Pandora Bell

PANDORA BELL (May 10)
Irresistible. Walked into Nash 19 last Tuesday morning and didn’t get past the very first display in the shop: a stand of tempting colourful lollipops from Pandora Bell. Grabbed a bunch and went to work on the tasting.
I’m a big kid now but these lollipops — or suchettes as the French suckinctly call them — are big enough. You get quite a few licks for your € 2.50. They come in various flavours: strawberry, lemon, orange and mint and all colours and flavours are natural. Beautiful.
But then I expected nothing less from the Limerick confectioner Nicole Dunphy. Already she had tempted us with her honey nougats and salted caramels not to mention her Easter special: gorgeous real shell chocolate eggs. Keep up the sweet work, Nicole.
PANDORA BELL
My sweetest thing this Christmas? Pandora Bell’s honey nougat. Sense-​ational. Picked up a couple of packets at O’Keeffe’s (St Luke’s). Gorgeous. No wonder the Bridgestone Irish Food Guide has named this new Limerick confectionery label as its Newcomer of the Year.
Bridgestone’s John McKenna says of Pandora Bell, «You want to see and taste perfection? Here it is, again. Nicole Dunphy’s salted caramels and nougats and lollipops are of a standard no one in Ireland has ever achieved, and she has just started her Pandora Bell business, so what awaits us in the future? We can’t wait.»
Neither can I.