Finally!!

Well, after months of promising that we're gonna start a blog about our cakes and chocolates we've finally got round to it!! I'm a complete techophobe - give me chocolate and I can turn it into a masterpiece, give me a computer and I can turn it into a beeping, flashing, unco-operative pile of junk within about 5 seconds!! Anyway, we sussed it so welcome to our blog!!

So, the story so far....... I set up Butterflies & Angels (i'm Abbie by the way) nearly 10 years ago after getting tired of the rat race and proudly announcing to my long suffering parents that yes, although i'd got a mortgage and a baby I was giving up my management job to make cakes for a living. You can imagine how that went down. Anyway, several years and hundreds of cakes later we're now Yorkshire's leading Chocolatiers & Cake Designers. We create bespoke cakes for all occasions, from celebrity weddings to the next door neighbour's daughter's birthday. Regardless of the size of the cake or the grandeur of the occasion we put our heart and soul into our art (and it is an art!) and we love it (we being me and my other half Darren who adopted the motto "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" and has been tempering chocolate and handpainting cakes for a while now!). It consumes every single waking hour - we're either baking cakes, moulding chocolate or sketching designs and thinking of what weird and wonderful creations we can come up with next.

I'll not bore you with the entire history of our passion for all things cake and chocolate, just to say its been a long, hard slog, the kitchen walls have worn numerous cakes when things go wrong (which they sometimes do) and we've had some fabulous times ( and some not so good ones!) doing this job so we just wanted to share it!