Fugly Bakes
Fudgey brownies and loaded blondies from a shed in Yarm. Delivered to your desk on a Friday, or posted anywhere in the country.
Fudgey brownies and loaded blondies from a shed in Yarm. Delivered to your desk on a Friday, or posted anywhere in the country.
Working near the shed but can't get out for Friday treats? Get your order in before 10am on Friday and it lands on your desk between 12 and 2. Yarm only, for now.
This is the pre-order she is already running through Instagram DMs as of this week, just with the admin taken out. The postcode gate, the 10am cut-off and the cap on Friday drops are all hers, this just enforces them so she isn't saying no to people by hand. The shed itself stays first come first served further down the page.
Yarm postcodes only for now. If you're just outside, tell her anyway, she keeps a list.
Whatever's on this weekend's menu. The specials go first.
She does a set number of drops in her lunch hour and then it closes.
So she's not wandering round an office asking for you.
The cap is the number she can physically deliver between 12 and 2 without the shed suffering. She sets it, the site counts it down, and once it's full the page says so instead of her having to. Same idea as the postal Tuesdays, just measured in drops rather than boxes.
Not in Yarm? Pick your box, pick your flavours, pick a posting day. Baked fresh the day before it's sent, wrapped, sealed and gone tracked. The box is built to fit a standard letterbox, so nobody has to be in.
Mix and match, or pick four of the same if you know what you like. Every box comes with an ingredient and allergen card.
Each posting day takes a set number of boxes and then closes. That number is whatever she can actually wrap in a morning.
Once a Tuesday is full it sells the next one instead. She is never committed to posting more boxes than she can get to the post office, no matter how well a post does on Instagram.
Royal Mail Tracked 24, £4.50, or free when you spend over £30. Tracking number by email on the Tuesday.
Best within five days of arriving. They freeze brilliantly if you're pacing yourself, which you won't be.
Send a photo within 48 hours and she'll sort it. It doesn't happen often but it happens.
No ordering, no reserving, no faff. Whatever's on the shelf is what's going, and when it's gone it's gone. This is just so you know what's worth getting up for.
Still deliberately nothing to click here. Her point stands: reserving from the shed defeats the object. The two pre-order channels above both exist so people who can't get to the shed can still buy, not so people can skip the queue. That distinction is worth saying out loud on Wednesday.
One weekly list feeds this board, the Friday delivery menu, the countdowns and, if you want it, a printable poster in her brand. She fills it in once instead of rebuilding the graphic every Wednesday night.
Disco balls, dinosaurs, five year olds with strong opinions. Tell her what the party is and she'll come back with a price. These aren't sold through the shop because no two are the same.
Cakes don't go through the basket. They are an enquiry, she quotes, she takes a deposit. Trying to price them online is how you end up baking a four tier cake for thirty quid.
She usually replies within a day. Two weeks' notice minimum, more for the big ones.
Every single thing that leaves the shed carries a label with the full ingredient list, allergens in bold, and a best before date. Here's the short version.
Everything is baked in one small kitchen that handles:
Which means nothing here can be called free from, even the gluten free brownie. That one is made with gluten free flour, not in a gluten free kitchen.
Full ingredients for every bake are listed on its own page, and again on the label in the box or bag. If you're ordering for someone with an allergy, message first and she'll tell you straight whether it's safe.
Registered with the local council. Food hygiene rating displayed at the shed and here once we've got the certificate.
Both pre-order channels are distance selling, so allergen information has to be available before they buy and on the label. Worth asking whether she is already printing labels, because if not that is a small extra job you can quote for and it removes a real risk for her.
Address goes here
Yarm, TS15
Park on the road, the shed's down the side of the house. Card reader and a QR code on the wall.
Instagram: @fugly_bakes_
That's where the weekly menu drops first.
A different Fugly special lands there every week. This week: the Mint Aero brownie. Get there early, they go.