Maybe you're allergic to eggs? Maybe you're vegan? Here are the best egg replacements for baking. Banana Bananas are our top ingredient for baking where eggs would like to be. We use Fairtrade bananas every time - the boss can recommend the banana coconut recipe we have, it's Louise's favourite! Our Banana Cake is award winning too, so it must work! Aquafaba Aqua-what?! This is the juice in a can of chickpeas. Weird, huh? You just need to whip it up with a bit of cream of tartar. It's best when you just need egg white replacer, not the yolk. None of our recipes use aquafaba, but it does work, despite the doubting face you're wearing right now! Tofu Don't go putting this in your cakes, but tofu is a great egg replacer in savoury items like quiches. Just make sure the pieces are chopped up nice and small, and you'll never know they are there.  Almond Butter ...or Peanut Butter - now we've got you! None of this weird tofu / aquafaba, thank you! Nut butter is just lush in cookies in particular. And the jar? We like our Skippy BIIIIIIG. Have a go! Apple Sauce This goes ingredient great in our low fat banana cake - an old, old recipe for years back, but it's still a winner. Avocado We use avocadoes in our go-to vegan / gluten free chocolate cake - again, it's mashed up really well to prevent any green lumps being visible. No, you can't taste it! Happy egg-free baking! The Team @ 280 Bakes
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Can cakes change the world? We believe it can! I've had a challenging day, so I am determined to end the day on a positive, right here! Making the world a better place is a challenge for us all, from global leaders to making-small-changers. Cake is fab, we all know that, but bear with me while I tell you why our cakes are making the world just that little bit better. 60% of our cakes are vegan  Vegan diets are not everyone's cup of (non dairy milk) tea. Sure, animal rights may not be everyone's priority, but a plant-based diet has deeper implications than that: There's the wider environmental issues like soil erosion, climate change, and deforestation that a heavily meat based diet can exacerbate. Having a healthy planet should be top of our lists. We, and our grandchildren, will have no other home! Enjoying a more plant-based diet can have a significant impact on our footprint on the planet, from creating less greenhouse gases, to the amount of pressure we're putting on our natural water resources. Vegan cakes can help here, as, among other animal product ingredients, they don't contain dairy milk or butter. Intensive dairy production is known to be environmentally detrimental, so the more vegetable based alternatives we can find here, the better. Have you tried our vegan carrot cake? Our plant powered Victoria Sponge? Find out more here about our popular vegan cakes. With hundreds of recipes, you'd be in safe hands if you order a vegan cake, like 60% of our customers do. Our banana cakes are Fairtrade The Fairtrade movement ensures a fair price is paid to farmers in developing countries. From coffee to chocolate, cotton to tea, so many Fairtrade products are out there... Including our very own award winning banana cake! Right now, you can get 15% off banana cakes for Fairtrade Fortnight, so drop us a line quoting FAIR18 and we'll deliver right to your door.  Cake brings happiness  Happy faces: Two customers enjoying cake in the sunshine There's no denying, a good cake shared with a friend can make your day. We have hundreds of recipes, all wanting to be tasted by you, so why not share a smile with someone today, over a piece of home baked cake? After all, changing the world needn't be only about the big campaigns and movements. Bringing some happiness to someone's day is all part of being human and making the world a better place. Have you tried our Sweet Temptation range yet, inspired by your favourite sweets? How about our low fat / low sugar '280 Skinny' range? You know, we even run a 'guilt free' baking workshop showing you how to make some of these 'healthier' cakes! Have I missed anything? Are there other ways that cake makes the world a better place? Let me know in the comments below! Louise 280 Bakes
Our Destiny and Louise went to the Bristol Viva Vegan Christmas Market this weekend, and did they nail it? Yes they did!Take a look at the amazing cakes the ladies took with them... and consequently sold to many, many hungry vegans! Everything from stewed plum cupcakes to gluten free gin and lemon cake, mince pie shortbread to a boozy Christmas cake - we had it all. If you see anything you like here, we'd be happy to bake anything for you again if you couldn't make the event - just contact us!
