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THREE young chefs have taken the Ballyvaughan Farmers Market by storm this summer with their very special selection of confectioneries and cakes. The budding bakers are 9- year-old Hannah McDonald, her 11- year-old sister Molly and their friend Aine Fahy who is just 10 years old. For the last two months the young entrepreneurs have been wowing locals and tourists alike, regularly selling out their full stock of cakes NICO MOLISE
“Our mom is really good at baking and she has always been getting us to help out with some baking. We
went on holiday to Kerry and friends of ours were baking for their local market down there. We helped them out and it was really good fun,” said WZ Cold hia
“So we figured we’d give it a go. We were able to bake before that, but we only really started baking seri- ously when we decided to join the market.”
The girls have been involved in eve- ry market this year – a huge achieve- ment considering that all of the work is undertaken on a Friday evening, often after a full day at school.
“We bake all different kinds of cup cakes – we have lemon, chocolate, coconut and vanilla,” said Hannah.
“Tt’s a lot of work, it takes us about five or six hours every Friday. We always do the baking on Friday eve- nings so that everything will be extra fresh for the market.”
The girls, who attend Ballyvaughan National School, became interested in the market when their school was visited by market organiser Tracey Kelly. “I like the selling best I think. The baking is nice too, but when we are doing the selling we get to meet a lot of people. Lots of times people come back and buy more. I think that once they try them they want to have more and more,” said Aine.
“Three people from the market came to visit our school and told us
all about it. They told us that they would like to make a picture to be displayed at the market. We all got interested then and started hanging out at the market.”
The market will continue at St John’s Hall in Ballyvaughan every Saturday from 10am until 2pm. For more information on the market con- tact Tracey Kelly on 065 7076963 or email ballyvaughanfarmersmarket@ eircom.net.