Sweet Success for Local Business
Chocoholics are sweet on a family-friendly Tideswell café -– especially now it has scooped a gold star in the prestigious Great Taste Awards 2009.
Louise and Kenny Sharpe, owners of Vanilla Kitchen on Queen Street, are celebrating news that Louise’s triple chocolate brownies have been rated ‘close to perfect’ by an independent panel of judges in the national competition, run by The Guild of Fine Food.
“It’s lovely to win this national recognition and it’s given me a real sense of personal achievement,” said Louise, who bakes virtually all the cakes she sells to locals, walkers, cyclists and other tourists who flock to the café.
“I have many of my own recipes, including one of my mother’s known as ‘Bird Trill’, which includes cinnamon, jam and coconut, and we use and sell local produce as much as we can. We try really hard to preserve our uniqueness.”
Families are particularly welcome at Vanilla Kitchen, with special Friday morning parent and toddler sessions, and children’s singing mornings run once a month by Carol Bowns of Tideswell Singers.
Two other Tideswell businesses also struck gold in the contest, whose judges include Antony Worrall Thompson. Peak District Dairy earned one star for its chocolate ice cream, double cream and salted butter, while Tindall’s Bakery & Delicatessen was awarded one star for both its Fresh Fields Sea Salt and Christmas Chutney.
Other Peak District & Derbyshire winners in the Great Taste Awards 2009 were:
Cocoadance, Castleton – gold star for its beer flavoured truffle, filled with Jaipur IPA from Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell
Croots Farm Shop, Duffield – gold star for its black pudding sausage
Thorntons plc, Somercotes, Alfreton – gold star for both its milk chocolate strawberry bar and milk chocolate salted pistachio
Holdsworth Chocolates Ltd, Bakewell – gold star for both its cherry blossom truffle and its apricot brandy truffle
Cottage Delight, Leekbrook, Leek – gold star for its chocolate curd, balsamic and Madeira sauce and Cumberland sauce; two gold stars for its honey and mustard vinaigrette
Taste of the Moorlands Ltd, Warslow – gold stars for its oatty and oatty with currants
In this year’s Great Taste Awards, 639 products were awarded one gold star, 308 received two gold stars and just 83 received three-star gold, reserved for products that are considered faultless. For further details, visit www.greattasteawards.co.uk.
olics are sweet on a family-friendly Tideswell café -– especially now it has scooped a gold star in the prestigious Great Taste Awards 2009.
Louise and Kenny Sharpe, owners of Vanilla Kitchen on Queen Street, are celebrating news that Louise’s triple chocolate brownies have been rated ‘close to perfect’ by an independent panel of judges in the national competition, run by The Guild of Fine Food.
“It’s lovely to win this national recognition and it’s given me a real sense of personal achievement,” said Louise, who bakes virtually all the cakes she sells to locals, walkers, cyclists and other tourists who flock to the café.
“I have many of my own recipes, including one of my mother’s known as ‘Bird Trill’, which includes cinnamon, jam and coconut, and we use and sell local produce as much as we can. We try really hard to preserve our uniqueness.”
Families are particularly welcome at Vanilla Kitchen, with special Friday morning parent and toddler sessions, and children’s singing mornings run once a month by Carol Bowns of Tideswell Singers.
Two other Tideswell businesses also struck gold in the contest, whose judges include Antony Worrall Thompson. Peak District Dairy earned one star for its chocolate ice cream, double cream and salted butter, while Tindall’s Bakery & Delicatessen was awarded one star for both its Fresh Fields Sea Salt and Christmas Chutney.
Other Peak District & Derbyshire winners in the Great Taste Awards 2009 were:
Cocoadance, Castleton – gold star for its beer flavoured truffle, filled with Jaipur IPA from Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell
Croots Farm Shop, Duffield – gold star for its black pudding sausage
Thorntons plc, Somercotes, Alfreton – gold star for both its milk chocolate strawberry bar and milk chocolate salted pistachio
Holdsworth Chocolates Ltd, Bakewell – gold star for both its cherry blossom truffle and its apricot brandy truffle
Cottage Delight, Leekbrook, Leek – gold star for its chocolate curd, balsamic and Madeira sauce and Cumberland sauce; two gold stars for its honey and mustard vinaigrette
Taste of the Moorlands Ltd, Warslow – gold stars for its oatty and oatty with currants
In this year’s Great Taste Awards, 639 products were awarded one gold star, 308 received two gold stars and just 83 received three-star gold, reserved for products that are considered faultless. For further details, visit www.greattasteawards.co.uk.
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