Shipley’s Just Desserts among the Great Taste winners 2019

A West Yorkshire based bakery are celebrating after being awarded a coveted star at this Year’s Great Taste Awards.

Known as the world’s most coveted food and drink accolades, Great Taste announced its stars of 2019 from the 12,500 products entered from companies across the world.  Amongst this year’s stars were Shipley based bakery, Just Desserts who were awarded a Star for its Salted Caramel Cake.

The handcrafted cake combines dates, butter and sugar along with notes of vanilla and mocha, finished off with salted caramel and was praised by the judges for delivering fantastic flavour.

Judged by more than 500 of the most discerning palates including food critics, chefs, cooks, restaurateurs and producers, as well as a whole host of food writers and journalists, Great Taste is widely acknowledged as the most respected food accreditation scheme for artisan and speciality food producers.  

James O’Dwyer, managing director of Just Desserts said: “It’s not the first year we have scooped a Great Taste Award, but each win is another triumph and testament to the premium quality of our handmade desserts.  We pride ourselves on creating the very best products for our foodservice and hospitality customers and accolades like this are to speciality food what Michelin is to fine dining and certainly open doors for us.

“I’m so proud of our bakery team, they are absolutely passionate about every product we produce and it shows in the finished results.   This is an acknowledged benchmark for speciality food and drink and displaying the Great Taste Awards logo is the sign that customers are buying food they can trust and helps us to differentiate our product from the norm.”

For more information on Just Desserts products, visit their website www.just-desserts.co.uk