What’s your favourite cake or sweet treat?

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If you could have any cake you wanted, what would it be?
Doing a cake stall in a few weeks and looking for inspiration.

What's your target audience? 60plus YO WI era or a pile of 8yo and their 20 something parents?
Would probably alter the choices!
I do think having some non decorated or low on icing options os good as so much these days is all frosting and glitter and sickly sweet. However if it's the 8 year old then disgustingly sweet and glittery might be the way to go 🤣.

Ooh, I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to make them but I LOVE a Chelsea bun. (No mixed peel though)

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I can tolerate them on top as can pick them off. It's such a bad look when I have to deconstruct the cake or start spitting out the fragments when they have been stirred in.
And the surprise texture makes me gag.
Also applies to stem ginger in ginger cake. And mixed peel in anything.

Old school sponge

I do a lot of baking so I very rarely buy from stalls but the two things I can't resist are Portuguese custard tarts and Russian honey cake. There's a Ukrainian lady who sells the honey cake at local fairs and markets and I always buy it from her. It's made of 10 layers of thin biscuits sandwiched together with sour cream and honey icing and left in the fridge overnight. It's flipping amazing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/honeycakee_39657

The nicest cake I’ve ever had was pistachio and rose water.

Dh does a really mean chocolate cake

Love homely type cakes with fruit also

Hugh FW has a great recipe for one, chunky fig or something it's called

https://addapinch.com/the-best-chocolate-cake-recipe-ever/

Chco cake recipe

https://saffronbunny.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/chunky-fig-prune-and-apricot-cake/

T'other one

Agree with this (well, not the Chelsea bun bit, but the rest)

If this were at a fete at a Primary school, then crispie cakes would be the way to go, but if you were in a retirement village, you'd get much more love for a tea loaf.
No idea who likes the sickly mess that are cup cakes.

Carrot cake
lemon and raspberry cake
Victoria Sandwich..with lots of butter icing

Battenberg. Always wanted it as my birthday cake growing up and couldn’t as no one else would want to eat it!!!

Victoria Sponge

Carrot cake with cream cheese icing, not too sweet.

Lemon drizzle with the traditional crunchy caster sugar topping.

Gooey brownie.

Anything with almonds.

I love cake!!

From a cake stall, top favourites would be lemon drizzle, coffee and walnut or jam and coconut tray bake for me.

A traditional coffee and walnut cake with buttercream in the middle and icing on top.

Or a lemon drizzle absolutely soaked in lemon syrup with a sugery drizzle crust on top.

Any of the following loaf cakes-

Lemon Drizzle
Ginger
Chocolate marble

Coffee (and no walnut) cake, flapjack, millionaires shortbread, crspie/cornflake cake, cinnamon buns, bath buns, bread pudding.

@Cemantlepiece that's the one!! It's utterly devine. But for a cake stall maybe not so much as it would need refrigeration.
You must try it if you see it on a greek menu! X