{"id":390,"date":"2015-10-26T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T21:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/?p=390"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:00:16","slug":"updates-thomas-baker-halloween-fundraising-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/updates-thomas-baker-halloween-fundraising-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates at Thomas the Baker: Halloween, Fundraising &#038; Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ttb-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-396 alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ttb-4.png\" alt=\"ttb 4\" width=\"305\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ttb-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-394 alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ttb-3.png\" alt=\"ttb 3\" width=\"320\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phew, we just keep getting busier and busier over here at Thomas the Baker! Well, it&#8217;s to be expected in the run up to Halloween and Christmas &#8211; did you know that by the time you&#8217;re just starting to think about Christmas around now, we&#8217;ve already got your Christmas puddings and cakes in production?<br \/>\nAnyway, spot that lovely lady in above? That&#8217;s my sister Beth, according to the press release that&#8217;s gone out to the news this week, the &#8220;smart cookie&#8221; who is the brains behind the business (no one told me!). She&#8217;s been hard at work in the Confectionary department of the bakery recently helping to develop a few new products especially for her favourite time of year, Halloween, including these four handcrafted designs on shortbread biscuits that we&#8217;re calling &#8220;Spcookies&#8221;! The four ghoulish designs are a mummified monster, spooky skull, petrifying pumpkin and a Munster.<br \/>\nBut they&#8217;re not all we&#8217;re throwing into the ring for Halloween&#8230;after we noticed a few of our loyal customers missing a certain product and calling for their return this spooky season, we started up a bit of mini campaign to bring them back:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Want our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Halloween?src=hash\">#Halloween<\/a> Bat Biscuits back on the shelves? RT this and we&#39;ll try to make it happen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BringBackBatBiscuits?src=hash\">#BringBackBatBiscuits<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/x8B38F5cYe\">pic.twitter.com\/x8B38F5cYe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas the Baker (@thomasthebaker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasthebaker\/status\/653886251850989568\">October 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And it seems the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bringbackbatbiscuits?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;src=hash\">#BringBackBatBiscuits<\/a>\u00a0hashtag went down a storm across both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasthebaker\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thomasthebakers\">Facebook<\/a> as the ever loved Belgian chocolate Bat Biscuits are now successfully back on the shelves of our stores!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasthebaker\">@thomasthebaker<\/a> thank you &#8211; woooooo!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rn3ZfndK03\">pic.twitter.com\/Rn3ZfndK03<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sarah G (@mymintnails) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mymintnails\/status\/656824000174292992\">October 21, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other news, we like to do our bit for charities, both local and nationwide. So last week, the team at Bronco decided to take part in Wear It Pink day, a day in which, you guessed it, the nation was asked to dress in pink in order to raise money for Breast Cancer Now. We did our part by donating a few yummy treats as well as a beautifully pink themed hamper for a raffle to drum up the funds. <a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6589.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-408 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6589-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6589\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a>With the help of our Bat Biscuits, Ghostly Cupcakes, Ginger Snap Biscuits, Yorkshire Brack and Lemon Drizzle Cake, we managed to help Team Bronco push the total funds up for Breast Cancer Now to&#8230;.(drum roll, please)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wear-it-pink.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-407 size-full\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wear-it-pink-e1445891708952.jpg\" alt=\"wear it pink\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excellent work! Now as we mentioned in passing before, we&#8217;re working hard on our social media right now and would love to see you over there. Drop us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasthebaker\">a tweet<\/a> or L<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thomasthebakers\">ike our page on Facebook<\/a> &#8211; if it goes well enough, we&#8217;ll soon be able to start sharing exclusive bits and pieces over on our social media just for our followers, looking forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Phew, we just keep getting busier and busier over here at Thomas the Baker! Well, it&#8217;s to be expected in the run up to Halloween and Christmas &#8211; did you know that by the time you&#8217;re just starting to think about Christmas around now, we&#8217;ve already got your Christmas puddings and cakes in production? Anyway, spot that lovely lady in above? That&#8217;s my sister Beth, according to the press release that&#8217;s gone out to the news this week, the &#8220;smart cookie&#8221; who is the brains behind the business (no one told me!). She&#8217;s been hard at work in the Confectionary department of the bakery recently helping to develop a few new products especially for her favourite time of year, Halloween, including these four handcrafted designs on shortbread biscuits that we&#8217;re calling &#8220;Spcookies&#8221;! The four ghoulish designs are a mummified monster, spooky skull, petrifying pumpkin and a Munster. But they&#8217;re not all we&#8217;re throwing into the ring for Halloween&#8230;after we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[26,17,22,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasthebaker.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}