A Yorkshire-headquartered business which bakes chocolate brownies and sells them online and in shops and cafes across the UK has announced a major expansion which will see it double in size inside the next twelve months.

Love Brownies, an award-winning bakery which started on owner and head-baker Chantal Teal’s kitchen table in Ilkley in 2009, has just opened its thirteenth brownie shop and café and will open nine more this year.

The latest store in Bristol will be followed by stores and cafés in St Albans, Rochester and Grassington in the company’s home region of Yorkshire, with more shops planned to open every month for the rest of 2021.

The company, which has also just moved into larger headquarters in Ilkley, already has brownie cafés in Harrogate, West Kirby, Angel Islington, Southgate, Guildford, Canterbury, Swindon, Clapham Junction, Penarth, Loughton and the Brownie Barn in Barden. The company employs 9 people at its HQ in Ilkley and around 80 people across its retail outlets.

Love Brownies’ Head Baker and Owner, Chantal Teal said: “We’re delighted to have reached the milestone of our thirteenth UK opening and are so excited to bring the Love Brownies brand to more communities.

“We’re grateful to have gone from strength to strength over a very challenging period and we’re so pleased to have an ambitious schedule of openings planned for the near future.”