Similar Pastries
The Garibaldi biscuit shares many common ingredients with the Eccles Cake but is smaller and a dry product rather than a moist cake.
The Chorley cake (from the town of Chorley in Lancashire) is flatter in appearance, is made with shortcrust pastry rather than flaky pastry and is devoid of sugar topping.
The Currant Square is a square shaped cake with shortcrust pastry only on the top and bottom and up to an inch of currant filling.
Banbury cakes are an oval shaped cake from the town of Banbury.
The people of the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, have produced a similar pastry called a currant roll, made with flaky pastry and currants, which is rolled, baked, then cut into diagonal slices.
The traditional Chinese sweetheart cake called Kang Shi Lau Po Pin (老婆饼) is quite similar to an Eccles Cake, although the spicy fruit filling is candied melon.
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