Armelle's Kitchen

2026-09-19T18:23:48.234+01:00

Saturday 19th of September 2026

Kenny and I are away on a well needed holiday until the first of October, reopening on Friday 2nd of October as normal, see you then!

2025-11-17T18:29:39.485+00:00

We would like to thank all our customers,

neighbours, family & friends

for your support throughout the year,

and wish you all a very

Happy Christmas !!!

Opening times:

Tuesday 16th till Saturday 20th:

8.30am - 5pm

Sunday 21st:

9.00am - 2pm

Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd:

8.30 - 5pm

Christmas Eve:

8.30 - 2pm

25th till 29th:

Closed

Tuesday 30th & Wednesday 31st:

9am - 2pm

Regular hours from Friday 2nd of January

2023-11-08T17:51:00.001+00:00

Wednesday 8th of November 2023

Bonjour !!!

A lot has happened since our latest post! We're still doing savoury dishes and quiches every day, our selection of pastries, macarons and cakes...So here are a few pictures to summarise what's been happening:

Wedding cake

Crepes canapes

Rainbow cake slices

Wedding macarons pyramid

casually seating on a cake ...

fresh fruits tarte

fridge display

new display delivered outside!

sandwiches platter

macarons decorated cake

mini cheeseburgers

90 Birthday cake

2 tier music theme cake

shop front

2023 Lucinda O'Sullivan star

Filming with Dee for a "Home Rescue" episode

Our macaron tower in Disenchanted-Disney

Chocolate birthday cake

Rainbow theme cake

daisies and snails theme cake

Early start !!!

snowflake decorated tartlet

cake pops

Eclairs

Boxes of 12 macarons

strawberry macarons

lemon chicken dish

medium quiches

quiche lorraine

cake slices

To the many more cakes, pastries and savoury dishes to come!!!

Get in touch to order anything, thank you!

Whats Happening

2021-01-26T16:35:00.000+00:00

Tuesday 26th January 2021

Just a quick update as to where we are at the moment!

Our shop is open as normal Tuesday to Friday 08:30 till 17:00 and Saturday 09:00 till 16:00. We only allow one household into the shop at a time so if there is someone/people in the shop please do not enter until they have left the shop.

We continue to do both savoury dishes and a selection of cakes and pastries daily. We put a post on our Facebook and Instagram pages by Tuesday morning with the savoury menu for the week, and we then post a daily one on both platforms with the sweet options added. We also have a mailing list, to whom we email the savoury menu on Monday afternoon, so people not on social media can see it and order in advance if they wish.

Savoury crêpes-a speciality from the North of France

Shepherd's Pie

Seafood Chowder

Beef Pad Thai

Beef Bourguignon and mashed Potatoes

Vegetable Lasagna

We advise you to reserve items from the menu to avoid disappointment, it's very difficult to predict how busy each week is going to be.

We also offer free local deliveries and gift vouchers.

The support has been absolutely phenomenal, THANK YOU!!!

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank local journalist Brian Byrne ( https://kilcullenbridge.blogspot.com/ ) for all the work he does in supporting and promoting the local community. We're very grateful for the article he wrote about us in the Kildare Nationalist:

https://kildare-nationalist.ie/2021/01/12/shifting-from-sweet-to-savoury-means-survival-for-kilcullen-food-business/

Virtual hugs for now xx

2020-05-17T17:33:00.001+01:00

Sunday 17 May 2020

We are revamping the website to include our Traiteur selections so bear with us for now but we are still open as usual and taking Wedding and Birthday cake/communions etc orders

Don't hesitate to contact us for your orders

Call 045 480 697 Tuesday to Saturday

New opening times-Tuesday to Friday 08:30 - 17:00, Saturday 09:00 - 16:00

Email armelleskitchen@live.ie

Social media-Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

Shop will be opening until 5pm from 19 May 2020, Saturdays until 4pm

Stay safe everyone and look after each other!

What's happening

2020-03-23T15:44:00.002+00:00

Monday 23rd of March 2020

It's fair to say that we are all entering unknown territories ... and like everybody else, we are having to adapt to keep everybody safe.

The markets we usually do in Dublin every Saturday and Sunday have been cancelled for the time being. So with the extra time, since last week we have started a daily menu of savoury dishes to offer a wider range of options.

