eccles cake

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Definition of eccles cake in English English dictionary

A small, round, oven-baked cake made from a currant-based filling enclosed in puff pastry

a round cake filled with currants (=type of dried fruit)

a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit

Related Terms

Eccles cakes

plural form of Eccles cake

Hyphenation

Eccles cake

Turkish pronunciation

ekılz keyk

Pronunciation

/ˈekəlz ˈkāk/ /ˈɛkəlz ˈkeɪk/

Etymology

() * From the town of the same name, Eccles, where the cake was first sold commercially in 1793.