Favourite cake? What is yours?

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.

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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.

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!

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!

A Victoria sponge with blackcurrant jam.

I’ve always loved making (and eating) cakes but find my older friends all prefer the plain old boring ones. Victoria sponge, carrot cake, flapjacks - all soooo boring.
When looking for a recipe I pass by anything which says Simple or Quick, I want a challenge. I made a Swedish Princess cake once when a group of oldies like me were coming to tea. It took hours and was perfect but they just ate the scones.

So would I ! Tealoaf or flapjack is my limit.

I'd need Mary to bake it for me though!

L.Ravenscroft. Aveline.
Mary's frosted walnut layer cake on BBC Food website is like Fuller's walnut cake 👍

Tipsy drizzle cake. Has Cointreau in it and slathered in dark chocolate. Mind you, can’t eat a lot as it very rich and far too indulgent 😋

Lemon drizzle 🍋

Almost any cake I can buy from the shop! Definitely not. a baker.

I make a mean carrot cake for my son-in-law's birthday if I have time. I make a ginger and pineapple cheesecake for dessert on special occassions.

My favourite, lemon drizzle cake every time

I don’t make cakes (what’s Marks and Spencer’s for?), but my mother did. My favourite was coffee and walnut, which she decorated with walnut halves and crystallised violets.

I also love caraway seed cake, which a lot of people seem to dislike and it seems hard to buy now. My son has made it for me occasionally.

There was also Fuller’s walnut cake, which was quite unlike any other cake I knew of, and utterly delicious.

I like most cake though not all chocolate or carrot cake.

I make lemon cake with homemade ( very sour) lemon curd, coffee and walnut cake, Dorset Apple cake (eaten with clotted cream), a friend’s mother’s recipe light fruit cake, orange cake and, from the National Trust recipe a scrumptious cherry and almond cake covered in glacé cherries.

Yum.

I eat cake two or three times a year, a baked cheesecake does hit the spot.

Romola

A version of Sachertorte from an ancient Good Housekeeping booklet.
The first time I made it, probably 50 years ago, our weekend guests announced that they were not going home until they'd had another slice. I made it for the coronation the other day and it still hit the spot with our neighbours.

Yes, a Sachertorte is lovely. When I made my first last year I calculated the wrong amount of chocolate and cream and it was too runny. I then cut back on both and the chocolate coating was perfect. Tasted better on the second day not that there was much left.

I have not really heard of coffee and walnut cake, it seems to be popular there. I think I will look up a recipe and give it a go, but not this weekend, we are off to son's wedding so gone a week.

The same son has his birthday in July and his favourite is carrot cake, which I will make and bring over to him. I can't believe my baby is turning 30!

So many good suggestions here, there are so many good things in life to enjoy. Sadly our local cafes have very mediocre baking (I think done from frozen mix), so if I really want to enjoy a slice of cake I have to depend on myself.

I just like any cake I bake!

All our family love the ginger sponge my mother made. I gave the recipe to my GGS as cubs were making a recipe book. It looked good as Great Great Grandmother's recipe. The only question we haven't solved is how do you measure 1 1/2 heaped tablespoons of treacle?

My dad's favourite was Battenburg cake, so much so that we called it Daddy Cake.

Do You remember Mr Kiplings Chocolate Fudge cake ?Thats mine 🥲

Tea loaf that I first made at school when I was 12. I’ve adapted the recipe a bit to include cherries and also put walnuts on the top and I still love it. Even my 4 year old grandson loves it