Vanilla BoxxBake House

Vanilla Boxx Bake House is a small bakery on Ellis Street in Carrickfergus town centre, open Thursday to Saturday and specialising in hand-baked cupcakes, brownies, cookies and traybakes made from scratch on the premises. The shop bakes in small batches through the week, restocking the counter for weekend trade, and takes orders for celebration cakes alongside its everyday range. It holds a food hygiene rating from Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and has built its customer base through Instagram and Facebook rather than a conventional storefront website, with customers collecting orders in person. The bake house sits among Carrickfergus's cluster of independent food shops close to the town's Georgian core. Its limited three-day opening week keeps the operation to a single owner-run counter rather than a larger retail footprint, and reviewers point to the cupcakes and traybakes as the shop's mainstay.