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?

kirsch slice
Bavarian slice

used to be able to get these from our local bakers before they became Greggs.

I think it’s just a northern chain but Thomas the Baker is quite good for traditional bakery stuff.

London Cheesecake haven’t seen one in years

Lardy cake is sold in our local bakery (Wiltshire), just in case you're nearby.

Thank you, I’m going to book a holiday to Gloucestershire! 😋

@Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain yes I've just looked it up and it was Swiss! Not sure where I got Polish from.
I used to live kind of just across the road. I miss Streatham.

Available here in Wiltshire too!

We have a cake shop in our village but its all brownies and cupcakes with lotus biscuits and unicorn colours everywhere. They just look very unappetising. The village cafe has started stocking their cakes so i no longer go there.

Fortunately we also have a micro bakery in next village that operates for charity one day a week and the brownies and traybakes are amazing.

What is school cake?

I make rock cakes 😊

We have a cake shop in our village but its all brownies and cupcakes with lotus biscuits and unicorn colours everywhere

I hate that, it totally defeats the object of buying something that is traditionally made rather than mass produced palm oil, preservative filled junk.

Yes @Sarvanga38 !! Bread pudding is the one! The amount of time I mention this and people think it’s bread and butter pudding - I was starting to wonder if I’d imagined it all 😂

They were my favourite, especially if the apple filling was a bit sharp.

@BonzoGates, thank you. I'm going to make this during the week, I've not had it in about thirty years but love it.

oh, London cheesecake - I wonder if that’s what we called cheesecake when I was little, before the cheesecake of today was a thing. It was some kind of pastry with coconut curls on the top, was that it?

Lovely thread. Some lovely memories.
I can remember going shopping with my mum on Saturday mornings and being able to choose something at the bakers to eat after lunch.

My favourites were pink coconut pyramids, ice cream cones filled with marshmallow, two meringues stuck together with cream and viennese fingers with the chocolate at both ends. Mum would always get a custard slice.

There's a bakery near me that does delicious viennese fingers and I love the nostalgia.

Do you have a link to the recipe by any chance? Always on the lookout for sharing cakes. Tia

We called it bread pudding too. My mum made the absolute best. And now I feel even more ridiculously nostalgic!

Yes that's London Cheescake. We also had cheesecake as children (80s and 90s) but I don't remember baked cheesecake until I was older.

I went on holiday once and discovered Yorkshire cheese cake, why has nobody down south ever seen fit to make this thing of delicious wonderfulness?

I miss pineapple creams, although can occasionally get them in M&S when not sold out!
I used to love a Madeleine (sp?) - pyramid shaped sponge cake covered in jam and coconut. So simple yet delicious!!

I make them to my mum’s old recipe -they go down a storm!

I can still remember the day I "discovered" bread pudding from the baker near school. Heaven.

My favourite school dinner pudding was the toffee tart - just sweet pastry base and chewy toffee top. God I loved those. Every time I've had something like it since, the topping has been too soft. It's like it has been gentrified.

When I was pregnant I loved a cream slice or cream horn. I love a nice cream tea too.

Oh, I love cream horns!! There is one bakery in my town which makes them and I occasionally treat myself. I also love a brandy snap, (with the cream all the way through, not just at the ends!). I do see them now and again, but not often.

What I object to is the size of some most of today's sweet treats - and I have a large appetite and a sweet tooth!

Loved bread pudding and fly cemetary (Scottish fruit slice)

Coffee kisses, melting moments and viennese whirls the size of your face were for Sunday tea..

I used to like sugar mice too. I know they aren’t a cake, but they were such a treat when l was little. With string for a tail.

Our local baker where we grew up made all their own cakes and bread on the premises.
loved, loved, loved their lemon buns - a soft, round, not very sweet enriched bready kind of bun, filled with fresh cream and with lemon flavoured, yellow icing on top - I’ve never come across them anywhere else.
their iced fingers were made with the same enriched soft dough but with raisins and white icing.
loved Manchester tart but never with coconut - I never knew that was an option till decades later (and I hate coconut)
Another local bakery made their own amazing square vanilla slices which had a thin layer of raspberry jam in between the layers of flaky pastry at the bottom of the slice.