Our History

Hello and thank you for visiting our pages.  My name is Karen Laggett and along with my partner, Jonathan Harwood, started The Cotswold Pudding Company back in 2007. 

I would love to tell you that I have always enjoyed baking. After all, one of my earliest memories was standing on a chair in our kitchen at home, avidly watching my mother bake cakes, biscuits and puddings.  Sadly I wasn’t really interested in the baking process at all, only the whisk she gave me at the end to lick!

Luckily things changed and as I got older I became interested in cooking all sorts of things, with a varied degree of success.  Baking however was my great love – I just found it so relaxing and satisfying - I still do. Even when I’ve got all the mixers and ovens on the go, with a huge pot of caramel boiling on the hob, I usually feel relaxed, happy and calm. 

We began selling our puddings at Stroud Farmer’s market which was an excellent way to see if people liked our products.  I have never felt more nervous on the first market day, thinking nobody would buy anything.  Luckily they did and once we had established a firm customer base, we slowly began to supply independent retailers throughout the Cotswolds and eventually beyond. 

We are still a very small concern, with just me doing the baking and Jon dealing with the packing, deliveries and basically all the things I don’t want to do!

Every day we realise how lucky we are, doing a job we just love, in an area that is so beautiful.

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