Here are all the details of the precautions we are taking, and how to order etc .. :

In addition to the Health & Safety system we already have in place in the shop, we are adding extra measures to comply with the WHO and HSE recommandations from now on.

1. We are offering our service in three different ways:

• Delivery to you locally free of charge

Place you order over the phone or by email, and we will deliver your order on you doorstep

• Delivery to your car in town

Place your order over the phone or by email, once you’re parked in town (i.e. at the Church car park or on the main street) give us a call. We will put your order in your car and sanitise the handles afterwards.

• In the shop

We will only allow one person at a time into the shop. We would ask that if you see a customer inside when you arrive, to please wait that that person has left, before you enter, to respect the 2 meter social distancing.

2. In addition to our regular sweet treats and macarons, we will be doing a few savoury items (quiches, stews, savoury crepes, other meat and vegetarian dishes...). We are going to publish the menu of what will be available on the day, in the morning, on our Facebook page and Twitter page. We will also advise of shelf life, what can be frozen, reheating process, ingredients, allergies etc … .

3. Payments-We encourage the use of contactless/tap payments. We can take the card payments in the shop over the phone. We also have portable card acceptance machines so you can choose to pay at the doorstep, or car window! We are still accepting cash payments in the shop.

In these unprecedented times we continue to use our long-standing Irish suppliers and will be supporting our local business friends.

Our phone number: 045.480.697
Our email address: armelleskitchen@live.ie

Our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Armelles-Kitchen/195770942245

Our Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/armelleskitchen?lang=en

As always,

we are very grateful for your continued support.

People of Ireland are resilient

and we will get through this together !!!

Massive virtual (((hugs))) to everyone xxx

Kenny & Armelle

2020-03-17T20:26:00.001+00:00

Tuesday 17th of March 2020

We are still open and adapting to the changes, the best way to follow what we are doing day by day, is by following our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/ArmellesKitchen/

Sending massive virtual hugs to everyone xxx
Kenny & Armelle

What's happening

2019-12-13T22:22:00.003+00:00

Christmas 2019

Hello !!!

Here are the opening times

of the shop and markets

for this year's festive season:

Shop:

Fri 20th	8.30am - 6pm
Sat 21st	8.30am - 6pm
Sun 22nd	8.30am - 6pm
Mon 23rd	8.30am - 6pm
Tue 24th	8.30am - 3pm
Fri 27th	9am - 6pm
Sat 28th	9am - 4pm
Reopening on Thursday 2nd of Jan Markets: The markets are happening as usual in red stables in Clontarf on Saturday 14th and 21st, and in Marlay Park on Sunday 15th and 22nd. We do take orders for anything that you would like, and pick up at our stall from Kenny :) There are no markets on the week end between Christmas and New Year, they reopen on the first week end of January. *We wish you a warm* *and cozy Christmas !!!*

What's Happening

2019-02-06T10:49:00.000+00:00

Wednesday 6th February 2019

It's February already! Where does the time go?

January has flown by and there has been lots of cakes, too many to post but here are a few...

Take a look at our Birthday cakes and special occasions page on the website for other ideas and inspirations for that special occasion!

Breads

In January we restarted making and selling breads in the shop. You can find our breads each and every Friday and Saturday in the shop and if you want a specific bread made, we can do it for you...

We had to create more space in the kitchen....new table, new rack...yaaaayyy

Markets

We continue to do our two weekend markets in Clontarf, Red Stables on Saturdays and Marlay Park on Sundays

Don't forget you can order occasion cakes, macarons or anything else for collection at these markets!

Marlay Park update-from the 12th January the market has been relocated back to its original spot back inside the courtyard. We were outside the courtyard whilst the renovation works were taking place. There is a plan in place by the council to organise signage in both car parks to let people know where we are!

For now we have temporary signs...

Baking Classes

We are putting up new baking classes dates frequently so keep an eye on the baking and cooking classes page of our website.

Looking forward

Planning a Wedding? Corporate event or staff reward boxes? Communion or Christening cake?

Please get in touch with us and we can help you make it something special!

Happy February 2019!!!

What's happening

2018-12-12T07:24:00.000+00:00

Wednesday 12th of December 2018

Christmas 2018

Get your order in !!!

