urgent - i need to make a cake/sweet for the work cake club!

[PavlovtheWitchesCat]

I can't do

Lemon drizzle cake
Millionaire shortbread
muffins
Zuccini cake

As these have all been done perfectly so I cannot attempt to top them. I need a niche, something simple, yet amazing.

It needs to be something flour related, even if only loosely. You know, cake/biscuit type affair.

Suggestions and recipe links please ladies!

Go. to. M&S. and. buy. one.

Remove wrapping, et voila!

Chocolate tiffin - no flour but very delicious and easy.

This chocolate fudge cake is easy and delicious. Although I do make a bit more icing than suggested.

here

It's from bbc good food, site slow at the minute.

I am more excited than I should be about a 'work cake club'.

i RECENTLY MADE this for my work cake club and it went down VERY well.

Personally I buy a sweet shortcrust pastry case from Tesco and just do the filling. If you do that though you only need 2/3 of all the filling ingrediants.

Nigella brownies - the chocolate ones with the cream cheese in the middle. They are amazing. Not sure which book they're in but I have the recipe somewhere.

Good old fashioned victoria sponge but filled with jam, fresh fruit and whipped cream?

Depends how into baking you are but the most impressive things I can think of would be chocolate eclairs/profiteroles or those fruit tart things filled with creme patisserie and topped with strawberries.

Chocolate Guinness cake - it makes grown men drool.

Or just do a huge plate of chocolate-dipped strawberries - looks amazing, people think you are a Goddess but it is stupidly easy.

Does cheesecake count?

I have found this recipe which I fancy making, but not yet done. The reviews are good and it has 5 stars. (AND it's no bake!! And it's chocolate!!)

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/85/no-bake-chocolate-cheesecake.aspx

Scones with a big bowl of whipped cream and jam!

Yum!

oh now scones, clotted cream and jam would be good, but that is an afternoon thing, and I only work mornings. I do like the idea of Tiffin...

Morning is more pastries isn't it? is it hard to make danish pastries?

pinkjenny* oh yes, its great. There are about 12 of us, and it is every thursday, so we get to make something once every 12 weeks, not too laborious. And there is a even a spreadsheet so you can put down what you want to make, so there is not millions of the same thing (ie lemon drizzle!) .

Agree that scones would be a winner. 10.30am is fine for that good shit, imho.

but not whipped cream though. nononononono, has to be clotted cream, which is easy enough as I live in Devon .

I could do perhaps some sweet ones for jam/clotted cream and some cheese ones for butter?

got a very quick and easy brownie recipe. makes lovely fudgy brownies without having to melt chocolate etc.

think scones would be fab too though. Any time of day!

Oh you have it made, lol. It would be rude not to given your local circumstances. Great idea, I love a cheese scone too. The scone is hard to beat. I also love a granary scone........

Cheese scones - yum.

This is a great Danish pastry type thing- ready roll puff pastry, score 1cm fro edge, thin layer marzipan, sliced apples or plums or peaches on top bake about 25 min apricot jam and lemon juice on top if you like and cut into squares, yum warm with cream or just room temperatur.

talkingnonsense i dislike marzipan otherwise sounds lovely!

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Tea loaf - spread with butter

Coffee and walnut cake

Orange and almond cake

I love cake.

Nigellas processer danish are easy but time consuming. You have to make the dough and leave it at least overnight (up to 4 days) then do the cutting and filling, egg glaze, cook, cool and sugar glaze. They are very nice. Do you want recipe?

Oh dear, just found these and now am going to have to make them just for testing purposes

Oh and I can vouch for 120's brownies, they are delish

Sticky gingerbread, here went down well with work this week.
Instead of the rum, I substituted a handful of mixed dried fruit soaked in cinnamon and mango tea, then added the fruit and equivalent vol of the tea instead of rum.

honestly- this with this

pretty easy tbh, so utterly delicious and looks amazing - you will have th ebest cake in the room I swear! (And put some sparkly edible glitter on WOW)

oh now i like the look of that carrot cake! i might have to 'practice' this weekend and see!

I promise you you will not regret it, it is now a staple in my household for birthdays etc, can be made into cupcakes/fairycakes too and as a pudding. will seriously impress and it lasts too!