To think that recipes like this should be banned

[wol1968]

...or at least come with a big fat warning triangle. It's Miranda Gore Brown's recipe for Hazelnut Tiramisu Cake, in this month's Essentials. It's basically a nutrition-wheel red-out, with chocolate, double cream, mascarpone, butter, sugar, sugar, booze, sugar, chocolate...you get the picture. Calorie content: 1074 cals a serving.

I'm not a food prude. I'm not a health nut. I like a slice of cake as much as the next woman. But really? Is it physically possible for anyone except endurance athletes, Arctic explorers and lanky teenagers to eat this without it affecting their health? This kind of recipe is more like drugs than food, TBH, and I think it's probably deeply irresponsible to be promoting it when so many people are worried about obesity. Yes, you can choose not to eat it, or have a smaller slice. But I'm not sure it should be glorified as delicious even though it probably is

AIB completely U to feel a bit disturbed?

Banning cake????

Unreasonable & bonkers

'Disturbed' is not a word I would use for something which I have a choice whether to partake or now.

Sounds delicious. Think I'll have some tiramisu tonight.

How would you go about banning recipes?

1074 calories per serving

sounds amazing!
link to recipe

its cake, cakes cake, cake makes us fat, I wouldn't would be disappointed if it didn't

i agree. 1074 calories a serving is irresponsible.

Sounds like one awesome cake!!!!

YABU. You can eat something like that very occasionally.

Sounds incredible. Link/recipe please, if you're not too busy emailing your MP?

You can't 'glorify' something as delicious when it clearly is delicious!

I thought this was going to be about certain American recipes that specify things like packets of chocolate pudding or tins of soup. I find those irritating

But cake - no, cake is fine, everyone needs to take responsibility for their own calorie consumption.

'Kin hell that's insane. But yeah, sounds LUSH.

It sounds revolting but you are extremely over reacting here.

"Is it physically possible for anyone except endurance athletes, Arctic explorers and lanky teenagers to eat this without it affecting their health?"

Of course it is

I'm none of the above but I sincerely doubt one small slice would kill me.

How big is a serving?

1074 cals a serving

I am on the 5:2 diet. If I had a slice of that at the start of the week I wouldn't be allowed to eat again until Wednesday afternoon!!

What about emailing your concerns to the magazine.

I would hazard a guess they would say a small slice as a treat once in a while is fine.

No one is making you bake it and eat it!!

You know that banning recipes will only push them underground and make them more desirable, don't you OP? Before you know it there will be recipe dealers selling this filth to our children.

Yum.

Who the heck looks at calorie counts on cakes??? You either

(1) are accepting of the fact that you are eating cake so see it as a treat / maybe eat a bit healthier to compensate

(2) are overweight in which case cake is cake is cake why refuse or

(3) are super healthy in which case you dont eat cake

But to calorie count cake is barmy and I bet it is bloody delicious.

Well, they use a 20cm tin to cook the cake in, so that's the diameter of the cake. A serving would be an eighth of that.

You really want to ban a recipe, don't be daft... Just don't make the cake if you don't want to?!

Oh, and it's too early for it to be on the Essentials website yet.

not stirring the pot, honest guv

Calorie content: 1074 cals a serving

Surely that could only depend upon what you class as a serving? It is not compulsory to have an entire slice.

A very small sliver would be much less. A spoonful (or forkful) from that very small sliver would be miniscule. You've then tasted it, said "Ooh yummy" - no real harm done.

Everything in moderation. If you completely deny yourself tasty treats, you will end up as a withered, miserable, humourless prune-like being.

This "thousand cals per serving" is nonsense. Just have a little taste for a special occasion, then go back to salad and fish for the rest of the week.

I am wondering if they did the division sum correctly.

Tiramisu made with eggs rather than double cream would be lighter and fewer calories per portion.