Opening Times:

Tue 18^th Dec till Sun 23^rd Dec:

8.30am – 6pm

Christmas Eve:

8.30am – 3pm

25^th, 26^th, 27^th Dec:

Closed

Fri 28^th & Sat 29^th Dec:

8.30am – 6pm

30^th, 31^st Dec, 1^st Jan:

Closed

Reopening as normal

from the 2^nd of January

Markets:

Sat 22^nd Dec: Red Stables/Clontarf

11am – 4pm

Sun 23^rd Dec: Marlay Park

11am – 4pm

Markets restart on 5^th and 6^th of Jan after the New Year

Kids Christmas class-hands on

Christmas cookies, tree ornaments and festive sugar decorations / €35

Tuesday 18^th Dec 3pm – 6pm

Or Wednesday 19^th Dec 3pm – 6pm

For orders and bookings,

please email armelleskitchen@live.ie

or phone us on 045.480.697

We wish you

a very Happy Christmas !!!

whats happening

2018-08-14T14:23:00.001+01:00

Tuesday 14th August 2018

Next dates for our three classes

We have added dates around the end of August for our three baking classes-

Kids Summer Cupcake class on Monday 27th August 2 pm to 6pm

Evening Bread Class on Wednesday 29th August 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

All day class on Saturday 1st September 9 am to 4:30 pm

Book now by contacting us in person in the shop, via email at armelleskitchen@live.ie or calling 045 480 697 during opening hours.

Details of all the classes are here- http://armelleskitchen.blogspot.com/p/bakery-and-cooking-classes.html

Here are some pictures from our recent classes!

Hope you can join us in one or more of the classes!!!

Happy Baking!!!

What's Happening

2018-02-21T10:34:00.000+00:00

Wednesday 21st February 2018

Additional dates added for our baking classes!

We have added a further 10 dates to our baking classes page, 4 more all day Saturday sweet and savoury baking classes and 6 more Wednesday evening bread classes. You can book yourself onto one or more of these dates by contacting us via email (armelleskitchen@live.ie) or by calling us in the shop (045 480 697) during opening hours.

You can book the classes for yourself or as a gift voucher for someone special!

All the details are on our Baking and Cooking Classes page of the website

What's Happening

2018-01-05T14:25:00.000+00:00

Friday 5th January 2018

Happy New Year to you all!

We hope you had a great Christmas and wish you all the best for the coming Year!!!

With all the fun and festivities done for another year, there is just one more tradition to be celebrated:The Epiphany!

We of course are doing the Galette des Rois, a moist frangipane filled puff pastry with a fève and a crown for the winner

Galette des Rois

Fèves

Also in exiting news we are starting baking classes in our shop!!

We have always wanted to do this but with our shop move last year we did not get a chance. We are planning our first course on Saturday 24th March and are in the planning stages for more!

Check out our classes section on the website Baking and cookery classes page

Everyone's welcome

A few of the Christmas 2017 treats...

Baileys macarons, followed by Champagne ones!

Logs of all sizes!

Mince pies, of course!

Mini cakes

Happy January 2018!!!

What's happening

2017-09-21T22:19:00.000+01:00

Friday 22nd of September 2017

Loooooots has happened since the last update of our "What's happening" page ... So let's go back to June shall we? It all started a bit like this ... (grab a chair)

And of course with festivals, macarons and cakes in between ...

By the end of June, our AK logo went up on the wall of the new building, and we absolutely love the result!!!

And that of course, stopped the local rumors of who was moving in ... NOT! ...

"Will they have a seating area?"..

"Will they be serving tea and coffee?"..

"Will they do bread?"..

(*All will be answered further down, we're still in June right now)

July brought us from France, a very special guest we had been expecting for a long time! Armelle's goddaughter (and Princess) Camille. It was her very first time flying over on her own, so for an 11 years old, you can imagine it was a massive adventure! She was our helper in the kitchen for a few days (there was touristy stuff and some shopping to be done too you see) and she was an absolute delight to have around. She learned a lot and practiced her English with local people and customers ;-))

A dirty apron is a sign of hard work!

Camille went back at the of July (her parents asked for her back ... )

And we did our last wedding cake in our now old shop, before the big move!

First of week of August: measuring, varnishing, painting, levelling tables ...

Then on Thursday 3rd of August...

With the help of friends, local people and a trolley ...

We moved ...

Across the road ...

By foot ...

From "Kilcullen next to Ger's veg shop"..

To "Kilcullen next to Nolans Butchers" ..

Thank you Roy!!!

Thank you Jane ...

New kitchen!!!

