Cork baker creates amazing Roches Stores cake, including that iconic shopping bag

This cake is the perfect comfort food if you're still missing Roches Stores 14 years after it closed its doors

The 'Roches Stores' building on St Patrick's Street, Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins

Roches Stores and its distinctive flagship building in Cork city hold many fond memories for former customers and staff of the chain, which closed its doors in 2006.

Built in 1922 after the burning of Cork by British auxiliaries during the War of Independence two years earlier, the building with the copper-covered dome was both a talking point and a meeting point for generations of Corkonians.