UKdessertvegetarian
Eccles Cakes
Total Time
35 min
Prep / Cook
20 / 15 min
Serves
8 people
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Caster sugar
- 25 g Butter
- 375 g Puff pastry
- 100 g Currants
- 0.5 tsp Mixed spice
- 25 g Mixed peel
- 50 g Soft brown sugar
- 1 Egg white
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7.
- 2
Roll out the pastry and cut out 8 rounds.
- 3
Melt the butter and stir in the currants, peel, sugar, and spice.
- 4
Spoon the filling into the centre of each pastry round.
- 5
Brush the edges with water and bring them together to enclose the filling.
- 6
Turn the cakes over and flatten them slightly.
- 7
Brush with egg white and sprinkle with caster sugar.
- 8
Make three slits in the top of each cake.
- 9
Bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden.
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