How to make the ultimate chocolatey Easter egg with Stratford s Ashton Confectionery
| Updated: 10:15, 03 April 2021
Maria Ashton started her one-woman business, Ashton Confectionery, four years ago making bespoke artisan confectionary and cakes. She tells Gill Sutherland about her passion for all-things sweet and shares her decadent recipe for the most chocolatey of Easter eggs.
Mum Maria Ashton has seen her confectionery business double in the last year, so in demand are her handmade sweets and cakes.
While on maternity leave four years ago with newborn son Lucas, she started dabbling in the kitchen and her business bloomed.
She had been working as a chef at Marco Pierre White in Stratford, after studying catering at Stratford College.