Tag: flaky

Cakes

Eccles Cakes

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A fruit filled, slightly spicy flaky pastry confection is always welcome.  So with Eccles Cakes we have something that really hits the mark, so to speak. Thought to have originated in the town of Eccles, in Lancashire, these cakes are a sweet and fruity delight.  Using a recipe from BBC Good Food, which I have […]

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Cakes, Pastries

Kouign Amann

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Kouign Amann, pronounced something like Queen Amarn,  is a pastry that I had never heard of, until it appeared as a challenge on The Great British Bake-Off.  So I had to investigate, and found that it is similar in texture to a croissant.  The recipe I followed is from Paul Hollywood, on BBC Food website. […]

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