Genealogy Forum UK

I know I shouldn't... but here I am thinking about custard tarts... we can't get them here in Canada.. and every so often I just crave one!
When we visited the UK in the summer I pigged out on a pack of 4 the first day we arrived ( I know.. shameful!)
What is everyone's fave treat from their local bakery ... cream horns, iced buns? .... I'm just torturing myself here...

They do a good line in doughnuts here at "Tim Hortons" ( a national chain of coffee/donut stores)... if any of you ever visit Canada.... but it's not quite the same....

Expat

I do love custart tarts, but I have to say my favourite cake is a jam doughnut and my favourite hot desert is sticky toffee pudding yummmm!!!

I'm dieting at the moment to hopefully get into my summer clothes after the Christmas blow out. So no cakes for another few weeks. I daren't walk past the bakery in Sainsbury's

I love a Custard Slice or Cream Slice

or Bakewell Tart!

any Cake really!

Pineapple donuts.

Lamingtons. (An Aussie tradition. I don't think they have them in the the UK?)

Chocolate Eclairs.

Blueberry Pie.

My sister, who lives in the States, has a similar thing with pork pies, which she can't get out there.

I can't eat tarts/pies/etc due to my wheat allergy and the non-wheat alternatives are either much too sweet, or fall apart at first approach, or both. There is a nibble that I've recently discovered, Mrs Chrimble's Cheese Bites which are pretty good.

MarkCDodd wrote:Pineapple donuts.

Lamingtons. (An Aussie tradition. I don't think they have them in the the UK?)

Chocolate Eclairs.

Blueberry Pie.

I love Blueberry Pie. I used to go and stay with my Antie Sal sometimes in the long school holidays. She lived in Rhymney in South Wales and used to send me and my cousin John out with a bucket to pick wimberrys, very similar to blackcurrants. The wimberrys grew on a steep railway bank, no one seemed to bother about the danger in those days. We had to stop picking when the train came because we were about on a level with the steam and we couldn't see, let alone breathe. God only knows what these berries must have been covered in, but they made the most beautiful pies. One day while we were out, John fell in a nettle patch and I can vividly remember her stripping him naked and standing him out in the garden with a rag and a dish of vinegar. She dabbed him all over with the vinegar - you could hear his screams a mile away.

Definately Chocolate Eclairs.

Oh and apple doughnuts.

And don't forget the delicious chocolate cakes covered with chocolate and with black current jam inside (only ones I can get locally, costs a small fortune, but they're so good I don't care!)

My mum used to make egg custards (custard tarts) when I was a kid, so they can'y be that difficult!

Yes.... you can make them I have had several(unsuccessful!) attempts... I can't get them to taste just like the bakery ones.... I think it might be the pastry? Anyone know what they put in that pastry they use in bakeries?
Now feeling peckish.. all those lovely cakes.. and sticky toffee pudding... I'd forgotten about that one..yum!
Expat

expat66 wrote:Yes.... you can make them I have had several(unsuccessful!) attempts... I can't get them to taste just like the bakery ones.... I think it might be the pastry? Anyone know what they put in that pastry they use in bakeries?
Now feeling peckish.. all those lovely cakes.. and sticky toffee pudding... I'd forgotten about that one..yum!
Expat

You've just made me think of Christmas pudding, I've got one mini pudding left in the freezer - I know what I'm have in a bit!!!!

snoopysue wrote:

expat66 wrote:Yes.... you can make them I have had several(unsuccessful!) attempts... I can't get them to taste just like the bakery ones.... I think it might be the pastry? Anyone know what they put in that pastry they use in bakeries?
Now feeling peckish.. all those lovely cakes.. and sticky toffee pudding... I'd forgotten about that one..yum!
Expat

You've just made me think of Christmas pudding, I've got one mini pudding left in the freezer - I know what I'm have in a bit!!!!

My son in law makes the best custard tart, carrot cake, baked cheese cake, creme caramel and baklava - oh dear - I don't think I'll ever get back down to 9 stone.

Antie Em wrote:My son in law makes the best custard tart, carrot cake, baked cheese cake, creme caramel and baklava - oh dear - I don't think I'll ever get back down to 9 stone.

Can you send him over here!!!

Firkins in Dudley, Hall Street used to sell yummy rum baba

Nessa

nessa wrote:Firkins in Dudley, Hall Street used to sell yummy rum baba

Nessa

Oh yes I remember them and I remember Firkins in Dudley - you can't seem to get them anymore - you could order them in a restaurant for desert - haven't seem them in ages.

I love most cakes specially cream slices , but don't like custard tart or vanila slices. Once went to visit someone who made afternoon tea and brought out the custard tart , did not like to hurt her feelings because she said she had got it specially for me I was saved by the telephone and was able to stuff it in my bag , and what a mess it was in when I got home .

Annie

nessa wrote:Firkins in Dudley, Hall Street used to sell yummy rum baba

Nessa

How long ago?