{"id":446397,"date":"2026-02-26T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446397\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:31:08","slug":"bellas-bakes-makes-birthday-cake-for-coronation-street-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446397\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella&#8217;s Bakes makes birthday cake for Coronation Street star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/24869009.bellas-bakes-became-boltons-baking-stars\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bella\u2019s Bakes<\/a> Bolton was \u201cover the moon\u201d when the mum of Corrie actor Lucas Hodgson-Wale got in touch to request a special cake for his 18th birthday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lucas, who plays Will Driscoll in the ITV soap, turns 18 on February 25.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Bolton-born actor joined the cobbles in late 2025 as part of the programme\u2019s hard-hitting grooming storyline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The Corrie themed cake (Image: Bella&#8217;s Bakes Bolton)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bella Riding, 22, who runs the business alongside her mum Natalie, said the family are huge fans of the long-running show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: \u201cWe were really excited when his mum messaged asking for a Coronation Street-themed cake for her son who plays Will Driscoll.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe\u2019re big Corrie fans in this house so we couldn\u2019t wait to get to work creating something super fun and exciting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFrom royalty \u2013 Princess Anne \u2013 to soap royalty, Will Driscoll, we\u2019ve had a great start to the year.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n  Bella began baking sweet treats for classmates around a decade ago and has since turned her passion into a thriving Bolton business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Earlier this year, the bakery also landed a royal honour after being chosen to create a cake for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/25809027.were-cake-princess----bolton-bakers-make-treat-fit-royalty\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Princess Anne<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Princess Anne is president of the RDA, and when the group at Dyneley in Burnley were celebrating their 50th anniversary, Bella\u2019s former food tech teacher Catherine Dower got in touch asking if they could bake a cake.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was only later that Bella and her mum discovered the cake would be part of a royal visit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, after serving up a slice of royalty and soap stardom in the same year, Bella\u2019s Bakes is continuing to rise as one of Bolton\u2019s sweetest success stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bella\u2019s Bakes Bolton was \u201cover the moon\u201d when the mum of Corrie actor Lucas Hodgson-Wale got in touch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-446397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}