La Creme Patisserie Blog

Customer feedback on La Creme

Its been an amazing last few weeks with all the publicity about our business and we have had some fantastic feedback from our customers. Here are just a few comments we have received :

One customer said that Sian's pastry was as light as a fairy's wings !! He went on to say that he said to his wife when we opened that we were setting the bar to high and we would never be able to maintain that standard. However two years on he says that " your getting even better - well done".

Helen Morris from Neath has commented on our story in the evening post that she meets up regularly in La Creme with her friends and Sian's work is amazing. Click here to read the full article.

One lady who attended the NPT mayors inauguration last friday rang to say that the patisserie's we supplied was exquisite and she has ordered some for a party she is hosting this weekend. We also had a message of thanks from the leader of the council Derek Vaughan and from the mayor delivered through the Neath town centre manager Terry Harvey.

Shaun Davies has emailed to say that he has seen our article and the cakes look absolutely sublime. He says that we are the best kept secret in Neath.

We have also been inudated with brides asking us to make their wedding cakes and we now have orders to supply cakes to weddings at

The village,Swansea

St.Pierre, Chepstow

The Celtic Manor

Coed y Mwstwr, Bridgend

King Arthur, Reynoldston

Craig-y-nos castle

As far as cup cakes are concerned we are cup caked out. The demand has been incredible. We supplied cakes to So Cocoa in Mumbles (who have started stocking our products) on Tuesday and they sold out within the day. We have then had to redeliver wednesday morning because of the demand.

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Dynamo Role Models at La Creme

Sian and myself have been asked by the Welsh Assembly to become Dynamo role models and go out into schools and colleges and give talks on running your own business. Today was my first go at presenting my story to a year 10 class and the school I was given was Gowerton comprehensive.

I didn't know what to expect having not spoken in front of year 10 children before. Both my 14 year old son and my 12 year old daugther had filled me with dread the night before, telling me that "the children would eat me alive" and that I "musn't be boring". In fact I found the whole experience very enjoyable. The children were chatty and interested and made me feel very welcome in their school.

I told them that Sian and I were living the dream. We were lucky in that we are doing something that we passionately believe in. The business is really starting to make a name for itself. Earlier today we had a telephone call from a producer at S4C and tomorrow they are coming to our patisserie to film us making cup cakes. An article in the Daily Mail on Saturday wrote about Victoria Beckam receiving a gift of a year's supply of cup cakes and they are coming to film us as a follow up to this article. Sian had been in work since 4.00am trying to make up time lost yesterday when we went to London to drop off our entries for the Great Taste awards and now she needed to work late to make cup cakes for tomorrow. She is certainly living the dream (or is it working in a trance?). We saw plenty of examples of cup cakes on sale in London yesterday and the picture left shows our interpretation of the lastest hot cake. They should be hot its 10.39pm and Sian has just finished making them!

Friday we are making 600 pieces of patisserie for the Swansea Lord Mayors inauguration to be held at the Brangwyn Hall and we are also making 400 patisseries for Neath Port Talbot Mayors inauguration on the same day. So no sleep tomorrow either.

Which brings me back to my talk today. Running your own business is very hard work. It doesn't suit everyone. However if you have a passion - run with it. A headline in the Evening Post last week quoted Sir Anthony Hopkins saying "If you have a dream, make it a big one". Pick the highest mountain and don't stop until you have climbed it.

One thing I forgot to mention in my talk today was that you have to have a song. Your own song - the song you play at full volume when you have achieved your goal. My song is "Brass in Pocket". I remember this song coming on the radio just as I got in the car after getting my first job. Whenever I hear it I think back to how great life felt at that moment. Luckily I have played this song (at full volume) many times since. 

So once again I would like to say thank to the children of year 10 in Gowerton Comprehensive who didn't fall asleep today when I was talking and for their hospitality and I would encourage them to find their dream and as they say on Star Trek "Make it so".   

Sample Dessert Products from La Creme

Sian recently prepared sample dessert products for a Head Chef at a famous Swansea venue. Samples included dessert cups, mini patisseries and individual dessert gateau for large scale banquets and weddings. Please take a look at the following video which see's Sian talking through the desserts describing them in mouth watering details.

Swansea Bay Business Woman of the Year Awards 2007

Swansea Bay Business Woman of the Year awards, held at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea on 30th November 2007. The finalist in the category were:

• Sian Hindle of La Creme Patisserie & Catering Co. Ltd based in Neath,South Wales
• Lara Johnson of Lara Johnson Lifestyle, and
• Mari Thomas of Mari Thomas Jewellery

The following video was prepared as an introduction to the catergory by Red 90 Video Productions.

La Creme Patisserie & Catering Company

La Creme Patisserie and Catering Company is the brainchild of Sian and Ian Hindle. After only 2 years trading at their premises in Angel Street, Neath, South Wales, Sian has become one of the top three patissiers in the UK. Sian was a finalist in the Patissier of the Year category at the British Bakery Awards staged at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on September 17th 2007.