It's hard to get a Welsh cake that beats the ones made by your mum or nan, fresh off the bakestone, from a top secret generations-long family recipe. And while that may be so, there's one "world famous" Welsh cake shop, whose humble begins started over twenty years ago in Pontypridd, that lies in the heart of Cardiff Market whose warm, fresh, fluffy and utterly divine Welshcakes are a pretty delicious contender - as cemented by the long queue that forms outside it's windows each day.
Bakestones was started by Jamal El Tagoury two decades ago in Pontypridd as part of a cafe and bakery before he turned to focus solely on Welsh cakes using a recipe that had been passed down to his wife and co-owner Gaynor from her mother - and her mother's mother.
The popular Welsh cake shop soon became a family business with the couple's son Adam and daughter Layla getting involved, managing shops in Bridgend, Aberdare, Caerphilly (which have since been sold), and stalls in Merthyr Tydfil - Trago Mills and St Tydfil Market - and the ever-bustling Cardiff Market.
