Harry Gow patisserie
New pastries from Harry Gow bring French flair to the north of Scotland – inspired by the Gow family’s travels on the continent.
The family-owned bakery has introduced a patisserie range to its shops across the Highlands and Moray, including pains au chocolat and the long-awaited arrival of Harry Gow’s award-winning croissants (a National Silver medallist at this year’s Scottish Baker of the Year Awards).
“We’re incredibly proud of our new pastries. We’ve been working hard in our test kitchen to perfect each and every recipe, and now we can’t wait to see our customers tuck into the fruits of our labours,” said Fraser Gow, director.
“Baking heritage and tradition is massively important to us at Harry Gow – we’re sixth generation bakers, after all. Many of us have studied traditional baking techniques across Europe to ensure we’re always learning, improving and innovating, and French and Danish pastries have always been something we wanted to make more of.”
The bakery is offering its new pastries on alternating days: croissants on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; pains au chocolat: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
“By alternating the days our pastries are available, we’re excited to be able to offer our customers more choice when they visit Harry Gow. This means we can have a much larger range of pastries every week, meaning that every customer can pick up their favourites and experience the amazing flavours they have come to expect from our bakes.
“Each pastry starts with a sourdough starter – meaning our dough ferments and bubbles away for three days before it gets anywhere near our oven. That’s how we can ensure that each and every bite is as delicious as the next.
“And we’re not stopping here… we have plans for a whole host of new pastries over the coming months. So watch this space.”
Harry Gow’s new pastry range follows a period of creativity for the bakery, which recently launched a fudge doughnut, slathered with gooey fudge icing and filled with vanilla cream, and a chocolate eclair stuffed with fresh cream.
Harry Gow has 18 outlets across Inverness, the Highlands and Moray – including one recently opened in conjunction with retail giant, Asda. Harry Gow’s products are also found in Co-op stores across the north of Scotland.