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Autumn 2026

Autumn bakes: spice, loaves and a warm oven

This is when the baking turns comforting. Spiced carrot cake, banana bread, the cranberry and walnut loaf, pies that make a Tuesday bearable, and birthday cakes for everyone born in the dark half of the year.

(oatmeal and raisin is not a compromise)

Four weeks for cakes, days for loaves

Celebration cakes want about four weeks. Loaves and cookies can usually be done at much shorter notice. Ask and I'll tell you what's realistic for your date.

Autumn orders

Everything made to order

The autumn menu

Tell me what you would like and roughly how many you are feeding, and I will come back with a price and confirm your date. Collection in Peterborough is free; local delivery is priced in your quote.

Cakes and loaves

  • Spiced carrot, cinnamon and pineapple cake

    The cake this season belongs to. Available vegan.

  • Banana bread

    Deeply baked, and better on day two.

  • Cranberry and walnut loaf

    Sharper than it sounds. Contains nuts.

  • Chocolate cake with coffee Swiss meringue buttercream

    For the autumn birthdays.

From the oven

  • Oatmeal and raisin cookies

    Chewy, with the oats still doing something.

  • Apple and custard crumble

    Soft apple and custard under a crumble top.

  • Cinnamon buns

    Iced while they're still warm.

Savoury

  • Beef, chicken and vegetarian pies

    Hand-crimped. Frozen to bake at home.

  • Lamb sausage rolls

    Lamb with rosemary and garlic.

The bakes that suit the weather

Spiced carrot with cinnamon and pineapple is the cake autumn was invented for, and it is one of the three I bake vegan. Banana bread is the one that gets eaten standing at the kitchen counter. The cranberry and walnut loaf is sharper than it sounds, and goes properly with a cup of tea and a bad afternoon. Oatmeal and raisin cookies belong in this list too.

Birthdays in the dark half of the year

Autumn birthdays get the good cakes because nobody is trying to eat lightly. Chocolate under coffee buttercream, red velvet, or a character cake for a child who does not care what season it is. Send me the age, the theme and a photograph of anything you are matching.

Pies, properly

September is when the pies start earning their place. Beef with potato, thyme and garlic; chicken with potato and thyme; the vegetarian one with cheese, potato, carrot, sweetcorn and peas. All hand-crimped and coming soon, to go home frozen so your freezer does the planning for you.

Harvest, Diwali, half term, bonfire night

Autumn is a run of small occasions, most of which just want feeding. Cookie boxes, trays of brownies, a loaf to take to somebody's house. Give me the date and a rough head count and I'll come back with a price.

Autumn 2026

The season for spice and a warm oven.

Write to me with what you would like, how many you are feeding and the date you want it. I will confirm the lot and send a price. Seasonal orders are taken in small numbers so everything is baked in the week you collect it.

Autumn orders

Autumn questions

What do you bake in autumn?

Spiced carrot cake, banana bread, cranberry and walnut loaf, oatmeal and raisin cookies, apple and custard crumble, cinnamon buns, and hand-crimped beef, chicken and vegetarian pies. Birthday cakes carry on all year.

Can I order pies for the freezer?

Soon. The pies and sausage rolls are coming soon, and when they go on sale they come frozen, ready to bake at home whenever you want them. Join the waiting list on the pies page to hear the day they do.

The rest of the year