Hand cutting and packaging around 12,000 biscuits and shortbread a week, together with producing 100 kilos of delicious, award winning tablet at the height of the season, are just some of the many challenges faced with gusto by Sheila and Keith Mitchell of Kenmore Bakery.

The couple, whose daughter Jackie, and grandson Steven, are also now involved in the business – which operates out of their home bakery at Acharn near Kenmore.

They have seen their business grow from a small concern, headed up by professionally trained chef turned baker Keith, catering for local customers in the Highland Perthshire area, to supplying some of Scotland’s biggest 5 star names.

Lovingly crafted biscuits, shortbread, and tablet, the winners of some 39 Gold Stars from the Guild of Fine Food Great Taste National Awards, are purchased by many top establishments for their customers, whilst success has come in the wholesale realm too, with Local Foods in Dunning, and Ochil Foods of Auchterarder, wholesaling Kenmore Bakery’s award winning tablet, cocktail oatcakes and other products, all over the country to hotels, restaurants, and retailers.

Kenmore Bakery’s client base now stretches right across the country, with outlets from Dornoch and Aviemore in the North, to Edinburgh and Biggar in the South.