Cakes - S/D

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Banana Bread
Devil's Food Cake

Destroy:
Fairy Cakes
Victoria Sponge

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

Search:
Victoria Sponge (you haven't tasted mine, Johnny)
Rock cakes
Queen cakes
Banana bread
Gateau broche
Sacher torte
Cheese cake
Tea bread
Anything with cream in it
The scone I had in Belfast last week
Coffee and walnut cake
Chocolate fudge cake
Madeira cake with lemon icing
Anything with lemon icing, actually
Carrot cake, especially when made with cardamom
Battenburg
Mr Kipling fondant fancies
Tarte aux amandes

Destroy:
Christmas Cake
Simnel Cake

It's not a religion thing, honest, they're just too darn heavy for my liking.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Also, search:
Angel cake
Marble cake
Upside down pineapple cake

Destroy:
Urinal cake

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Madchen you forgot LARDY CAKE.

Search: my lemon cake with fresh ginger icing. Oh, what the hell, search all cake ever. Mmmm cake.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Search:
LARDY CAKE
BANBURY CAKE
ECCLES CAKE

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

i don't like angel food cake. it leaves me wanting a proper heavy fatty cake.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

lauren OTM!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: Cake.
Search: Pie.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

i dont get it, how is any sort of cake bad?

ive even had good fruit cake, so i cant believe that any cake is inherently bad. all have their uses, even angel food.

you blasphemers. Chris especially.

well, more of a heathen i guess.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Cake is mostly kinda boring. I don't know, I'm not totally opposed to it really, but I'd rather have pie any day.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

My favorite use for angel food cake - cube it, layer it in the bottom of a casserole. Mix up cream cheese, sugar, sour cream, cream, vanilla until smooth and thickly pourable. Pour this over the cake cubes, then top with a tart cherry compote.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Angel cake and angel food cake aren't the same thing, are they?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

http://img.tesco.com/pi/xpi/9/5000119153739_200.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm really craving some sort of lemon/poppyseed cake.

For our wedding cake we're planning to have different people making different tiers, of different types of cake. This could go horribly wrong of course.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

I think it's a lovely idea.

PARKIN People!

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Cake is good and so is pie ... I just wish my daughter would do what she says she'd do (for the last three weekends) and make her fabulous chocolate sponge cake and her fabulous chocolate fridge cake (with nuts and biscuit and cherries in it).

Yeah, maybe I could make them myself, but I reckon it's good for my children to do things, like make me cakes.

― andyjack (andyjack), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Arch, why not have one layer be pie? ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I would Chris, but I only like savoury pies. Although actually, that means we could have a WHOLE MEAL in tiered form! Excellent.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

That pie book that I have has a seven-layer tart thing that the author created for the wedding of some anti-cakists. It looks pretty nice. But layered savory pie/tarts would be good too.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

My husband surprised me this afternoon by baking my favorite - a simple yellow cake with chocolate frosting - for my birthday. I am pro-pie, but I do love cake.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 20 May 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Happy birthday!

Are you folk coming to Portland anytime?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: Pontefract cakes. People of Pontefract: a small, hard, black disc of licourice does not equal cakey bliss. Also Jaffa cakes. People of Jaffa etc.

Victoria sponge has an almost magical quality vis a vis the ingredients ratio (ie 8oz flour, 8oz sugar, 8oz butter, 4 eggs, 2 tbsp milk).

Proof that god exists & He wants us to be happy

― bham, Friday, 20 May 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

What are those cakes you can get from "oup northhh"? Is it barm, or barn or something like that. They rule whatever they are!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

warm barm, thankyou ma'am

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 20 May 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

"oup northhh"?
Of course, Porkpie is really a midlander.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

There can be only one.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 21 May 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Are you folk coming to Portland anytime?

sigh. Since we did this move, I don't know when. We have obligation visits to Seattle in June, so maybe July. We are both jonesin' for Powells. Is your band coming out this way? I'm getting pretty handy with the waffle iron and the asparagus at the Saturday market has been amazing.

― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 22 May 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the Walla Walla asparagus!

OMG ONIONS ARE COMING. In like two months! Start salivating now!

The tour that I was hoping to do sort of didn't happen, but I'm still interested in going out there -- if you have any leads for venues etc. let me know, and we will likely come out there.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 22 May 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

I am eating an iced coconut finger with synthetic cream filling right now. Synthetic cream is one of my guilty pleasures. Snarf.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

There's a joke about sex robots in there somewhere, but I'm not ken enough to make it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

I just had one of these new-fangled Jaffa 'cake' 'slices'. Presumably they should be substantially the same as a Jaffa cake, just in a different shape? But no, this was so disgustingly sweet that my teeth still hurt.

I might make a cake tonight/tomorrow, to mark Liz's birthday. And because cake is nice.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I have the Elizabeth David English Bread and Yeast Cookery on loan from the library right now, which has lardy cake and Cornish saffron bun and black bun recipes. I've never seen any of these in real life, but am very tempted to bake some up.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Lardy cake is the food of the gods. Really, it is stupendously good.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

I made apple and pear cake on Friday, since I had an enormous bag of apples fresh off the tree (not my tree alas). You use apple and pear puree instead of eggs, and some mixed dried fruit. It was lovely although slightly chewy round the edges.

Next: a seasonal pumpkin and apple cake.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 October 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

This morning when I arrived at work, there was a raffle set up for the Heart Assoc. and I had $3, so bought tickets and won - a cake! It's gorgeous! It was in my office when I came back from lunch and the place smells so vanilla-butter-sugary. I will have to post a picture tonight.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I got it home before my co-workers attacked:
http://www.theilliterate.com/archives/illiterati/cake.jpg

It's spice cake of some sort within. All the ribbon and stuff is frosting!

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

oh god - TOO SWEET! It's a box mix "carrot" cake within and the icing is 3/4" thick in places. Made my teeth hurt! I'm taking back to the 4th floor tomorrow - the co-workers can have at it.

But - soooo pretty!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 20 October 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I stayed home from work today, feeling puny. But, felt well enough in the afternoon to bake a cake. 2-layer yellow cake with black raspberry filling and chocolate fudge glaze. Really really good.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Help, please!!!! I am mad about synthetic cream and boy have i searched high and low for a recipe...but nothing!!!!

Does anyone out there have a recipe for making synthetic cream???? Please, someone put me out of my misery!!

Ines xxx

― Ines Morreale, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

i made a good upside-down cranberry cake once.

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

i think as far as the great cake/pie debate is concerned, i like baking cakes more than i like making pies, but i enjoy eating pie more.

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

(case in point, the not very good lime chantilly pie i made last weekend. too limey by half and a sort of weird consistency to boot)

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

If you look at this small thread...

synthetic cream . where can i buy it...

I think it's unlikely you can actually make it outside of commercial premises. I think it's probably always made in large quantities 'cos of the ingredients involved. I might be wrong though.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, that should have been xpost obv.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

Synthetic Cream For Sale!

http://www.bakemark.co.uk/brand_show.asp?brand=L301 (click on Cream Alternatives)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

spam

― ringtones free, Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

what's synthetic cream made of?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Assuming it's the same thing as Cool Whip in the States:

Cool Whip is made of water, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated coconut and palm kernel oil, < 2% sodium caseinate, natural and artificial flavorings, xanthan and guar gums, polysorbate 80, sorbitan monostearate, and beta carotene.[1] Sodium caseinate is a milk protein, so Cool Whip may be unacceptable to those avoiding dairy products for medical, ethical, or religious reasons.

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

oh boy. i used to love it when i was little.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 2 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I made banana bread for the football on Saturday and didn't cook it for long enough on purpose so it was still nice and puddeny in the middle. Then I stupidly left the second loaf at my friend's house instead of squirrelling it back home with me. Darn!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

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