About Us

Heidi Thompson - Founder

For years I’ve been supplying friends, family and friends of friends with wedding cakes, birthday cakes and delicious beautiful food for all sorts of special occasions.

It wasn’t until having a family of my own that I decided to leave ‘work’ officially and finally set up The Jolly Good Pud Company something I’ve talked to friends and family about for years - so the time came to stop talking and start doing.

I’ve worked for several brands and retailers - The New Covent Garden Soup Company, Merchant Gourmet, Thorntons and Whittard of Chelsea - but my heart always belonged to cake.

I started baking at around 6 years old and mum still has my first ever cook book - the pages of the ‘Victoria Sponge’ recipe stuck together from years of sticky fingers, broken eggs, butter and flour. The years went by and I was always the first to offer to make someone a birthday cake, each one getting more and more extravagant.

Eventually friends started to get married and people were asking me if I’d make their wedding cakes - of course I would and I loved it!

So it really all started with just delicious cakes - and I quickly had to learn how to make them look beautiful too, which when you’re using the very best ingredients and creating the most delicious recipes, isn’t really too difficult.

The result? Honest, home-made, delicious, beautiful jolly good food. I hope you love it!