The Bluestocking Women's Pub, where brains can exist in a single state

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Welcome all. The booze here is minimally intoxicating, the food is calorie free and the staff are warm and cuddly. And if the thread title sounds nonsensical, blame the guy Myrtle was listening to this evening!

It just means all the more for Boily the rest of you.

While you're throwing the LDC in Poole Harbour could you pick me up some Dorset Apple cake?

I'll get the gerbils to make a pot of tea for when you get back.

I do love lemon drizzle cake too, @FuzzyPuffling. I have also wondered about lime drizzle cake or grapefruit drizzle cake. I am a huge fan of citrus fruit. And cake, of course! 🧁🧁🧁🥮🍩🎂🍰

Please ladies lets not have a cake schism

i don't like any kind of cake at all not any.

except for tunnocks.

I tend to prefer my citrus in perfume form. Don't mind eating citrussy cakes but generally prefer smelling of citrus and eating chocolate.

😱😱😱

Lemon! You say lemon in a G&T! Lime (it's why we're called limeys) or, better still, no fruit of any description. If you need fruit with your gin there is always a Pimm's.

there aren’t many cakes I don’t like, though I rarely eat any nowadays.
except Battenberg, cake which looks more interesting than it tastes with sodding marzipan - what perverse mind thought that one up?
and don’t ruin decent cake with buttercream. Sickly gunk.

I'll have your Battenburg, Errol.

Oh that is LOVELY!

You're welcome x

I could go for a raspberry drizzle cake if that is thing, and if it isn't a thing can someone come up with a recipe to make it a thing?

If it helps I have:

• two bags of frozen raspberries
• floor, (plain and self raising)
• eggs
• castor sugar
• butter
• A jif lemon (I do like a hot honey and lemon when feeling rough)
• Muscavado sugar, (light and dark)
• a small tub of icing sugar that was supposed to go with some cinnamon swirls but I mislaid it until now

And my shopping needs to go in my basket by the end of tomorrow if there's something else I'd need!

No pressure
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If you had to eat a piece of cake, let's say if you didn't a gerbil would die, which do you hate least?

Well AI just rustled up this recipe for you:

Raspberry Drizzle Cake (Nest-Ready Version)

Ingredients

• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 200g caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 150g self-raising flour
• 75g plain flour
• 150g frozen raspberries (approx. 2 generous handfuls)
• 1 tbsp light or dark muscovado sugar
• 2 tbsp Jif lemon juice
• Pinch of salt

For the drizzle

• 3 tbsp icing sugar
• 1–2 tbsp Jif lemon juice
• Optional: a mashed raspberry for colour and sass

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan) / 350°F. Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin.
2. Cream butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add a spoon of flour if it starts to curdle.
4. Fold in flours, salt, and the 2 tbsp Jif lemon juice. Don’t overmix.
5. Dust your frozen raspberries lightly in flour, then fold into the batter with the muscovado sugar for sweet little caramel craters.
6. Spoon into the tin and bake for 50–60 minutes, checking after 45. A skewer should come out mostly clean — raspberries will leave a red smear, that’s OK.
7. While baking, mix your drizzle: icing sugar + Jif lemon juice. It should be pourable but not watery.
8. When the cake is done, poke holes in the top and drizzle generously while warm.
9. Cool in tin for 15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack (or plate, if you’ve no patience).

Serving tip: Wrap yourself in a duvet nest, stick the Bluestocking pub image on your laptop background, and eat warm slices while the gerbils cheer you on in spirit.

Need a printable version or want a label like “Gerbil-Approved”?

I'm about to try the red velvet cake. I have no idea if I like red velvet cake, I tried it once but it was very dry and tasteless, but once isn't enough to know if it was the cake or the Baker at fault.

Gosh I’m very touched by that picture! It’s so cozylicious!
lime you say? Oooh yes that sounds infinitely better. So does Pimm’s tbh, healthy too, all that fruit.
and yes, no to buttercream.
id ask chat gpt about raspberry drizzle but he’s busy ignoring me ?
maybe a passing gerbil would know?

That's why there's lime in your G&T in the picture 💕

Gerbil approved label.

Anyone who actually bakes more than once in a blue moon know if that recipe would be edible?

I would have to eat the cake

it would be like the scene from Cool Hand Luke eating all them eggs…..

Gosh floweruser that cake sounds yum! As does the serving tip.
thank you for the lime. And the picture, and the blue stocking arms, I haven’t felt this warm and cozy and safe since reading Tom’s midnight garden under the covers with a hot chocolate ( may have been a while ago)

This is a good point. I haven't made a cake in years (so I can't say) because then I would have to eat it. And that's partly how I got so big I've had to not eat cake for nearly four years.

That.

And all the wine.

And all the cocktails.

And all the night caps.

And the occasional Magnums.

Just popping in for a nightcap.

Great bargain bucket cake hunting, Boiley!

I don’t really like sponge cake. I mean, I wouldn’t ever say no if offered some, but I’d never choose it. I prefer something crunchy. Like that thing that comes in slabs and is chocolatey and crunchy. Is it Rocky Road? That type of thing.

And I like cheesecake. I need crunch in my cakes; a bit of resistance.

Just popping in for a glass of water before bed… « waves to everyone «

I should have had it earlier, but better late than never!

Beetle has a self raising floor!?

Be careful; you’ll be up in the night 🤣