BROWNIES are flying straight out hot from the oven at a Bridport bakery as it shoots to success.

Bayside Bakery was launched earlier this year by 40-year-old Katy Howell, who is overwhelmed by its success and admitted it was definitely worth the gamble.

She said: "The business is flying. I have been at food festivals in Dorset and Hampshire, my online gift box orders are increasing each week and I supply the brownies to local cafes and shops and even sell them wholesale regularly to a pub in Hampshire. The other fantastic thing is that I am getting bookings for my tower of brownies for weddings and parties next year. I've also sent an order to America.

"I definitely did the right thing and I'm so glad the gamble has paid off. I can't wait to enter the national Taste awards next year. Not sure which brownie to enter though. I also will have a regular stand at the new Bridport food market due to open next month in St Michaels trading estate in Bridport."

The home-grown Loders enterprise scooped a gold award from this year’s Taste of the West Awards.

Bayside Bakery’s chocolate orange brownie delight pipped other entries to the post in the Sweet Bakery Class in the competition, which selects the best produce from the South West.

Judges said that the award winning brownies were ‘nice and fudge-y with a lovely taste and a good, delicate amount of orange.’

A spokesperson from Taste of the West said: “For Bayside Bakery to win a gold award for their first entry into the awards is an excellent result.”

The idea of Bayside Bakery came to Katy after she lost her best friend to breast cancer.

She said: "I have always baked, ever since I was little, I have loved it and I found quite a lot of comfort in baking after my best friend died.

“I was baking for the love of it and giving it away, and my friends were telling me that I needed to reach a wider audience.

"My brownies are freshly baked to order, using only the finest, locally sourced ingredients. "Each bite is a treat in itself, revealing a gorgeously rich, fudge-y centre which will keep you coming back for more, as many of my customers do."

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