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Hobbs House Bakery Cirencester closing. This weekend, March 14th our Hobbs House Bakery Cirencester shop will be closing. The wine shop next door Oeno will be growing into our space. Thank you to all our lovely customers for a great six years. Thank you also to Claire and her team who have run our shop... Read more »

We have just launched our delicious Bakewell Slice Online. One of our bestselling cakes in our shop; our customers really enjoy this traditional cake with its crisp butter base, light sponge and delicious raspberry jam. Buttery throughout with almond sponge and punchy jam and whole cherries. A toasted sprinkling of almonds finish off this delightful cake. The... Read more »

Following Tom and Milo’s trip to Laos a year ago we received some great news from Tearfund, a leading relief and development charity who provide global aid to those in need. “When her father died three years ago, Ler and her brothers and sisters had to work out how to support their family of eight.... Read more »

We love hearing about your favourite products and we love your baking stories. There’s the gentleman who’s been buying our Sherston for 25 years; the Dad that buys croissants for all the family every Saturday morning; or the lady that looks forward to her Thursday brownie every week. Whatever it is we want to hear about your favourite Hobbs House Bakery products. Just tell... Read more »

At Hobbs House Bakery we reckon that handmade bread’s too good to waste so here’s some ways to use it all up and see you get the very best value from your loaf. Prevention is better than cure. The enemy of bread is staling. This is where bread looses its moisture and gets dryer and... Read more »

Did you have a sourdough for Christmas? We sold hundreds of our sourdough starters this Christmas alongside lots of baking equipment. We hope you are all loving getting baking this Christmastime and getting sourdough for Christmas. If you received our sourdough starter, here is the recipe to bake large sourdough bread. If you received a small... Read more »

We are no longer selling meat online, all outstanding orders will be met.  We are really looking forward to bringing you a new revised offering in the New Year

Take the pressure of this Christmas and order now for Christmas delivery, just select your delivery date. We are loading our shelves and stacking high in our bakery ready for you this Christmas.  Last year’s best seller was our 59 year old sourdough starter.  This year you can also buy our sourdough starter in our... Read more »

As a result of an eight week social media campaign to find the King or Queen of Sourdough. Hobbs House Bakery hosted a baking day to celebrate the weekly winners with the aim to find an outright winner.. Tom of the Fabulous Baker Brothers, lead the day, aided by Trevor, his father, who has shared... Read more »

We love lardy cake and we gather that rather a lot of you do to. That’s why we have started selling it online as part of our letter box cake range. Because we love lardy cake you can now buy our brand new lardy cake by clicking here. Tom learnt to make lardy cake with... Read more »

Yesterday we hosted our Craft Bakers bakery tour, we really enjoyed showing some lovely locals around our bakery. We ran a competition for National Craft Baker’s week via Facebook. The prize was a tour of our Bakery in Chipping Sodbury. We also invited along our very loyal 99 year old customer Charles and Angie from... Read more »

In this traditional lardy cake recipe video you can watch Tom make our bakery’s Lardy cake recipe from the Fabulous Baker Brothers programme Lard has a bad reputation. But it’s a great ingredient, it cooks beautifully and is the main ingredient in this traditional cake. If you have any lard hanging about the house then... Read more »