Eccles Cakes with Currants and Flaky Butter Pastry

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The Eccles cake is one of those defiantly regional British bakes that has somehow never gone national in the way it deserves. Outside the north-west of England you can struggle to find a good one, which is a shame, because at their best they are extraordinary: a flat, blistered disc of impossibly flaky pastry, crusted with crunchy sugar, hiding a dark, spiced, almost boozy heart of buttery currants. Some people call them fly cakes or fly pies on account of the dark fruit showing through the pastry, which is the sort of affectionate, unglamorous name only a genuinely good thing earns.

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Eccles Cakes with Currants and Flaky Butter Pastry