Eccles cake Eccles cakes do not have Protected Geographical Status, so may be manufactured anywhere and still labelled as "Eccles" cakes. The Banbury cake is an oval cake from Banbury, Oxfordshire, similarly filled with currants. The Chorley cake (from Chorley in Lancashire) is flatter, made with shortcrust pastry rather than flaky pastry and is devoid of sugar topping. The Blackburn cake is named after the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is made with stewed apples in place of currants. British fire brigades have reported fires started by Eccles cakes overcooked in microwave ovens. The problem occurs because sugar, contained in the cakes,
Ross Eccles his works and an emphasis on the importance of colour and light over line. Rather than recreating the subject precisely he wants to re-create the sense of what the eye captures when it looks at the subject and merge that with an element of fantasy to create a fresh vision of an everyday subject matter. His main influences include the Surrealists, the Cubists and the Impressionists . Ross Eccles Ross Eccles, (born 13 November 1937), is a contemporary English artist and painter. He has been based in Dublin, Ireland since 1971, and exhibits there regularly. He has also exhibited his