Favourite cake? What is yours?

I learned a lot from my time as an au pair. Whilst working for an Austrian lady she told me that she stuck to two cake recipes as she had got them down to a T and they offered enough variety to offer visitors. Especially if you don't bake often and lead a busy life this is probably not a bad policy.

Her two were Sachertorte (of course, being Austrian) and a "Gedeckter Apfelkuchen" which is sort of like an apple pie but quite deep. It was made with a rich pastry which she ran up in the mixer and huge amounts of sliced apples and hazelnuts as a filling which the mixer also sliced in a trice.

Because of the volume of the cake -German/Austrian size 28 cm diameter, and the depth, I think she used more than 1 kg of apples!

I love an apple cake, but hardly ever think of making one. One exception was a gluten free one for a visiting GF BiL. The apples keep a potentially dry cake nice and moist.

I’ve gone right off any sort of chocolate cake, but still make one for dh’s birthday - still his favourite, as long as there’s a lot of chocolate butter icing!

JackyB

I learned a lot from my time as an au pair. Whilst working for an Austrian lady she told me that she stuck to two cake recipes as she had got them down to a T and they offered enough variety to offer visitors. Especially if you don't bake often and lead a busy life this is probably not a bad policy.

Her two were Sachertorte (of course, being Austrian) and a "Gedeckter Apfelkuchen" which is sort of like an apple pie but quite deep. It was made with a rich pastry which she ran up in the mixer and huge amounts of sliced apples and hazelnuts as a filling which the mixer also sliced in a trice.

Because of the volume of the cake -German/Austrian size 28 cm diameter, and the depth, I think she used more than 1 kg of apples!

I love making a Sachertorte and try to stick as closely as possible to the original recipe (which is a guarded secret by the Hotel Sacher). Unfortunately, I only make it in winter and I had trouble last summer when it was so hot with the chocolate coating as it melted! The Apfelkuchen sounds delicious with a nice cup of perculated coffee with cream of course.

Message deleted by Gransnet for breaking our forum guidelines. Replies may also be deleted.

I have two favourites

The first being a lovely moist apple cake - which will keep happily in a tin for five or six days.

The second being a recipe I obtained from my MiL for a baked cheese cake. Absolute delicious, although rather heavy on calories. My standard cake to bake and take with when visiting. Could not be more different to what is called cheese cake in the stores. Does keep for a few days in the fridge

Added advantage with both of the above is how quick and easy they are to make. With the cheesecake do have to make the base first, but once that is cooling off in the fridge, the main cake is just put all ingredient into my my Kenwood bowl and mix, same with the apple cake (only faff there is chopping up the apples.