Real Lancashire Eccles Cake | Flaky Pastry Filled with Pure Butter & Dried Currants | Traditional & Delicious British Pie | Perfect Tea Time Snack | 5.29 Oz | 4 Cakes (Pack of 3)

As a Yank I was unfamiliar with Eccles cakes until I heard about them through a favorite Britcom of mine. I decided to try them with my favorite blend of hot tea and was immediately hooked. I love these things. They are great when waking up in the AM or when winding down in the evening with a nice cuppa. Simply awesome.

What a surprise!Looking for a tea cake, for afternoon and breakfast, but I had absolutely NO IDEA what I was doing! LOL!American good guess and little blessings, later?The filling is sweet but the currant destructs from the raisins (DO NOT FEAR THE RAISINS).This is NOT mincemeat -The butter it takes to form that flaky crust! WOW!How they pack them and they didn’t turn to dust?I - quite honestly - F’d up and used the microwave for 10 seconds and please, follow the directions for oven baking or use a toaster oven for warming through to capture that butter’s reaction with the crust/pastry and filling.I’ve never before had these or anything close.

I liked the flaky crust, though it is kind of messy. Not an immediate gratification because it needs to be reheated in the oven and not microwaved. It is filled with currants and raisins and pretty tasty. A couple with tea with coffee will fill you up. The problem is you will want to warm all 4 pieces in the pack because you took the time to heat the oven, so you need other people to help eating them.

Eccles Cakes are absolutely delicious and addictive. I was raised in these things 😻

I was pleasantly impressed by these little pastries. I've read about them in plots for British novels and always wanted to know what they are like. I've enjoyed eating them gently warmed in a toaster oven and will make more purchases in the future.

The Eccles cakes were fresh-tasting with flaky pastry and sweet currants. They were properly packed and delivered without damage, on time. A favorite gift for special friends and family!

I read about these somewhere and was curious, so I ordered them on a whim. Turns out I don’t very much care for a filling of raisins and dried currants. I’m chalking that up to personal preference and giving the cakes five stars anyway, because the pastry part is delicious and it is what the description says it is.As for the filling - well, this comes from the country that gave us fruitcake and beans on toast, so... you know...Also, worth noting - the pastry has kind of the texture of chicken pot pie pastry, with the taste of pop-tart pastry. If they made cakes just of this pastry I would eat Lancashire out of house and home.

Being a fan of British literature I have often read about Eccles cakes, especially in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. To satisfy my curiosity I ordered these when Amazon ( strangely) suggested them to me. I can now easily see why the Brits love these rich, delicious pastry cakes. The cakes were well packaged & so fresh they could have been baked that day! Try them :)