Regional cakes.

[CaramelJones]

What regional cakes and other baked goods exist in your area?

I love how much variation there is with accents in the U.K so now I'm curious to know what cakes and other delights there are.

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Gypsy Tart ( Kent.)

Oh, and I don't like them either.

Kent Korker sausages seem to be a bit of a thing too.

Yorkshire curd tart. With raisins. Heaven. Days worth of food in a single serving.

I don't even live in Yorkshire but an adjoining county.

@ChessieFL that book look great!!

Yum yums seem to be a Scottish thing I think? Its a twisted layered glazed doughnut, not a million miles away from a cronut, but not as wet inside, and a damn lot cheaper too.

Happy to be corrected as they are amazing and should be everywhere!

@TheLovleyChebbyMcGee definitely not just Scottish! Greggs sell them (and most supermarkets).

But yes, epically better than a donut!

Plum loaf seems to be my local offering. It's a cross between a malt loaf and a fruit cakey thing. My nan used to make it for my dad, who ate it with butter and cheese.
Fruit cakes are the work of the devil IMHO so I can't vouch for it.

Lardy cake is the local cake here in Wiltshire.

My favourite growing up was 'London cheesecake' - pastry square with jam and sugary coconut strands on top. Not seem them since moving north 20 yrs ago :(

Can get these down here in Kent, too, but I can't recall seeing them until relatively (last ten years?) recently, so maybe they're an export! Lol.
Gypsy tart - yum!

Not a cake, but a very dense pastry - the Aberdeen Rowie or Buttery ( Rowie in the city, Buttery everywhere else.)
about 100o calories each. Salty, flakey, best served warm with yet more butter and your favourite topping - cheese, marmalade, jam, or syrup.
I would dream of them when I lived away.

lardy cake Gloucester.

I’m a fan of a Fat Rascal. Not local to me though!

Technically bread, not cake, but bara brith (Welsh).

Chorley cakes, which are essentially the shortcrust sibling of Eccles. And Goosenargh cakes, which are actually biscuits.

My husband goes week kneed over my Manchester tart! It's just a lovely delicious pudding. Pastry, raspberry jam, custard and coconut sprinkled on top. Cherry in the middle. Some people add bananas.

Delish!

Saffron cake (or buns) from Cornwall

Saffron buns, hevva (heavy) cake, congress tarts...

From Cornwall

I think Parkin is quite regional - it’s very common around bonfire night up north (I grew up in Manchester) but when I moved down south it was v hard to track down. Morrisons was the only supermarket that sold it a few years ago (northern origins I think) but you didn’t get it in the local bakers etc and not in most big Sainsburys etc either.

If you don’t know it, it’s a kind of spiced ginger dark treacly cake made with oatmeal, so it’s dense and lovely.

Bara brith and Welsh cakes. Delicious

Bara brith! I might get some fruit soaking and bake tomorrow. Love the stuff. My Nan used to make it every time I came home from uni and sent me back with stacks for the freezer.

Lardy Cake and Bath Buns

Dorset....Lardy Cake

I would add Parkin to these from Lancashire. I love it!