do children like marzipan? surely not? but kirstie and phil think so...

[AitchTwoOh]

just wait til you see this ridiculous kids party they are doing on telly...

anyway, would your children thank you for a marzipan penguin?

I'm going to have to go out and buy a block of marzipan now.

enjoy!

Do you know why I hate it? I've worked it out. Its because you only get it on really crap cakes. Fruitcakes and manky battenburg. So maybe I developed the hatred as a cunning ruse to get better cakes? I was a genius child.

i have always seen that as a blessing, su. it is always involved in cakes i wouldn't have liked anyway.

in fact i also dislike apricot jam, which seems to be the glue that people use to adhere it to that manky currant cake wot people use at xmas. bah, humbug.

You'll all be saying that your kids like christmas cake next.

No child likes that number of currants in one solid block.

i love marzipan

Agree with you about the apricot jam though! Vile, and yet it seems to be bog standard in most cake icing instructions, as though it magically has no taste . I used raspberry jam to ice DD's christening cake and it was lovely.

thank GOD you are here, pointy.

I think the problem is that some of you, ahem, pointydog, SuePurbly have had shite cakes.

Christmas cake with millions of dried hard currants in is disgusting. The recipes about these days make a far, far superior cake to the shite awful stuff I used to get as a child. eg. I replace half the currants with fudgy organic dried apricaots and squidgy prunes so you get a very different texture.

Mr Kipling Battenberg is a joke. Homemade enormous Battenberg fresh on the day its made is a completely different thing.

Its like saying you don't like crepes beacuse of Findus Crispy Pancakes memories.

....and I agree with you re apricot jam, its horrid, AND the flavour clashes, and yes it does have a flavour.

I use homemade marmalade.

i LOVED findus crispy pancakes! do they still make them?

I have never had one. Try Iceland Aitch.

I KNEW one of you would say that

yes they are. bleurgh.

See this Torygraph piece about how they are trying to upgrade them. ROFL.

ROFL.

did you really not have them as a kid? i see hugh F-W was addicted to them.

oooh, and findus french bread pizzas too. my mother refused to cook on a saturday night so we helped ourselves to the freezer contents.

btw yes you can make nicer fruit cakes, you have always been able to make nice fruit cakes. but the trad, slightly boozy, dark christmas cake is ghastly imo.

Well, I loved findus crispy pancakes (and the french bread pizzas - lived off them one summer)

And I love crepes.

But which is better?

I can't stand marzipan, or liquorice. My Dad used to buy pound blocks of marzipan to eat in the car on the way home from work He also used to have a stash of liquorice allsorts until he dropped one in the heater in the car and it stank until we sold the car for months. Not nice. DCs have never had marzipan, but will probably love it, the little traitors.

All dried fruit is evil. hence hatred of fruit cakes, full of shrivelly wee corpses.

I have never had a Findus C-P as I have almost always been veggie and I imagine they claim to contain meat no?

I only used to eat the cheese FCPs. I don't think any meat was sneaked in.

i very much doubt it, tbh. soya a go-go i'd have thought. but they may have claimed, right enough.

Oh. Then I wonder why. Did they have Evils in? MSG or similar? Hippy parentage .

Of course they had evils in. Most of us were oblivious to evils in the 80s.

it was evils personified, su. yum.

Not my mother. She Knew . An 80s childhood of fecking sesame snaps, carob and endy carrot sticks for lunch .

I like Evils now.

oh my love... i really pitied the sesame snap kids.

I was that kid

but guess what DD takes for lunch? Not SS (not that evil) but bendy carrot sticks galore.