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The Eccles Cake has been falling from favour for years.

Its band of advocates are being seduced away by other (delicious) alternatives.

Generational change is working against Eccles Cakes.

A pubic appetite for novelty , innovation and change sees imported pastries from France, Italy and USA remorselessly eroding our more traditional treats.

Real High Streets are dying.

Who is to say this is wrong? The power of the market is at play here.

Supermarkets offer either mass produced, packaged, travesties or hybrids of Eccles cakes and Mince Pies in puff pastry – a ghastly affront to both.

Small local bakers are being constantly absorbed into local groups with a central preparation site and in-store ovens to finish the product.

The existing genuinely local bakers were already being hammered by the economics and savage competition from Greggs and Local Groups. The Corvid shutdown has been fatal to some. Even if they open there is little demand as we stay at home to please Boris.

Your tasters have grown fat by over indulgence in the (alleged) interests of research.

We feel, sadly, our preferred cake is doomed.

We will still occasionally seek out a special supplier or if we stumble across one we will let you know and the site will remain but regular posts will now cease.

Thank you for your support

Best wishes

The Friends of the Eccles cake

Swimming strongly in a sea of competition one would expect the redoubtable Sayers to prevail.

I love the variation between shops in the same chain with in store bakeries. The personalities of the staff may be experienced. Like artists.

 

A Drive- through Gregg’s has opened on the edge of Eccles!

Eccles Cake National Champions 2017

We are delighted to announce

Lifetime Achievement Award – Wards Bakery Eccles

To Orston, to Inspect a bridge we built 20 years ago! We asked our Client, a discerning and knowledgeable person, if there were local Eccles Cake Bakers? Unable to find any he commissioned these.

The Lime Haus, the village hub to bake some! Such luxury.

As sensuous as the person who baked them.

What a lovely bottom.

 

Couched in exciting multi cultural North Leicester this magical fusion of traditions produces a memorable product (or 10.)

Location       Leicester

Largest dimension     156mm  biggest yet!

Thickness                      19 mm  thinnest yet

Weight of cake             109gm

Colour of crust      Gold(ish)

Texture of crust    Studded with currents

Interest in crust     Lots of currents

Colour of base        Dark brown

Texture of base            Chewy.

Thickness of base        4mm

Caramelisation of base   Small amount

Weight of filling            Not practical to weigh

Nature of filling          Individual fruit

Texture of filling          Individual fruit embedded in pastry

Caernarfon on a bright summer day exudes history. This classy little bakery is away from the tourist hot spots. Discerning connoisseurs will always seek out quality.

Location                        Caernarfon

Largest dimension      115mm

Thickness                      34mm

Weight of cake             141gm

Colour of upper crust  Mid brown

Texture of crust            Thin and crisp

Interest in crust              Slits with sugar crystals

Colour of base                  Mid brown in an attractive way

Texture of base                Mixture of crisp and stodgy

Thickness of base             8mm

Caramelisation of base   None

Weight of filling                48gm

Nature of filling                currants with lots of filler

Texture of filling               Rather dry but bound – nice composite taste

 

 

To Abersoch for  the Dinghy Week. Used bad weather to sample local, excellent, bakers.

Location                        Aberdaron

Largest dimension     96mm

Thickness                      30mm

Weight of cake             99gm

Colour of crust             Golden sugar crust

Texture of crust           Thin, light. Exquisite!

Interest in crust           Many holes and some fuit leakage

Colour of base              Amber

Texture of base            Solid

Thickness of base        up to 8mm

Caramelisation of base   Large area of deliciousness

Weight of filling            34gm crammed in

Nature of filling           Single separate currants

Texture of filling          Not bound.

 

 

Lots of frantic scurrying to finalise details.

Watch this space!

The good (naughty?) folk of Higham Ferrers must be sinful on a colossal scale and their debauchery must be of historic  proportions to justify the massive provision of places of worship.

Location                                 Higham Ferrers

Diametre                                115mm

Thickness                              28mm

Cake weight                         140gm

Colour of crust                    Darkish brown

Texture of crust                 Big slits and lots of melted sugar crystals

Interest in crust                  Fascinating!

Colour of base                     Mid gold

Texture of base                   Perfect!  Layered and crisp

Caramelisation                  None

Weight of filling                42gm

Nature of filling                Currants. Just currants.

Texture of filling               Bound with dark, spicy extender