Old fashioned cakes and other bakery items.

[PamperMoose]

I love cakes but I find a lot of cakes now are crammed full of other sweet items like biscuits or covered in them. It’s a bit much for me.

It made me wonder what old fashioned cakes, pastries and savoury bakery items that are hard to find now.

I miss really good gingerbread men. I know that they’re still available if not so readily, but they aren’t as gingery as they used to be. And what’s happened to cream horns.

My Mother used to love something called Paris buns. They’re rather like a scone scattering with sugar nibs. Are those still around?

What old fashioned bakery items do you miss?

Yup, rock cakes. I haven't seen one for many years. I miss them.

Beautiful thread! Oh how I pored over the Dairy Book of Home Cookery, Delias Cookery Course etc as a kid and lusted over all the fat, perfect cakes.

The frosted grapes on Delias cheesecake were the most 80s thing that ever happened 😂

Fisher and Donaldson for me, the St Andrews branch is heaven. My Aberdonian parents still argue over Mitchell and Muil versus Aitkens.

@MoonWoman69 you need to go to Fife for your Holidays, Fisher & Donaldson that I mentioned earlier so enormous coffee choux buns, called Coffee Towers that are heavenly, you can even order a birthday cake sized one!https://images.app.goo.gl/skMdBBBn2Tkv78iUA

Chorley cakes, shop near me used to have them but hasn't done for ages

Devon splits are my absolute fave ..never see them now 😪

Morriszapp.. Aitkens bakery came to an abrupt end,the owner was done for child abuse images.apoligies don't know how to do the mentioned thingy.

On a more pleasant note I miss rock cakes ... lovely with a bit of homemade jam.

Coffee towers are amazing!!

Oh I love the idea of coffee towers! I suppose if I could be bothered I could make my own, but it's much better to go buy one... Or two!!! 😁😁😁

I have my lemon bun 😃

So jealous! Enjoy

Thank you @PawsisShady for the photo and name of jam dots. So good. Recall making them in primary school and loving them but had forgotten the name.

Recently went on a walk in Southsea, Portsmouth, and a seaside booth place was closing for the evening and the lady came out and gave me a free, warm, fresh, sugar ring doughnut, oily and sugary outside with fluffy yet filling innards. So nice of her!

How fabulous! Lucky you!

The lemon bun was lovely but I think I prefer an iced finger. A lemon iced finger would be awesome.
Today I'm making a butterscotch tart.

There's an amazing bakery in Knaresborough, old fashioned, everything handmade on site. The cream is actually cream colored not pale (if that makes sense!) little pastry cases filled with cream and fruit galore, proper bread cobs, loaves, and savoury offerings it also has a separate sandwich counter . Always has a line out the door.

This sounds like my mil’s courting cake, my DH’s favourite dessert. It’s a big rectangle, glacé cherries/icing. She and my fil used to have a restaurant and she made loads of desserts daily. When she died, I took her handwritten recipes (no daughter to pass it onto). I can’t really eat sugar so I doubt I’ll ever make anything!

Fairy cakes. Little sponge cakes with currants in, topped with sugar /water solution left to dry and go crusty.

rock cakes. Lovely stodgy mis-shapes of cakes with sultanas inside.

Forgot bread pudding. Lovely

Jane's pantry in Gloucester, @HarrietStyles

I have to go whenever I'm back.

We've got a shop here in Bath that has rock cakes, Eccles cakes, Chelsea buns etc and of course lots of places with Bath buns. Local farm shop does amazing treacle tart and Bakewell tart

Our local butcher makes great Eccles cakes, lovely fruit pies too

Bread pudding slice from Quay Bakery in Cornwall. What my late father would have called ‘a proper dreadnought’. You don’t need one each 😂

I’m not sure if they still make them, but Bryson’s in Keswick used to do currant slices. Really yummy and Lakeland plumb bread

I made a Bakewell tart this weekend. It was enough for 4 people to have 2 portions each.
I haven't seen a big one sold by the slice for many years!

I really miss one we used to have at school but I can't find anything like it!
It was a very thin layer of pastry at the bottom, then jam, then sponge and topped with icing and sprinkles

@PamperMoose Thanks so much for starting this thread!