<![CDATA[The Brownie Company: Latest News]]> https://thebrowniecompany.co.uk Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:20:14 +0000 <![CDATA[Lockdown Treats]]> https://thebrowniecompany.co.uk/blog/lockdown-treats/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:45:48 +0000 https://thebrowniecompany.co.uk/blog/lockdown-treats/ Just a quick note to say we're here to try and help make your lockdown a little easier to bear - we can send handmade premium gooey chocolate brownies in your choice of flavours all over the UK, all with a handwritten personal message of your choice.

Collection from our kitchen (full social distance measures in place) is also available at reduced rates if you're out on a local walk in Stamford and Easton on the Hill. Look for the blackboard! 

]]> Just a quick note to say we're here to try and help make your lockdown a little easier to bear - we can send handmade premium gooey chocolate brownies in your choice of flavours all over the UK, all with a handwritten personal message of your choice.

Collection from our kitchen (full social distance measures in place) is also available at reduced rates if you're out on a local walk in Stamford and Easton on the Hill. Look for the blackboard! 

]]> <![CDATA[Results Day Hell!]]> https://thebrowniecompany.co.uk/blog/results-day-hell/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:38:28 +0000 https://thebrowniecompany.co.uk/blog/results-day-hell/ If your house is anything like this one, you have a horrible dark storm cloud looming on the horizon this week, for which the sense of dread only seems to squeeze harder by the day - namely, the A-Level results day. I think it's going to be even worse this year because of the terrifying stories in the news every day about downgrades - one of our regular Scottish customers has already been in touch about ordering brownies to comfort a student who's already had bad news. We really feel for them.

Hopefully all students - and their families - will come through it relatively unscathed. Fingers crossed for you - do head to our gifts page to help celebrate the good news of a university place or - hopefully not - soften the blow.

]]> If your house is anything like this one, you have a horrible dark storm cloud looming on the horizon this week, for which the sense of dread only seems to squeeze harder by the day - namely, the A-Level results day. I think it's going to be even worse this year because of the terrifying stories in the news every day about downgrades - one of our regular Scottish customers has already been in touch about ordering brownies to comfort a student who's already had bad news. We really feel for them.

Hopefully all students - and their families - will come through it relatively unscathed. Fingers crossed for you - do head to our gifts page to help celebrate the good news of a university place or - hopefully not - soften the blow.

]]> <![CDATA[It's Official: We're the Best Brownie in the Midlands!]]> https://thebrowniecompany.co.uk/blog/its-official-were-the-best-brownie-in-the-midlands/ Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:59:26 +0000 https://thebrowniecompany.co.uk/blog/its-official-were-the-best-brownie-in-the-midlands/ I used to really enjoy hearing foodie writer Nigel Barden on Radio 2 back in the day, with Chris Evans and Simon Mayo so it was a real shock when the phone rang the other day at home and it was Nigel himself - who I don't know and have never met - on the line.

It turned out that we had been nominated, without our knowledge, for the Britannia Artisan Food Collection, a list of local food heroes from around the entire British Isles curated personally by Nigel himself. We'd been selected for the Midlands region and Nigel, reasonably enough, wanted to taste the Brownies personally to help him come up with his shortlist of three for the region.

I sent him the Sour Cherry soaked in Cherry Brandy as well as our Double Chocolate, which got us a Great Taste Award in our early days and which gave us such a burst of confidence as a new business.

When these things come out of the blue, you don't expect to hear much more about them, but I was absolutely blown away when Nigel phoned again a week or so later to say that he'd tasted the brownies and to make sure I listened to his Britannia Artisan Food Collection podcast which was about to go live.

Sure enough, from all those myriad food producers in the region - cheesemakers and lamb breeders, brewers and artisan gins, he'd given us runner-up spot for the whole Midlands region and said unbelievably nice things about The Brownie Company on his podcast. Thanks again, Nigel!

]]> I used to really enjoy hearing foodie writer Nigel Barden on Radio 2 back in the day, with Chris Evans and Simon Mayo so it was a real shock when the phone rang the other day at home and it was Nigel himself - who I don't know and have never met - on the line.

It turned out that we had been nominated, without our knowledge, for the Britannia Artisan Food Collection, a list of local food heroes from around the entire British Isles curated personally by Nigel himself. We'd been selected for the Midlands region and Nigel, reasonably enough, wanted to taste the Brownies personally to help him come up with his shortlist of three for the region.

I sent him the Sour Cherry soaked in Cherry Brandy as well as our Double Chocolate, which got us a Great Taste Award in our early days and which gave us such a burst of confidence as a new business.

When these things come out of the blue, you don't expect to hear much more about them, but I was absolutely blown away when Nigel phoned again a week or so later to say that he'd tasted the brownies and to make sure I listened to his Britannia Artisan Food Collection podcast which was about to go live.

Sure enough, from all those myriad food producers in the region - cheesemakers and lamb breeders, brewers and artisan gins, he'd given us runner-up spot for the whole Midlands region and said unbelievably nice things about The Brownie Company on his podcast. Thanks again, Nigel!

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