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What's your favourite homemade cake?

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ChippySauce · 03/06/2026 15:42

Mine's a good old lemon drizzle!
Shop bought is way too sweet.

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GenerousGardener · 03/06/2026 22:49

Caraway Seed Cake is my most fav. You don’t get many people making it now.

You just reminded me that I have poppyseeds in the cupboard and that I should try making a lemon poppyseed cake.

MyOtherProfile · 04/06/2026 11:35

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 04/06/2026 08:51

Something like this. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/school-days-sprinkle-sponge School dinner staple before the current emphasis on reducing sugar. Way back in the 70s we had squares of sponge but I don't think we had icing with it. Pink or chocolate or ordinary custard, I think.

Thanks! So basically a tray bake I guess.

ginasevern · 04/06/2026 12:35

I make a quite nice lemon and raspberry cake. At least everyone says it's nice! So a lemon sponge sandwiched together with either seedless raspberry jam or lemon curd, then slathered in clotted cream mixed with lemon juice, lemon zest and icing sugar and topped with a generous amount of fresh raspberries.

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What's your favourite homemade cake?
SaraOnSaturday · 04/06/2026 12:59

ChippySauce · 03/06/2026 15:42

Mine's a good old lemon drizzle!
Shop bought is way too sweet.

Torta Della Nonna (an Italian cake)

MotherofPufflings · 04/06/2026 13:02

Luckydog7 · 03/06/2026 19:09

I make an incredible caramel cake. The butter and sugar components for the sponge are caramelised first before mixing into everything else so the actual cake tastes of caramel (a pet peeve is plain sponge with caramel icing being called caramel cake). I then use a shop bought (so it's shelf stable) caramel sauce to mix into the buttercream for filling and topping, then caramel/blond chocolate on top.

This is absolutely intriguing! Do you have a recipe? 🙏

Luckydog7 · 04/06/2026 13:31

MotherofPufflings · 04/06/2026 13:02

This is absolutely intriguing! Do you have a recipe? 🙏

Can't find the original webpage but I wrote it all down so here it is.

2x7inch baking tins
preheat to 150C oven

125ml double cream
400g sugar
3tbs golden syrup
125ml water
1.5tsp salt
1tsp vanilla
350ml milk
350g butter
180g white chocolate
375g plain flour
2tsp baking powder
3 eggs.

Combine sugar, water, and golden syrup in a heavy bottom pan on high heat until all the water evaporate and the sugar melts again into a dark caramel colour or gets to 160C if you have a candy thermometer (i never use this, just cook it until it golden brown)

Remve from heat and add cream (careful it will boil a LOT) while stirring then bring back to the boil until smooth (or it reaches 115C) then remove from the heat and add the vanilla and salt.

Add the butter and milk and chocolate into the caramel and let everything melt togerther (doesnt matter if its not perfectly smooth as long as no unmelted lumps of chocolate or butter). Allow to cool to room temp.

Put the flour and baking powder in a large bowl and add the caramel mix. Add the eggs last. The mix will be very wet, its fine.

divide between lined baking tins
150C oven for 60-90 minutes, cover the top if it starts to brown too much. Keep checking to see if its cooked with a toothpick. Mine usually cook in under an hour in a fan oven so keep an eye on it.

The iceing is just a standard 1:2 butter to icing sugar vanilla buttercream and add in caramel or toffee sauce instead of milk to loosen.

I usually make a moat of the butter cream then pour in a load of caramel sauce to soak into the cake before icing the middle layer. I then ice the top and drizzle more caramel sauce over the top.

Tesco do a really good jarred caramel sauce in the jam aisle but any will do.

www.tesco.com/shop/en-GB/products/300345916?srsltid=AfmBOooAOfWMURu6CVwbIlAAMBtXMEqjJMpBbVLIIGMXhaS73jpvw8PO

MotherofPufflings · 04/06/2026 21:49

Thank you @Luckydog7 I really appreciate you taking the time to do that. I've just got a new kitchen after living without one for almost 8 months and looking forward to baking again - this will be one of the first things I do once I'm confident with my induction hob!

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