Pan Buns Ashgrove, since 2016
Part 4 of the menu

Sweets and drinks

Small sweet things, and something to drink while you wait.

11 items Made here in small numbers

A cup of coffee beside a glazed sweet bun

This part of the counter grew out of leftovers. Trimmings from the milk bread became knots, and there were always more egg yolks about than we knew what to do with, which became custard. Both stayed on because people asked for them by name.

Drinks are simple on purpose. One coffee, made two ways, a pot of tea, and a chocolate that is properly thick. There is one small machine and one person behind it, so at half past nine on a Saturday there will be a queue, and we are sorry about that.

Sweet buns that belong to the baked side of the counter, like the custard and red bean, live with the filled buns.

Sweets and drinks

  • Cinnamon knot

    £2.80

    Milk bread dough rolled with butter, cinnamon and demerara, then knotted by hand.

    VegetarianContains wheat, milk, egg

  • Custard tart

    £2.90

    Short pastry, a set custard, and enough nutmeg that you can tell it is there.

    VegetarianContains wheat, milk, egg

  • Black sesame cookie

    £2.20

    Ground black sesame in a soft cookie. Slightly savoury, and it goes well with the jasmine tea.

    VegetarianContains wheat, milk, egg, sesame

  • Pandan chiffon slice

    £3.20

    Light, green, baked in a tall tin and cooled upside down so it does not sink. Josie makes this one and nobody else is allowed to.

    VegetarianContains wheat, milk, egg

  • Ginger and treacle slice

    £2.80

    Sticky, dark and heavy on the stem ginger. Better on the second day.

    VegetarianContains wheat, milk, egg

  • Coconut bun

    £2.60

    Desiccated coconut, butter and sugar in a soft baked bun, with a split down the top.

    VegetarianContains wheat, milk, egg

  • Filter coffee

    £2.60

    One bean, ground fresh, brewed in a batch and held for an hour at most.

    VeganNo listed allergens

  • Flat white

    £3.20

    The same bean through the machine. Whole milk unless you ask for oat.

    VegetarianContains milk

  • Jasmine tea

    £2.40

    Loose leaf, in a pot, and you can have it topped up.

    VeganNo listed allergens

  • Iced barley tea

    £2.40

    Roasted barley, brewed strong and chilled overnight. On from May to September.

    VeganContains barley

  • Hot chocolate

    £3.40

    Dark chocolate melted into hot milk rather than powder stirred into it. Thick enough to be a pudding.

    VegetarianContains milk, soya

Prices are what you pay at the counter. Allergen lists are kept current here, and we will always talk you through anything you are unsure about.

What goes first

Custard tarts are the first sweet thing to go, usually mid morning. Cookies last much longer. We stop making coffee about twenty minutes before closing so the machine can be stripped and cleaned.

The rest of the counter

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Where to next

Three ways to take this further.

Allergens and dietary options

What we declare, what we cannot promise, and why there is no gluten free.

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Make them yourself

Four classes, small groups, and a box of what you made to carry home.

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Notes on baking at home

Proofing, folding, flour, steaming and freezing, written out properly.

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