Flaky Juicy sticky and very moreish (Eccles Cakes)

Member Name: jillycat

Product:	Eccles Cakes
Date:	04/06/09 (36 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: very nice good pastry lovely currants

Disadvantages: will increase your waistline

I am going to review Thomas's the Bakers eccles cakes. Now I am not sure if this is just a chain of bakers in Yorkshire and the North East as I can't seem to find a website to tell me any more about the company. For those of you in Yorkshire there are several in around the York area and Thirsk Northallerton.

Now I haven't had eccles cakes for years but last week when i was getting some bread at Thomas's I saw the Eccles cakes were on special offer 3 for £1.20 These had just come out of the oven so I thought why not give these a try. Since then I have been back for two other batches, telling myself they are for my son who loves the currants in them!

For those of you who don't know what an eccles cake are they a flat round cake of sweetened pastry (Most commonly puff pastry) filled with dried fruit

Product description

These cakes are about 10cm in diameter and 3 cm deep the outer pastry is a puff pastry with 3 lines cut across the top. The top is also covered in caster sugar that has been baked in the oven. The inside of the eccles cakes is filled to the brim with juicy currants.

Taste test.

Now after gobbling the first batch without thinking about this review on my next batch i took a few minutes to eat this and jot down my observations.

I cut the eccles cake in Half as I did so the puff pastry flaked in a very pleasing way and several currants fell out in a sticky heap on the plate.

The smell of the eccles cake is that of currants stewed in sugar I cant get any hints of them being stewed in an alcohol in the way you would say a Christmas cake but the aroma is pleasant reminding me off baking at school.

The taste test the pastry is lovely,buttery, and if your not careful it will crumble down your top! There is a good blend of currants and pastry but the currants are the big player here. They are juicy sticky and sweet and clinging nicely to one another. Now in our household there are 3 of us and one of those is a 16 month old so he hasn't been able to manage to finish a full Eccles cake which has left both my husband and I to share his left overs

Summary: a great eccles cake from Thomas's the Baker especially as on offer for 3 for £1.20