Tuesday 31 March 2009

What is your favourite cake?


Adam & Jo keep teasing me, saying that they're going to run a "text the nation, text, text text!" on what is your favourite cake but never run the item.

Therefore I shall attempt to start this contentious topic in my own inimitable fashion.

As a child, Saturday nights meant one thing; a "mixed grill" consisting of lamb chops, kidneys, sausages, bacon, fried eggs, chips and cream cakes, Cholesterol hadn't been invented then, thank Christ!

The cakes where purchased from Holts of Shepperton, the local (only) bakers in my village.

My mother bought 3 chocolate eclairs, not the finger shaped, these were great blobs of choux (?) pastry topped with sticky chocolate filled with thick whipped cream!! And 3 apple turnovers, also filled with the aforementioned cream, this was the 70s after all. She would then cut each in half so that we could sample both.

I'm my later obese days I would purchase whole cakes and greedily devour both but then fat and cholesterol were discovered along with smoking related diseases and I had to give all that shit up.

Therefore my favourite cakes to this day are chocolate eclairs and apple turnovers.

What about you eh?

32 comments:

DINLT! said...

This is a tricky one, because there are many cakes I like. A good old fruit cake, Victoria Sponge, Lemon Cake all are nice. Basically sponge cakes with a filling. I hate to admit it but I also quite like Jaffa cakes. Nonetheless, when the fancy is strong a good quality chocolate cake is hard to beat.

(future topics might be favourite buns and what do you like best with fresh crusty bread?)

Mel said...

Well, i am partial to a bit of Lemon almond cake myself.

You can keep your fruit cake in all its guises though (including Christmas Pudding...)because it is made by the Devil for old ladies to feast upon, along with the souls of the fallen. Or something.

Nick Tann said...

I was thinking more of the individual bakery bought cake as opposed to the large sliceable cake, where of course the carrot cake with cream chees icing is king.
Jaffa cakes are in a league of there own (not premier)

DINLT! said...

My Mum makes good cakes.

Nick Tann said...

My house backs on to a huge factory where they bake "exeedingly good cakes". The smell in the mornings is nicely

Anonymous said...

My Favourite cake.....hmmmmm.......not sure I have one! It really does depend on my mood!

I do enjoy the chocolate eclair, jam doughnut. I've been baking a lot recently and my cakes are great!

Nick Tann said...

If we are talking about home baking, coconut cake is king

DINLT! said...

Oh yes good call. I do like coconut flavoured cakes. In fact I think i like all cakes except ones with marzipan, oh and I am not very fond of ginger either.

There are coconut, sponge and jam cakes. They are nice.

Mel said...

No nick, if we are talking about home bakin (which i was because i don't eat shop bought stuff) then my lemon almond cake is king. Followed by my carrot cake.

I am surprised that no-one has mentioned rice krispie cakes. They are all over the ads on 4OD at the moment

Nick Tann said...

I did mention carrot cake earlier Mel. Lemon AND almond just sounds wrong Mel.


I never expected so many comments.

*tidies up*

Mel said...

the almond is actually used in place of flour. It is delicious. I will make you some, and post it Nick.

Nick Tann said...

Ahhh, I see.
Mrs Nick does the same thing. She makes bluberry muffins though. As I'm on a faddy diet (low carbs) I can eat 30 of them in one sitting and not put on a pound.


*lies*

*wobbles*

DINLT! said...

Me too Mel, I love lemons, do not mind almons at all, the 2 together would be interesting!

Nick Tann said...

You don't taste the almonds. They are used as a flour substitute for fat gits

Mel said...

Almonds are nuts and therefore contain loads of fat, i do not see how you can substitute flour and make it a diet cake. The flour itself contains few calories, it is the fat and sugar in cake that makes one look like they have subsisted solely on fat pie...

Nick Tann said...

Au contrair Mel. Flour is packed with carbs ground almonds have few. If one is on a low carb (Atkins style) diet, fat is not a problem.
Us Atkins types love fat, we burns it up in our little tum tums

DINLT! said...

Swiss rolls. (not buns). Very nice too!

charles olsen said...

here in Spain the thing they have in the bakeries over Easter time is "Torreja" which is basically eggy bread with lots of sugar. Yummy

DINLT! said...

Me gusta Torreja!

Nick Tann said...

Gentlemen, I give you the chelsea bun with large sugar crystals!

Pre veggie, I was a great fan of the "lardy cake" A cake, made with lard!!
Oh those heady pre cholesterol days....

Nick Tann said...

My dad used to get chocolate swiss rolls with real cream ffrom an Italian bakery in Maida vale....

Excelsior! said...

Cheescake

There Nick i hope your happy now. The stress of this has taken years off my life.

Nick Tann said...

Now Ex, you may have to be a little more specific.

Do you mean the puff pastry base with strips of dried coconut and white icing "cheesecake"

Or the usual curd cheese cheescake?

Baked or mix or what?

WHAT?

Excelsior! said...

The type of cheesecake i like is the one with a biscuity base cream cheese on top with some kind of flavouring.

My prefered flavouring is lemon.

On more then one occasion i have happily eaten a whole one of these myself.Its a good job ive got one of them Metabolisms you read about or id be real fat.

If this does not quailfy as cake, then i'd prob go for a monstrously sickly chocolate cake.

Hope this satisfies

Ex

P.S those lemon cakes mentioned earlier, sound like lemon drizzle cakes to my ears (eyes?) which are also tops.

Dave said...

Cherry Bakewells.

Nick Tann said...

I wonder if pavlova would be classed as cake?

I am a great fan of the cgeesecake but only the proper baked variety. Too many times have I been fobbed off by some instant creamy whip on a biscuit base.

Dave said...

You mean the AMERICAN cheesecake, Nick T, and not the superior BRITISH cheesecake?

Get a hold of your senses.

Nick Tann said...

Is the pastry one with coconut strips an English cheesecake or do you mean the whippy mix one Dave?

Clarity Dave, clarity

Dave said...

The biscuit based one with what you call cream curd is the English one. I always thought it was cream cheese, sugar and citrus juice though.

Nick Tann said...

I have a feeling I'm making this pastry cheesecake thing up.
This cake (and it is a cake) had a round pastry base with some nutty gunge in the middle, topped off with icing and strips of dried coconut. I was told it was a cheescake.
Did mummy lie?

Dave said...

Sounds like one of those horrible desserts you get in middle eastern Hiltons. We'll have to assume your dear mother's a filthy liar - although she probably did it out of love (or hate).

Mel said...

All sounds a bit Sara Lee to me, Nick. They do not make great cakes.