Hot Chocolate and Eccles Cake

Location: Arnside Pier, Cumbria
Date: August 2009
Details: Skimmed milk hot chocolate with Eccles cake, both from The Bakehouse, Arnside Promenade

Notes: The photo shows my mother's hands displaying the Eccles cake and take-out cuppa in front of the Arnside viaduct. (Please imagine a steam train chugging over the viaduct.)

This was a delicious traditional Eccles cake - huge (much bigger than my palm), stuffed full with currants and flaky pastry with sugary bits on top. Not so much a snack as an entire meal.

The hot chocolate was also a treat. Or did it all taste so good because it was eaten outside..?