And then of course more cakes ...

Before we knew it, it was the end of August and time for the Kilcullen River Festival 2017 edition!! We had a fantastic day, and are very grateful for the support and lovely comments on the day ( hard work does pay off then ;-))

The festival also marks the end of the summer for us, and while kids are going back to school ... guess what .. we were just making more cakes ..

September has also brought a very special challenge that I adored: a family tree cake! The pictures speak for themselves:

So what's next ?!??

Well, we have promised a special day to celebrate the big move, and that will happen in November. We have to go through Halloween (yaaaayyyy!!!) first and start preparation on the big "C word in December" as people are already enquiring.

We are also getting a higher demand for ready to pick up kind of cakes for last minute celebrations, so we are working on a list of entremets and afternoon cakes that will suit all occasions on shorter notice.

Finally, we owe a lot of "Thank You" around, which we will do properly when we do our big move celebration day, but in the meanwhile,

Kenny and I would like say a massive THANK YOU to Jane who has been working with us for over 2 years now and who is simply a little gem for her hard work, dedication, believing in us, and well... just being herself ;-)) *wink wink Jane*

*I guess we owe you the answers to the 3 questions now:

Yes to take away eventually

No, too busy with cakes ;)

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! THANK YOU!!!

What's happening

2017-06-07T12:16:00.001+01:00

Wednesday 7th of June 2017

If you follow us on twitter or facebook, you might already know our big news...

We're moving!!!

And here is where:

It's a long road to our new location..

We have out grown the shop where we are now and we simply cannot produce anymore pastries than what we are doing now! Our little kitchen has served us well for the past 7 years though ;-)

So we are moving in the fantastic building next to Nolans butchers where we will have much more space! There is also a lot of work to be done to comply with the health & safety regulations...

Here is our very soon to be new kitchen:

The progress is starting to show... the walls and flooring are done:

We will keep you updated as progress happens... we're aiming to move for the end of July/start of August... can't waaaiiiiittttt!!!!

Have a sunny week end !!!

What's happening

2017-02-11T10:06:00.003+00:00

Saturday 11th of February 2017

It's Valentine's week end!!!

We are at our usual markets at the week end: St Anne's Park in Clontarf/D3 today Saturday, Herbert Park and Marlay Park in Dublin tomorrow Sunday, and our shop in Kilcullen is open as normal today and on the big day Tuesday of course!!

We are baking a loooot of macarons so there should be enough for everybody ...

and some special Valentine ones ;-)

We are also doing some red velvet Valentine's cakes:

And lots of other treats!!

Tartlets, logs, and there's mini cakes in the oven as i'm typing ;-)

Have a lovely and loving week end ;-))

what's happening

2016-12-21T11:56:00.000+00:00

Wednesday 21st of December 2016

Here are our opening hours over the festive season for all your treats and goodies needs:

Tue 20th: 8.30am - 6pm
Wed 21st: 8.30am - 6pm
Thu 22nd: 8.30am - 6pm
Fri 23rd: 8.30am - 6pm
Sat 24th: 8am - 4pm
Sun 25th closed (sleeping)
Mon 26th closed (having turkey and Champagne)
Tue 27th closed (recovering from turkey eating)
Wed 28th closed (recharging batteries)
Thu 29th: 8.30am - 6pm
Fri 30th: 8.30am - 6pm
Sat 31st: 9am - 4pm
Back to normal hours after that ;-)

We wish you all a very Happy Christmas

and a Prosperous New Year!!!

what's happening

2016-12-01T19:51:00.001+00:00

Thursday 1st of December 2016

On a regular basis, the FSAI ( The Food Safety Authority of Ireland) publishes new guidelines for food businesses to comply with. While in the past couple of years it feels like we have to concentrate more on educating people (allergen lists, calories on menus, warnings regarding some colourings for example) than the actual safety regarding the food we produce, artisans like us do comply with the rules and just get on with it….

The last guideline published came out yesterday… and it has my blood boil …

The food industry is being given definitions for the following words:

§ Artisan/Artisanal

§ Farmhouse

§ Traditional

§ Natural

The goal is to make sure the consumers are not being misslead by those words when used in the marketing and publicity of food products. Presumably the aim is to stop big factories from using words that don’t apply to their product, and by doing so, protecting the businesses whose product is defined by one or more of those words.

