It’s time to enjoy being together again – and with delicious food, jolly decorations and that all-important cake, a birthday provides the ideal excuse to make seeing your favourite people even more of an event. So we asked Bettys’ ‘Head of Beautiful’ Robyn Cox to work his styling magic and share some ideas for indoor and outdoor party spreads that look and taste as wonderful as the occasion deserves.
With spring in the air and new life all around, the natural world outside provides perfect inspiration for brightening up things indoors. As Bettys’ ‘Head of Beautiful’ and the magpie mind behind our lovely window displays, Robyn Cox has a wealth of crafty tips and styling suggestions up his sleeve. Now he’s turned his attention to beautifying your home with these easy but eye-catching Easter ideas.
Our Easter eggs have always had something of a sense of adventure. But these two go further than most. With their slim profiles, our Dark Chocolate Flat Egg With Glacé Orange and our new Milk Chocolate Flat Egg take the idea of a traditional egg and, well, flatten it.
It feels good to make somebody smile. Easter is a wonderful chance to do just that, by handing a gloriously gift-wrapped chocolate egg to a person you love. And if that feels good, imagine how it feels to make somebody not just smile… but jump up and down with delight, run around the room excitedly and grin with sheer, delicious satisfaction every single time they snap off a piece to enjoy. That's what makes Bettys eggs the most beautiful gifts this Easter.
If you’re a fan of Easter as much as we are here at Bettys, you’ll understand when we say how for us there’s no such thing as ‘plain’ chocolate. From creamy white and silky brown to dark and glossy – not to mention all the ways it can be stippled, brushed and lovingly adorned by our chocolatiers – the quality of our chocolate makes every one of our Easter eggs a beauty to behold.
Chocolate may get the lion's share of the attention at Easter, but there are a few other classics that we think are just as delicious. Take Simnel Cake, for example - a rich, fruity classic that's a marzipan lover's dream. And in this recipe from Lesley Wild, founder of Bettys Cookery School, we'll even teach you how to make your own marzipan from scratch.
At the start of 2020, our Cone Exchange was looking forward to its busiest and best year yet. The project had already come far since 2003, when it began as a way to find inventive new uses for leftover materials – and not just cardboard cones – from Bettys Craft Bakery and the Taylors Tea & Coffee Factory.
Colouring-in is a lovely, mindful way to relax not to mention a brilliant way to get creative. These colour-in Easter cards featuring five different egg designs – based on real Bettys eggs no less. They're perfect for creating homemade cards to show someone special that you’re thinking of them.
It's chocolate season - and from eggs to cakes to gift hampers, we've got delights for everyone. To switch on the perfect Easter, just press the "Bettys" button.
Hot cross buns are as much a part of Easter as chocolate eggs and simnel cake. They mark the end of lent and are traditionally eaten on Good Friday, though we’ve come to love them so much that they now tend to be eaten throughout March and April. If you haven’t been lucky enough to buy one of our giant Hot Cross Buns this year, this recipe will make sure you don’t miss out.
Bettys’ Head of Beautiful, Robyn Cox, is the creative mind behind our glorious window displays, including our famous Christmas creations. Here he offers his tips for creating a little Bettys-style festive magic at home
We knew it would be a really busy Christmas this year, so we prepared thoroughly by making twice as many treats and ensuring we had plenty more delivery slots available. Despite this, we've now sold out of everything that could be delivered before 25th December.
At Bettys we always make sure to keep our silver teapots sparkling and our cake trollies stocked with everyone’s favourites, but the finishing touch for any of our six Café Tea Rooms is a window display good enough to devour. Although they’re best peered at in person – ideally shortly before heading into the café for a treat – we also love sharing our most creative and colourful displays online. Wherever you are, we hope they brighten up your day.
This Christmas at Bettys, we’re captivated by the spirit of the 1920s. A decade of both breathless modernity and timeless beauty, its iconic styles still delight a century later. It was also an exciting time for our youthful business, as we opened elegant new cafés across Yorkshire and started sending out treats by mail order.
