Eccles cakes british

These sweet and flaky Eccles cakes are pastries filled with a delicious combination of currants, sugar and sweet spice. Not to be missed!

We recently upgraded our cable TV situation and we now get a channel that plays a lot of Jamie Oliver shows, which is just fine by me. A little while ago we watched the Jamie’s Great Britain …

I am sure the Queen would be very proud of these easy to make Eccles cakes. Not only are they easy to make, they taste great too! I actually made a double batch and popped them in the freezer (unco…

Puff pastry filled with fruit and spice from Eccles, England.

Eccles cakes may look unassuming, but that flaky, crisp pastry is filled with sticky, gently spiced fruit. Incl. how-to video to make these tasty treats!

Eccles cakes are named after a town in Lancashire, England. These small puff pastry cakes are filled with currants, mixed fruit peel, and spices.

Mary Berry’s Eccles Cakes are made with butter, light muscovado sugar, ground mixed spice, chopped candied peel, and currants. This delicious Eccles Cakes recipe creates a tasty dessert that takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 8 people.

Several years ago I was at a local farmer’s market, looking over a baker’s spread, when a small round pastry caught my eye. It was neatly stacked on its fellows, each crimped, golden, and speckled with grains of sugar. What’s that? I asked the amiable proprietor. Even from my side of the table they looked heavy and firm, like little pats of butter. English Eccles cakes! he said, in a rolling British accent.

The Complete Book of Pastry by Bernard Clayton, JR. is a battered, dog-eared, stained cookbook that I took with me from home when I left. ...

Eccles cakes are sweet pastries filled with currants, spices, citrus zest and demerara and encased in a light and buttery flaky pastry. They take their name from the Lancashire town of Eccles in the north of England and are a popular British bake.