Currants Roll

Even if currants roll is a typical specialty of the island of Trinidad and Tobago, it is largely based on a British dessert created in the late eighteenth century. This pastry called Eccles cake takes its name from the town of Eccles in the suburbs of Manchester. This currant-based dessert has several variants depending on the region of origin such as Chorley cake, the sad cake, the currant square, the Blackburn cake, the Banbury cake or the currants roll that I prepared this week. Currants roll features a rolled flaky crust that is sliced diagonally.