Barmbrack
Barmbrack is an Irish fruited bread, lightly spiced and studded with sultanas and raisins. The traditional version is yeast-raised; a tea brack soaks the fruit in tea overnight. A Halloween favourite.
Honest Bread lists 8 bakers across the UK and Ireland known for barmbrack, each baking from scratch with no additives. An Irish tea bread, traditional at Halloween.
Barmbrack bakers
Aries Bakehouse
Small-batch Brixton Hill bakery run by a self-taught baker, making sourdough, challah and pastries along with a popular vegan range. Loaves are often pre-ordered as they sell out quickly.
Bara Cafe
Welsh-influenced Peckham cafe and bakery that opened in early 2026, baking sourdough, focaccia and sesame rolls in-house daily using regenerative Wildfarmed flour. The menu features Welsh bakes such as bara brith.
Barron's Bakery & Coffee House
Long-running bakery baking bread in Cappoquin since 1887, still using its original Scotch brick ovens with slow natural proving and hand shaping. The range includes wheat and rye sourdoughs, spelt loaves and soda breads.
Blackbird Bakery
Independent bakery under the arch by Queens Road Peckham station, working to a make-everything-we-sell ethos. It bakes sourdough, challah and a counter of cakes and tarts.
Botham's of Whitby
Family bakery established in Whitby in 1865 and now in its fifth generation, baking its own bread including sourdough and multiseed loaves alongside traditional Yorkshire tea breads. It runs several shops and cafes across the area.
Brysons of Keswick
Family owned craft bakery established in 1947, hand baking bread from locally milled flour on the same Keswick site for over 70 years. Also makes Lakeland plum bread and Cumbrian fruit cakes to traditional recipes.
Dunns Bakery
Long established family artisan bakery in Crouch End, hand making sourdough and other breads, cakes, sausage rolls and sandwiches on the premises. Now run by sixth generation baker Lewis Freeman.
Jane's Handmade Bread
Small batch bakery near Chester hand making breads from carefully sourced British ingredients with no bleached flour or chemical improvers. Sells at Chester's indoor market and regional farmers markets.