Recipes

Fable Bakery’s best-ever chocolate and vanilla bun recipe

A delicious bun recipe from Elyse Clake and Kate O’Sullivan of Fable Bakery.

These chocolate and vanilla buns are perfect with a cup of coffee. Picture: Ruth Calder-Potts

Located in Sprout & Co on Dawson Street, Elyse Clake and Kate O’Sullivan’s Fable Bakery gained massive popularity in Dublin last year. Specialising in brioche-style doughs and rough puff-style pastry, something they call “Scandi-style”, and their staples include buns, galettes, cookies and brown butter cakes.

“There isn’t really anyone in the city doing what we do, so we knew it would work,” explains Clarke. “We’re doing things that we like to eat, that are different, ...