Sutton family hoping to bring sweets to the streets with dessert bus service

Natasha Tighe and baking-mad eleven-year-old daughter Mia Tighe, from the Leamington estate came up with the quirky idea during lockdown..

Mia, who is a pupil at Croft Primary School, Sutton, started baking whilst at home with her mum who is usually a tattooist but unable to work during the coronavirus restrictions.

Natasha, who is a mum of five, said: “Mia loves baking, she lives and breathes it, unlike most eleven-year-olds who enjoy watching cartoons or playing, she’s glued to cooking programmes or has her nose in recipes books.

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"She was baking for relatives during the pandemic, cheering people up, they were amazed at how good she was, and we had the idea of taking delicious desserts out to people in the community.

“The idea has evolved, we found an eight-seater bus, it’s now being fitted out with a counter and equipment, things like a waffle making machine, skillets and pizza oven.

“It’ll be me and Mia, people will see us baking on the bus, it’ll be fresh and delicious. Mia will help make cupcakes, cheesecakes, chocolate fudge brownies her favourite, fresh fruit kebabs, she loves inventing milkshakes.

“We want to do treats like old fashioned pick-n-mix sweets, an American retro-selection, Harry Potter chocolates and things like butterscotch cauldron beer!

“If it takes off, we are thinking in future we could do weddings and events, Mia has a good business head already! Ultimately we’d like to have a fleet of buses.”

Mia has already started showing her siblings Mason Tighe, 10, Leland Tighe, 12, and Darcie Ward, four, her baking skills, and they sometimes help out in the kitchen. Neighbour mechanic Dave Burnham will also help drive the bus.

Natasha said: “We’ve done most of the business paper work so far, we’ll be Covid regulated and will have a a text service, people will know where we are on the estate, people will be able to track where we are on the estate, and if there are elderly who can’t come out, we’ll deliver.

“We are excited, it’s a revolutionary idea and we hope to launch in April.”

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