The Great British Bake Off finalist has teamed up with independent Italo-English bakery Signorelli for a limited-edition tiramisu-inspired cookie — and the first 20 handed out at its Broadgate launch will cost precisely nothing.
There are perfectly sensible reasons to visit a bakery. Coffee. Focaccia. Something involving enough butter to make the afternoon look considerably more promising.
Then there is the prospect of a Sandro Farmhouse Tiramisu Cookie, which feels rather less like restraint and rather more like accepting that Friday has already made the decision for you.
The Great British Bake Off favourite has teamed up with Signorelli to create the limited-edition bake for the opening of the family-run bakery’s new Broadgate location near Liverpool Street.
Farmhouse will be at the bakery on Friday 9 October 2026, baking on site and meeting customers. The first 20 Tiramisu Cookies will be given away free, after which the limited-edition cookie costs £5.50.
Tiramisu, Reworked for the Cookie Counter
The collaboration takes one of Italy’s most recognisable desserts and pushes it into considerably more portable territory.
For Signorelli, which describes its food as combining Italian influences with the familiarity of an English neighbourhood bakery, the choice is an obvious enough fit. Its counters already lean towards generously portioned cakes, pastries and chunky cookies rather than the sort of patisserie that requires architectural drawings before eating.
Farmhouse said: “I’m so excited to be teaming up with Signorelli and bringing a little Bake Off energy to Broadgate.
“Tiramisu is one of those flavours that instantly feels indulgent and comforting, so turning it into a cookie with Signorelli felt like such a fun idea. We wanted something that brings together that classic Italian inspiration with a proper, generous bakery treat.
“I’ll be there on 9 October baking and meeting everyone, so come and find us and if you’re quick enough, you might even get your Tiramisu Cookie for free!”
Farmhouse became a familiar face during the 2022 series of The Great British Bake Off, where his elaborate bakes carried him to the final. Since the programme, he has continued baking professionally, including for Stormzy and Perrie Edwards, and has appeared on Lorraine.
Before television arrived, he worked as a nanny and community worker supporting children with autism, with baking already forming part of his wider interest in bringing people together.
A New City Outpost for Signorelli
The collaboration also serves as an introduction to Signorelli’s latest London bakery.
Rebecca and Alberto Signorelli founded the business in East Village, Stratford, in 2015. It has since expanded to Stratford Cross, Wood Wharf in Canary Wharf and now Broadgate, alongside a dedicated Bakehouse in Stratford.
The Broadgate branch adds cakes, pastries, cookies, focaccia sandwiches and Italian coffee to the Liverpool Street rush, with aperitivi joining the offering later in the day.
Rebecca Signorelli, co-founder of the bakery, said: “Opening at Broadgate is a really exciting moment for us and we wanted to create something special that gives people another reason to discover our new bakery.
“Sandro has such an infectious enthusiasm for baking and shares our belief that good food should make people happy, so he felt like a natural person to collaborate with.
“The Tiramisu Cookie brings together so much of what we love. It takes inspiration from one of Italy’s best-loved desserts and turns it into something playful, generous and unmistakably Signorelli.
“We can’t wait to welcome Sandro to Broadgate, get him baking with us and hopefully introduce lots of new people to Signorelli at the same time.”
More Than a Launch-Day Sugar Rush
Behind the theatrical appeal of a Bake Off alumnus appearing beside the ovens, Signorelli has built its expansion around a fairly straightforward philosophy: bake from scratch, keep ingredients recognisable and make portions feel worth ordering.
The bakery says surplus food is repurposed where practical and works with smaller independent suppliers where possible.
Its Stratford Bakehouse is also predominantly women-led, inclusive and neurodivergent-friendly, with staff able to learn practical bakery skills on the job. Signorelli says its production model deliberately avoids midnight baking as part of a mental-health-first approach.
That gives the Broadgate opening a little more substance than the standard celebrity collaboration with a sugar glaze applied.
For one Friday, though, the centre of attention will inevitably be the cookie.
Farmhouse will be at Signorelli Broadgate, LG10 Broadgate, London EC2M 2AW, on 9 October. The first 20 limited-edition Tiramisu Cookies are free; thereafter they are priced at £5.50.
In Liverpool Street, where queues for lunch can occasionally resemble minor transport infrastructure projects, arriving early may prove the most useful baking skill of all.
