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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...