About Dean's of Huntly Ltd

Our story begins in 1975 at the heart of Helen Dean’s kitchen, in the small town of Huntly, North East Scotland. It was here that Helen first created her delicious traditional shortbread, and her friends and family loved the ‘melt in the mouth’ sensation. Her husband Bill, a Drum Major, thought it was so delicious he decided to use Helen’s baking to help raise funds for the local Huntly pipe band. Their touring helped spread her shortbread’s fame far and wide, and soon, the aroma of home baking would fill the town as Helen established her own small bakery to meet demand. Helen's light and crumbly shortbread was so popular that in 1992, we moved from a shop in the centre of the town, to a new purpose built bakery on the outskirts of Huntly. Our bakery looks much bigger but we have been at this bakery ever since and still baking Helen's melt in the mouth shortbread, just on a slightly bigger scale! We remain a family run business and we are incredibly proud of the fact we use time honoured handcrafted baking methods. Today we are recognised as ‘A Leading Premium Quality Scottish Shortbread’. Did you know? In one year, we use enough butter to butter 40 million slices of toast! We use around 650,000 kilos of wheat flour a year. That's enough to make around 1.2 million large loaves of bread or 65 million cupcakes! 8.8 million litres of milk is enough to fill 3 and a half Olympic swimming pools! Read their story