Pastries and Caked absolutely everywhere

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Being an oldie I can remember a slice of birthday cake was a great treat.
Now they are everywhere. Since lockdown there are coffee vans every 5 minutes, sausage rolls. At our " farmers market" there is stall after stall selling cake. A recently opened cafe selling cup cakes is absolutely booming.

Big change.

Very true. Slabs of cake the size of your head, 500 kcal or thereabouts. That could be a meals worth.

Thank goodness I mean, oh no, what a shame 😉

It does come with the change of people no longer eating 3 meals I think. Most other harried (thin!) parents I know snack during the day and then only eat 1 meal in the evenings. So would 100% count coffee/cake as 'lunch'.

During Covid everyone became 'bakers' because there was naff all else to do. People in their bubble gave them high praise and now they all think they're Mary Berry and have started supplementing their income by renting out a table at markets etc. These days you can chuck a Kinder hippo on top of any baked item, price it three for £12 and people will queue round the corner for them, it seems!

I have been drawn in by them a couple times and am usually disappointed. All fur coat and no knickers, as my granny would have said.

You're complaining because there are too many cakes? Just don't eat them. I happen to love that there are now so many options for baked goods that are actually handmade. In fact I might take the baby for a walk to my local coffee shop this afternoon, their selection is divine and all freshly baked.

I'm in my 50s and there were always cakes, rather less appealing ones for sale (the breadman used to have cakes for sale), but also homemade queen cakes, Madeira cake or apple tarts etc. The ratio of icing to cake has definitely altered, though.

And most seem processed

All I want is butter, sugar, flour, eggs, bit of jam

Job sorted

You're complaining because there are too many cakes

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Mn eh

😂

OP doesn't appear to be complaining, just observing.

I'm going to complain though. I'm going to complain that I can rarely find a decent Victoria Sponge these days!!

I was watching a fanny craddock video on YouTube recently....from the 1970s I think. She was making Christmas cake. She was talking about the ingredients and said how the ingredients made it quite expensive, then she added but we do want one decent piece of cake a year! I found that astonishing...one decent piece a year!

Oh I do love a good Skinny Olympics thread, these are always a good laugh.

Hold on while I settle down with a big slab of cake for this one. ☕🍰

That's because the only good VS are home made!

True. The butter cream is never right I find. Not buttery enough, too much icing sugar in it.

The ones that are everywhere are horrid mass produced USP cheap ones.

I'd rather one really really nice and expensive cake once a year.

Can anyone recommend a cake maker?

I love cake.

But there does seem to be an increase in the ludicrous 12 layer versions or those with another snack on the top.

I don't need a jammie dodger on the top of a cake or a full form of other biscuit as decoration (though malteasers in a tray bake can have special exemption!)

I guess at least it's a step away from cupcake everything. I never worked out how to eat them so it wasn't either all plain sponge or all frosting.

I think cake has always been popular hasn't it? My late Grandparents on both sides were cake pushers. One would take me for breakfast chocolate cake, and then we'd have something from the bakery for elevenses. The others had tea and cake every day at 3.

I hardly eat cake now although I love to bake.

I think it is just the commercialisation of them that makes it seem like it more prevalent.
When I was a kid in the 80s my Gran always had a couple of varieties of homemade cake available. Her and my grandad had 'tea' every day which was normally bread and jam and some cake. They had a cooked meal at lunch time. My nan was always baking cakes for church events or jumble sales or coffee mornings.

I think people always ate cake but it wasn't luminous piles of icing made to look like a chair or whatever.

What? I'm 64, there was an abundance of cake when I was growing up. We didn't have dinner, we had 'high tea', which more often than not included a Mr Kiplings cake, a slice of bought gingerbread or Battenberg or whatever. Or homemade traybakes, rice crispie or cornflake cakes.

I agree. I can never find any decent home made type cakes anymore (and nope can’t be arsed to make them myself). They’re all too processed and sugary. Horrible.

Yes times change. Welcome to the future.

Hmmmm....
Big pastries and cakes in abundance.
What's the problem?
People have self control, or not?
😜

Maybe it’s the type of cake that’s changed?

My grandparents (born in the 1920s) were all about cream cakes. I loved trips out with them as we’d always stop in a tearoom for a pot of tea and a vanilla slice or something similar.

Naughty but nice cream cakes need to have a renaissance

As long as it is homemade, with real butter, then it is all good.

I love good cake and sweet stuff but do dislike the cake invasion where it shouldn’t be. Shops calling themselves a patisserie and actually just selling coffee and wedges of sponge with Biscoff or Oreo’s piled on top of a pile of icing. I blame Instagram

There was no complaining.