Let's talk about cake

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Not pies or tarts, only cakes.

I've given this a lot if thought and have decided the best cake is coffee and walnut without walnuts and with an enormous amount of buttercream icing.

I've just had some Victoria sponge and it was better than nothing but no icing.

Don't think so Very - think it's curtains for them all 😭

Oh my God. This thread just popped up in Active threads and now I'm sitting on my train home trying to remember if I have enough ingredients to make a cake. Any cake. I don't care what flavour at this point.

I MUST HAVE CAKE!

Dear God, Pat Val going into administration! I've only just recovered from Woolworths going.

The fabric of my life is just unravelling.

Witty we've been merrily musing on cake for a week now

Commuting home again has reminded me...

The cupboards did not have cake ingredients, and it was cold and late so I sadly trundled off to bed to give DH space while his friends were over (poker night).

Lo! He brought me a cup of tea and a cake his friend's wife had sent over.

Could it be all my Christmasses arrived at once? No. It was disgusting, for me at least. Bleugh.

I may have sobbed a little bit

oh, the disappointment. You'll just have to make your favourite for yourself!

Oh my goodness I could talk about cake for hours. I don’t think I could have just one favourite. I love coffee cake with plentiful coffee buttercream. Last time I made one I made it into a “caramel latte” cake by making caramel to put in the middle alongside the buttercream and to drizzle over the top.

My favourite cake is sachertorte.

Where I work the most popular is chocolate cake, closely followed by coffee cake.

Victoria sponge ranks quite low.

I wonder if the demographics make a difference? The tea rooms I bake for have an older client base and there's not much call for chocolate cake. Lemon poppyseed, on the other hand....

Carrot cake with a THICK layer of buttercream inside and out

Chocolate cake is low on my list, to me the brownie ruined the cake, it's all too one dimensional.

Caramel latte sounds awesome.

I was going to report that i hadn't had any cake 🎂 today and then i remembered - white chocolate and lemon.

Victoria sponge is a meh from me. Obviously I'll eat it, I'm not insane.

One of the nicest cakes I’ve EVER had (and there have been thousands) was a completely random Tipsy Cake, bought at Leyland market on a quick stop-off from the motorway on a Cornwall/Scotland road trip.

Had never heard of it and it turned out to be DELISH!! Never found anything similar and have looked at recipes online but they don’t look like they’ll produce quite the same result, sadly.

Anyone a baker of tipsy cake, or know any good shop ones?

For DP’s birthday last year I made a vanilla cake that had ermine icing - a kind of fancy buttercream made with hot milk that tasted amazing.

But the year before’s was even better - coconut layer cake, with icing that was like the middle of walnut whips. God, I think about that cake so much...

Both Nigella recipes, she’s Cake Queen in my eyes. Her brownie recipe and her banana bread are unbeatable. I buy bananas just to let them go black so I can make her banana bread - but I leave out the sultanas because why would you sully perfection?

My other failsafes are Delia’s rich fruit cake and a BBC Good Food recipe for Dorset Apple Cake which is gorgeous.

I bloody love cake, I do.

I used to date the pastry chef from a v famous restaurant when I was 17. His speciality was sachertorte.

One Christmas, he brought one round for my 50 yo mother and her friends and I remember he had to cut it with a hot knife.

I couldn't understand why all the 50 yos were all breathy with him.

I do now

It's difficult for me to choose just one favourite, but I think if I really had to then it would be Carrot Cake with a cream cheese frosting... especially if it's the one from Costco

Can I share my 16 layer carrot wedding cake I made as a gift for my friend? (My first ever!) The floral decs were done by another friend and whilst they weren't quite what I had imagined, they really suited the day and the bride absolutely loved them!

That’s amazing! I made a 4 tier Hummingbird bakery recipe carrot cake for our wedding anniversary one year... absolute perfection but I put on about half a stone in a week!

Ooh. At work at the moment but placemarking so that I can come back and talk about cake a bit later.

We have a regular coffee morning in our village and someone (I don't know who - yet) bakes the most amazing coffee cake. I don't even like coffee, but I would go quite far out of my way for this cake.

Date and Walnut cake

Can I share my mincemeat cake recipe with you lot, I made invented it yesterday.

100g butter, softened (not margarine)
100g sugar, white granulated will do
100g self raising flour
2 large eggs
jar of mincemeat

Bung everything in a bowl, stir until it's all mixed in. Pop in a silicone loaf tin and microwave on full power for 5 mins. Stand for 5 mins then microwave again on full power for another 5 mins.

None of that creaming, sifting, folding or greasing malarkey, just cake in 20 minutes max .

Banana cake

MawkishTwaddle Can you share your coconut cake recipe?

Coconut is my FAVOURITE

I’ve got a jar of homemade plum mincemeat that I was given at Christmas @AnonymousIndividual, I haven’t got silicon so will make it in the oven but that cake sounds like a must do!

Maybe warm with custard for pudding after Sunday lunch...

If you have any left over marzipan from Christmas - throw some cubes into a mincemeat cake before it goes in the oven. Bloody gorgeous.