Cornish Pudding
The ChickieNob and I were lounging around, talking about a snack we ate in Bury St. Edmunds at the Cornish Bakery, a bakery chain that sells cookies, pastries, and pasties. We had been in search of cake, but we ended up there and bought squares of Cornish pudding, eating them out of paper bags while we walked.
We loved this Cornish pudding. And quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating this Cornish pudding or seeing if there was a restaurant in the area that carried it.
Herein lies the problem: There is no such thing as “Cornish pudding.” Yes, there are a bunch of recipes all labeled as such, but the accompanying pictures showed us sweet and savory bread pudding-like concoctions. There were many many many things called Cornish pudding.
The store described the dish on social media: “Layers of gooey pastries soaked in vanilla custard and topped with blueberries, raspberries and white chocolate before being baked to perfection.” So we started building a bread pudding recipe containing brioche, blueberries, raspberries, and white chocolate, all soaked in a vanilla custard.
The result was delicious but definitely not Cornish Bakery’s Cornish pudding. We are not deterred and are still trying to figure out the pastry part (croissants?) because it definitely wasn’t puffy like brioche. If anyone has reverse-engineered this or knows how to make something closer to the Cornish pudding at the Cornish Bakery, let me know.
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in rhe freezer section, the have flake pastry dough, that would be my guess as to the pastry part. keep us updated would love the final recipe-sounds delicious!
I love the idea of trying to recreate recipes although I’ve only done it once. A long time ago I picked up a ready-made food item at a grocery store and tried to recreate it. I don’t remember what the original was, but the recipe I’ve ended up making a hundred times since then is roasted carrots, celery, and onion (with olive oil, salt, and pepper) added to quinoa with feta. I wish you all the best with your Cornish pudding endeavors!
Hi Mel, if you email info@thecornishbakery.com and tell them
how much you enjoyed it, they may let you have the recipe : )
I think you may mean a Cornish pasty? If so, it’s made with potato pastry.
They sell those, too, but this is Cornish Pudding, which is more like a bread pudding.
I’ve had a slice of Cornish pudding today, from the Cornish Bakery. Absolutely delicious!
It’s the best. I wish we had a Cornish Bakery Co near me.