Buns

I’m a bit torn-​Lolly and Cooks make lovely cupcakes, but overall I think Buns win my award for favourite cupcakes in Ireland!
You can order big orders from the website or catch them at various farmers markets around Dublin-​have spotted them at Ranelagh on Saturdays and Sundays (on from 10−6pm) and also at Howth Farmer’s Market on Sundays. They seem to also sell their cupcakes to the Nutz stall in the Ilac centre. Paula and her husband are soooo friendly and usually have a few samples on offer. This is dangerous-​you WILL want to buy everything you taste.
Multiple varieties are on offer, all beautifully decorated. I can’t decide which is my favourite. There’s a vanilla one decorated with a flake and sugar strands which I could swear tastes like a 99 ice-​cream. Banana bread one is sweetly delicious and decorated with a banana chip, there’s a divine carrot cake version, orange and poppyseed, lemon, vanilla chocolate, double chocolate, red velvet, Oreos… the list goes on. I’m usually to be found staring at the stand knowing I want one of each, but fighting the urge because it could seem greedy. And I can only invent a starving family of 10 a few times before it begins to seem a bit unlikely! Luckily, they offer mini versions too for € 1.50 so you can sample them all. I have been reliably informed that they remove the calories from these during baking… and also that calories don’t count on a Sunday.
Enjoy!