Back in Brack! (Or the NSG Cakes Thread)

[The Whispers]

Everyone likes a cake (other than diabetics, maybe). From the tray bake to the massive gateau to pineapple upside-down cake and everything inbetween, there's a pretty wide gamut of snacking available. What's your favourite?

Personally a big fan of carrot cake, there are about a million good recipes around (basically anything on the BBC Good Food site is sure to not be terrible), and yeah. Mmm. With raisins, sans walnut or whatever because no.

Share recipes and such here!

[Blekksprutia]

Diabetics like cake, they just can't have it.

FYI, Boston Cream Pie is not a pie, it's a cake.

[Nailed to the Perch]

My favorite:

That's an incredibly rich, decadent, delicious lemon torte from the best pastry shop I've ever encountered. Nom nom nom.

Of things I regularly make myself, pineapple upside-down cake may win the prize.

[Individuality-ness]

Just... just cake. Cake is awesome.

I guess I have preference for birthday cakes and the like though, with fruit and cream on the inside. Yummmm.

[Mediobogdum]

Not in any particular order of preference my top 6 are:

chocolate eclairs - cream-filled
carrot cake
fruit cake
key lime pie
chocolate brownies
Battenburg cake

[AiliailiA]

I don't like anything that's very sweet, which limits the range of cakes I enjoy. I like nuts and coconut though, also fruitcake if its not too sweet.

I make a baked cheesecake (with vanilla or almonds [slivered on top or ground-up in the biscuit-base] or more likely both) which I think is pretty good. It's best when it rises and stays risen, which I don't really have the hang of.

[Battenburgia]

mmmm cayke!

I could murder a Mr Kipling's fondant fancy right now

[The Blaatschapen]

I like Coffee Cakes.

[TaQud]

I like Coffee Cakes.

Why Zebra cakes?

[The Blaatschapen]

I like Coffee Cakes.

Why Zebra cakes?

Because.

[Distruzio]

I am not a fan of cake. Sorry.

[Rocopurr]

Cake. It's there for me when my friends and family aren't. ;w; I just... Cake is delicious. Have a slice!

I'm going to learn how to use fondant and make really fancy cake decorations soon.

[The Whispers]

Cake. It's there for me when my friends and family aren't. ;w; I just... Cake is delicious. Have a slice!

I'm going to learn how to use fondant and make really fancy cake decorations soon.

Fun fact: royal icing was renamed thus during the French Revolution to make chefs detest the monarchy.

[Battenburgia]

Fun fact: royal icing was renamed thus during the French Revolution to make chefs detest the monarchy.

I like fun facts here's another one, courtesy of QI

One of the most curious English cake customs concerns a love charm called cocklebread. The 17th-century diarist John Aubrey’s description is unimprovable: “Young wenches have a wanton sport which they call 'moulding of cocklebread’ – they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they can then they wabble to and fro with their buttocks as if they were kneading of dough with their arses, and say these words: 'My dame is sick and gone to bed/ And I’ll go mould my cocklebread’ ”. The rich dough, imprinted with the young woman’s backside, was then baked and given to her intended, who would then fall under her spell.

[New Libertarian States]

Diabetics like cake, they just can't have it.

FYI, Boston Cream Pie is not a pie, it's a cake.

That's not entirely true.
They can have sugar free cake, or in regulated and calculated amounts of sugar.
They can eat it, they're just not supposed to.

[Ainin]

Fruit cake with creamy icing. Omnomnom :3

[Scott W Pilgrim]

Why have a favorite? Any cake is good.

[The Orson Empire]

Old fashioned Vanilla cake is best cake.

[Ublia]

Black Forest cake by far gets my pick...that or a lovely tuxedo cake works.

[Risottia]

Simplest cake ever - straight from Pellegrino Artusi's book.

Same mass of:
eggs
butter
wheat flour
sugar (refined, beet)

Mix. Add yeast and a bit of milk. Chuck in the oven (180°C) until the surface has turned dark brown.

Flour type must be ofc pastry flour (US) aka Mehltyp 405 (D) aka type de farine 40 (F) aka farina 00 (I).

[Nationalist State of Knox]

I enjoy a victoria sponge.

[The Tectonic Plates]

I dislike frosting, and anything too sweet. So my cake bracket is kinda small, best cake to me is Vanilla Cheesecake.

[Torcularis Septentrionalis]

I'm a fan of lemon cakes with strawberries. But, I do not like icing. At all. I cannot stand icing unless I make it from scratch, which takes me a long time and makes a big mess, but it's also my grandmother's favorite icing, and she loves icing,

I like my grandmother's german chocolate upside down cake, and her coke cake when I'm in the mood for being sticky and feeling like I'm covered in pure sugar. I generally don't like chocolate cake or bakery-made cakes.

[Partybus]

My Mom used to let us kids pick our cake/frosting, flavor/color for our birthdays, my most creative choice (12th b-day iirc), orange cake (color and flavor) with blue frosting (raspberry flavor) I set the bar pretty high with that one...

Red velvet cake is a mouthgasm waiting to happen.

[Coffee Cakes]

I like Coffee Cakes.

You fucking rock, Blaat.

To the OP:
My favorite kind of cakes are boxed Drake's Coffee Cakes, which is what I've built my nation off.
But if packaged stuff doesn't count, my other favorite cake ever is a Boston Cream Pie.
The hospital two blocks away from my apartment makes the absolute best one ever.
Ooh! And the Death By Chocolate cake at a Rhode Island restaurant I used to go to as a kid is fantastic too... Gregg's was the name of that place.
And the Coca-Cola fudge cake at Cracker barrel... that is double yummy!