Favourite cake? What is yours?

Lemon drizzle cake I made one for my daughter-in-law’s birthday on Tuesday as she loves it too.

A version of Sachertorte from an ancient Good Housekeeping booklet.
The first time I made it, probably 50 years ago, our weekend guests announced that they were not going home until they'd had another slice. I made it for the coronation the other day and it still hit the spot with our neighbours.

A lightly spiced Carrot cake, moist with plump sultanas and topped with American frosting.

Made a chocolate type Victoria sponge today but my favourite to make and eat is Coffee and Walnut.

Battenberg if bought
Carrot Cake if home made
Or my Dads Chocolate Cake but he died many years ago.

Tea loaf that I first made at school when I was 12. I’ve adapted the recipe a bit to include cherries and also put walnuts on the top and I still love it. Even my 4 year old grandson loves it

Do You remember Mr Kiplings Chocolate Fudge cake ?Thats mine 🥲

My dad's favourite was Battenburg cake, so much so that we called it Daddy Cake.

All our family love the ginger sponge my mother made. I gave the recipe to my GGS as cubs were making a recipe book. It looked good as Great Great Grandmother's recipe. The only question we haven't solved is how do you measure 1 1/2 heaped tablespoons of treacle?

I just like any cake I bake!

I have not really heard of coffee and walnut cake, it seems to be popular there. I think I will look up a recipe and give it a go, but not this weekend, we are off to son's wedding so gone a week.

The same son has his birthday in July and his favourite is carrot cake, which I will make and bring over to him. I can't believe my baby is turning 30!

So many good suggestions here, there are so many good things in life to enjoy. Sadly our local cafes have very mediocre baking (I think done from frozen mix), so if I really want to enjoy a slice of cake I have to depend on myself.

Romola

A version of Sachertorte from an ancient Good Housekeeping booklet.
The first time I made it, probably 50 years ago, our weekend guests announced that they were not going home until they'd had another slice. I made it for the coronation the other day and it still hit the spot with our neighbours.

Yes, a Sachertorte is lovely. When I made my first last year I calculated the wrong amount of chocolate and cream and it was too runny. I then cut back on both and the chocolate coating was perfect. Tasted better on the second day not that there was much left.

I eat cake two or three times a year, a baked cheesecake does hit the spot.

I like most cake though not all chocolate or carrot cake.

I make lemon cake with homemade ( very sour) lemon curd, coffee and walnut cake, Dorset Apple cake (eaten with clotted cream), a friend’s mother’s recipe light fruit cake, orange cake and, from the National Trust recipe a scrumptious cherry and almond cake covered in glacé cherries.

Yum.

I don’t make cakes (what’s Marks and Spencer’s for?), but my mother did. My favourite was coffee and walnut, which she decorated with walnut halves and crystallised violets.

I also love caraway seed cake, which a lot of people seem to dislike and it seems hard to buy now. My son has made it for me occasionally.

There was also Fuller’s walnut cake, which was quite unlike any other cake I knew of, and utterly delicious.

My favourite, lemon drizzle cake every time

I make a mean carrot cake for my son-in-law's birthday if I have time. I make a ginger and pineapple cheesecake for dessert on special occassions.

Almost any cake I can buy from the shop! Definitely not. a baker.

Lemon drizzle 🍋

Tipsy drizzle cake. Has Cointreau in it and slathered in dark chocolate. Mind you, can’t eat a lot as it very rich and far too indulgent 😋

L.Ravenscroft. Aveline.
Mary's frosted walnut layer cake on BBC Food website is like Fuller's walnut cake 👍

I'd need Mary to bake it for me though!

So would I ! Tealoaf or flapjack is my limit.

I’ve always loved making (and eating) cakes but find my older friends all prefer the plain old boring ones. Victoria sponge, carrot cake, flapjacks - all soooo boring.
When looking for a recipe I pass by anything which says Simple or Quick, I want a challenge. I made a Swedish Princess cake once when a group of oldies like me were coming to tea. It took hours and was perfect but they just ate the scones.

A Victoria sponge with blackcurrant jam.