Peck and Strong

For over forty years, the bakers in Crediton have been the invisible hand behind an awful lot of cake. Their traybakes turn up in cafes, tea rooms, garden centres, stately homes and universities across the UK, usually without a name attached, which is why people write in asking where on earth they can find that flapjack again. The team reckons it has some three hundred and seventy five years of baking experience between them.

Everything is made by hand in Devon from scratch: shortbread, brownies, flapjacks, vegetarian pies, tarts and flans, plus cakes like banana and chocolate chip loaf. Look out for yoghurt topped apple and blackcurrant filled flapjacks, dark chocolate rocky road with apricots and cherries, and the chocolate and coconut flapjack that generates most of the fan mail. After decades of trade-only supply, a selection of traybakes now goes direct to your door on next day delivery.