A Brighouse bakery faced a race against time after a food festival was cancelled due to rain.
Liv's Bakes 'n' Cakes in Brighouse only had a few days to sell all its festival stockA baker who was left with 3,000 surplus cakes after a food festival was cancelled in washout weather has sold them all thanks to a social media post.
Liv Dennison had planned to sell her wares at the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival last weekend but the event did not go ahead due to rain. After an appeal, Liv's Bakes 'n' Cakes in Brighouse saw non-stop queues from 10:00 BST on Thursday until Sunday.Kirklees Council told traders that vehicles could not safely access the festival site at Greenhead Park because of the weather, so the organisers had no choice but to cancel.She had baked about 3,000 items to cover both the festival and her shop being open, and said initially she went into "panic mode".
She put an announcement on the bakery's Facebook page asking people to "buy a treat" or share the post as she had "3,000 items to get rid of before the end of Monday". The post was shared more than 2,000 times and by the following morning, there were queues down the road.