Pepper's Cottage Bakery

11/06/2025

Homity Pie is an open-topped pie which is believed to have first been made by Land-Girls during World War 2. These beauties are sold at The Rising Sun Middleton served with salad and chips 😋

13/08/2024

21/05/2024

As they say all good things come to an end…

After next month Pepper’s Cottage Bakery will no longer be attending Wirksworth Farmers’ Market.

Stevie P is celebrating his 66th Birthday this week and is therefore semi retiring! 🎉 We have loved running our stalls and building friendships with customers and stall holders alike and would like to give a huge thank you to all our customers, family and friends for their fantastic support during the time we have stood the markets.

Our finale is the Farmers’ Market on Saturday 1st June 2024 and we look forward to seeing you there if you can make it! Love the Pepper’s Team 🥧

19/05/2024

Here at Pepper’s Cottage Bakery we’re proud to be fourth generation market traders. Albert was trading on Wirksworth Market throughout the 1950’s, his daughter Dorothy assisting him. Dorothy’s son, Steve followed in his footsteps setting up our weekly bakery stall alongside his daughter Laura in 2017 (with Dorothy lending a hand serving too!) later joined by his other daughter Marie at Wirksworth Farmers’ Market.
What an honour it is to have four generations of the same family standing markets in Wirksworth.



- Photo from left to right: Dorothy, Steve, Marie and Laura

- Photo of Albert with his stall on Derby market

30/03/2024

Steve’s School of Baking Episode 2 part 1 - Hot Cross Buns

27/03/2024

Have you tried our Award-Winning Steak & Cheddar Pie? We’ve been baking them for a while now and they seem to be increasing in popularity which is grate!

They’ll be available at Wirksworth Farmers’ Market on Saturday 6th April for £4.50 each

10/03/2024

🏆🥧The British Pie Awards! 🥧 🏆
It’s our fifth year entering and fifth year being invited to the winners lunch! Results for 2024 are as followed:

Highly Commended/Reserve winner: Mushroom, Red Wine & Thyme Pie, Bramley Apple Pie

🥉- Steak & Potato Pie, Steak Pie, Steak & Stilton Pie, Steak & Mushy Pea Pie, Red Cherry Pie, Steak & Kidney Pie

We were unsure whether or not to post this but so many of our customers have asked us what happened, we wanted to let you know! There was a mix up and confusion with the scoring of some of our pies at The British Pie Awards 2023, which took some time to sort out. This has been since resolved and it seemed a shame to not share the outcome!

Therefore, Pepper’s Cottage Bakery are de-pie’ted to announce that we were awarded 13 Awards at The British Pie Awards 2023. Our biggest haul yet! 5 of our Pies were awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in their category putting them in the top 3 in Britain!

The awards are:

Highly Commended: Steak & Kidney, Red Cherry Pie, Steak & Mushy Pea, Steak & Potato, Steak in Red Wine & Redcurrant Gravy

🥈- Mushroom, Red Wine & Thyme Pie, Bramley Apple Pie, Steak & Cheddar Pie

🥉- Mince Pie, Peppered Steak Pie, Steak & Artisan Ale Pie Steak & Stilton Pie, Chicken & Mushroom Pie

We couldn’t do what we do without our fantastic Team of Bakers and our local suppliers for the highest-quality ingredients E W Coates Butchers, D & J Fruits, and Field Farm Eggs Ltd 🍺 🥩🥕

Pictured is Stevie P and The Baker Girls at the British Pie Awards 2023 with some of the certificates, and Stevie P, Baker Girl #1 and Rosie at the British Pie Awards 2024

26/02/2024

I know some of you lovely customers like our compete list of products to write your shopping lists before you come to our stall! So here is our product list for Wirksworth Farmers’ Market on Saturday 2nd March 2024 - our Easter special🐣🥧

25/02/2024

Did you know this year will mark 50 years of Steve baking bread?! 😮 He started baking bread in 1974 at Hayes Bakery before he moved onto Howard’s Bakery then setting up his own - Pepper’s.

Here we have Stevie P manning one of our stalls at Wirksworth Farmers’ Market, Stevie P and The Baker Girls bake our bread fresh the morning of the market. He loves passing on his trade to the girls, our next generation of bakers!

Our loaves are next available on Saturday 2nd March at Wirksworth Farmers’ Market, £1.80 for white, £2 for brown 🍞

25/11/2023

Back with a banger…we’ll have our sought after Pigs in Blanket Sausage Rolls at Wirksworth Farmers’ Market on Saturday 2nd December for £3 each. It’s your last chance to get them before Christmas, pop them in the freezer for the festive season…if they last that long! 🐷

23/11/2023

We’ve had some requests for our list of products that will be available on our Christmas Market stall, so here is the full list! We’ll be at Wirksworth Farmers' Market on Saturday 2nd December with lots of lovely goodies including Mince Pies, Festive Meat Pies and everything else 🥧 🎄🤶🎅

✨We’re not taking pre-orders for the Christmas market this year, however we will have lots available on the day✨

26/07/2023

Well, we all need a break sometimes! We’re giving all our fantastic team a summer holiday ☀️ As such, we will not be having our market stall at Wirksworth Farmers’ Market in AUGUST. Thank you for your support as always, hopefully see you in September!