Five top tips to get ahead this Christmas

Five top tips to get ahead this Christmas

Want to get ahead with your menu planning this Christmas? Spreading your shopping out between now and the start of the festive season is key to making sure you’ve got all the treats and gifts you need. 
October 31, 2023 — Zoe Gill
Fitzbillies cakes - flavours, taste tests and icing

Fitzbillies cakes - flavours, taste tests and icing

The humble iced cake is making a star return to the baking world. Remember those sticky iced cakes you used to have in the school canteen, sprinkled with hundreds and...
September 05, 2023 — Zoe Gill
How to host a summer party the Fitzbillies way

How to host a summer party the Fitzbillies way

With the true British Summertime having arrived, what better way to embrace it than enjoying the great outdoors with friends and family and, of course, fantastic food. Whether it’s in...
August 02, 2023 — Katie Ash
Afternoon Tea, with scones of course

Afternoon Tea, with scones of course

As a nation we have only a few food rituals, the Sunday roast, the big breakfast fry up and of course the afternoon tea.  It is the latter that we...
July 12, 2023 — Katie Ash
The perfect shortbread

The perfect shortbread

Shortbread is perhaps the simplest of all baking. So it has to be perfect. And given the first note of shortbread in history comes from the 12th Century, it has...
May 18, 2023 — Zoe Gill
A day in the life of Fitzbillies

A day in the life of Fitzbillies

Fitzbillies first opened its doors in Cambridge on the 4th of October 1920.  This date was no coincidence – it was the first Monday of the university term, and then,...
May 18, 2023 — Zoe Gill
Chelsea buns – fit for royalty

Chelsea buns – fit for royalty

The humble Chelsea bun first entered history around 1700, endorsed by royalty as a fashionable indulgence, thanks to the The Chelsea Bun House, an attraction that was set on the...
May 18, 2023 — Zoe Gill