What's Your Favourite Cake?

[NoMercy]

I do a fair bit of baking and I'm often asked by family, friends and colleagues to make a cake for little celebrations.

I made a couple of Ferrero Rocher cakes recently, a cherry almond bakewell, a courgette and pistachio cake, a toffee apple crumble cake and I'm even considering making a gulab jamun inspired cake. The most recent thing I baked was a carrot and parsnip cake.

However, for me, you just can't beat a nice Victoria sponge with fresh cream and jam. No other country in the world can make a cake to compete with that, imo.

[dannyk13]

German Black Forest gateau?

[aelmpvw]

date and walnut

[NoMercy]

Aha, Danny. I did one of those about 2 years ago, but it probably wasn't the most authentic. I think I covered the whole thing in chocolate ganache.

[NoMercy]

Date and walnut....yummy...

[Old_Geezer]

Almost any with lots of dried fruit in.

The one I don't care much for is stoma cake.

[paddywak]

What ever is available at the time.

[ummmm]

I'm with danny...Black Forest Gateau is my fav.

In general I don't eat cakes though.

[dannyk13]

These days I prefer something light so I go for panettone.

[NoMercy]

I haven't got a huge sweet tooth, Ummmm and chocolate cake certainly isn't on my list of faves.

[aelmpvw]

mind you, a simple scone with jam and cream takes some beating

[NoMercy]

Indeed it does. I did have one or two cream teas in the Cotswolds last year.

[ethandron]

My other half is the baker in this house, it's too faffy and precise for me.
Yesterday he made a chocolate and beetroot cake, which is lovely but not my favourite. He made a carrot cake last month, again, it was very nice but not my first choice.
However, his lemon and poppyseed cupcakes are to die for. I'm currently trying to find a recipe for a large one rather than individual cupcakes, not lemon drizzle but just like the cupcakes.
They're my favourite, I love lemony things.

[sunny-dave]

My Mum's lemon meringue pie - recipe here :

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1242835.html

[jambutty]

Lemon drizzle for me - by a mile. I also agree with you about Victoria sponge.

[NoMercy]

I had a Sainsbury's one, ethandron:

200g Butter (I use Bertolli instead)

250g Caster Sugar

3 Large eggs

300g SR flour (I used McDougals Supreme sponge flour) sifted.

Juice and zest of 1.5 lemons.

1 tsp of Sicilian Lemon extract.

I bake this as a sandwich cake and put cream and lemon curd in between. I add icing sugar and some of the lemon extract to the whisked double cream.

[tamborine]

Caraway seed cake

[DSJ]

My favourite is iced coffee cake. Yummy!

[Arksided]

I don't have much of a sweet tooth but do like cheese cake. (Any Flavour)

[jakep]

Cinnamon crumble cake.....yum!

[ethandron]

Thanks NoM.
While browsing the sainsburys recipe site, I've come across one called a carnation lemon drench cake, with poppyseeds in it and using condensed milk and ground almonds. Himself fancies making that so that's next weeks cake sorted :)