So far so good… couldn’t agree more …

I have, however, a massive problem with the definition of artisan that is being given … here is the official definition:

5.1 Artisan/Artisanal

The terms ‘artisan’ or ‘artisanal’ or similar descriptions using these terms should only be used on foods or in advertising of foods that can legitimately claim to meet all of the following criteria:

1. The food is made in limited quantities(5) by skilled craftspeople(6)

2. The processing method is not fully mechanised and follows a traditional(7) method 3. The food is made in a micro-enterprise(8) at a single location

4. The characteristic ingredient(s)(9) used in the food are grown or produced locally(10), where seasonally available and practical

(5) Limited quantities means total production by the food business operator of less than 1,000 kg or litres of food per week on average over a year (this limit is aligned with the higher limit in other national rules covering an activity which is considered ‘marginal, localised and restricted’ see S.I. No. 168 of 2012 and S.I. No. 340 of 2010).

(6) A skilled craftsperson is someone who has special expertise in making food in a traditional manner (see footnote 7).

(7) Traditional has the meaning defined in Council Regulation 1151/2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs: “....proven usage on the domestic market for a period that allows transmission between generations; this period is to be at least 30 years;”.

(8) A micro-enterprise is defined as an enterprise which employs fewer than ten persons (or whole time equivalents) and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 2 million. (Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC).

(9) Examples of characteristic ingredients are milk in cheese, pork meat in ham, strawberries in strawberry jam, oats in porridge. This is not intended to be a definitive list of characteristic ingredients. As a rule of thumb, the characteristic ingredient(s) are those that would normally require a quantitative ingredient declaration (QUID) under the food information regulations.

(10) Within a 100 km of the manufacturing/food service establishment (this limit is aligned with the sale and supply limit set in other national rules covering an activity which is ‘marginal, localised and restricted’, see S.I. No. 168 of 2012 and S.I. No. 340 of 2010)

Will it stop big non artisan factories from using that word? Probably … But it will also limit and restrict the real artisans like us, and that’s where the real danger lies in my opinion….Let me explain by taking back the 4 points of the definition:

1 – food made in limited quantities (1000kg or ltr per week max): why limit the quantity of what an artisan can produce???? Surely there’s no limit, the artisan just trains more people as demand grows!

– a skilled craftsperson: artisan or not, everybody is skilled in the position they work at I would have guessed …

– traditional manner: here they are telling us that you can’t create a new product or it won’t be “artisan”

2 – traditional method: same as previously, this limits the creation of new products …

3 – micro enterprise: they don’t want the artisan to develop too big. By restricting quantities and turnover, there’s a clear risk of prices going up for the consumer as an artisan won’t want to go over the threshold to remain in the artisan category. The only way then to keep on increasing the turnover is to increase prices, very unhealthy way of doing business in my opinion…

- single location: I don’t see how the location affects an artisanal product. That’s just more restrictive nonsense… When we had our shop in Dalkey, we had a lovely young Lady working in the shop who we regularly asked to do trays of sugar flowers. I would then bring those back to Kilcullen. That didn’t make our cakes any less artisanal …

4 – ingredients used grown or produced locally: this is going to be the most controversial bit here … they are touching on a complete different subject!!! One simple and straight forward example: you will never have an artisan mince pie in Ireland if you follow their logic: we don’t grow raisins, sultanas, oranges, lemons … The core ingredient of our macarons is ground almonds: Ireland doesn’t produce almonds …. See the problem ?!??

One final thought:

The fact that artisans make products by hand is completely left out of the definition, and the “art” bit of artisan is completely ignored …

Signed: a very angry artisan

Armelle

What's happening

2016-11-10T19:40:00.000+00:00

Thursday 10th of November 2016

Well the past couple of months have been full of events, as always ...

September started with the (then) temporary closure of the Tramyard restaurant in Dalkey while they were carrying some work to comply with their latest court battle. While we stayed open in waiting of the next developments, the footfall dropped as expected, and we ended up serving coffee to try to attract more people down the alley. Then the hammer came down before Halloween week end when the court ordered the Tramyard site to be closed from the following Friday... So we were left with no choice but to pack our cake stands and close the door sadly... There has been a lot of rumours going around since the start of September, adding to what was already a complicated and long going situation.
We can only thank Dave and Evelyn to have welcomed us within their Tramyard family for the short few months we were with them in Dalkey, and cannot speak highly enough of their dedication and hard work. A page is turned however, and even though it is not our wrong doing, we had to shut a shop that we thought was going to do very well in the future. We also wish Dave & co the very best in the months to come.
But we are strong cookies!!! While it is a set back it's not the end of our baking world!!! It's business, and if it was easy everybody would do it .... We will start to look for possible premises for a 2nd shop in the new year.
We have started to look at joining a second market on Sundays and maybe another lunch time one during the week, so we are concentrating on that for the time being.

