Huh!!!

Somehow the unsalted butter adds a creaminess that you don't get with anything else, even if you do add a pinch of salt.

(choc cake in oven. having a rest before I do the cherry one)

My granny used to say 'a pinch of salt in everything but custard'. I don't see the point of unsalted butter in a recipe if you are then going to add a pinch! I always use the all in one method, as there is no danger of curdling. Never had any complaints.

No salt in my cakes!

I'm just going to start Julie!

Only rugby on the telly.

Don't think I will be baking many more cakes! DH came back from GP saying he has high blood pressure! I will try to cut out salt from his diet but it will be difficult. He was brought up on cake. His mother was a farmer's wife and a stalwart of the WI. If it could be baked, she could make it. I forgot to say that he needs to lose weight. We suspended the 5:2 diet at Christmas, it is now reinstated!

Stansgran's choccie cake recipe sounds good too. No one could get fat on that, could they?