Cakes, what's the all time classic?

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We've just had a way too long conversation in my office about buns and the different things people call them. We wondered why sometimes a Chelsea bun is known as a Belgian bun and whether there actually is a difference - it spiralled out of control from there. I just thought I'd bring a little light heartedness back coz all this talk of dead babies and stuff is depressing......
Personally I think you can't beat a nice Iced Gingerbread

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:44 (twenty-two years ago) link

caramel donuts and vanilla slices. also anything with cinnamon.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

Emma to thread, obv. Anything involving chocolate usually = classic, but I also like a nice basic currant bun, heavy on the glaze and the currants.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

PANFORTE *drools* i tried to make some last night and the taste is OK but the texture's just not there, dammit. it is nice though (rickyT when you get home you and aubrey can eat it, i've gone to me mam's innit)

― katie (katie), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:21 (twenty-two years ago) link

urinal

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:23 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was looking forward to reading the rest of this thread and salivating. Now my plan = in ruins thanks to Tim.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tom - You are asked about cakes and you think of urinals? I'm sensing a childhood trauma ......

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:36 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jam Doughnuts!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:54 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cake is nothing compared to good pie. The exception to the rule is cheesecake, which is really pie.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:38 (twenty-two years ago) link

the urinal connection

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:57 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mmm, doughnuts...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:51 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hostess Snowballs especially the pink ones

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:07 (twenty-two years ago) link

ice cream cake

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 23:09 (twenty-two years ago) link

meat cake

― spectra, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 02:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

http://www.jonrendle.eurobell.co.uk/images/Nov.beaver.JPG

beaver cake

I like cup-cakes. When I was a kid, the hansel and gretel house cake mum made for me was a big hit. I remember there was a calculator one in our book of children's birthday cakes. Also the school satchel with thick licorice straps looked good.

― spectra, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 02:28 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm sorry, the beaver cake belongs on a worst cakes thread.

― spectra, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 02:28 (twenty-two years ago) link

tiramasu (maybe not an according to hoyle cake, but so what ?)

dirt cake threaded through with gummy worms

― mike (ro)bott, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 02:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

i like tiramisu

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 02:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like Lane cake and princess cake (quiet, jess) but I would have to say that a plain old chocolate cake's the classic.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 03:07 (twenty-two years ago) link

i still think "princess cake" sounds like a character from gidgit or something.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 03:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

merrin's vegan chocolate cake is the best cake known to humankind.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 03:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

STICKY DATE PUDDING!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:42 (twenty-two years ago) link

I cannot choose. It would be like asking a mother to choose her favourite child (NB I have never yet given birth to a cake).

― Emma, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

BEEFCake.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:56 (twenty-two years ago) link

That reminds me of "most distasteful shop name ever" -- a clothing boutique called "Sophie's Choice".

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

banana cake with carrot cake icing (cream cheese) made by Andrew's mum. and it was just for me! lovely!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

The other day Lixi and I craved cake. So we went to the lovely shop down the road which has a smashing cake selection. I bought some Fondant Fancies where were GRATE++++ and Lixi bought a half Marble cake which sadly passed it's prime before it could be fully scoffed. The same fate did not meet the fondant fancies which were spanked that very night. My favourite fondant fancy is the yellow one.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:08 (twenty-two years ago) link

Speaking of Sophie's Choice, today my velcro-letters t-shirt says FIVE ZONES FROM SOPHIE

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

hmm chelsea buns :) also yum yums are good for a sugar/fat fix but the chelseas always win with their sugar/fat/sticky icing combination

― Madam Plinky (Madam Plinky), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:25 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's all good when there's chocolate involved.

We've also discussed the glory of Baileys Cheesecake before.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

I just had a really good idea for cake - with After Eight chocolates in a layer in the middle. The dark chocolate would melt slightly during the baking, and there would be a gooey minty chocolatey mess in the middle when cooked! Kind of like stollen, but chocolatey and minty rather than marzipanny.

Is this in fact a good idea, or is mint not meant to interact meaningfully with cake?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago) link

OMG liz will you marry me?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

I'm afraid that you'll have to fight Robster for my hand. And I don't do marriage. But I will make you cake!

I thought it was a good idea, but wasn't sure. A bit on the Heston Blumenthalist side.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago) link

Mmmm, I love Angel Layer Cake but it lacks that something...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

Big, big fan of cheesecake, the little cupcakes with the ricepaper circles that had cartoon characters on them and anything with caramel.

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago) link

I used to adore battenburg as a child, but have had it recently and it's an utter sugar nightmare. Marzipan remains a great thing, though.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

on that theme Liz, how about a roulade style thing with fingers of fudge in the middle? Would also work for Stollen too.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link

Convinced of your baking abilities though I am Liz, I'm not sure about mint in conjunction with cake...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

Incidentally, I don't know why I was waxing lyrical about currant buns earlier on this thread. The all-time classics are clearly a) torta capresa (flour is for WUSSES, let's just use a ton of ALMONDS and SUGAR) and b) lemon drizzle.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

Ooh Cabbage you naughty boy. A finger of fudge is never enough, so how about a WHOLE CAKE MADE OF THEM? Cor.

I think mint works within the context of a chocolate cake.

Har har Archel I still have half a lemon and poppyseed drizzle cake at home. Mmmm teatime beckons.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

a very rich dark chocolate cake, witha minty layer in the middle would be good I think.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

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