Free collection in Peterborough · delivery by Royal Mail & DPD · registered food business
Christmas 2026
Christmas bakes made to order in Peterborough and sent UK-wide. Pre-orders open 1 October: you pay when you order and pick roughly when you'd like it, any day from 1 November. Last orders 18 December.
(the fruit cake has been soaking since summer)
The centrepiece
Two sizes, one soak
Dried fruit soaked for months in Jamaican rum and cherry brandy, baked into the dark six inch cake you'll share with your family this Christmas. Never iced. Posted as its own parcel, or collected.
First deliveries 1 November
Ordering is open now, and everything is baked and sent from 1 November. Order today and yours is in the first bakes out of the oven.
Everything made to order
Everything here is baked to order and pre-ordered online: add it to your basket, pay, and choose the day you'd like it. The bakes marked coming soon have a waiting list instead. The Christmas menu changes every year, so some of these may not come back next Christmas.
Vanilla butter cookies with glacé cherries
£18.00
Rich vanilla butter cookies, piped by hand, each finished with a glacé cherry pressed on top.
Order online
£18.00 per box of 25
White chocolate brownies & peppermint
£18.00
Fudgy white chocolate brownies with crushed peppermint candies scattered over the top.
Order online
£18.00 per box of 6
Lemon cranberry pound cake with lemon icing
£18.00
A dense lemon pound cake with cranberries baked through it, finished with lemon icing. A Christmas limited edition: four thick slices, boxed flat to fit through the letterbox.
Order online
£18.00 per box of 4 slices
Snowflake gingerbread cookies
£18.00
Gingerbread cut into snowflakes and iced by hand.
Order online
£18.00 per box of 8
Christmas tree matcha cookies
£18.00
The green comes from matcha in the dough, so it runs all the way through the tree.
Order online
£18.00 per box of 16
Minced Pies
Coming soon
The traditional sweet ones, with fruit and warm spice inside.
These aren't on sale just yet. Leave your email and you'll get one message the day they are.
Beef pastelle
Coming soon
Seasoned beef in a soft cornmeal casing.
These aren't on sale just yet. Leave your email and you'll get one message the day they are.
Chicken pastelle
Coming soon
The same cornmeal casing, filled with seasoned chicken.
These aren't on sale just yet. Leave your email and you'll get one message the day they are.
Sausage rolls with cranberry and sage
Coming soon
Sausage meat with cranberry and sage, in pastry.
These aren't on sale just yet. Leave your email and you'll get one message the day they are.
Garlic bread
Coming soon
Soft bread with garlic butter.
These aren't on sale just yet. Leave your email and you'll get one message the day they are.
Christmas 2026
Everything on sale on this menu is ordered and paid for online, and you choose the day you'd like it at the checkout. For a Christmas party, a bigger order or anything that isn't on the list, write to me and I'll send a price.
Write to mePre-orders open on 1 October and close at 11:59pm on 18 December. I bake a limited number, so the earlier you order, the more of the menu is still available.
Yes. You pay online when you place the order, even if you choose a date in December, and your order is baked for the day you picked.
Any day from 1 November: you choose roughly when you'd like it when you order. Collection in Peterborough is free. If it is posted, you choose the carrier at checkout: Royal Mail 1st Class, anywhere in the UK, or DPD next day on the day you pick, to mainland UK. By Royal Mail, the date you pick is the day I aim for and Royal Mail sets the exact day. Postage is worked out at checkout, and delivery for bigger celebration orders is priced in your quote.
Not necessarily. The Christmas menu changes every year, so if something here is your favourite, this is the year to order it. Pre-orders for next Christmas open on 1 October.
Dried fruit soaked for months in Jamaican rum and cherry brandy, baked into a dense, dark six inch cake that is never iced. It comes whole, or as a box of four thick slices that fits through the letterbox. The whole cake goes by Royal Mail 1st Class as a small parcel anywhere in the UK, or by DPD next day to mainland UK, whichever you choose at checkout.
Two longer reads from the kitchen: my guide to letterbox Christmas gifts, and the story of the Christmas fruit cake, soaked in rum and never iced.
Ordering a cake for another occasion instead? That's the personalised cakes page, and every other season has a menu of its own on the seasonal menus page.