So we are hiring!!!

Please spread the word and get in touch if you or someone you know might be interested:

click to enlarge

We haven't had much time to breathe with all that *as always anyway*, and were grateful to have some fantastic orders to fulfill,here are some of our favourites:

Croquembouche!!!

Giant purple macaron ...

Black Forest "a la Armelle's Kitchen"

layered genoises with raspberry & vanilla buttercreams ...

Cake pop fun ;-)

These were a lot of fun to make :-))

And I'll leave you with these since you know ...

The big "C" is already next month and I've updated the page ...

(PS: we made those a couple of weeks ago for a corporate event,

it's starting early this year!!!)

Be happy and keep baking =^.^=

2016-09-03T11:34:00.002+01:00

Saturday 3rd of September

The summer is over ...

The what ?!?? already ?!??
Ah well, time for fresh ideas then ;-) We have started to play with agar agar to make a range of new tartes and tartlets that we now call Tartes Royales ( and maybe other things but say nothing for now ... *might involve Champagne*).

The assembling is a delicate operation ... shortcrust base then pastry cream...then just flip over the jelly ... *simples*

Et voila!!!

Vanilla, rum and raspberry jelly with lemon buttercream Tarte Royale

And other versions:

Royales Tartlets with passion fruit jelly and caramel buttercream:

Have a jelly good week end!!!

What's Happening

2016-07-13T13:35:00.000+01:00

Wednesday 13th of July 2016

Here we go !!!

We have selected our 3 favourite photos, and it is now up to you lovely people to decide which one is the best and will win the competition we ran for the Laya City Spectacular week end (details in previous post) ...

#akphoto1

#akphoto2

#akphoto3

So this is where it's going to be a bit technical, to be as fair as possible to the 3 finalists ...so pay attention! ;-)

We will share one post on Facebook with #armelleskitchen
https://www.facebook.com/ArmellesKitchen/

For Instagram and Twitter, we will post the photos one by one with #armelleskitchen for each, and #akphoto1, #akphoto2, #akphoto3 so they can be found once they go down the timeline...
https://www.instagram.com/armelleskitchen/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/armelleskitchen

All you have to do is like the photo you like the best. Of course retweets and shares are welcome, as long as the photos are liked directly (not the post or tweet) so we keep track!

Simples!!!

Get voting to pick your favourite,

thank you very very much for participating everyone!!!

You have until Sunday 17th midnight to vote,

winner will be announced next week ;-)

2016-07-01T14:56:00.000+01:00

Friday 1st of July 2016

You know the way we update our "What's happening" page and start by what's actually been happening, and then we tell you what's going to happen ???
Well this time we're doing it the other way around .... because ...

We want to give one of those away .... !!!!

(Not that exact one, it's already been eaten ... )

We are taking part in the Laya City Spectacular on Merrion Square in Dublin next week end, and we thought ....you know what?

Let's use that to make someone happy and have a bit of fun along the way ;-)

So here is how it will work*:

During the festival, take a photo with whatever you use to take pictures nowadays, of either: some of our pastries/cakes/macarons, one of us in action serving, our display, MrK bending down, the tartlet you just dropped on the ground by mistake, a random stranger eating one of our macarons.....

These are just examples , feel free to go mad ;-)))

Post that photo on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #armelleskitchen

Don't forget the #, this is how we will be able to gather all the entries !!!

If you are on neither of those 3 platforms, we will accept an email with the photo attached of course.

The Laya City Spectacular is on Fri 8th, Sat 9th and Sun 10th, we will be there from 12pm till 8pm each day.

After Sunday evening, we will select the 3 photos we like the best. We will then give you lovely people the final vote, and you can decide which will be the winning photo.

The prize is a pyramid of 5 levels of macarons (That's 65 macarons), sitting on a 3 layers cake with proper French buttercream,

flavours and colours to be chosen by the winner ;-)

Because of logistics and where we are based obviously, we can only take entries where the delivery of the cake will be in Co.Dublin or Co.Kildare, or outside of those counties if the winner can pick it up (We can't post it like!!)

