Favourite cake

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What’s yours?

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My son made Mary Berry’s Simnel Cake for me yesterday.

It’s the most delicious, perfect thing.

Light, moist fruit cake with a layer of marzipan running through it. Slightly darker on the edges for a little bit of chew while at the same time being in no way over cooked.

Marzipan layer and marzipan balls on top.

If you like fruit cake and marzipan I urge you to try it. Honestly it’s the most gorgeous thing. My mouth is watering again just thinking about it 😳

So - describe your favourite cake to me. Sell it to me. Make me drool 🤤😁

Red velvet or carrot cake for me.

Coffee walnut or carrot cake.

Or lemon drizzle. It’s hard.

Manchester tart. Shortcrust pastry base, a set custard, raspberry jam and dessicated coconut sprinkled on top. Lovely.

A deliciously moist carrot cake with a generous cream cheese icing topping.

Or

A light tangy lemon drizzle with a sweet crunchy lemony topping.

Christmas cake, with marzipan and icing.

Sounds lovely (I love marzipan). My favourite is carrot cake, I use the primrose bakery recipe and everyone loves it.

Carrot cake with generous icing all the way for me!

Delia Smith's Chunky Apple Cake, recipe in her ancient Book of Cakes, I've made it loads of times. Half and half white and wholewheat flour, orange zest adds a lovely tang, it's delicious.

One that consists of minimal cake but lots of marzipan, ganache, icing, frosting, chocolate pieces etc.

Torta Caprese

It’s an Italian chocolate and almond cake. You can also use other nuts.

Carrot cake without raisins or walnuts because they're evil and ruin everything that they're added to.

I made a pistachio and rose cake for Easter that I think is now my new favourite. Up until now it has been my chocolate brownies.

Cherry bakewell cake with Hartley's cherry jam in the middle and glacé cherries in the sponge

My mum makes an amazing cake with plums and crunchy brown sugar on top. It's tasty and moist and because there's fruit in it it's practically good for you

Ooh these all sound amazing!

Can we have recipes if possible??

Loving the sound of the plum cake

Good old Victoria sponge! Or chocolate brownies.

Really good birthday cake! Plain sponge with buttercream filling covered in fondant icing.

Apple cake.

you can rarely find it in the shops

Hummingbird cake, but really I want to know if you would be willing to share your cake baking son?

A lovely deep coffee cake with coffee icing but DO NOT ruin it with walnuts as seems to have become more of a 'thing' of late, please.

I made Mary Berry's Simnel this year too (normally BBC Simnel)
It is really lovely (I may have had a slice for breakfast)

Christmas cake obvs as it also contains fruit cake and marzipan - yum!

Coffee and Walnut. Lemon Drizzle. Really fresh cheesecake. Mmmm..

All cake.

Victoria Sponge. If perfect, few things are better.

WickedGood - I would share him but even I have to beg him to bake nowadays 😕

He used to be obsessed with baking but a couple of years ago he went on a diet and lost 4 stone and doesn’t bake anywhere near as often as he used to 😕

What’s Hummingbird cake??