That was our final event for 2018, but we are starting to book on events for next year, so stay tuned for more information! The Team @ 280 Bakes
We're hosting a vegan cake baking workshop in Bristol in the new year, and we'd love for you to join us! Join a collection of other keen bakers (some vegan, some not), and be triumphant with the cakes you take home! We'll be sharing three of our favourite recipes with you, helping you to get the best bake to be proud of. More information is available on our Facebook page, but where you really want to go is here: This would make an awesome gift for the vegan in your life this Christmas, or a fabulous treat to cheer yourself up with on a dingy January afternoon. Hope to see you there! The Team @ 280 Bakes 
Wondering where you can find us this festive season? Here's your small but perfectly formed guide to which Christmas fayres we'll be baking our delicious cakes for this year! We'll be bringing out all the favourites (like Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake, Victoria Sponge, various cupcakes, Carrot Cake...), including some gluten free cakes. We'll bake some delicious new recipes for you, and festive goodies too. We start this weekend, so bring along your Tupperware and stock up! More information: Headley Park - Headley Park Church, St Peter's Rise, BS13 7LZ Wiltshire Vegan Fair - The Neeld, Chippenham, SN15 3ER Gloucester Vegan Fair ** UPDATE ** Apologies, this one is now not an event we will be attending. Viva Vegan - Student Union, Richmond Building, 105 Queen's Road, Bristol, BS8 1LN See you there! The Team @ 280 Bakes
So, you've tried our cakes, but you want to know more. "Show me inside 280 Bakes HQ!!!" I hear you cry! Consider your request filled... Well, we're incredibly local - if you're from Portishead or Bristol! Our HQ, where all the orders come into, is in Lawrence Weston, over near Avonmouth and the M5, just down the road from Blaise Castle. Lucky us! 280 Bakes started with one domestic oven in one woman's (our Louise) own kitchen, and that's where the business has grown from. All our bakers are based in Bristol, all baking from their own 280 Bakes (and soon to be Council) approved kitchens, and delivering all over the region. Behind the scenes at 280 Bakes
Have you tried our award winning Fairtrade banana cakes yet? When the bananas are put into the mix, Louise puts the sticker from the peel on to her fridge in 280 Bakes HQ's kitchen, partly as a reminder to buy Fairtrade again, but also to celebrate how many Fairtrade banana cakes we've been making for you guys! Throwback Note: See that old school 280 Bakes magnet? That's a relic from when the company first started up 22 months ago, testing the waters with cake porch sales! #CompanyHistory, or what!?  We hope you've enjoyed that mini tour of the 280 Bakes HQ kitchen. If you have any questions, feel free to ask away using the comments box below - we' love to hear from you. The Team @ 280 Bakes
This weekend saw the return of the Goram Fair at Blaise Castle Estate, Bristol - and we were there with our home baked cakes! The wet weather didn't put off Bristol families as they splashed through the fairground and stalls at the community event at Blaise Castle on Saturday - most, it seemed, stopping at our cake stall! Check out some of the delicious bakes we had for sale: gluten free, vegan, standard recipe cakes, Fairtrade cake, boozy bakes... We had it all.  We'd like to give a special mention to this guy, a father of a vegan who was particularly sceptical about the concept of vegan cakes. No eggs, no butter, no milk... How could that taste good? So, we gave him a cake to try, and he devoured the cupcake, almost whole. In his (tongue in cheek) words, "Wow, that does not taste like broccoli AT ALL!" Glad to be of service - hope to see you again, sir! The Team @ 280 Bakes So, we've baked hundreds of cakes for you guys, but which are our all time favourite orders? Let's find out!Birthday cakes are regularly ordered by our customers, and these two are our favourite so far. Emma (who's since left our baking team *sad face*) made the Cookie Monster cake, which hit the nail on the head for Steve's 40th - he loved it! The Chicken Cake was baked by Debbie, who was tasked with a poultry theme for a leaving do in Lawrence Weston. Still makes us laugh, when we see this clever, cute cake!