The prize will be valid for one year from Sunday 10th, and the winner will be able to chose when they would like to have it, as long we have a couple of weeks notice in advance, we will then make it to order of course ;-)

* Terms & Conditions & Common Sense apply

So that's for the "What's happening next week" bit ....

Dot ... Dot ... Dot ...

Otherwise, here is what has been happening in photos:

The Wedding season is in full swing, and we love it!!!

Our newly opened shop in Dalkey is doing well

and we are now serving ice cream too ;-)

And then with the nicer weather come the special events we like to do ...

*spot the bakers*

See you at the

Laya City Spectacular in Dublin!!!

Can't waaaiiiittttttt!!!!!

#armelleskitchen

Here is the link for all the info about the festival: Laya City Spectacular 2016

2016-04-06T12:40:00.003+01:00

Wednesday 6th of April 2016

Welcome to our monthly

"what's happening in our cake world" fun ;-)

Talking of fun, March brought loooots of it:

And it also brought its own challenges of course ... ;-)

Bring on April, we're ready for you!!!

We have a lot going on this month ...

- Starting with taking a stall at the Whitewater shopping Centre in Newbridge tomorrow Thursday 7th of April and Friday 8th to celebrate their 10th Birthday. Happy Birthday Whitewater!!!

- We will also be taking part in the Bank of Ireland enterprise week end in Kilcullen on Friday the 22nd of April.

- And we are also taking a stall at Kevin Dundon's cookery demo on the 28th of April in the Westgrove Hotel in Clane.

We will share more details as we get them, both on our facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/ArmellesKitchen/ )and twitter accounts ( https://twitter.com/armelleskitchen , https://twitter.com/kennyrorie ) keep following!!

April already started with some fantastic news:

We are delighted to be selected as finalists in the SME Awards in the 3 following categories:

- Family run business

- Retailer (with mostly offline focus)

- Food & Drink - Micro to small SME (Sponsored by Irish Food Tours)

The SME Awards are sponsored by Blacknight Solutions, the whole list of the finalists can be found here:

http://smeawards.ie/2016-finalists/

The winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony presented by Rick O'Shea in the Radisson Hotel, Little Island in Cork on Saturday the 16th of April at 8pm.

Wish us luck!!!

You can follow #LoveSMEs on Twitter for the latest updates ;)

Keep Baking !!!

Whats Happening

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Wednesday 9th of March 2016

Paddy's Day is around the corner...!!!

Both our shops in Kilcullen (normal hrs) and Dalkey (10 to 5pm) will be open on the day-don't forget that there is a parade in Kilcullen this year!!

Here is a little clue about some of the cakes we will have next week...

Pot of gold

Paddy's hat cake

And of course ... ... ... ... ...

Irish Flag Macaron

We will be doing a full range of cakes for the day, check out Twitter and Facebook for a sneaky peek at whats baking!

After that it's already Easter...!

For the first time we will be doing Easter Logs....yes you read right :-)

Rolled sponge with French Buttercream and Easter decorations.

(We can also do them gluten free, just ask when ordering ;)

Easter Log

They are 20cm or about 6 to 8 slices, we will be doing them in a choice of Vanilla, Lemon, Chocolate, Praline or Raspberry (€18 each)-Order early to avoid disappointment....

Obviously we will be entering Easter decoration madness...We are already working on ideas to do a whole bunch of mini cakes at their usual price of €2 each

Bunny mini cake

Chick mini cake

Have a good week!!!!!

Whats happening

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Thursday 11th of February 2016

It's almost Valentine's Day!

Valentine Heart Macarons

For the macaron lover in your life we are doing heart shaped ones this week ...
We have more treats on the way
but we can't tell you just yet ...
Keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook!!!

Last weekend we opened our second shop in Dalkey (Whoo Hoo!)

Our very first customers were Siobhan (@carnsoreboxer) and her friend Mary who braved the weather on their cycles to come over and say hello and wish us luck with the new shop

Bonjour Ladies!!! ;)

It looks lovely in the evening ;)

View from the new shop over the Tramyard

Jane, Armelle and I would like to send you all a Big THANK YOU!!!
for your continued support
and lovely wishes as we move forward ;-)