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What is your favourite cake?

122 replies

Frosty66612 · 30/05/2018 08:41

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

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MadMaryBoddington · 30/05/2018 08:42

Lemon drizzle.

ShatnersWig · 30/05/2018 08:45

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.

eggsandchips · 30/05/2018 08:45

@Frosty66612 😉🍰

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.

Strugglingtodomybest · 30/05/2018 08:47

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

AtSea1979 · 30/05/2018 08:47

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

Carrot cake with lots of frosting. Chocolate fudge.

QueenOfMyWorld · 30/05/2018 08:48

Red velvet

ElinorCadwaller · 30/05/2018 08:48

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

/end declaration

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Frosty66612 · 30/05/2018 08:50

@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.

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thegreylady · 30/05/2018 08:50
  1. coffee cake
  2. lemon drizzle
  3. cream sponge
  4. fruit cake either light or rich (must be home made) I love cake!
PolkerrisBeach · 30/05/2018 08:50

Lemon drizzle or coffee and walnut.

jay55 · 30/05/2018 08:58

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.

Idontbelieveinthemoon · 30/05/2018 08:59

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

hildabaker · 30/05/2018 08:59

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

halffullofwhat · 30/05/2018 09:01

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

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 30/05/2018 09:01

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

Aaaaaand... now I want cake.

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Frosty66612 · 30/05/2018 09:31

@idontbelieveinthemoon that sounds delicious!

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BuntyII · 30/05/2018 09:34

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

TheShapeOfEwe · 30/05/2018 09:36

YABU for asking me to choose Grin

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.

chatwoo · 30/05/2018 09:40

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

SnugglySnerd · 30/05/2018 09:45

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.

scaryteacher · 30/05/2018 09:47

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.

eggsandchips · 30/05/2018 09:47

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

Blostma · 30/05/2018 09:48

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

Babybearsporij · 30/05/2018 09:49

Jamaica Ginger
Date and walnut

RunMummyRun68 · 30/05/2018 09:50

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

Or coconut cake