Cakes you'll never ever ever do again

[vinegarqueen]

Just made Nigella Italian yogurt pot cake. Involved corn starch and separating eggs, whisking egg white and all the faff that involves.

Tasted completely meh. Texture wonderful, but just had a sort of vague cooking oil taste that I've never had with other oil-based cakes. Never again. Other cakes you'd never bother with again?

Another Nigella one. Holiday hot cake - recommended on here . Revoltingly sweet and bland with a weirdly medicinal taste (mace? Cloves?). Horrible. It went straight in the bin.

Also controversial - but Italian cakes are not nice generally. They can do mains and pasta. We do cakes.

Battenburg. So much effort! Much easier and cheaper to just buy it.

I have never tried an Italian cake before! Nigella always describes things so beautifully I thought (like every other one of hers I have made) it would be wonderful. Sadly not.

Agreed: Battenberg an utter waste of time as what everyone craves is the almond-essence hit of a Mr Kipling. I haven't done one, but my poor brother decided that this would be his first attempt at baking.

The German apple cake recipe that I was given with a sourdough starter (called Herman, I think). I don't think I have ever met a cake, before or since, that I couldn't eat - but this apple cake was a complete waste of calories, as far as I was concerned - never mind the effort and time spent making it.

The dses ate it though, so it wasn't a total waste.

Oh I have a Herman sitting in the kitchen now. The first one I tried banana and honey was awful but the rest have been great. Haven't put apple in it once but the lemon and blueberry one was fab. I am very popular every 10 days when I take cake into work.

Oh I LOVE those german friendship cakes. An acquired taste from my childhood, I imagine, as the flavour is sweetened yeast.

Gluten free sponge layer cake in rainbow colours. Every single layer was flat!!! Truly awful!!

Nigella's polenta cake, it was like gritty lemon sand, bleeeruuurgh

See. Nigella plus Italian. It's a theme

Nigella's chocolate and banana muffins. It wasn't the recipe it was the chocolate and banana combination, made me nauseous. Never eaten a banana since.

@rightreckoner I bow to your wisdom. I also dimly remember putting gold leaf on a creme brulee at her instruction . But there is nothing like her damp chocolate loaf cake from Domestic Goddess (notaeuphememismIswear) so I forgive her.