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  • My Recipes
    • Spiced Marmalade Cake
    • Sticky Toffee Pudding
    • Cheese and Onion Tarts
    • Simnel Cake
    • Seville marmalade
    • Viennese Topped Mince Pies
    • Christmas Pudding
    • Sweet Mincemeat Ice Cream Christmas Cake
    • Festive gingerbread cookies
    • Halloween Spooky Brownies
    • Festive Mincemeat and Apple Squares
    • Strawberry and elderflower tart
    • Summer/Winter Puddings
    • Eve's Pudding
    • Spicy Chicken and Tomato Curry
    • Quick Bakes not using flour
    • Jamie Oliver’s Sourdough Starter
    • Buttermilk Scones
    • Sweet and Savoury Waffles
    • Spiced Cinnamon Cake
    • Christmas Pudding
    • Christmas Gingerbread Truffles
    • Tomato, Manchego cheese and basil savoury muffins
    • Piñata celebration cake
    • Cider Toffee Apple Cake
    • Sweet potato brownies
    • Elderflower and Lemon Cake
    • Carrot cake tray bake
    • Somerset Cider Bread
    • Somerset Easy Fruit Cake
    • Coconut Tarts
    • M&M Flapjacks
    • Rocky Roads
    • Raspberry Heart Friands
    • Seville Marmalade
    • Spiced Apple cake
    • Cheese and Onion Pasties
    • Holiday festive bakes
      • Festive Herby Sausage Rolls
      • Festive Mincemeat Cake
      • Quick and easy mincemeat
    • Meringues
    • Cheese Scones
    • Yorkshire Tea bread
    • Summer Fruit Tarts
    • Tear and Share Cheese herb and sun blush tomato bread
    • Friday Outrageous
    • Spiced tea cakes
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    • Best ever chocolate nut brownies
    • Rich Butter Biscuits
    • Oven Scones
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    • Banana Pecan Loaf
    • Virtuous cake
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Cake Whisperer Val Stones joins ROS as Ambassador
Val joins the Royal Osteoporosis Society as an Ambassador. Val was diagnosed with Osteoporosis 17 years ago and discusses the ways she is able to stay healthy through exercise and  eating bone-friendly foods. 


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​Life in lockdown for Doncaster's Great British Bake Off star
Val speaks on her experiences during the Coronavirus lockdown, how she has kept busy through baking and recalls past experiences that have helped through these difficult times. 


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Christmas Bakes from Val Stones, The Cake Whisperer
Val shares fond memories of family Christmases as she grew up and
​also shares some of her favourite recipes for the festive season.




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Bring back Val! In praise of Bake Off’s older bakers, this year’s missing ingredient
This year's contestants on the GBBO will be the youngest ever line up.  The older contestants bring something special to the contest that we discuss may be missing with a younger set of bakers in the tent this year.

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'Great British Baking Show' Stars Share Their Favorite Ways to Save Money in the Kitchen
Money, 14 March 2019

MONEY asked seven of the show’s stars what their best tips are for saving money in
​the kitchen. Here’s what they said.



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Llanmoor Homes Teams Up With Great British Bake Off Stars
1 March 2019
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Multi award winning Welsh house builder, Llanmoor Homes, invited visitors to join them for a day of baking demonstrations with Great British Bake Off favourites; Louise Williams and Val Stones.



A Friendship Baked in the Great British Bake Off Tent
​15 Feb 2019

Every week, The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.

This week she talks with two former contestants on the U.K. reality show The Great British Bake Off (known in the U.S. as The Great British Baking Show) who forged an intergenerational friendship during the competition.

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BBC News
27 January 2019
​It's the most British of shows, yet this world of Victoria sponges and Bakewell tarts has Americans transfixed.
​What's the recipe for its success in the US?

Ed Sheeran mentions Val's tweet in an interview with Heather Collins.

Click here to go straight to the question https://youtu.be......

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Twitter, Who to follow?​
October 2018
​In this week's #WhoToFollow video, @BuzzFeed's TV 📺 editor Scott Bryan (@scottygb) shares three of his favourites. They include former #GBBO contestant @valstones 

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Made in Derbyshire​

​Bake Off star Val extends range of bakes at Croots Farm Shop in Derbyshire.


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Heatworld​
​Ed Sheeran's been tweeting GBBO's Val Stones and we can't deal...

​One shining beacon of light in a pretty shoddy 2016 was 100% the Great British Bake Off. Even though we had to deal with the inner turmoil knowing that it would never be the same again after the announcement the show would be heading over to Channel 4, the last series on BBC was probably the best yet.

