What is your favourite cake?

[Frosty66612]

what is your all time favourite cake? Mine is a Victoria sponge (always with whipped cream, never buttercream) or a Black Forest Gateaux.

Lemon drizzle.

Lemon drizzle also.

In fact, I won't even eat any other cake.

With the possible exception of a slice of Jamaica Ginger Cake if there's really no other option.

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Mine would be Victoria sandwich, or tipsy cake. They used to sell this at fords the bakers, a Scottish company, which is no longer. Sadly. It had yellow icing and was a sponge with jam laced through it. Yum.

A proper Victoria Sponge with proper buttercream... no margarine should have even come close in its making.

Black Forest gateaux but that’s not really a cake is it?!

Carrot cake with lots of frosting. Chocolate fudge.

Red velvet

Are you me OP? Victoria, with whipped cream and raspberry jam in the sandwich. We'd be kicked out of the WI for that though, they only allow jam. Imho a tea shop stands or falls on its simplest sponge-it has to be fresh that day

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@Elinor what?! They only allow jam and no whipped cream or buttercream? That would totally ruin it for me. How dare they!

The one cake I don’t like is carrot cake. It’s my OH’s favourite and I’m always disappointed when he gets a slice when we’re out as it means I can’t steal any. Oh and I also hate coffee and walnut cake.

1. coffee cake
2. lemon drizzle
3. cream sponge
4. fruit cake either light or rich (must be home made) I love cake!

Lemon drizzle or coffee and walnut.

A rich ginger cake with a dash of lemon icing.
I love coffee cake but am allergic to walnuts and so rarely find a good one I can eat, I do not bake.

Malibu and lime cake. DH says it's a new low, eating cake I've chucked booze in, but it is delicious.

I wouldn't turn down any cake, but if I had to choose, i'd say carrot cake closely followed by chocolate fudge cake.

Sicilian orange cake or German apple cake are my favourites. Not a big cake fan but these two are more pudding like.

I'm inclusive. I don't discriminate. I've never met a cake I didn't like.

Aaaaaand... now I want cake.

@idontbelieveinthemoon that sounds delicious!

Lemon drizzle - M&S do a really delicious one.

YABU for asking me to choose

I might be another vote for lemon drizzle. In my youth it would have been an enormous chocolate confection loaded with buttercream but the older I get the more I appreciate the beauty of a simple, classic cake.

I'm with @MilkTwoSugarsThanks. Although anything with lots of buttercream or cream cheese frosting would be welcomed the most, but please ideally no fruit

Coffee and walnut or chocolate brownies with walnuts. They have to be proper brownies though ie slightly chewy and a bit squidgy in the middle.
I agree a proper Victoria sponge just has jam in the middle. My gran's was the best in the world. My mum's is a close second.

Anything from Cafe Central in Vienna aka Cakegasm Central.

On a domestic level, lemon drizzle, Nigella's coffee and walnut, Mary Berry's carrot cake tray bake, banana choc chip. I make a me an meatloaf as well, and have a great recipe for a tea bread which tastes different depending on the sugar and tea used when making it.

I love bread pudding which is sold as cake where I live in Belgium, and the little black forest slices sold in one of the local bakers. I also love the slab fruit cake sold on the Spar in my local town in Cornwall and bring loads back when I get to go home.

@ElinorCadwaller NO CREAM?! That is blasphemy lol! You can't have this without cream!!

Lemon drizzle. My DMs one. Always just lemony enough and crunchy sugary enough.

Jamaica Ginger
Date and walnut

Orange and spice cake..... my mum used to make it, think recipe was from her ancient Be-ro cookbook

Or coconut cake