What's As British as Bakewell Tart? For Almond Addicts.

Photos of almond slices by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

A box of Mr Kipling's almond slices contains six slices. But not for long. Within a couple of hours of my buying it, as you can see, the box contains only four slices. In order to take the photo, I had to ask the calorie policeman, "Where have you hidden the almond slices?" 

Problem
I went to Derbyshire, to the Writers' Summer School at Swanwick, but this year they did not serve Bakewell Tart which I had sampled and loved the two previous years.

If you want Bakewell tart or rather pudding from the town of its supposed origin, go to Bakewell in Derbyshire. At least two places serve what they think is the best and most authentic version.

If you don't make it to Bakewell, copy what I did.

I went into my local Tesco supermarket - a small branch. What did I spy? Mr Kipling almond slice.

An alternative excellent almond snack to have with your mid morning coffee or mid afternoon tea is Costa's almond slice.

I don't drive to the shops. I walk. The calorie count of these delicious desserts is horrific.

As they say, move more and eat less. So I shall swim at the gym and share the next almond slice.

Croissant
Even more shockingly calorific and lip-licking delicious is the almond croissant you can buy freshly baked and often still warm in the morning (is it only Sunday morning?) from Tesco supermarket in London.

Bakewell Pudding and Tart
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bakewell_pudding
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bakewell_tart

Costa's Raspberry and Almond Bake
See my previous post and picture of the Costa's Raspberry and Almond Bake.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/costa-at-hays-galleria.html

Croissant with Almond Filling (from Tesco)
https://plus.google.com/+AngelaLansburyauthor2/posts/RPaxZsfwhY1

Tesco's Almond Slice
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254947308

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

My favourite foods at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick

Photos by Angela Lansbury.

In previous years my favourite food was the Bakewell tart. In Bakewell you get Bakewell pudding. I missed not having Bakewell Tart in 2017. (See later post.)

This year we had several excellent desserts. A carrot cake had slices of orange as decoration. The gluten free cake was delicious. The chocolate cake was moist and chocolatey.

Cream was in large jugs, and in abundance.

 I even liked the banana blancmange or mouse - hard to define what it was. Looked a bit like solid custard. Tasted creamy and full of banana flavour.

http://www.swanwickwritersschool.org.uk

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Glamour puds - Bakewell tarts with real almonds

I tried
a mini circular almond tart.
I know this as a Bakewell tart, also called a Bakewell pudding, although they are not the same. (Bakewell is a place in Derbyshire).
Yum. That's the authentic Bakewell tart I like.
Here's the photo of the individual size tart. Of course you can make them or order them in large sizes or muffin size.

(Absolutely my favourite dessert since I had the wonderful Bakewell tart at Swanwick Writers' Summer School in Derbyshire. A friend on Facebook sent me the name of the chef. If you have a Bakewell tart recipe please send me one.)

After I returned raving about Bakewell tart, we researched and tried making all sorts of recipes, right back to Mrs Beeton. She copied a lot from Eliza Acton. 

If you don't want to make your own, come to Swanwick writers summer school next year - and warn the chef that he must make our favourite dessert.  

Meanwhile here's the contact for another source, Glamour puss.  Oops! I keep typing p u d s and some inbuilt spellchecker turns the word into puss. It's not my typo. It's the system on either my computer or the blog.

On the Glamourpud website they list the ingredients of their pastries so if you are allergic to nuts you know what is inside your food.

This is their Battenberg tart list:

Ingredients: Shortcrust pastry: white rice flour, vegetable margarine, whole egg, potato starch, water, sugar, tapioca starch, salt. Filling: sugar, vegetable margarine, ground almonds, whole egg, cornmeal, almond extract, raspberry jam.

Allergens: almonds, egg

You can buy the Glamour p u d s products from Tesco stores which are listed on their website.

www.glamourpud.com
e peggy@glamourpuds.com
m 07849 456 219
Unit 10 Kempton Gate Business Centre
Oldfield Road
Hampton, Middx
TW12 2AF

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