Favourite cake? What is yours?

Since I can no longer bake my own cakes I rarely have any no longer have any cake. My favourite used to be Victoria sponge which could be decorated in so many ways.
I will never forget the one I made in 1950 for my husband’s birthday and used preciouses sugar and butter to decorate with butter icing. Left it on the kitchen table and the cat licked all the icing off.

Fraiser = Strawberry Shortcake ..

Apple strudel = Though more of a pastry than a tart, we adore having them particulary during the Christmas Holiday Season.

A Spanish home made Lemon Bizcocho or a Lemon Sponge.

My favourite cake is my sister in laws date loaf, I cant cook cakes to save my life

Grandmabatty

I have two favourites. The first is a chocolate cake with chocolate icing from the Bero book. The second is lemon drizzle cake. I use Mary Berry's recipe.

That was the first chocolate cake I made. The children used to love it,still have my Bero book, may give it a try again.

Simnel cake from my Bero book, Frangipane cake and chocolate eclairs.

Dame Mary Berry's lemon drizzle, never fails, always delicious😋😋

Freya it's so chocolatey!! Sadly I am diabetic so the chocolate cake rarely is made now

Rich fruit cake for me please, ideally with a piece of cheese on the side. Wensleydale will do nicely. Yes, you've guessed it.. I'm a Yorkshire lass by birth.

Lemon drizzle, a good fruit cake, coffee and walnut....love cake.

I love making pistachio cake
The green paste comes from France & it uses lots of butter in the recipe
But it’s moist & delicious
I make it for visitors
Otherwise Anzac biscuits are usually on standby

I love Christmas cake but after making several for relatives one year and getting not much response I stopped doing it. I still love fruit cake and my DH loves my Madeira cake. I made some simple buns with icing and coloured bits which he also loves.

Victoria sponge with raspberry jam or lemon curd and fresh cream is my favourite but I also get tempted by the coffee & walnut cake in coffee shops.

Christmas cake or Lemon Polenta cake - a Nigella gluten free recipe.

I love a chocolate cake with cream and real chocolate on top that is what my mum used to bake every Sunday. I also did it for my sons. But I do a nut and pear cake with a chocolate sponge. My sons favourite. If you look on be-ro they have some great recipes and if you send them a stamp address envelope and I think it was £1 probably bit more now they will send you a recipe book

Date, banana and walnut cake made by me to my own gradually evolved recipe.

Also my own 'interpretation' (i.e. not vegan) of an Easy Vegan Carrot Cake.

Also Red Velvet Cake made with proper beetroot and milk chocolate cooking chocolate rather than dark.

And apple and honey cake.

I love most cakes but my favourites are Mary Berry’s whole lemon cake, a luxurious step up from lemon drizzle. I also like my own invention of cherry bakewell tart made with maraschino cocktail cherries. Love any rich fruit cake and adore orange peel and almond cake, I need to find a recipe for this one so I can make it.

Nigella’s clementine cake.

In the autumn, my grandmother's old fashioned Yorkshire parkin made with treacle and oatmeal.

Otherwise, any of those light layered German Torten or cream cakes along the lines of a Black Forest Gateau.

Scandinavian Princess Torte, a light layered cream cake covered in a thin layer of marzipan is rather good.

Nearer home, lemon drizzle or coffee and walnut are very acceptable.

Lemon Drizzle….when I used to make it for my work colleagues it went down a storm!!

I have my nana's recipe books and like a polish cake recipe. I tend to get asked to make the date and walnut loaf from a 1950s trex book. In fact have one in the oven at the moment. My husband likes the Victoria jam sponge. And I bake the guy who gives him a lift to work, He requests a preference for chocolate cake. Myself probably easier to say which I don't like. Did like a lot a courgette cake I made with an internet recipe for courgette and lime cake. If you Google you will probably see. As well as a redcurrant yoghurt cake.

DH loves a chocolate cake so I make Prue Leith's chocolate fudge cake most weeks. However, I love a coffee cake so I occasionally make one with a deliciously rich filling, it's very moreish so I don't do it very often as I can't leave it alone!

Bara brith but never divulge the recipe

My favourites are lemon sponge sandwich cake or orange & poppyseed cake which I first tried in Australia. I make a lot of my friends and family a cake for their birthday and their favourite is mainly coffee & walnut sandwich cake. I cannot stand chocolate cake.

Victoria sponge, always.

Just made a Victoria sandwich, it’s cooling on tray now. Got raspberry preserve and made some butter cream to fill it. Yum 😋