Your favourite cake or afternoon tea treat?

I make a good Madeira cake but I make a good fruit cake too. I make my own Christmas cake too and soak the fruit in brandy overnight.

Hi OP here. Thank you for all your great mouth watering contributions. Perhaps I ought to get onto You Tube and start practising. Dear friend is not coming for a couple of weeks so still time.

Lemon drizzle cake for me please.

Traditional Victoria sponge, and cream scones. Home made of course. Love baking these, and Roddicks clotted cream. Yum.

Being gf makes things a bit more difficult and please don't serve me a brownie (gf people I know have a mantra that 'it's always a bl**dy brownie'.

Carrot cake, lemon drizzle and raspberry and lemon loaf cakes are my go to at the moment.

Baggs' Apple Cake, baked as a tray bake, is my go-to recipe when I want to make something foolproof and delicious. I swap her caster sugar sprinkle with Demerara, but lovely either way.
www.gransnet.com/recipes/dish/6620-Apple-Cake

What are jam pennies? Small jam tarts?

If ever we have anyone round at teatime, my go-to is a Victoria sandwich with blackcurrant jam* - very slightly tart against the sweetness - can do v quickly thanks to trusty old Kenwood Chef.
Always goes down well.
*no cream because I don’t like it.

I keep meaning to try a lemon drizzle but have never got around to it.

shysal

Baggs' Apple Cake, baked as a tray bake, is my go-to recipe when I want to make something foolproof and delicious. I swap her caster sugar sprinkle with Demerara, but lovely either way.
www.gransnet.com/recipes/dish/6620-Apple-Cake

Thanks for that - apple cake is lovely. I used to make a GF one for a strictly GF visiting BiL - IIRC with some ground almonds as well as flour - the apple stopped it being too dry, like some GF cakes.

My besty used to make the most amazing coffee walnut cake. Sadly she is no longer able to do so but boy were they good and better than any commercial one I've ever tried.

Chocolate eclairs and custard slices. Then a good cheesecake followed by some lovely fruit scones with jam and cream.

My home made choice would be apple and lemon sandwich cake which is a Mary Berry recipe and so delicious. It won’t go dry because it has grated apple in the sponge mixture.
If buying it’s definitely coffee and walnut cake from M and S.

Witsend
Jam pennies are a jam sandwich but cut out with a biscuit cutter.

Esmay, I make a similar sauce for any cold chicken - mayonnaise plus curry powder plus mango chutney and a little lemon juice. Livens it up no end.

Date and walnut, Victoria sponge or Scones with jam and cream. I do enjoy a Coronation chicken sandwich too.

petra

Witsend
Jam pennies are a jam sandwich but cut out with a biscuit cutter.

Thank you!
I might pinch that idea for the Gdcs who’ll be staying twice during the school hols. Only I’ll probably make them Nutella pennies, if that’s not too much of a travesty!

They might well enjoy making them themselves - must check that I have cutters of the right size - they’re arriving tomorrow.

Siope

Tuaim if you’re not a dab hand with cakes, why not try making some biscuits? Much simpler and still lovely.

One basic dough, several different types of biscuit www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/basic-biscuit-dough

These oat biscuits are brilliant and super quick and easy.

NB I usually add some lemon zest to the recipe - it gives it that extra something.

First turn oven on to 180, 160 fan, and line a flat tin with non stick baking paper.

75g/3 Oz each of SR flour, oats, butter and sugar (I use caster).
1 tbsp Golden Syrup, ditto of milk.
Melt butter, syrup and milk together.
Add to dry ingredients, premixed in a bowl. Mix all well.

With wet hands, form about 12 round balls, place on baking paper and flatten out. Space them a little apart - they spread.

Bake for around 10 minutes, until golden but not hard. They firm up on cooling.
Once cooled a bit, transfer to a wire rack - and if your dh is anything like mine, keep him away!

Charleygirl5

If somebody offered me a jam sandwich it would still be sitting there.

I prefer savoury but if it was to be sweet, walnut or carrot cake.

I have never baked in my life so Waitrose I would visit.

I like those cake choices too, Tesco make very acceptable cakes when you know visitors are coming and no time to bake.
I also like your last sentence, very Yoda like😃

Can you all please stop! You are making me very hungry. No carry on
I'll go to a less delicious thread.

Scones with clotted cream and raspberry jam
Meringues sandwiched with fresh cream

Tiffin bites

That sounds like a lovely idea for tea with your friend! Jam pennies are a delightful choice, especially with a cup of Earl Grey. As for my favorite cakes or afternoon tea treats, I enjoy making classic scones with clotted cream and jam. There's something comforting about the combination of warm scones paired with the richness of clotted cream and the sweetness of jam.

I also have a soft spot for lemon drizzle cake — it's tangy, moist, and just the right amount of sweet. It's always a hit whether I bake it or enjoy it at a café.

I love making cakes and if a recipe says ‘simple’ I pass it by.
I find making a cake for tea with older friends very frustrating because they all want the most boring cake in the world - a Victoria sandwich.
There are hundreds of lovely cakes, old and new, English or from other countries. I never again want to waste my time on Victoria sandwich, lemon drizzle, carrot cake, flapjacks or brownies.

Oh my goodness ... my mouth is watering .... I wish I'd ignored this thread!

Nurse came to see me today. Said lost too
much weight and told me to eat all the naughty things.
I like baking so will make ( promises promises)-
Victoria sponge
Scones+ cream and jam
Fruit cake
Bran loaf / cake + butter on etc.

Just went to the Garden Centre and bought myself two slices of the best Victoria sponge ever 😋- just had one with a cuppa

Scones with fresh jam

Summer pudding