Scotland’s best bakeries including Edinburgh shop with delicious apple pie

From pies to pastries, bread to brownies, Scotland boasts an array of fantastic bakeries. Now, renowned gastronomic guide La Liste has put together the league table of Scottish shops and restaurants where you can enjoy the best the country has to offer.

La Liste has pulled together the top pastry outlets across the world to celebrate “the diversity of talents, the creativity and audacity, education, and the commitment to values such as seasonality and biodiversity”. Among them are 24 Scottish bakeries, including an Edinburgh shop said to boast signature apple pie and custard, and rhubarb, custard and almond cake.

Lannan – Gaelic for ‘house’ – is located in the city’s Stockbridge area and was named among the pastry opening of the year winners. Opened by self-taught baker Darcie Maher who grew up in the Scottish Borders, she has created a “welcoming space with an expansive glass counter, and a hatch through to the busy kitchen”.

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La Liste said: “As well as viennoiserie, custard slices, and cardamom buns, her signature bakes include seasonal concepts like the Lannan Apple Pie and Custard with Kissabel apples, crème fraîche custard, cinnamon sugar, and latticed croissant pastry, and her Rhubarb, Custard and Almond cake with Marcona almond sponge, rhubarb compôte, whipped vanilla custard, and toasted Marcona almonds. Savoury bakes include Merguez sausage rolls with braised fennel and Monte Enebro cheese, and Nduja, garlic fermented honey, and Murcia al vino cheese buns.”

It all sounds mouthwatering but there are bakeries all over the country represented on the final list. So even if you’re not near Edinburgh, you still have plenty o quality produce to choose from. Here are all the Scottish bakeries that made the list:

• The Earth’s Crust Bakery, Castle Douglas
• ARAN Bakery, Dunkeld
• Bostock Bakery, East Linton
• Twelve Triangles, Edinburgh
• Hobz Bakery, Edinburgh
• Lannan Bakery, Edinburgh
• The Pastry Section, Edinburgh
• The Palmerston, Edinburgh
• Bakhoos Bakery, Fortrose
• Cottonrake Bakery, Glasgow
• Partenope, Glasgow
• Bad Girl Bakery Cafe, Muir of Ord
• The Newport Bakery, Newport-on-Tay
• Bostock Bakery, North Berwick
• Birch Cafe, Portree
• Bandit Bakery, Aberdeen
• Two.Eight.Seven, Glasgow
• Outlier 38, Glasgow
• kaf Coffee, Glasgow
• La Barantine, Edinburgh
• HAVN, Stirling
• The bakery by Zique, Glasgow
• The Bakehouse & Crannog, Mallaig
• Falko, Haddington