Eccles cake will burst into flames if it gets too hot. Eccles cake An Eccles cake is a small, round cake filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. Eccles cakes are named after the English town of Eccles, historically part of Lancashire, but now classified as a town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester. It is not known who invented the recipe, but James Birch is credited with being the first person to sell Eccles cakes commercially, which he sold from his shop at the corner of Vicarage Road and St Mary's Road,
Nigel Eccles taking place in 2017. In November 2017 Eccles left FanDuel to pursue a new venture in the esports industry. In January 2018, Eccles co-founded an Edinburgh-based video game and social streaming platform Flick. Nigel Eccles Nigel Eccles is a Northern Irish businessman currently serving as the CEO of the esports company Flick. He is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Hubdub and FanDuel. Eccles launched the online political prediction market Hubdub in 2007. He admitted that Hubdub "didn’t really have a good business model," which made him change the focus of the company. Hubdub later turned into