Greggs Edinburgh exclusive: Scotch Pie

Greggs Bakeries are everywhere but you will find exclusives items down South, up North etc.

In Edinburgh, they have Bloomers, Scotch Pie, Empire Biscuit, Fruit Scone, French Fancy, Pineapple Cake, Devon Doughnut, Jumbo Choc Ring Doughnut, Vanilla Doughnut and Apple Danish.

I only managed to spot the Scotch pie and the Devon doughnut which is a ring doughnut with cream.

The Scotch pie is basically a meat pie of beef and mutton in a crumbly thin shortbread pastry with smooth minced meat in the middle.

Overall, nice and some vinegar would make it taste even better.

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Greggs NEW Vegan Sausage, Bean & Cheeze Melt

I was so excited when Greggs announced the new Vegan Sausage, Bean & Cheeze Melt which was launched after the Vegan Cheeze Ham Baguette.

Ended up trying the new Greggs vegan cheeze bean melt as a few places I intended to try were closed.

The vegan pastry was really nice as it was much lighter and not oily.

Now to the filling which I found tastier than the regular version because the vegan cheeze has a sharper taste and the quorn sausages taste how they should.

Overall will definitely get this again and surely Iceland will stock it later.

Also available is the vegan cheeze and ham baguette but to be honest getting the melt is much more representative of greggs because you can just get a baguette and fill it with quorn ham and cheeze.

It is good to see Greggs offer more than one option anyway.

Rating: 4/5

Greggs vegan steak bake and vegan sausage rolls at Iceland

Greggs vegan steak bake and vegan sausage roll spotted at Iceland for Veganuary

Greggs vegan steak bake review

https://supersupergirl-food.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-vegan-steak-bake-at-greggs-for.html

Greggs vegan sausage roll review

https://supersupergirl-food.blogspot.com/2019/10/review-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls.html

[Review] Greggs vs Peacock Foods London Cheesecake

A London Cheesecake is a pastry that does not contain cheese and has no resemblance to a cheesecake.

It is simply a puff pastry topped with jam, icing and coconut which was a popular treat in the 1950s and 60s when it sometimes came with pink icing.

As well as the London Cheesecake, people also get confused with the macaroon which is made with coconut and very different to the Macaron.

There are not many places that sell the London Cheesecake so you can only find them at some East London bakeries, Aldi and Greggs in the south east because it is regional.

Unfortunately, I did not make it to Percy Ingles to get their version of the London Cheesecake before the first lockdown earlier in 2020 and sadly they closed forever.

Ironically, there is another lockdown and I went into Greggs because of the Festive Bake and discovered the London Cheesecake.

Either it is very popular or it is new to this branch because I have not seen the London Cheesecake in this area ever but I do remember seeing them at Greggs in East London.

Without hesitation, I got the London Cheesecake and it was the last one.

As soon as I got home, I devoured the London Cheesecake and it was really decadent because of the light layers of puff pasty and sweet icing and coarse coconut shreds.

There was some jam too but it was not evenly spread so the middle part of the London Cheesecake was quite sweet.

Let's hope we don't see any more shop and restaurant closures after the second lockdown.

Review of Greggs Festive Bake:

https://supersupergirl-food.blogspot.com/2019/11/review-greggs-festive-bake.html

After trying Greggs, I got someone to get me the London Cheesecake from Aldi because there isn't an Aldi nearby.

Sadly, the pastry was thick and dense, it looked like it had not risen properly.

Apart from the bad pastry the jam and coconut was delicious and extremely comforting.

[Review] Greggs VEGAN Festive Bake and regular festive bake

UPDATE NOV 2021:

Greggs has been rolling wonderful vegan treats this year with vegan sausage rolls, vegan steak bakes etc and now they even have a vegan festive bake for Christmas.

This year I was greeted with three choices for the festive bake:  Wenzel's, Greggs regular festive or the vegan one.

Wenzel's was the most expensive out of the three so I went for had Greggs vegan festive bake as I have already tried the festive bake last year.

The vegan version was really comforting and I will be having it again soon.

The filling was so good especially the stuffing and tangy cranberries.

The pastry was spot on being light and flaky while the bake was nice and hot.

I felt that the vegan fared better because the regular version was overpowered by the cheese and herbs on the pastry topping.

 

UPDATE NOV 2020

Last year I tried festive bake from Iceland because the queue from Greggs was long, this year I managed to get a festive bake during the second lockdown.

NOV 2019

Greggs have launched some captivating items for Christmas 2019 like the Pigs in Blanket Baguette, Festive Bake and Mint Chocolate drink.

I was hoping to get the festive bake at Greggs but there was a long queue so ended up getting it Iceland and you get a free coffee as well with your next purchase at greggs.
At first I was really excited because when I saw the picture I thought it was festive drink but it does clearly say coffee.

Tried the festive bake at home which contains succulent pieces of chicken breast, sage & onion stuffing and sweet cure bacon in a creamy sage and cranberry sauce.

Overall, I loved it especially the creamy sage with sage and onion which make it festive, however the cranberry sauce was not that prominent.

Will definitely try the pigs in blanket baguette soon along with the hot mint chocolate.

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