What is your favourite cake?

[Annpan]

Mine is cheesecake

It is a cheats cheesecake, I always put a glug of Tia Maria in the base then the top is made with dream topping, soft cheese and icing sugar....yummy....

[red]

only one? eeks!


maybe chocolate mud cake..wot I make for birthdays

[Shirley]

I love chocolate chip cinnamon cake... yummy moist cake with dark chocolate chips and a demerara and cinnamon crunchy topping. Mmmmmm

[invisiblepiper]

Guiness cake - like dundee cake - but steeped in Guiness for a month!

[StripyPixieSocks]

Lemon & Coconut Cake... luscious lemon curd between two moist lemon and Coconut sponges with lemon water icing on top... mmmmmmmmmmm

I also like Carrot Cake though

... I'm also a sucker for anything with Glace Cherries in it

Having said that... THIS was one seriously awesome chocolate cake I made for OH's birthday this year!

Chocolate sponge with chocolate chips sandwiched with nutella and nutella spread on top with cream around the sides, strawberries on top with cream piped in the gaps and cadbury's chocolate chips arranged on the cream! It was a noisy birthday until they were eating that cake then it was silence filled with 'mmm's and 'ahh's...

[kiwirach]

I love chocolate chip cinnamon cake... yummy moist cake with dark chocolate chips and a demerara and cinnamon crunchy topping. Mmmmmm

mmmm....sounds lovely....could you share the recipe? pleeeease!!.

tough question for me.....either a nice sultana cake or a sour cream coffee cake from the USA(doesnt have coffee in it thankfully.... , coffee cake is what the americans call some cakes for some unknown reason!).

[Green Aura]

One pan chocolate fudge cake - not only is it vegan so I don't have to bugger about converting it for my gal but, as the name suggests, it's made in the cooking pan. So very little washing up.

[MikeM]

free cake is my favourite. Beyond that I don't discriminate as I firmly believe that all cakes are created equal.

[Mrs Moustoir]

I have any easy peasy recipe for ginger fruit loaf if anyone is interested...

My favourite though is a fruit cake made with condensed milk - heaven!

[contadino]

Any cake I don't have to share with anyone is my fave. Cake is a rare treat, like chocolate, so when it does appear, I wanna scoff the lot.

[Helsbells]

My favorite cake is a welsh one called Bara Brith. Its welsh for Sepckled bread, I suppose its more like a tea bread, but its really really yummy with butter and some nice tea.

[StripyPixieSocks]

My favorite cake is a welsh one called Bara Brith. Its welsh for Sepckled bread, I suppose its more like a tea bread, but its really really yummy with butter and some nice tea.

That is nice and along those lines (but even further away from cake) the Cornish Saffron Bread is nice too!

[Uller]

Impossible to choose just one! It would have to be one of the following;

Lemon drizzle cake - easiest cake to make and convinced me that cakes do not have to have chocolate in them to be delicious. However....

Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Cloud cake - more of a pudding and always my sister's choice for her birthday cake. Or....

Chocolate courgette cake - dense and slightly spicy and absolutely yummy. Or...

Double ginger cake - dense, sticky, with chunks of stem ginger.

I'm off to make a lemon drizzle cake!

[SarahJane]

I am not really a cake fan, my downfall is savoury snacks. But I do like walnut cake. I never make cakes either, but I might try it if anyone has a foolproof recipe for a cake with nuts in!

[StripyPixieSocks]

I am not really a cake fan, my downfall is savoury snacks. But I do like walnut cake. I never make cakes either, but I might try it if anyone has a foolproof recipe for a cake with nuts in!

Coffee and Walnut Cupcakes?

3 Eggs
6oz Butter
6oz Self Raising Flour
1tsp Baking Powder
6oz Caster Sugar
1tsp Vanilla Extract
3tbsp Instant Coffee
1 cup Chopped Walnuts (or a mix of Walnuts and Chocolate drops)

I just throw the first 7 ingredients into a large bowl and whsk with a hand mixer until smooth and fluffy looking then stir in the walnuts and dollop out into a 12 hole muffin pan lined with the muffin cases.

Bake in a bre-heated 200 degree C oven for around 18-20 minutes and voila... lovely cupcakes!

You can however make some kind of topping for these as well. a bit of water icing or melted chocolate or something lush like a buttercream or something...