You'll Never Go Back to Store Bought' English Eccles Cakes
Ready In: 35 mins
Yields: 8-12 eccles cakes
Ingredients
- 2 sheets of ready rolled puff pastry (all butter if possible)
- 25 g butter (softened)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 100 g currants or 100 g raisins
- 1⁄2 lemons, zest of, finely grated or orange
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground mixed spice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- caster sugar, for dusting
- water, for glazing
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/425°F.
- Cut the pastry into rounds approx 4 inches in diameter.
- Cream the butter and sugar together, add the currants, lemon zest and spices.
- Add spoonfuls of the mixture to the centre of each pastry round.
- Gather the edges of each round to form a sealed ball, and with the smooth side uppermost, flatten onto a greased baking sheet.
- Cut 2 slits in the top of each cake with a sharp knife, brush with water (not milk or egg) and dust with caster sugar.
- Bake until golden brown for approx 20 minutes.
- Allow to cool for around 20 minutes before serving whilst still warm-ish or wait until completely cooled.
- To die for!
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