Mr. Sticky’s

Mr. Sticky’s is getting a new home. Brand new building for 2016! Same great sticky buns. Closes December 31.

Mr. Sticky’s has been around since ’00, family-​owned and –operated by Phil Poorman. We checked out their trailer in a parking lot out in Lancaster and I was super excited! Their menu offers the Regular Sticky Bun, the Walnut Sticky Bun, Cinnamon Bun, Cinnamon Bun with Peanut Butter Icing, Cinnamon Bun with Cream Cheese Icing, and Mini Stick Buns (which you need to pre-​order ahead of time). I tried their Walnut Sticky Bun, topped with perfectly-​toasted walnuts and baked in their special ‘smear’ — these buns are baked fresh daily, and you can definitely tell! It was soft, gooey, and it wasn’t as overly sweet as I anticipated (a good thing). They even have coffee/​drinks available, so you can enjoy it as breakfast or as a little snack/​dessert. There is some picnic tables set outside, so you can either treat yourselves before going back on the road or take it to go. The staff here are super friendly, and I’d love to try out their maple butter and the peanut butter icing the next time: D
+Walnut Sticky
+freshly-​baked sticky buns!
+homemade icings

I don’t normally like sticky bun type foods, so for me to give 5 stars to a sticky bun is really saying something. In fact, this place got me CRAVING sticky buns! The other reviews aren’t fooling, I thought these were just people who love this kind of thing, and it was preaching to the choir, but no, I was hard to please on this one, and they surpassed my expectations.
[Update 1−6−15: We just discovered this location is open seasonally; this one closes in the winter. (You can order buns online to have them shipped to your door from the Mr. Sticky’s website, any time of year.)]
This location can be a little hard to find for non-​locals. This is literally beside the Lancaster Tourism Center. Mr. Sticky is in a trailer that looks like a food truck with no wheels. Since I live only an hour away I had never gone to the tourist office, so it was new for me to take this exit off 30 (veering off from heading into downtown Lancaster). If you take that route, at the end of the ramp, you curve around to this place (on your right). The tourist center is a lot easier to look for than Mr. Sticky’s, so head for the tourist center and you’ll have found it. I am posting photos to show what it looks like from the parking lot to give you an idea.
They are CASH ONLY. I had no idea of the prices until I looked at their website and could see what it costs to ship a dozen, which still doesn’t really help. So FYI when we went, it was $ 2.50 for a single Mr. Sticky (more for the cream cheese frosting). ½ dozen of original Mr. Sticky is $ 10, and $ 19/​dozen. Go up a little from there for other kinds, down a little for a regular cinnamon roll. I am posting a photo of the menu. We found a coupon on the PA Dutch Country website for a free bun with purchase of ½ dozen, which was great.
Back to the buns…
My great-​grandmother had this great recipe for sticky buns, which my mom would often make at Christmas time only. They were really good, but a LOT of work. Mr. Sticky is JUST AS GOOD as my great-grandmother’s recipe, and without the work or clean-​up, so I am totally sold. I thought it would be all dried out and stuff like Cinnabon, or Sarah Lee, or Entemann’s (preservative-​filled crap I have not eaten for at least 15 years) but Mr. Sticky surprised me with how fresh and moist they were! Very pleased.
We took a half-​dozen home and put them in Rubbermaid container in the fridge. The container keeps them moist, and the fridge retards staleness. Put one in the microwave for a minute, and you’re good to go.
Past few months, husband and I have been trying to eat healthier (cut out a lot of bad stuff, eating a lot of beans and raw veggies, jogging 4−5miles a few times a week, etc. … Well, I am going to have a Mr. Sticky as my «roll» with dinner tonight, and I am not even ashamed. Ha ha ha, now THAT is addiction!

Got there at @ 3:00 P.M. all they had left was Walnut, which was OK with me, bought one at $ 3.25. Opened up the box to see a large sticky bun covered in walnuts, it is large!
I can say that this is a very good sticky bun, and I will be back, earlier in the day, to try their other varieties of sticky buns.

So so good. Now that I am hooked I will be happily stopping by every time I am in the area. While the peanut butter cream cheese frosted buns with chocolate shavings and the regular cream cheese topped ones are great, my favorite is the original Mr. Sticky. By the way, they freeze really well too so no reason not to stock up!
Now all they need are t-​shirts…

My office building is located next to this gem. We frequently get two boxes of Mr. Sticky’s…One box of Original & and one box of Walnut. The buns are gigantic. One bun can be divided between 2, 3 & sometimes 4 people. They are a mouth watering treat with the perfect amount of sweet. They are addictive. Seriously.

For my money, the best sticky buns in Lancaster County are at a food truck permanently parked at the Lancaster County Visitor’s Center. They’re served up warm. An incredibly, gooey, buttery-​cinnamon (y) glaze coats the sweet-​dough roll and clings to every surface it touches. I have not yet had the iced rolls because I think my head would explode. My bf doesn’t really like sweet stuff, but when we stopped at Mr. Sticky’s he had to have one. He couldn’t get over how epic they are. I’ve had a lot of sticky buns that were too «sticky». Their glaze was almost like runny taffy than a syrup. But not Mr. Stickey’s. Mr. Sticky’s got it going on!

How could I pass up on a place called Mr Stickys?
There is just no way.
he has 3 locations in the area, one in a mall, one bakery and the one I found in a food truck.
It seems to be pretty popular as it was packed, the outside seating taken, so I just got one with pecans to go.
They are pretty pricy ($ 3.25 a piece) but pretty good.
Not the best I’ve had, the Amish have sticky buns down pat for less than half the price, still the name and teh fact that that is all they sell got me.