What's the best cake you've ever eaten?

[Badgerwife]

I'm 38+4 and craving cake, pastries and doughnuts like there's no tomorrow. It's made me think about what cake I could kill to stuff my face with right now and it's a toss up between banana loaf and this pistachio cake.

I made my very first banana and chocolate loaf last month and I think it might have been the tastiest thing I've ever made. And I had never had banana cake until a couple of years ago at 31 years old! Now I am totally addicted.

I was just wondering what's the best cake you've ever had and I am not adverse to a bit of food porn if you have a recipe/picture. I really don't want to wait another 31 years to discover that I've been missing out on something delicious!

Motherinferior the link isn't working for me

Google 'chocolate raspberry cake Nigella'

I have these recipes that are so reliable. The first is Rebecca Rathers 'Tuxedo Cake', a three layer chocolate cake filled and iced with creme anglaise then topped with a chocolate ganache. I have adapted it by soaking each cake layer in Chambord dark berry liqueur. Every child I know requests this cake from me on birthdays;

Sicilian Cassatta Cake, three layers of soft sponge flalvoured with lemon and orange then filled with an icing made from macarpone and ricotta sweetened with icing sugar Mixed into this are Rum soaked Australian sultanas.

Carrot Cake with Lime Ricotta and Mascarpone Icing;

My friends Austrian NussTorte made with layers of soft cream covered breadcrumb sponge and ground Hazelnuts;

This is my desert island cake. Momofuku Milk Bar banana cake. Picture here-

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Thanks for that, motherinferior. I shall be making that very soon!

Thank you Mother Inferior

Squidgey apple cake sounds interesting. I make a (heavily customised) version of Mary Berry's Devonshire Apple cake which is really good. I make it when we have a glut of apples (feeble excuse, it doesn't use that much apple)

Lula are you kidding, it looks great! I love berries and white chocolate.

Mignonette that banana cake looks incredible, then I had a look at the recipe and nearly had a heart-attack. Seven different recipes rolled into one?

stealth re squidgy spiced apple cake- that was why I made it the first time too

Ooh yes, chocolate Guinness cake is lush.
I normally love any cake with loads of icing (sponge is but a vehicle for icing imo), carrot cake with loads of cream cheese icing is one of my faves.
I think my White choc Slatterys wedding cake was amazing, we never got to have any though! It had all got scoffed and our servings got cleared away. People still mention it 10 years on

I made a gluten free mint choc chip cake for ds2's birthday last week. It is lovely.

Who posted the coconut cake from smitten kitchen earlier in the thread??

You are entirely to blame, it's all your fault.

I made it this afternoon. I was hoping to have some with my cuppa in the morning. And it's all gone! Every last crumb. Me Dh, and the three children have scoffed the lot!

It was delicious!

I love the sound of so many of these cakes. Definitely need to try the squidgy apple cake and also like the sound of anything involving passion fruit. Oh, and the strawberry and coriander. Mmmmmm.

When I was little, my friend's mum used to make a rose and lemon cake- that was delicious.

Also remembered another cake I had very recently at my local cakey shop. It is a parsnip cake (bear with me). Very, very moist and stodgy, sort of like bread pudding texture, with a maple syrup icing (not sure whether it was buttercream or fromage frais but it was gorgeous). Really indulgent and probably only about 1000 cals a slice.

I used to love Lardy cake as a lass. Can you still get them anywhere?

An apple and toffee pie at the copper kettle in Cambridge. Went again earlier this year and didn't have it though.

A lovely pistachio cake in Paris about a hundreds years ago 'twas lovely
My mum also makes a very lovely chocolate and amaretti torte.

You can't beat a properly rich fruit cake, with the real icing and marzipan. I live for Christmas, Easter and weddings so I can eat this. Both my dm and mil make great fruit cakes.
Another great cake I once had was a coffee and cardamom cake, decorated with coffee icing and pomegranate seeds on top. A grown-up sponge-style cake.

Tana Ramseys lemon drizzle cake is loved by all of my friends as is Greg Wallaces Banana and Walnut Loaf Cake. Is dead easy, just need spoon and bowl, no processor or anything fancy, I always use old bananas that I have frozen once the kids decide they are too ripe. (My freezer is full of black bananas!)

Any homemade coffee and walnut cake with coffee butter icing.

Ooh, I love a good cake, I do!

Best ever was a tablet cheesecake in a local restaurant, it was amazing

Alexpolismum, did you toast and butter the coconut bread before eating it or just eat it like cake?

I actually did both, Nolda. The first slice just sort of disappeared was eaten like cake, and then we all had a toasted and buttered piece. Either way was yummy!

I would have made some more, but I don't have any more coconut!

Nigel Slater's carrot cake is one of my absolute favourites (and one I won a medal at our village fete with too).

rhubarb meringue pie (Nigella) or spiced apple sponge (Nigel)

Russian slice from local bakery, long closed down.

Treacle scone from the baker Lonies in Aberdour. Oh my god. Very plain, no floofie cream nonsense, it was perfection in a paper bag.

I have written a list and am planning to work down it! First stop Chocolate Guinness cake. I've found two recipes - a Nigella one (uses 400g caster sugar) and a Delicious magazine one (200g brown sugar). Any advice as to which to go with?

Also, I've asked that this thread be moved to the recipes topic so it doesn't get deleted after 3 months. Hope that's ok.

The best ever cake I have had is my dm's chocolate mayonaise cake. You can't taste the mayonaise at all but it makes it so moist. We all ask for one for our birthdays and it was dd's first ever taste of cake and I have never seen her eat something so quickly .