One reason it was so great was because it brought as the coolest baker in the history of baking in the form of Selasi Gbormittah. The other reason was Valerie Stones.



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Somerset Community Foundation
More celebrity endorsement for Surviving Winter!

​As the threat of an arctic blast looms large over Somerset, Val Stones of Great British Bake Off fame throws her support behind the 2016/17 Surviving Winter appeal, managed by Somerset Community Foundation. Now in its seventh year, Surviving Winter asks pensioners who can live without their Winter Fuel Payment to donate it to help local older people struggling with the cost of staying warm and socially connected.

Somerset Community Foundation has raised over £80,000 since launching the campaign in November, they still need a further £20,000 to help 500 vulnerable older people this winter. 



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The D Brief
​If you do one thing today, watch Candice, Salsai, Benjamina and Val in this bakeoff reunion.

2016 winner Candice Brown took to Facebook Live, along with bake off faves Selasi Gbormittah, Val Stones and Benjamina Ebuehi took to answer some very pressing questions, live.


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Val sends Twitter into meltdown.

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Bake Off fans go wild after Val reveals she's going on a baking holiday to Ayia Napa.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk


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Harts of Stur
www.hartsofstur.com
We have been honoured on a couple of occasions during the month of December to have Val Stones visit us in-store signing books and a baking demonstration. Val took part earlier in the year on the BBC’s The Great British Bake Off but sadly didn’t win the series.

However Val won the hearts of many with her cake whispering and energetic and sometimes aerobic enthusiasm for baking. 


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Mashable
A retired headmistress with a fondness for talking to her cakes, Val Stones is the perfect eccentric example of what makes the Great British Bake Off great. By the end of her run on Bake Off, Val could pretty much have started her own show and people would have watched it.

She made people laugh, she made people tweet, and — with her final, surprisingly emotional parting speech — she made people cry.


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East Midlands Business News

Bake Off star Val teams up with Croots Farm Shop to launch tasty range of bakes.


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BuzzFeed
26 Women Who Ruined Men For You In 2016

All hail the 2016 Bake Off queen. She’s let us all know we should never give up and she’s teaching us all her magic over on Instagram. She is the 2016 antidote.


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Metro

The Great British Bake Off 2016 fas are calling for a spin-off show about Val Stones.


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Good to Know 

17 reasons we'll miss Val from The Great British Bake Off.

Follow Val on Instagram and Twitter.

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  • My Recipes
    • Spiced Marmalade Cake
    • Sticky Toffee Pudding
    • Cheese and Onion Tarts
    • Simnel Cake
    • Seville marmalade
    • Viennese Topped Mince Pies
    • Christmas Pudding
    • Sweet Mincemeat Ice Cream Christmas Cake
    • Festive gingerbread cookies
    • Halloween Spooky Brownies
    • Festive Mincemeat and Apple Squares
    • Strawberry and elderflower tart
    • Summer/Winter Puddings
    • Eve's Pudding
    • Spicy Chicken and Tomato Curry
    • Quick Bakes not using flour
    • Jamie Oliver’s Sourdough Starter
    • Buttermilk Scones
    • Sweet and Savoury Waffles
    • Spiced Cinnamon Cake
    • Christmas Pudding
    • Christmas Gingerbread Truffles
    • Tomato, Manchego cheese and basil savoury muffins
    • Piñata celebration cake
    • Cider Toffee Apple Cake
    • Sweet potato brownies
    • Elderflower and Lemon Cake
    • Carrot cake tray bake
    • Somerset Cider Bread
    • Somerset Easy Fruit Cake
    • Coconut Tarts
    • M&M Flapjacks
    • Rocky Roads
    • Raspberry Heart Friands
    • Seville Marmalade
    • Spiced Apple cake
    • Cheese and Onion Pasties
    • Holiday festive bakes
      • Festive Herby Sausage Rolls
      • Festive Mincemeat Cake
      • Quick and easy mincemeat
    • Meringues
    • Cheese Scones
    • Yorkshire Tea bread
    • Summer Fruit Tarts
    • Tear and Share Cheese herb and sun blush tomato bread
    • Friday Outrageous
    • Spiced tea cakes
    • Easter Biscuits
    • Best ever chocolate nut brownies
    • Rich Butter Biscuits
    • Oven Scones
    • Cherry and Coconut macaroons
    • Spelt and Ginger Biscuits
    • Banana Pecan Loaf
    • Virtuous cake
    • Cookies and Biscuits
    • Tray Bakes
    • Sausage Rolls
    • Tea Time Favorites
    • Cupcakes
  • Val in the News
  • Make a Difference
  • Events
  • Addendum to Recipe Book
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