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.

Not UK but we have Naniamo bars. So sweet but so good with coffee

How on earth do people survive without pakora?!

Eccles cake yum yum especially if home made 😋 😜

Wash your mouth out @PurpleDaisies 😃
Mr Kipling makes exceedingly sickly cakes. Proper Bakewell pudding is delicious.

I always thought that parkin was traditionally from Yorkshire. I haven't seen curd tarts in ages. When I worked in Leeds I used to buy them in Ainsley's. I have never seen Empire biscuits.

Russian cake, sly cake, stottie cakes 😁

This was my mums favourite! Four hour drive for a cake is a bit much though!

And milk splits! Ok, technically bread, but still.

The best dessert I've ever made was bread and butter pudding made with saffron loaf. Bleddy ansum!

Ecclefechan Tart - a rich dried fruit tart.

They do it in Lidl -have you looked in there ?

Not near me but Banbury cakes. They're like Eccles cakes.

@Sniffypete you can you get them mail order from Betty's? You can fat rascals but think they might be less perishable than the tarts!

Probably a snowball. Its round cake covered in coconut. I'm in Central Scotland.

I don't know if it's still the case but Sainsbury's used to stock these (in the north west)
I agree they are excellent!

Yum yums are everywhere here - all supermarkets and Greggs. London.

I thought Larry cake was Welsh?

DH loves Tottenham Cake which still turns up in traditional bakeries, Gypsy Tart and London cheesecake.

@WishILivedInThrushGreen I have family in Staffordshire and one owns an oatcake shop and does mail order www.staffordshireoatcakes.com/index.php

@Mushroomlady I was about to say Banbury Cakes as that's my part of the world. They are very nice.
There apparently used to be a Banbury Cheese but it was terrible so was used as in insult by Shakespeare.
I used to work in a bakery and we sold massive lardy cakes. Some customers called them 'slab'. They were really a slab. Size of a brick they were 😂

Slightly different, but I remember years ago reading a very funny article about serving Victoria Sponge in different parts of Britain. I can't remember all of it, but it included, If you put it on the table uncut you're considered mean because it's assumed you don't want it eaten. If you slice it you're mean because you're deciding how big a piece people can have, and ended with it never being sliced in a certain northern city because you've only borrowed it from next door to appear posh!

I've bought Staffordshire oatcakes in Lancashire, quite possibly from a sainsburys.

DH is from Glasgow and introduced me to Clootie Duff. I have no idea if that's how you spell it, I've only heard it said. It's like a dried fruit steamed? pudding, served in slices.

Favouritefruits Thank you. I love pineapple tarts and I haven't tried the M&S ones yet. I'll have to do that soon.

Probably a snowball. Its round cake covered in coconut. I'm in Central Scotland.

I love a snowball - I split them open and add a touch more raspberry jam and sandwich together again. Super sickly sweet but so good.

Also called a clootie (cloth) dumpling I've not had it in years because I'm now allergic to dried fruit but it's delicious.

My Nana used to have jam with hers.

Clootie McToot dumplings - I got one of these for my MIL for Burns Night and she was very happy...

from yorkshire
curd tart
batley cakes- does anyone else know these? 2 layers of a sconey/shortcakey mix with layer of jam between, though I put mincemeat in mine
Fat rascals
parkin
Eccles cakes (mind they’re probably Lancashire actually and now Manchester greater thing…)