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It really was a case of 'now you see us, now you don't when we introduced these little beauties at Whiteladies Road market last week.  They're delicate pots of pate sucree with combinations of white chocolate ganache, fresh raspberries, fresh figs and sumptuous organic dark chocolate.  They certainly went down and storm and this week we'll be introducing two new little tarts - a fresh, zingy lemon tart and a rather lovely fresh berry with creme patisserie.  They're at an introductory special offer at the moment too!   Keep an eye on our instagram account for upto the minute pics www.instagram.com/snowdropcottage

We've also a new range of gluten free pies, same award winning fillings but with a gluten free pastry top!  Sustainability is never far from our thoughts so we're offering them in their own dish which when returned gives money off your next purchase.

Perfect gifts for Valentines at Snowdrop Cottage

Love will soon be in the air with Valentines Day only weeks away!  If you're struggling to think of that perfect gift - let cheese be the food of love!!!  We'll have some of these beautiful organic cheddar waxed hearts available to buy individually or packaged with some crackers and our Snowdrop Cottage Award winning chutneys to provide the perfect gift!

Of course a romantic evening wouldn't be complete without a lovely meal!  We'll be cooking up some delicious pies (psssst - we're officially the best pie producer in Bristol don't forget!) perfect for two!  Keep an eye out for some more information!

Bristol Good Food Awards 2016

Voting has now begun for the 2016 Bristol Good Food Awards.  if you enjoy feasting on a pie or adding a zing to the start of the day with our marmalade or fire in your belly with our  chutneys we'd love you to vote for us!  You can click here and vote in the following categories:

Best Local Preserve

Best Local Pickle

Best Local Pie

Thank you,

Louise & Leo x

STOP PRESS - New pie alert!

Drum roll please...... may I introduce you to our new pie 'Slow roasted pork with Bramley apple and stuffing in a cider gravy' - although I'm sure we'll come up with a more catchy name soon! We introduced this pie yesterday at Frome Market and customers have already reported back - it's a winner!  

We ensure each pie is generously filled and topped with stuffing before sealing the lid and adding Nigella seeds.  Every single pie is individually made and finished, no machines here just environmentally friendly re usable pie containers which get washed up (thanks Mum!) that are then ready for the next batch.

We'll be at Whiteladies Road market on Saturday and Wells Food Festival on Sunday so come and try one before they sell out fast!

Treefest!

A very big thank you to the lovely people at Westonbirt and all those that attended Treefest  last weekend, we had a lovely time and the weather for once stayed warm and dry. We ended the weekend on a high when Leo was presented with this award on Monday for 'Best promotion of sustainable food source'.  We try our upmost to source good quality local ingredients which support the local economy and cut down on food miles thus helping to maintain a greener environment.

We've a busy weekend coming up (click here) so do come and say hello, we'll even have our new award on display!

Frome - Hide and seek!

Just to let you all know that we'll be at Frome market tomorrow - hurray!!!!  However, we won't be in our usual spot (boo!).  Come and find us on Scott road opposite Boots.  We've been baking all day to bring you our usual top notch goodies so come and say hello!!!

Bristol Good Food Awards 2015 - Results

Enjoying our night at the BGFA 2015 with Liam from Psychopomp 

Thank you to all our lovely customers and friends who voted for us and enabled us to go through as finalists at The Bristol Good Food Awards 2015.  We had a fabulous night, meeting some lovely old and new friends as well as chatting to some of the judges who gave us an insight on how it all worked!

Unfortunately we didn't win our categories this time round (boo, hiss!) but already we've dusted off our aprons and will be bringing you even more delicious pies and preserves and hoping you'll put us through to next years final where we'll give it our best shot once again.

It was great to be part of the celebrations and finally swap my flour dusted apron for a little red number and my favourite leopard print high heels and fabulous to see Mr Snowdrop in his wedding suit still looking pretty dapper I have to say!  Thanks once again to all you lovely people that enabled us to have a night out and celebrate the amazing variety of food and artisans out there well and truly putting Bristol on the foody map!

Bristol Good Food Awards 2014

Thank you to everyone who voted us best Preserve at the 2013 awards

The Bristol Good Food Awards are here again!  We were rather oblivious last year and as such were very excited to find ourselves one of three runners up voted for by our lovely customers and then winner of best preserve!  However, not one to rest on our laurels we would love to be the winners of 2014 as well!!  It's very tough competition with blind tastings by Michelin and Media chefs, notwithstanding scrutiny of packaging and the like - but we're hoping we can do it again!!!

There are many categories, but we feel our strengths lie in the following:

Best local pie

Preserve

Condiment

So, if you could vote for us, we'd be firstly very humbled and secondly very happy producers!  Please click here to help make it happen for 2014!!!  Voting closes on March 24th.

Whiteladies Road and Tobacco Factory Markets

Our delicious sweet potato, wilted spinach & goats cheese pie!

The weather is looking rather good for the weekend and already we're thinking about what we're going to bake for our lovely customers.  This weekend we have a surprise in stall though... a new pie for our vegetarian customers.  At Whiteladies Road market (click here for details) we'll be bringing you our:

 'Beetroot, potato and creme fraiche pie'

  We've already given it a road test and we think it's rather wonderful, but we'd like you to let us know what you think!  We'll also be there with our rather renowned 'tipsy' bread pudding.

We ensure our fruit is steeped in our alcohol of choice overnight to bring you a decadent treat for your weekend.

We'll be at the Tobacco Factory (click here for info) on Sunday once again, we're thrilled to have a regular spot at this popular market and can't wait to meet new customers.  We'll have all our freshly baked goods to keep you well fed and a selection of our award winning preserves and marmalades.

Enquiries have already started flooding in for our Elderflower Cordial - we were overwhelmed with the success of our cordial and  within 6 weeks all our supplies had sold out! This time we'll be out in force picking as much elderflower as possible to ensure lots of satisfied customers. Keep an eye out from May onwards!