LEMON drizzle cake, sticky toffee traybake and white chocolate and cranberry fudge could help to raise £80,000 for a horse riding charity.

Muirfield Riding Therapy, based at West Fenton, took the decision to release a special cookbook, Muirfield’s Scrumptious Treats, in a bid to help raise the cash, which goes towards feed, tack and other costs.

Susan Law, the group’s chairwoman, explained the thinking behind Muirfield Scrumptious Treats.

“Our volunteers have two additional skills which they throw themselves into wholeheartedly: cake baking and cake testing,” she said.

“So we’ve created this book.” Work on the book started last summer.

Since then, dozens of recipes have been cooked and sampled to create the book, which features everything from puddings to biscuits and muffins to scones.

The group was formed in 1989, using just a few borrowed ponies and a muddy field.

Since then, it has grown, with local butcher John Anderson helping create indoor facilties in 2000.

Ancillary facilities were added in 2011 and now the charity welcomes 112 riders per week for riding therapy, using 14 ponies and horses.

Susan added: “The operation is run by a team of over 200 volunteers – of all ages and from all walks of life.” The charity’s various costs add up to a five-figure bill and so the idea of the book was born, with a team of volunteers formed to create the 70-recipe book.

“Ann O’Donovan persuaded her daughter Kate to help,” said Susan.

“She was really crucial to the exercise and MRT is very grateful to her.

“Kate has been in marketing for 23 years and helped to gather together all the different recipes from all the volunteers and pulled them together. “She then contacted one of her marketing colleagues Steve Mills to get a recommendation for a printer, and he very generously had his design team set all the artwork all ready for the printer. “But that wasn’t all the team: Jim Hunter photographed all the baking for inclusion in the recipe book.” Now, MRT has the backing of North Berwick High School pupils as well.

The school’s S3 Prince’s Trust xl Club Enterprise project saw youngsters pick some of the recipes and cook them last week.

The items were then sold, with the proceeds going to MRT.

The book is now on sale at a range of locations across the county, including MRT’s premises at West Fenton; Short Cuts in Haddington; The Village Store in East Saltoun; The Post Office Humbie; The Buttercup Cafe and Sweet News in North Berwick; and The Merry Go Round, Gullane.

For more information, go to www.muirfieldrda.co.uk