As we at Bettys well know, Yorkshire’s culinary delights are many, from treacle-sticky parkin and dainty curd tarts to the joy of a perfectly risen Yorkshire pudding. But one local invention still prompts double takes beyond the county’s borders – the idea that however fine your slice of fruit cake, it can always be improved by the addition of cheese.
At Bettys, we know how much better everything is when you come together over a freshly brewed cup. And one reason why is that we’re lucky to have Taylors as our sister company, supplying the teas and coffees in our cafés, shops and online. But it wasn’t always that way for these one-time rivals.
Take the fear out of pastry with our recipe for this lovely tart which is perfect for family dinners and picnics. What's more, you can adapt the recipe to use up left-overs in the fridge.
Annie Gray, author of ‘From the Alps to the Dales’ shares her reflections on how our specialities and service have provided nourishment and joy in difficult times across our 100-year history.
You’ll often find us celebrating Bettys’ founder Frederick Belmont for his fine confectionery skills, his vision in opening our first café in Harrogate back in 1919 and for a dedication to doing things right that still inspires us today. What’s less usual is for us to praise the young Swiss orphan who chose to settle in Yorkshire for being the owner of a mean pair of biceps.
Our award-winning hot chocolate makes the most delicious, velvety drink for wintry days, but it also makes a lovely, refreshing milkshake for when the weather is warmer.
The Swiss Roll is in some ways the perfect Bettys dessert. For one, it references the home of our founder, Frederick Belmont, who was born near Bern (though it's thought the recipe actually originated in Austria). But more importantly, it is a simple treat that is comforting in its familiarity.
Our Cookery School tutors are culinary wizards and keepers of the secrets of the Bettys craft. But occasionally, just occasionally, they reveal one of those secrets to the world.
It all begins with this man, Fritz Bützer – later to become Frederick Belmont – a Swiss orphan who travels Europe learning his trade as a confectioner, baker and chocolatier until one day, he embarks a boat to England to pursue his dream...
It’s time to enjoy being together again – and with delicious food, jolly decorations and that all-important cake, a birthday provides the ideal excuse to make seeing your favourite people even more of an event. So we asked Bettys’ ‘Head of Beautiful’ Robyn Cox to work his styling magic and share some ideas for indoor and outdoor party spreads that look and taste as wonderful as the occasion deserves. 
Nadiya Hussain and Fred Sirieix visit Bettys as they tour the UK's most Remarkable Places to Eat. 
Bettys’ Head of Beautiful, Robyn Cox, is the creative mind behind our glorious window displays, including our famous Christmas creations. Here he offers his tips for creating a little Bettys-style festive magic at home 
We knew it would be a really busy Christmas this year, so we prepared thoroughly by making twice as many treats and ensuring we had plenty more delivery slots available. Despite this, we've now sold out of everything that could be delivered before 25th December. 
At Bettys we always make sure to keep our silver teapots sparkling and our cake trollies stocked with everyone’s favourites, but the finishing touch for any of our six Café Tea Rooms is a window display good enough to devour. Although they’re best peered at in person – ideally shortly before heading into the café for a treat – we also love sharing our most creative and colourful displays online. Wherever you are, we hope they brighten up your day. 
This Christmas at Bettys, we’re captivated by the spirit of the 1920s. A decade of both breathless modernity and timeless beauty, its iconic styles still delight a century later. It was also an exciting time for our youthful business, as we opened elegant new cafés across Yorkshire and started sending out treats by mail order. 
As we at Bettys well know, Yorkshire’s culinary delights are many, from treacle-sticky parkin and dainty curd tarts to the joy of a perfectly risen Yorkshire pudding. But one local invention still prompts double takes beyond the county’s borders – the idea that however fine your slice of fruit cake, it can always be improved by the addition of cheese. 
