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.

Grantham Gingerbreads - almost crunchie-like texture, and a hollow middle

Singing hinnies, stotty kyek, and blaeberry pie. (Parents were Northumbrian)

Yes, must be the Lancashire connection. I didn’t realise it was regional either until I’d been living down here for a while and ambled off to the shop to pick up some bonfire night Parkin (to go with the treacle toffee, as you say) and weirdly the shop didn’t have any. So I tried somewhere else, and somewhere else, getting increasingly anxious. And I asked and nobody in the bakery sections knew what I was talking about! Horrific experience!

In my head it was exactly the same as mince pies at Xmas and hot cross buns at Easter. My parents used to put it in the post for me for a few years until I tracked it down in Morrisons one year!

Well that explains a lot, when i moved to the midlands I had never seen it before and all my friends (who hadnt lived outside the midlands) didnt realise it was regional. I ended up genuinely convinced it was a mainstream thing and I had been walking round with my eyes shut for 20 odd years and missed it

Chocolate cracknell is gorgeous too - don't tell me people don't have access to that in other parts of the country

Chocolate concrete is nothing like that. The nearest thing it looks like is Brownie, but it isn't soft like a brownie, it is, as the name suggests, really hard..... like concrete. At school they used to serve it with pink custard, but I just like it "dry".

Never heard of chocolate cracknell.

Parkin is traditional in Lancashire and Yorkshire, more usually associated with Yorkshire - just to put the record straight 😁

@Kite22 l was going to mention Chocolate Crunch, which was the most popular pudding in East Anglia at school dinners. It is like chocolate flavoured shortbread and delicious. Is Chocolate Concrete the same?

To those mentioning the pineapple tarts at Marks and Spencer, they sold them around thirty years ago and I loved them. They disappeared so I am glad they have reintroduced them.

@Violinist64 Yes. I believe the dinner ladies called it chocolate crunch, but everyone who went to school in the Midlands would call it Chocolate concrete. I am glad to hear you had / have it in East Anglia too.

Just coming on to say fifteens from NI as well. What about top hats or Jammie Joeys?

I've got some chocolate concrete baking right now. I've never made it before. I've put cranberries in it to give it the appearance of being healthier and get some fruit down the dc.

At school we used to have toffee cream tart. It was a pastry case, a pale smooth creamy filling with shaved chocolate on the top. I would love to find the recipe. But a quick google brings up fudge tart which looks very similar.

Norfolk Shortcake

essentially shortcrust pastry with raisins in and sprinkled with sugar.

@Isabelle70 toffee cream tart! Thatnews my favourite at school

Trentham Tart. A bit like a Bakewell Tart without the almond and with a layer of sponge above the jam. It is iced and decorated with glace cherries and walnuts.

Chocolate concrete is nothing like that. The nearest thing it looks like is Brownie, but it isn't soft like a brownie, it is, as the name suggests, really hard..... like concrete. At school they used to serve it with pink custard, but I just like it "dry".

I'd describe chocolate concrete as a bit like a chocolate shortbread.

The ones the supermarkets sell are horrible. The brand is North Staffs Oatcakes and they are really thick.

You can get proper Staffordshire Oatcakes online from High Lane (now owned by Poveys')

The school canteen where my DM taught made something they called Chocolate Floorboards; she persuaded them to reveal the secret ingredient alongside the usual cornflakes, syrup, cocoa, etc, the thing that made it so incredibly more-ish, and it was crack cocaine powdered milk.

Yes. @Violinist64 said similar yesterday. It is a good description in terms of "most like", although I like it when it is even harder than the shortbread texture

@TrailOfAbandonedPlanners we definitely have ALL the traybakes covered too

From Northern Ireland.....FIFTEENS!

"Fifteens Recipe - Great British Chefs"

www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/fifteens-recipe/amp

Dundee cake, essential for an afternoon tea.

The Russian slice I remember was made from leftover cakes, crumbled up and pressed into a tin with blobs of jam, then iced and cut into fingers.

So probably Health & Safety or similar has put paid to that!

Northamptonshire brioche AKA a lardy cake from Oliver Adams bakery. I was so sad when OA closed.

Towcester cheesecake. They were quite nice but I don't miss them enough to make them.

@AdaColeman yes that's the stuff! Tastes lovely but never seen it for sale anywhere locally.

Chocolate concrete and pink custard... they were the best school dinner puddings!