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You will not be disappointed if you have a cake made by Sue. She offers a first class service with…read moreguidance and help with designs. Her skill and attention to detail is amazing. Sue made us a bespoke wedding cake, like an oasis, which was superb and looked even better than we'd hoped ! The quality of the cake itself was delicious. We had fruit cake laced with brandy - lovely. Sue's prices are very reasonable and worth every penny and more. Don't bother looking anywhere else.

If there's one shop you can guarantee you'll find in every city or town, it's a Greggs or at the…read morevery least, a Sayers. I hate how popular Greggs is now, mainly because I dislike their pasties and sausage rolls, especially compared to what Sayers has to offer. So imagine my delight when, just next door to my arch nemesis Greggs, I stumbled across Greenhalghs Craft Bakery in Ormskirk. This large bakery sells similar stuff to Greggs and Sayers, offering their customers an excellent selection of savoury items including sausage rolls, pasties and delicious pies as well as bread, cakes, soups and sandwiches. They also do celebration cakes that are beautifully designed as well as offering a buffet service for any special occasion you might have coming up. The shop itself is bright and clean-looking and the staff there are polite and friendly, meaning any experience in Greenhalgh's is always pleasant. Their pies in particular are perfectly crumbly and filled with good quality fillings that are always just the right temperature to enable you to quickly devour them.

Crust is a decent enough sandwich bar and delicatessen virtually next door to its main competitor…read moreButlers Bakery. Unlike Butlers though, Crust specialises less in baked goods and more in sandwiches and other café related dishes, as well as offering the other usual refreshments like coffee, tea and soft drinks. The bread they use there tastes fresh and provides a great base for the various fillings they offer there that are all made fresh daily and are generously shoved into your sandwich. The prices for a small local shop like this are reasonable enough and offer a similarly good value for money as Butlers and its location just around the corner from Maghull train station makes it a useful place to grab a sandwich before/after getting a train. There is a small area to dine inside but I generally find its better to take away unless you desperately want to sit in with your purchases.

Crust is a cute little café and deli in the Maghull area of Liverpool…read more It's kind of a small-town diner atmosphere, with a few little both like tables along one wall. It's the kind of place you could sit and read a book while munching a sandwich and enjoying a cup of tea while surreptitiously spying on the locals. (Something I truly enjoy!) They food is tasty, if semi plain, but that's what you generally get in a small café/sandwich shop. It's certainly nicer than a mere packaged sandwich from a grocery store. Prices are good and the staff are very friendly and polite.

'Cakes of distinction' sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, doesn't it? After all, how can food be…read moredescribed in such a sophisticated manner? It's just food, after all. But for places like David, that's just it. Food isn't just food, it's a chance to be creative and they treat it more like a piece of art than something you shove in your mouth, swallow and finish within a minute or two. At David, they do a lovely range of wedding cakes for your special day that look both delicious and ridiculously tall (just how many tiers can one cake have?), all available at competitive prices. However, their novelty cakes are what really intrigue me. A quick browse of their website reveals they do such cakes as the 'Full English' (yep, designed to look like a cooked breakfast) and a 'Deep Pan Pizza'. Such creations show both style and humour, both of which should be applauded and encouraged. David is definitely a place worth checking out, even if it's just to admire the cakes in the window.

Even if your not looking to buy a fancy cake, if you have no intention of getting married, and like…read moreto forget your birthdays rather than celebrate them, its still worth taking a look in Davids window. His cakes are pure works of art. He has been a master acke maker in this little shop for about twenty years now, and I never tire of marvelling at his latest creations in the window. He produces five fight high sculptures of buildings, life size caricatures of celebrities, comic book figures, figurines from your favourite photograph. Anything is possible in this shop. David has made cakes for Posh and Becks, the Queen, and every local event there is. You must visit.

As you can probably guess from the name of this business, Pound Bakery offers all your bakery goods…read moreat no more than one English pound. Quite why they've decided to offer sausage rolls, pies and pasties at one pound when you can usually get one for a bit less, I'm not sure; even when you do pay more than a pound for a pasty in Greggs or Sayers, it's not too much more and it's not so much more that you'd rather not pay it. Especially when their goods are generally pretty tasty and of a higher quality than here. Their selection of savouries and sweets are pretty impressive and rival the other local bakers in the area, but with Greggs and the excellent Greenhalghs just down the way from them, I'd say that Pound Bakery is a place you should go if you literally only have a pound to spend for your dinner. But then again, you can't get a drink. Or some sort of accompaniment, which we all know is imperative to your lunchtime snack.

As the name suggest every item is rounded to a pound or less, this competes well with greggs and…read moresayers bakery. The store that caught my attention was the Stretford Mall shop, and I decided to go there since 2 pasties for £1 seemed very reasonable. Greggs are usually £1.85 for 2 pasties, so it at least 85% cheaper than it's rival. The selection of pasties seemed very impressive, better than greggs. And 2 loafs for £1 seemed another great steal. Hot drinks are 50p each and cakes are £1, again great value all rounded to a pound or less. Overall great value for money, good selection and quality that doesn't seem to differ with greggs. It caters for everyone, not just those on a budget, like it very much!

Old fashioned bakery chain based in Crosby, this is a family based business that has been around…read morefor years. They have a fwe shops in Crosby, Waterloo and Formby. They sell a good selection of small cakes, buns, bread and pasties. Their sausage rolls and pork pies are particulalry good, although they dont have as wide and modern selection as say Greggs. They also do special occasion and wedding cakes to order. The staff are all quite mature, and are very friendly to their regulars but can feel a bit stern to younger people! They also do catering if you order in advance. Years ago my friend worked there as a Saturday girl, she said they use to reheat the day before's pastries and they were not allowed to throw anything out it had to be reused! However Ive never had food poisoning or any problems with the food in recent years.