What is your favourite cake?

[carolinej]

.......... have recently mastered the wonderful lemon almond 'cheese'cake. (Tofu in place of cheese). lovely stuff. And everyone else likes it too!

Thanks for the recipe. It was scrummy. Its definately up there with my favourites!

Decided to try it with some strawberry topping I made from frozen lottie strawberries.

Here's a pic.

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cj

[carolinej]

About half a box of silken tofu is equivalent to a large egg, for baking. If you're using baking powder or bicarb as a rising agent use an equivalent amount of vinegar (added as late as possible) to make it work. And of course swap the milk for a veg milk of your choice. Voila, any cake recipe veganised.

Thanks for that advice Maggie. Locally, the only tofu I can get is the Cauldron tofu, which doesnt say silken. Do you know if it is the same?

cj

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Oh Maderia cake, any day of the week. Or perhaps carrot cake. Or Devil's food cake. Or a real Victoria sponge with brampble jelly. Tricky. Very tricky.

[Green Aura]

It's not the same, carolinej. Most supermarkets sell mori-nu silken tofu - but it's in a different place, often with the dried pulses. However, I think you can use some of that with some soya milk, blitzed in the blender. Silken tofu has a really smooth texture, almost like a set blancmange.

[MrsD'ville mkII]

Ginger cake, every time, especially (though I blush to admit it) my own...

[sleepyowl]

Chocolate rum cake, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm take that! Christmas cake!!!!!!!!!!!

[yugogypsy]

Angel food, with peach yogurt or custard

Lois

[frozenthunderbolt]

Green tomato chocolate fudge cake. Absolutely no contest.

[LBR]

Plain cake, just plain. Sometimes called a yellow cake. Fancier versions use more butter, such as the 1-2-3 cake, or a pound cake.

[MuddyWitch]

"Death by Chocolate" every time! Just thinking about it puts several pounds on, though

MW

[Berti]

I do have various ones but as we are only with the two of us, my daughter and me, and not getting enough visitors...
recently I did a muffin (american) recipe with apples in a round springform tin, that was the most fantastic apple pie ever.
there is another cake with chocolate and marmalade from nigella lawson.........unfortunately we don't get good marmalade anymore over here
there used to be the duerrs vintage 1881 (or something).........

ah well I do love a good cake now and then.
I am not english but I love "having tea" :D
berti

[ina]

Must admit, most of my favourites are still German cakes.. Baked cheese cake, and poppy seed cake, and the above mentioned nut cake. But there is some rather yummy ginger cake around, too (definitely not German!).

[hippy chick]

Lemon drizzle cake... I made a gorgeous one over christmas which I had to quickly share out with as many people as possible to save myself from eating it all!

[LBR]

Could we just have them all?

[Mal]

Nigella has a marvellous ginger cake in the Childrens section of domestic goddess. I have never failed to have rave reviews whevenver I make it and wherever I take it. It's basically sugar, sugar and sugar with a bit of flour to hold it together and some ginger mixed in, but it is seriously good.

I got a copy of the moosewood deserts book a couple of years back, but haven't really made anything from it. Talking of beetroot cakes, I do plan to make their Red Devil cake, which is the beetroot version of carrot cake I suppose.

Mmm cake. Oh, and Mmm muffins too. There's this Canadian muffin which is amusingly called Morning Glory. Very nice, very similar to a carrot cake.