What’s the universally best received homemade cake in a work place?

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I think it’s brownies (no nuts). Everyone likes a homemade brownie.

I want to bake for my team this weekend. Needs to be something pre-portioned as no knives on site. Nothing fragile like cupcakes as need to take on the bus.

Carrot cake, banana cake or old school cake ☺️

Sorry but they're too sweet and sickly . 😉

Lemon drizzle

I know but if you get a good one it's sooo good. I'm more of millionaires shortbread gal usually but if I see a lemon drizzle with a proper sugary crust on the top I'd be tempted to turn. And it looks so attractive in slices.

Lemon drizzle is our most popular
Apple puree flapjacks are always good as well.

@halfpasteleven thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/blueberry-almond-and-lemon-cake/

Lemon drizzle would make me so sad.

Brownies are my favourite thing ever. I could eat a whole box of Gower brownies in 1 go.

I don't like baked goods at work though. Unless there's no pressure to have any. I have to be really in the mood for it not just randomly on a Tuesday morning.

This is my most popular bake, toffee apple crumble squares, I cut them into 16.

http://tinnedravioliontoast.blogspot.com/2012/07/food-porn-toffee-apple-crumble-squares.html

This Lotus biscuit tiffin is also really good, but seems expensive to me

https://recipesfromanormalmum.com/2017/09/26/lotus-biscuit-tiffin/

Lemon drizzle is too sickly sweet. I don’t want to eat anything with icing on at work, too messy. Ditto cream fillings.
I like ginger cake or lemon and poppyseed cake. Brownies are a bit boring unless full of nuts, but nuts are not suitable office fodder. Home made chocolate chip cookies are a great alternative for taking to work.
My all time favourite cake with a cup of tea at work is banana bread. With chocolate chips in it or chopped dates. Nut free for work. Easy to transport and easy to make. Can’t go wrong! https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bananabread_85720

I would love ginger cake

Loathe brownies.

My carrot cake is excellent.

Love a bit of Tiffin.

Brownies for sure.

I love coffee and walnut cake.

Agree.

Welsh cakes. Lemon drizzle or tray baked sponge with jam and coconut on top.

Me too 😂

This is the combo I always make and take, and the most requested by my team.

Rock buns

Lemon drizzle.

My recipe: 1 cup of greek yogurt, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups of s/r flour, 4 large eggs. One teaspoon of salt. 3/4 cups olive oil. finely grated lemon rind. Vanilla extract.
Mix it all together. Bung it in a lined pan. Cook it for 30 - 45 minutes in 160 degree oven. Lemon drizzle on top. Never fails.

Coffee cake 🤣.
Also love lemon though.
Victoria sandwich seems pretty universally safe? Any of that type of cake can be made low and flat in a square tin and sliced into squares rather than tall slices. Much easier to travel and handle like that.

I'm not a brownie lover myself.
Flapjack travels well.

I absolutely love carrot cake but am banning it for work because of the icing. It gets squashed around in a Tupperware before getting to work and looks rubbish.
Ditto anything with pastry on the bottom gets smashed up in the box.
I forgot that Rice Krispie type cakes in a paper case travel well too and are very easy to make.

Oh, yes to ginger cake! But don't get posh and put lumps or real ginger in it, powdered all the way please 🤣

I'm not a fan of Brownies particularly. Red velvet, carrot cake or best of alk, Victoria Sponge.

Welsh cakes, now you’re talking!