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Afternoon Tea Vouchers In Devon
Where to buy Vouchers for Afternoon Tea in Devon
Previously we sold gift vouchers for afternoon tea at selected venues in Devon, but we’ve since decided to concentrate solely on our hampers, so now only sell vouchers for our... Read more...
The Best Bakeries & Artisan Cakes Producers in the West Country
The Best Bakeries & Artisan Cakes Producers in the West Country
The West Country is blessed with loads of artisan bakers and cake makers producing great tasting hand-made products from high quality ingredients. Here we've listed some of these artisan cake producers... Read more...
New Cake & Biscuit Hampers Category
New Cake & Biscuit Hampers Category
We’ve recently created a new category of hampers on our website containing products for visitors looking for cake and/or biscuit hampers. It features lots of gifts geared towards a friend... Read more...
Cream Tea Poll Results - Did it Backfire?
Cream Tea Poll Results - Did it Backfire?
We all know about the famous cream tea debate between Devon and Cornwall with us Devonians preferring cream teas to be served with jam on top of cream whilst the Cornish... Read more...
Hampers Suitable For Vegetarians
Hampers Suitable For Vegetarians
A vegetarian is defined as someone who doesn't consume any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or any other by-products of slaughter. Pescetarians are the same but do consume fish. Vegetarians can... Read more...
Our Guide to Clotted Cream
Clearly, we love clotted cream here at Devon Heaven and our business relies heavily on its appeal so we thought we’d take the time to learn some more about this cherished West Country creation. What makes Clotted Cream Clotted? Wikipedia describes clotted cream as: a thick cream made by indirectly heating full-cream cow's milk using steam or a water bath and then leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms "clots" or "clouts". Cream has the same properties... Read more...
A Huge Afternoon Tea Order For Morning Delivery
At the start of the month the NHS celebrated it’s 70th Birthday and many NHS practices across the country held tea parties to celebrate this milestone Birthday. It was a lovely idea to get staff, retired staff, volunteers, patients, users, carers and local community groups together for a cuppa and to share their NHS stories. Devon Heaven was luck enough to be asked to provide an afternoon tea for 100 NHS practices across the country. Practices ranged in size from 10 people to 200 people which lead to a huge... Read more...
Alterative Easter Gifts – Cream Tea Hampers
Are you looking for something different as an Easter present, perhaps for someone who doesn’t like chocolate, well cream tea hampers are a great alternative. Everyone loves cream teas as much as they do chocolate. They are a better small gift for adults than Easter eggs and are ideal for sharing with the family and enjoying together one afternoon during the Easter period. Also, sometimes children can end up with multiple Easter eggs so buy buying an alternative Easter gift you avoid duplicating the same gift. Although the weather doesn’t... Read more...
Cream Teas For Offices & Large Groups
Group Cream Tea Our Group Cream Tea is a cream tea designed for a group of people with various size options (in increments of 4) ranging from 4 to 32 people. Previously, we only listed a cream tea to cater for up to 20 but we've recently expanded this to 32 people. We've worked out how much cream and jam is required per scone so all you need to know is how many people / scones are needed. The Devon scones, cream and jam also come with a selection box of Devonshire... Read more...
Taste of the West 2017 Gold Award for Online Retailer
We’re very proud to announce that Devon Heaven has recently (it was actually a few month ago but we’ve only just decided to write about it) been awarded a 2017 Gold Taste of the West Award! We were entered in the Online Retailer category alongside other local food and drink retailers that mainly trade online. About Taste of the West Taste of the West are the largest independent regional food group in the UK supporting fantastic local food and drink producers / retailers from the region (that’s Cornwall, Devon, Dorset,... Read more...
Busy Christmas & Happy New Year 2017
We’re just getting back into the swing of things here at Devon Heaven Hampers following a busy Christmas period which saw us flat out through December so thought it was time to update our blog and look ahead to 2017. Christmas 2016 was a big success for us with many returning customer reordering at Christmas as well as lots of new customers choosing to buy our Devon food hampers. Our cream and afternoon tea hampers were particularly popular, helped by a great reputation our cream tea hampers have earned. With... Read more...
Interview with 'Real' Cider Expert Jim Callender
Jim Callender runs the website www.real-cider.co.uk that contains loads of cider related information, such as it's history, latest industry news, types of cider, producers and lots more. The website is focused on 'real' cider, meaning high quality cider with broadly 100% fruit content, rather than mass produced cider with additives and much less apple content. Jim has kindly offered to share his cider knowledge with us below so that we can all appreciate and identify the best high-quality real ciders. For more about Devon cider and producers of it see our other... Read more...