Devon Food, Drink and Local Information - Blog

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 and further down the article some of the best bakeries in the South West of England. If you're looking to buy some artisan cake and biscuit gifts then please take a look at our hampers. Artisan Cake Producers In Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset Prima Bakeries, Cornwall Best known for producing pasties for the wholesale trade which are then sold in shops throughout the West Country, Prima Bakeries also have...

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 or family member with a sweet-tooth. So far our cake range includes carrot cake, fruit cake, brownies and tiffin and our biscuit range includes flavoured shortbread and giant cookies. Why we've created a cake and biscuit hampers section on our website This category has been created because it’s of a similar theme to our core product lines of cream and afternoon tea hampers but suitable for those who are perhaps looking...

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 insist the cream should be on top. For many people a cream tea the other way around to their usual preference is crazy, weird and wrong. Various different arguments, scientific theories and celebrity opinions exist on the subject that divides our two counties but nowhere could we find a really large unbiased poll on the subject to settle which method is the most popular. We set our sights on creating...

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 eat dairy, unlike vegans who don't consume any animal products, these include eggs and honey. Below we have listed everything suitable for vegetarians, most of our products include milk or eggs so we have very little suitable for vegans. Our products suitable for vegetarians At the time of writing this article the only product we stock not suitable for vegetarians is maple and bacon flavored popcorn but for completeness we've...

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 as milk but it is richer in fat. What sets...