To market to market, to sell our great scones!

It's been an eventful week!

We got our own fabulous logo made by the amazing Izzy Gaon

We also held our very first market stall at The Camden Passage last Sunday... and sold out of all our baked goods!

Nell(me) out of the kitchen for a bit

Omer happy as can be

Our amazing friends Melissa and Thuy were kind enough to volunteer in the kitchen and help me with making our beautiful sell out muffins and scones.
We made Smokey Bacon and Mature Cheddar Muffins, Rosemary and Cheddar Muffins, Kale, Carrot, Cumin and pumpkin seed muffins, Apple and Cinnamon Muffins and some lovely mini scones to go with our jams!

Also started on the Mincemeat for our pies next week... lots of spice and brandy to warm you up in the winter!

Thuy and Melissa

 

The Camden Passage market was also new... so we were quite nervous that we wouldn't sell much...
So Sunday arrived and we set up our stall and before we even finished we sold a Bacon and Cheddar muffin... then another... then a scone and so on until over halfway through our time there we sold out of all our savoury muffins followed swiftly by sweet muffins and then the scones... we even sold a fair few jams and chutneys too!
We also got positive feedback from 100% of our customers!!!

Apple and cinnamon muffins (above)
Kale, Carrot, Cumin and Pumkin seed muffins(below)

Scones to go with our delicious jams

Omer and his lovely girlfriend Klaudia with our sellout scones

We're looking forward to starting our second market this Saturday at The Cally Market and continuing our Sunday Market with The Camden Passage.
I'll be making double the amount of muffins and scones followed by ...
Mince Pies and Gingerbread Men and Xmas shaped Cookies!!!!!!!!

See you there!!!

So where are we now...

Hey all,

Been a while but up until a few weeks ago The Hackney Belly had nothing special to report.

Business as usual. 

We didn't get the Deli in Morning Lane... Our decision... too close to Christmas to invest in another premises....next spring will be better for us.

Good note is that we have our own kitchen which we love!!! 

We have our own fridge, Oven and induction hobs and lots of space!

The sandwiches are doing well and we started wholesaling jam to another cafe.

We've been experimenting with product ideas, savoury muffins, making jams and chutneys.

Gotta make Mince meat for Mince pies this week.

Kale, Carrot, Cumin and Pumpkin seed muffins

We needed to make more jam as we realised there was a demand for them.

I get a text message from Omer at 8am saying that he's bought a 100kilos of fruit from New Spitalfields market at 7am and to get to the kitchen early... I got there as soon as I could and I got fronted with the image below 

boxes of berries 

By the end of the day I knew we needed help so emailed the amazing Thuy who was kind enough to assist us on Saturday. She went through a ridiculous amount of berrys to ensure we didn't get any mouldy pieces that could potentially ruin a whole batch of jam. She took one break and didn't complain one bit...she is an absolute star!!!

Thuy checking raspberries

posing with the fruit

raspberry jam cooking away

Omer and I finally finished 10pm Saturday night... scrubbing jam off the walls, floor and surfaces.

Our eyes were blurry we had bits of jam on our eyebrows, shoes ... but we were happy.. we have a years supply of jam.. we hope to sell out before then though.