What cake to bake for camping?

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Not sure whether this is food or camping but I need a cake (well, cakes) that can survive a 5 hr car journey and still be edible. 1 to eat when we get there and one for a couple of days later. Nothing chocolatey or gooey and not a heavy fruit cake. I was thinking gingerbread or malt loaf (although it is much cheaper just to buy malt loaf)?

What do other people take?

And I don't have a Cobb so I can't bake while I am there!

lemon drizzle cake!

flapjacks - v popular round here for camping
Date and walnut
gingerbread
carrot cake

Banana bread ?

pound cake?

ooh, yes, banana bread's a good idea too

Ooo LDC and gingerbread I think. And flapjacks. I shall bake all night tomorrow! I love banana bread but have no bananas

Thanks everyone!

I was about to post same thread! Banana bread sounds great - off to bake!

Nigella does a really lovely fruit cake with dried pears and marzipan in it. I think it's in domestic goddess.

gingerbread- probably most frequent as can handle less than delicate treatment
parkin
brownies- only if forecast not too warm - melt a bit otherwise
flapjacks
tea loaf
lemon drizzle
friend does Nigella cherry and almond and its lovely...
have also done Nigella butter cake it was v v v yummy - but too moreish
shortbread
also take tupperware of pancake mix and add egg/milk for breakfast first morning fab with honey/bacon....

Madeira cakes last well and you can add flavours.

I would also bake banana bread!

I once made banana bread and ginger cake to take camping near Abergavenny.

The ginger cake was delicious, it's very moist so is not likely to dry out.

The banana bread? Well it had rained all week and DH suggested we should use it to soak up the huge puddle in the campsite entrance so the cars could get in and out.

Definitely a ginger cake. My mum's been doing one recently that's incredibly chewy and dense - would definitely survive the car! And for later - maybe Nigella's Rhubarb and Polenta cake? Sounds wanky but is delish.

It's quite a 'grown-up' recipe (similar to parkin but more interesting) so I don't know if this would suit if you are intending it for childre but take a look at this recipe - I had a slice of one that a friend had made the other day, and it was the best cake that I've had in a long time..and would probably keep very well.

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/21/honey-treacle-cake-recipe

My friend just used ordinary flour instead of the rye flour. Would also work well with wholemeal flour.

I just made yours, Selks - it smells fabulous. DS(5) came down, sniffed and said, 'Why does it smell like christmas?'

Nigella's honey cake recipe bakes like a Jamaican Ginger cake with no ginger, if ginger's not your thing (does that sentence make any sense?)

I found a fabulous recipe for banana bread last year - it has chocolate buttons/remains of DD's easter egg hoard in it, so perhaps not for choc lovers, you can make it without but the little nuggets of choccy are rather lovely - very moist and utterly delish, makes 3 loaves and freezes beautifully - despite what he says in the intro, we have packed it up and taken it away on weekends and it kept fine.

I baked the one Selks linked to last week for our camping trip too!

Aargh, pressed post too soon! I made it with ordinary flour instead of the half wholewheat and it was YUM....

Another vote for banana bread!

Also, I make a Mary Berry tea loaf which will keep for up to a week in a cake tin. It is nowhere near as heavy as a 'proper' fruit cake and you make it by soaking the dried fruit in earl grey tea overnight before mixing. Can try to link to a recipe if it sounds like your thing!

Cool - two of you have baked the cake that I linked to! It's definitely a keeper of a recipe. I could kill for a slice right now to be honest.

It is delicious! I used spelt flour & a little plain flour. Yum. DS says he doesn't like it, which is fine with me

I used rye flour. Makes it a bit sticky. It's yummy.

these all sound fab, will make selks' one first! Love the nigella rhubarb/polenta cake, made that a few weeks ago but prefer a tad the sophie grigson one, will find a link later.

i have a question that maybe all you cake makers can answer: a few years' ago I had a slice of cake made by someone's sister that was beyond heaven and the person never got me the recipe. It was banana bread but had chunks of ginger in it. It was so good and I have never been able to replicate it. Anybody have any ideas? Would love to make it for dd's 18th bash.
thanks

thanks to fanjolalansbury for this cut and paste from another thread:

Sophie Grigson's 'Country Kitchen' - recipe for Apple Sauce Cake but can used any stewed fruit - plums, gooseberries, rhubarb it is wonderful.

10 oz SR flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
half teaspoon salt
4 oz caster sugar
4oz demerara sugar
(plus some for sprinkling)
4 oz butter, melted
2 eggs
half a pint unsweetened stewed gooseberries (or applesauce, or indeed rhubarb, or pureed stewed plums).
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Pre heat oven 180C 350F gas mark 4.
Line a 9 inch tin with non-stick baking parchment and butter the sides.

Mix the flour with the baking powder, salt and sugars.
Make a well in the centre and add the butter, egss, stewed gooseberries/apples whatever and vanilla extract.
Beat the whole lot together well then pour into the tin.
Smooth down lightly, then sprinkle about one and a half to two tablespoons of demerara sugar over the surface.

Bake for about 45 minutes until firm to the touch, test with a skewer. If it comes out clean, it's cooked.
Allow to cool for at least 15 minutes in the tin before turning out.

Keeps well, firming up after a day or two, staying moist.
If sweetened fruit is used, reduce the granulated sugar content to 2 oz