Sweet memories.

[dondor]

    

     Can anyone tell me where I can buy cheesecakes. The ones made with pastry and decorated with strips of coconut.These were my favourites in the forties and fifties.

[Jules001]

I am pretty sure you can get these in the bakers, or some supermarkets stock them I think I have seen them in Tescos

[smudge]

Hi dondor - I don't believe it! I only bought a pack of those today from our local Co-op store. I'm not a really a cakey eater & only went in for a phone card - but I just couldn't resist them sitting there on the shelf!

They are nice, but you can't beat the ones my Mum used to buy many years ago though, with big strip of coconut on top.

[smudge]

*strips

[karen3110]

They are still really popular in the East End of London and are sold in most bakeries around there. Percy Ingles tends to be the favourite bakery that sells them. They are delicious and not many people know about that kind of cheesecake, I think it's more of a London thing.

[ursula62]

My mum used to call them "Welsh Cheesecakes" they are very easy to make. Originally the cake mix used curds instead of milk, which is apparently where the name comes from.

(Makes 24)

Preheat oven to gas mark 4 (180-190 celsius,  350-375 Fahrenheit)

Pastry:  1 cup plain flour, 60g butter, 1/4 cup caster sugar, one egg yolk, 1 teaspoon water. Rub the butter and flour together and stir in the sugar. Mix in the egg yolk and enough water to make a firm paste. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes before rolling out to 2mm thick. Cut into  6cm rounds and place in lightly greased bun tins.

cake mix: 60g butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla essence, 1/3 cup caster sugar, 1 egg, 3/4 cup self raising flour, 1/4 cup milk. Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the essence and egg and beat until combined. Stir in the sifted flour and milk.

Place about 1/2 teaspoon of jam in each pastry case and top with 3 level teaspoons of cake mixture.

Bake in the oven for about 15-20 mins until the sponge is lightly browned.

Allow to cool.

Ice cakes with glace icing made with icing sugar and water or lemon juice and sprinkle the icing with desiccated coconut strands before it is set.

[Hermia]

I've seen them in Greggs the bakers.

[frizzytwig]

Gregg's ones are lovely