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Artisan baking from County Tyrone
The Fluffy Meringue
A little taste of something wonderful.
Meet the farmhouse bakery behind the Luxury Christmas Pudding in our shop. The Fluffy Meringue is Catherine Finnegan’s artisan bakery on the Finnegan family farm in Clogher, County Tyrone, known for big, cloud-light meringues in a host of flavours, alongside sweet treats and festive desserts.
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Catherine Finnegan with a freshly whisked bowl of pink meringue in the bakery.
The story behind the name
A Sweet Story from the Heart of County Tyrone
Catherine Finnegan’s meringues are so light and airy that they gave the business its name. The Fluffy Meringue is still the simplest way to describe what comes out of her ovens.
The bakery grew out of the family farm itself. When The Irish News visited in 2019, it reported that Catherine had started the business to add to the farm’s income, baking at home on the Finnegan farm in Clogher.
By 2019 she was baking in three ovens at home, turning out around a thousand meringues a day in eight flavours. Those figures are from 2019 and give a sense of how much the business had grown.
Today Food NI features The Fluffy Meringue in its directory of Northern Ireland producers as a small farmhouse artisan bakery. Its meringues are sold in boxes or one at a time, at food festivals across Ireland and from the bakery on the farm.
Fresh eggs on the bakery worktop.
The Fluffy Meringue at a glance
- What
- A small farmhouse artisan bakery specialising in meringues
- Who
- Catherine Finnegan
- Where
- The Finnegan family farm, 50 Tullybroom Road, Clogher, County Tyrone, BT76 0XS
- Known for
- Big, light meringues in a range of flavours
- Also
- Sweet treats and festive desserts, including a Luxury Christmas Pudding
Catherine with baskets and boxes of Fluffy Meringue meringues.
Meet the maker
Meet Catherine Finnegan
Catherine Finnegan is the baker behind The Fluffy Meringue. Her bakery sits on the family farm in Clogher, where the Finnegans have long farmed beef cattle and grown Christmas trees.
Meringues are the heart of the business. Catherine bakes them in her farmhouse bakery and has taken them to farmers’ markets and food events across Northern Ireland and beyond, selling them by the box to take home or one at a time to enjoy on the spot.
The bakery makes more than meringues. The Irish News noted Catherine’s millionaire’s shortbread in 2019, and today The Fluffy Meringue’s festive range includes a Luxury Christmas Pudding.
The maker
- Name
- Catherine Finnegan
- Business
- The Fluffy Meringue
- Bakery
- On the Finnegan family farm, Clogher, County Tyrone
- Speciality
- Flavoured meringues
More than just meringues
A Wonderful World of Sweet Treats
Meringues made the name, but they are only part of the story. Here is a taste of what has come out of the bakery on the Finnegan farm.
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Flavoured meringues
Big, cloud-like meringues are the speciality. Food NI lists nine flavours in the range, from Pistachio and Elderflower to Salted Caramel.
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Boxed meringues
Packed in the bakery’s pink Fluffy Meringue boxes to take home, or sold one at a time at markets and events.
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Artisan desserts
Alongside the meringues come other sweet treats, from the millionaire’s shortbread mentioned by The Irish News to festive desserts like this one.
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Christmas puddings
A traditional Luxury Christmas Pudding, minimum 450g, wrapped in fabric and tied with festive ribbon. Coming soon to Finnegan Christmas Wreaths.
The range varies, so not everything described on this page is available at any one time.
Rooted in the family farm
A Family Farm with a Sweet Side
The Fluffy Meringue is baked on a working farm. The Finnegans are beef farmers in Clogher, County Tyrone, and they also grow Christmas trees, sold today as Finnegan Christmas Trees.
When The Irish News visited in 2019, it found Catherine baking at home on the farm, while her husband, Patrick, delivered her meringues and felled the Christmas trees.
It makes for a farm with Christmas running right through it: trees growing in the fields, fir for our handmade wreaths, and meringues and festive treats from the bakery.
Where it is made
The Fluffy Meringue50 Tullybroom Road
Clogher, County Tyrone
BT76 0XSThe same family farm address as Finnegan Christmas Trees, in the Tyrone countryside near Clogher.
Pictured: the Finnegan family’s Christmas tree farm at Clogher, County Tyrone.
The flavours that made the name
Beautiful Meringues, Wonderful Flavours
Food NI calls them “heavenly, cloud-like sweet treats from Tyrone”. Over the years, the flavour list has read like a dessert menu.
A selection from The Fluffy Meringue’s range; Food NI’s producer profile lists nine flavours in all. The range changes, so treat these as a taste of the bakery’s story rather than a current menu.
- Pistachio & Elderflower
- Salted Caramel
- Chocolate Orange
- Lemon
- Raspberry & Chocolate
- Honeycomb
Millionaire’s shortbread, one of the bakery’s sweet treats.
From the farm to food lovers
Sharing Something Special
Markets have long been part of the story. Food NI notes that the meringues have been sold at food festivals across Ireland, as well as from the bakery on the farm.
When The Irish News visited in 2019, Catherine was taking her stall to farmers’ markets in Monaghan, Waterford, Dingle and Donegal as well as across Northern Ireland, and her meringues were stocked at Sawers deli in Belfast. In March 2024, The Fluffy Meringue was among the stallholders at the first Taste Mid Ulster Market in Moy.
Markets and stockists change from year to year, so read this as a look back rather than a current list.
Read more about The Fluffy Meringue
Coming soonLuxury Christmas Pudding
Festive Christmas puddings
A Little Extra Indulgence for Christmas
Alongside the meringues that made the name, The Fluffy Meringue also makes a Luxury Christmas Pudding. Rich with sultanas, raisins, cranberries, nuts, spice, stout and whiskey, and wrapped in festive fabric with ribbon, it makes a lovely addition to the Christmas table.
- Product
- Fluffy Meringue Luxury Christmas Pudding
- Weight
- Minimum 450g
- Allergens
- Contains eggs, wheat (gluten), milk, peanuts and tree nuts. See the product page for full details.
- Availability
- Coming soon, not yet available to order
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The Fluffy Meringue
Made with Passion. Rooted in Tyrone.
From a County Tyrone family farm to market stalls across Ireland, The Fluffy Meringue is a lovely example of the region’s artisan food tradition: generous, homemade and baked with care.