Is it pretentious and showy-offy to serve homemade biscuits/cakes when you have people over for coffee?

[theFlyingEvil]

no? yes?

i always do it (and am not delia/nigella/etc) but don't know anyone else who does and people always seem to think it is amazing (which it isn't )

???

perhaps i should get doilies?

Nope

Please can I come over????

think will photocopy the recipes to hand out wheh guests leave

all cake and other confectionery bearing laydees puhleese, bring your doililes, 3 tier cake racks, cake tins too. but most
of all bring cakes

take pity on a shop bought cake lover

no, it's lovely to have homemade biscuits !! I do understand what you mean though as I feel a bit sheepish about presenting my own,as if I just whisked them up willy nilly and I'm a super mum (not) !

so which is preferable for morning coffee then? cakes or biscuits?

just so's i know

I always think a pastry is a lovely morning coffee accompaniment (esp. a maple pecan danish - warm )

hey if you made them, then bask in the glory. i would shamelessly to a big taaa-daaaa my head would be the size of a planet showing off

I always do.
People always think it's amazing.
I let them think it

No of course its not! Its really nice. I love going to my friends houses and being treated to lovely little bit of home made cake! enjoy it lady. And check out Barbara Ellen's article in front of Observer mag yesterday about being a Jewish Mother. The ultimate domestic goddess that we should all aspire to be. In my case, I can aspire as much as I like, but it will NEVER Happen!
so lucky you, enjoy.

No! Totally not!
I always do it.
Its my way of trying to make my friends fat!

I make chocolate brownies ... (Ms Wong's recipe) ... they take a max. half hour to make (inc. baking time), and another 20 minutes to cool ...
Then slice in sqares, put on a plain white plate and dust with icing sugar.
People die for them and think you are a domestic goddess ...

ooh ghosty can you share that recipe please...i like quick and gorgeous!

Why should it be pretentious? We rarely buy cakes and biscuits, we make our own anyway, so that's what any friends of mine are going to get! It's only pretentious if it turns into some sort of competition, people trying to out-do each other over the petits fours!

I was so impressed with myself when I did it last week. Maybe I shouldn't have been...

[inadequate emoticon]

Its only pretentious if you say you whipped it up using a Heston Blumethal recipe.

That dog bowl... isn't any dog liable to grab the bone and tip the contents on the floor?

I am not pretentious or showy off. I am a tight-wad on a tight budget who also worries about hydrogentated fat etc. So I tend to make my own.