Your favourite cake or afternoon tea treat?

coffee and walnut cake.. must be proper butter icing

scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam

chocolate log with raspberry jam filling

cheese scones

summer pudding with cream

Calendargirl

Don’t intend to be rude to the OP, but personally I would be disappointed to be served with jam pennies.

No doubt the late Queen had several other items to choose from also!

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Yes, I take your point. I'll try baking a Victoria sponge just a couple of hours beforehand but my cakes collapse and are dry. Perhaps a Waitrose VS to fall back on.

GrannyGravy13

Scones with cream and jam.
Homemade Victoria sponge.
Lemon tart.
Portuguese custard tarts.
Strawberry tarts.

I rarely have tea and cake in the afternoon, but any if the above would be welcome 🫖🍰

All of the above yum yum plus a nice slice of fruit cake!

Don’t intend to be rude to the OP, but personally I would be disappointed to be served with jam pennies.

No doubt the late Queen had several other items to choose from also!

🧁🍰🍩

A classic Victoria sponge is certainly hard to beat, but I also prefer mine with fresh cream. Daughter and I had an afternoon tea at a local castle hotel last week - it was very nice, the highlight was a yuzu sponge, which was delicious. A couple of weeks ago, we visited a honey farm and I had the best cheese scones ever - served with cream cheese and the farm's own spiced carrot chutney, which was amazing. Such a good combination.

winterwhite

Ginger cake, tho I don’t see cakes as a treat, just a good part of life.
What are jam pennies?

They are made from pieces of white bread with the crusts cut off, butter spread on one slice and raspberry jam on the other. The two slices are put together and are then cut into circles with a biscuit cutter to form small rounds.

Mmm- I'm trying to do without cake these days. So many fancy kinds and flavours. Recently I had a slice of Victoria sponge and had forgotten how sublime this relatively simple cake can be when done right!

Scones with cream and jam.
Homemade Victoria sponge.
Lemon tart.
Portuguese custard tarts.
Strawberry tarts.

I rarely have tea and cake in the afternoon, but any if the above would be welcome 🫖🍰

Brioche buns with cream cheese - zillions of calories but so what?

Coffee walnut cake. Dont think Iwould care for jam pennies.

Ooooh a Victoria Sponge with fresh whipped/double cream in the middle, not butter cream (I find that too sweet).

Hard to find one that isn't too sweet these days, but i do try

Ginger cake, tho I don’t see cakes as a treat, just a good part of life.
What are jam pennies?

Not one for chocolate cakes - give me a Victoria sponge or Scones .

Too many favourites to mention! Home made Chelsea buns would be up at the top of the list, with brownies and scones too.

I had to look up jam pennies, was quite disappointed that they were just jam sandwiches cut in the round!

Scones, homemade jam and clotted cream!

Anything chocolatey, choc sponge, brownies….