How do I stop eating cakes

Good ideas - both of those. Will try. I do use the Lakeland cake tin greasing stuff which is very easy and very good, but sometimes it seems only lining the tins will do. (And that's when the laziness cuts in)

Lakeland do clever cake tin liners

Sounds like a good plan to test it you don't want to give people dud cake do you? I too hate lining tins and have got a couple of silicone ones from TKMAX, they can be a bit wobbly when you put them in the oven but it saves all that Blue Peter stuff with paper and scissors.

(I only ate a little bit of one layer while it was hot)

Well, the cake wasn't exactly puddingy. I was too lazy omitted to line the tins with paper, so it crumbled a bit as I turned it out, and I think I could have given it a couple of minutes longer in the oven. The filling was very runny, so we used it as a delicious pouring sauce. (It was thoroughly enjoyed all round)

Am going to make another one soon. Might tweak the filling a bit this time.

Oh no jinglebellsfrocks! That is a shame. Mine was moist but not puddingy. That said, I did test it with a skewer as my oven tends to be hotter than it should. Outside was browner than in the picture by the time it was cooked. Was the filling runny? Extra big lemons maybe? I am no expert on cake making btw. Ask my family.

It is going to make a lovely pudding today, with its "icing" poured over it as a sauce. Did I go wrong somewhere? (tastes really good though)

I have cooked that cake - the lovely lemony one. And I have started eating it straight out of the tin. So now have only one layer to put the icing on.

Shite!

Have you tried Chocolate Fudge frozen yoghurt. It may do the job.

I agree re cupcakes Nelliemoser. Too much buttercream and so expensive to buy. I made two dozen for my DGS baptism for the cost of two bought ones AND I could be sensible with the icing. Much prefer a good muffin, homemade with a sprinkle of Demerara sugar on the top before baking.

I agree with Nelliemoser. I prefer fruit cake and, of course, it has to be eaten with Wensleydale cheese.

Do not regularly have them in the house, try them once a month. It works for me.

I never did like cupcakes (I think the craze is lessening) To me they are small uninteresting cakes with way to much butter cream icing on the top.

A good moist fruit cake is probably my favourite.

I agree with Jane. Nothing beats a good afternoon tea in a lovely location. Try as I might I cannot get excited about a piece of fruit !

We have rather turned it round!

Just realised this thread is called How do I stop eating cakes? Think we are a bit off message

I am very jealous jinglbellsfrocks. Three cheers for Mary Berry! Enjoy your cake.

Yes, that is the same cake. Just a different web page. I have bought my two lemons, marscapone, and some fondant icing sugar ready to make a half size one tomorrow.

Sorry jinglbellsfrocks whatever you thought recipe might be did not show up on my computer. It is this www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/whole_lemon_cake_with_40866. I made the cakes in advance and froze them unfilled. Also froze the lemon pulp to use in the filling with no ill effect. I should think you could just use one layer of cake sliced in two with half the filling. I had trouble getting the fondant icing sugar but got from Mr S in the end, Mr T had never heard of it! Good luck and enjoy!

If we knew the answer to cutting out cake we would be millionaires!
Have less, would be my answer. I only make cakes for my DGS or if we are having visitors.Shop cakes are fairly horrible.My local M&S does a nice one though, sherry trifle cake. Those large sickly slices that coffee shops sell are around the 800 calorie mark EACH.Avoid at all costs.

No. Definitely none.

Well you learn something every day! Thanks for that jingle, it sounds delicious, presumably there are no calories in it

this is fondant icing sugar yogagran. It has glucose added to it. Comes out like the icing on Mr Kipling fondant fancies.

I looked at that recipe jingle, it sounds really good but what is fondant icing sugar? Is it just the same as icing sugar?

Many people believe because added sugars are bad for you, fruit is the same. Fruit contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fibre.

It's because fructose is a carbohydrate. At present I am limiting carbohydrates, all of them, and the only fruit I'm eating is one orange daily. I'm also limiting milk because of the lactose content.

Honey is also a carbohydrate but it is what our ancestors used for sweetening before cane sugar was discovered. They didn't have 'sweets' in the sense that we mean now - chocolate etc - so they wouldn't have had so much of it.

Anything ending in 'ose' is a carbohydrate, but fructose is naturally-occurring and therefore we eat much less of it than we do of sucrose, which is added to almost all the processed foods, ready-meals, fast foods, you name it. It also comes combined with vitamins whereas sucrose comes combined with nothing.