In The Kitchen

The sweet life: Tom and Laura Gannon on Cakeface, their Kilkenny patisserie and cookery school

Having set up their business in 2015, the couple now offer cakes, desserts, coffees and cookery lessons

Tom and Laura Gannon of Cakeface in Kilkenny: the pair met at the Ballymaloe Cookery School. Picture: David McClelland

From Ballymaloe in Cork to the patisseries of Paris, then back to Kilkenny via The Savoy hotel in London, it’s fair to say that Laura and Rory Gannon have put in the miles on their culinary journeys.

The pair own and operate Cakeface, a bespoke patisserie and cookery school in Irishtown in Kilkenny city, where they have been serving up coffee, cakes, cookery lessons and more to locals and visitors alike since 2015. But a ...