Husband and wife duo Luke and Caroline Staton joined the rest of the nation baking bread during lockdown - which has evolved into a successful business. Until then Caroline's working llife had been the law - starting in criminal law and working for a number of different firms, finally dealing with fraudulent road accident claims. In each chapter I start with something really easy - as the sponge cake chapter goes on the cakes get more difficult.

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Keen to share that learning the book for children is intended to help build their baking confidence and develop their skill set by advising youngsters of their progress. Caroline bakes around 125 bagels a day, plus 25 beetroot buns for Wild and Wild’s pink rainbow vegan burger. She said: "The first letter from Sophia (in Forget Me Not) was actually my letter to my sister I wrote many years later. Each StokeonTrentLive bulletin delivers the latest breaking news, what's on events and the hottest talking points straight to your inbox. Caroline, 55,and her husband Darrell, whose home is in Garstang, had been running the West Coast Cafe located at the YMCA gym at St Annes.

The 30-year-old mum-of-twins, from Leek, said: “One day Luke decided he wanted to make bagels - he’s really creative and often comes up with cool ideas and I get to eat it. Rather than give in to despondency when the St Annes cafe she ran with her husband had to close its doors she started to share her recipes online. The couple met in the hospitality industry when they were both working at Keele Hall, but never expected to find themselves selling baked goods from their home kitchen.

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Her impeccable timing means that as she rolls out the final batch of dough, the first is ready to be shaped, boiled and baked. When lockdown came everyone was baking, so I started to share a recipe every day, just different recipes from what I had and what I had baked in the cafe.A story about stressful lives and new beginnings, with a delicious mash up of mystery, drama and romance, set in the gorgeous Northumberland scenery. It was followed by Forget Me Not, a book for young adults which has its roots in a family tragedy - the death of Caroline's sister Joanne, 18, from an asthma attack. My father has Alzheimer’s and I wanted to spend more time with him and also I wanted to follow my other passion, travel. I’d been a project manager in the commercial sector for 20 years, but reaching 40 made me rethink my career,” explains Caroline.