Bake Off bonanza: Meet the start up baking businesses getting a boost from the UK’s most popular show
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- Renewed passion for baking hasn’t gone unnoticed by UK’s entrepreneurial-minded start ups
- BakedIn make high class baking kits with Michel Roux’s seal of approval
- Northern Dough Co: husband and wife baking team make their student dreams a reality
- KupKase – the artisan cake business started by a BBC radio producer

Eleanor Lawrie, writing for Thisismoney.co.uk on the Mail Online, looks into the effect that the popular BBC television show The Great British Bake Off has had on the baking industry, particularly for start up businesses such as Baked In and KupKase, who both received Start Up Loans.
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