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If you’re looking for high-quality bakeries, including producers of sourdough loaves, stunning cakes, flatbreads and craft-baked goodies, you’re in the right place. On the map above and listed below are all the fantastic independent bakeries we recommend so far, and many are running exclusive GFC member offers…

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    The Garage Bakehouse

    The Garage Bakehouse is a small independent bakery in the heart of Market Harborough. It sells artisan bread, coffee, cakes and more…

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    Hambleton Bakery | Exton

    Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces a mouthwatering array of breads and pastries in its woodfired oven…

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    Tough Mary’s Bakehouse

    Tough Mary’s is a delightful artisan bakery on Nottingham’s Derby Road. All the action happens in the open kitchen, where everything is made from scratch…

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    Lily & Honey Bakery

    Lily & Honey Bakery in Oakham offers sourdough loaves and other treats baked freshly on the premises each day by owners Robert and Nicolle Bradbury…

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    Small Food Bakery

    A small-batch Nottingham bakery specialising in naturally fermented sourdough loaves, pastries and pizzas…

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    The Bakehouse

    The Bakehouse in Sherwood, Nottingham, is a thriving cafe and bakery that has deservedly bagged many prestigious awards…

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    B Is For Brownie

    The most luxurious, rich, smooth and flavour-packed brownies you could hope to find – made in Rutland with single-origin chocolate…

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    Baines Bakery

    This fifth-generation family bakery bakes all produce on site and offers a real slice of history…

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    Bake Off & Pie

    Bake Off & Pie of Nottingham is a small wholesale craft bakery. It supplies around 30 businesses around Nottingham with freshly baked goods each day…

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    Bakery Cottage

    Bakery Cottage of Melton Mowbray bakes brownies, blondies, cake jars, treat boxes and more. It was a finalist in the Great Food Club Awards 2019/20…

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    Barkby Bakehouse

    Barkby Bakehouse of Barkby in Leicestershire bakes bread and other products to traditional methods using high-quality ingredients…

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    Beauvale Priory Bakehouse

    The Priory Bakehouse is located at Beauvale Priory in Nottinghamshire and run by Baker Cameron Whyte who creates delicious sweet and savoury bakes including pastries and pies…

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    Bom Bom Patisserie, Canal House

    Bom Bom Patisserie number two opened in 2019 and can be found in an area of Loughborough popular with creatives…

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    Bom Bom Patisserie, Derwent Drive

    Marta Child is a baking goddess and has given Loughborough not just one, but two cafes in which to get a sweet fix…

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    Brockleby’s Pies

    Brockleby’s are farmers and pie makers from Melton Mowbray, producing a range of multi-award-winning, handmade pies. Buy online and have them delivered…

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    Cakes + Co

    Cakes + Co’s decadent cakes and great coffee make it a popular spot in the pretty market town of Stamford…

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    Davison’s Bakery

    Davison’s Bakery of Newark is an independent family business, open daily and offering a delivery service. It sells fresh bread, cakes and more…

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    De Gustibus Cakes

    Lisa West has been creating show stopping cakes for weddings and celebrations for more than seventeen years…

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    Derby Pyclets

    Pyclets have quite the history, first appearing in Derby in the 1860s. Current owner Katie Gibson is taking this savoury snack into the future…

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    Dickinson & Morris

    Dickinson & Morris is an award-winning baker of Melton Mowbray pork pies, plus seller of fine local cheeses, sausages & more…

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    Fiona Cairns Luxury Cakes

    Luxury cake designer and baker Fiona Cairns was given the Royal seal of approval in 2011 – but you don’t have to be royalty to enjoy these cakes…

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    Fitzbillies

    Fitzbillies is a legendary Cambridge café and cake shop: don’t leave town without trying one of their sticky Chelsea buns…

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    Gourmet Brownie Company

    A crisp crust and a rich, indulgent centre: Gourmet Brownie Company of Ely, Cambridgeshire, are taking brownies to a new level…

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    Hambleton Bakery | Exton

    Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces a mouthwatering array of breads and pastries in its woodfired oven…

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    Hambleton Bakery | Market Harborough

    Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces mouthwatering breads and pastries in its woodfired oven…

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    Hambleton Bakery | Oakham

    Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces mouthwatering breads and pastries in its woodfired oven…

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    Hambleton Bakery | Oundle

    Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery, Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces a mouthwatering array of breads and pastries in its giant woodfired oven…

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    Hambleton Bakery | Stamford

    Crowned Britain’s Best Bakery by ITV1, Hambleton Bakery produces a mouthwatering array of breads and pastries in its giant woodfired oven…

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    Hambleton Bakery | West Bridgford

    Hambleton Bakery traditionally produces a mouthwatering array of bread and pastries in its giant woodfired oven. Its West Bridgford shop is its newest…

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    Harrison & Griffiths

    Harrison & Griffiths of Arnold, Nottingham, bakes stunning cakes inspired by the Caribbean and adapted from family recipes…

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    Hawkens Grantham Gingerbread

    Hawkens Grantham Gingerbread – which comes in five different varieties – is utterly delicious and comes with a great backstory…

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    Jigsaw Bakery

    Real bread and delicious baked goods are always on the menu at Jigsaw Bakery…

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    Kings Cliffe Bakery, Kings Cliffe

    Kings Cliffe’s popular bakery and cafe could easily be missed from the road but once you’ve found it, you’ll want to return…

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    King’s Cliffe Bakery, Stamford

    King’s Cliffe Bakery can trace its roots back some 200 years and the Stamford cafe is tucked away from the crowds…

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    Lily & Honey Bakery

    Lily & Honey Bakery in Oakham offers sourdough loaves and other treats baked freshly on the premises each day by owners Robert and Nicolle Bradbury…

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    Lotus Bakery

    A classically trained pâtissier who creates modern, elegant pastries and desserts and sells them at Rutland and Northamptonshire farmers’ markets and food festivals…