Sweet stuff

From family favourites such as chocolate brownie layer cakes and shortbread slices to delicate mousse desserts, Gillian Nelis talks to two Irish producers on the rise

Andrew Maher of Sam’s Cookies: ‘Our products are made with ingredients you’d find in your own kitchen cupboards’

Purple cakes, unicorn cakes, drip cakes, salted caramel cakes – it’s fair to say that the office where I’m meeting Andrew Maher, the managing director of Sam’s Cookies in Bray, is not the place to come if you’ve sworn off sugar.

They’re only photos though (the real stuff comes later), and are just some of the images culled from Instagram, Pinterest and numerous other sources that Maher and his team consult to keep ...