Retro bakes - which is your favourite?

This cake looks amazing and I used to make many cake with this sort of method (sifting, folding, beating, creaming, adding, stirring etc.)

My daughter told me not to bother but to throw all my ingredients in at the same time and just mix them up. To my astonishment for many cakes it works. I have used the 'chuck it in and let the Kenwood mix it' method for fruit cake, lemon cake, Victoria sandwich and coffee cake.

Who knew? With non stick pan and cake liners it makes making cakes a doddle.

Agree, chuck it all in, works very well except with fruit cake as dried fruit needs to go in right at the end of the mix. Love rock cakes and jam tarts made with left over pastry in this house.

I still make rock buns regularly, a Good housekeeping recipe from I don't know when and they never last more than 2 days!

Made some Grantham ginger biscuits the other day- as we had an open day for our great 18C building renovation- which will open later this year as a Museum about the history of watch-making, especially the early days of peasant-watch makers in the area. The oldest biscuist recipe in the UK, dating back to the 1740s- great and so so easy to make. Just make little balls wit the mixture and they puff up and bake with a hollow centre. Delish.

Seed cake, Victoria sponge and bread and butter pudding made with fruit bread, rice pudding with a lot of nutmeg. I still have my Radiation Gas cook book from the 1950's.

Fatty cakes made, as the name suggests with lots of lard and sugar. Lovely! DM used to buy them in our local Co-op in Gloucestershire. Don't know whether you can buy them now but they should definitely carry a health warning.