We are known for our home baked cakes, so no 'top cakes' blog would be complete without some of our traditional loaves and rounds appearing. You can't beat a Victoria Sponge for when the family pops over for the afternoon (available on CakeOD, our same day delivery service), and but our award-winning Fairtrade banana cake comes a close second - always popular at our events too, perhaps because it's low fat. What a cake!
As far as cupcakes go, we've done some amazing baking and decorating. Two that really stick in our minds, though, are our marshmallow cupcake and the ones we did themed on Aero chocolate bars. The marshmallow ones were for a customer's 40th birthday. The cakes were a surprise from his colleague and you should have seen his eyes light up - marshmallows are his favourite! The Aero cupcakes were a inspirational bake from Louise last weekend at the Viking Invasion event we went to. They came out particularly well, we think. Both these cakes were Louise's. She used to dread doing cupcakes, but now has got really into the swing of them - even bought some new nozzles the other week for more design capabilities! Stay tuned to see more photos of her scrumptious cupcakes on our newsletter.
We've a good name for being vegan cake specialists, and, as 65% of our customers are in fact vegan, we aim to please! These two cakes are our best selling vegan cake, all home made of course, from scratch. You won't catch us using a cake mix any time! Here's our no.1 best seller, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake (as featured on the Bristol Food Tour), and our vegan Carrot Cake. Just yum! These are both available for a non-vegan diet too, but why not give them a try? Not only are they 'cruelty free', having no animal products in them, they are consequently better for the environment too!
And finally, let's bring in some gluten free cake to complete our top ten. We often get gluten free requests, from coeliacs and friends of gluten intolerant people, and we can bake vegan gluten free too - skills! These two are Chocolate Hazelnut Cake (as seen on Made In Bristol TV) and, a family favourite, Lemon Cake. And, as a bonus, we offer a low sugar lemon cake, too, if you're trying to cut down.
That's our top ten favourite cakes! What do you think? Would you add anything to the list? Don't forget, all our cakes are available for standard, vegan and gluten free diets. Just drop us a line to order yours! The Team @ 280 Bakes Today is our first birthday, here at 280 Bakes. We're so proud and pleased to have survived and thrived through to our first landmark birthday. Hooray for small business! Over the last year we've gone from being porch sale cake stall to a bona fide company. So what have we achieved?
We held a coffee morning to celebrate all this with our 'friends of 280 Bakes' and our customers today, and here are the best photos from the event. Thank you to all who came out to celebrate with us - here's to another year's baking! The Team @ 280 Bakes The weekend just gone (14th May 2017) seems longer ago than 'just gone' - so much has been going on since then for us.... A fresh spell of baker recruitment, day job baking, events organisation... We'd planned this blog post for earlier but it's just not been possible! Small business is rockin'! Anyway... Here we go! ----- Sunday was the Wiltshire Vegan Festival! Of course, we went along with our cakes and met the lovely people of Chippenham (in the main). This was the second festival of its kind in Chippenham, and it looks set to return again later in the year, due to the success - yay! Stay tuned into our newsletter to find out when the next one is. Here are some of the choice pictures from our day at the Wiltshire Vegan Festival. Photos are as follows... Top line: Our bestseller: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake, customer joy from Alexandra, and a special for the festival: Chocolate Raspberry Cake Middle line: Happy faces of young fans of 280 Bakes, two photos of our Twix inspired shortbread - the first to sell out. Bottom line: Some smaller bakes: Lemon Drizzle, Chocolate Cupcake (gluten free), Chocolate Hedgehog cakes, a Black Forest cupcake, and a photo of Marlon - a very enthusiastic customer! If you click on the images they should load a little bigger if they're not too clear right now. Thank you to MarlondonDJ and LaChicaVeganaOficial (Instagram accounts) and the family of cupcake lovers for allowing us to take their photos. Find out more about the Wiltshire Vegan Festival on their Facebook page - see you at the next one! The Team @ 280 Bakes |
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