its later in the afternoon I'm sure you will already know, but the headlines today are all about the new Argentinian Pope!

 

Stay 'chew'ned to find out more on our exciting offers and an interview with Dr Sweetness himself :)

 

Love Baileys xxx