Cakes you don't eat

[danny la rouge]

Yup - "Fleas Graveyard" A staple of my youth!

But they are a "fine (or funcy) piece", not a cake!

I used to like them. Not had one in years, but I don’t think of it as a cake. More like a mille-feuille.

 

[clicker]

Jaffa cakes. Crap sponge, crapper orange jelly, crappiest excuse for chocolate.

 

[philosophical]

Late to this thread.
I make what is in my view a damn good bread pudding.
Sometimes known as Gypsy cake.
Does that count?

 

[pogofish]

Somebody brought a chocolate fudge cake into work this morning. It will be hard to deny!

 

[pug]

Some people have custard on cake and eat it with a spoon. I think it's wrong.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Some people have custard on cake and eat it with a spoon. I think it's wrong.

How else are they going to eat it, with their fingers?

 

[danny la rouge]

How else are they going to eat it, with their fingers?

Fork. Cakes are eaten with forks.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fork. Cakes are eaten with forks.

Custard. Custard is eaten with spoons.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Late to this thread.
I make what is in my view a damn good bread pudding.
Sometimes known as Gypsy cake.
Does that count?

it would, if the title of the thread wasn't "What cakes don't you eat"...

 

[philosophical]

it would, if the title of the thread wasn't "What cakes don't you eat"...

Yeah true.
Somebody suggested adding Star Anise to my bread pudding, but I don’t know anything about posh stuff like that.
(it sounds posh to me).

 

[trashpony]

That is very true.

Back in the day when things were right in the cake world, National Trust cafes, and similar places (including those lovely "friends of..." cafes you used to get in hospitals), always had wonderful cakes but, in recent years, my excitement at seeing old fashioned looking sponge cakes (Victoria Sponge type) in such places has been dashed by the first mouthful. Several times. I was beginning to think that I had grown out of old fashioned looking sponge cakes until I had a glorious Victoria Sponge cake in a cafe down in Margate recently and realised that it wasn't my memory or taste that was wrong.

Did you go to the Mad Hatter tearoom? They do the best cakes in Margate

 

[trashpony]

Ginger cake is well overdue a renaissance IMO, bloody lovely stuff.

There is a nigella ginger cake that you make with molasses which is AMAZING

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Fork. Cakes are eaten with forks.

Only posh people use forks to eat cake.

 

[danny la rouge]

Only posh people use forks to eat cake.

I’m not talking about when you’re having a Gregg’s in the street, obviously.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I’m not talking about when you’re having a Gregg’s in the street, obviously.

I guess Gregg's is too low-brow for the likes of you, fork boy. Although I suppose you could use a spork if you were slumming it and buying a ready-made cake from them.

 

[danny la rouge]

I guess Gregg's is too low-brow for the likes of you, fork boy. Although I suppose you could use a spork if you were slumming it and buying a ready-made cake from them.

Sporks are too spoony for cake.

 

[Sue]

I used to like them. Not had one in years, but I don’t think of it as a cake. More like a mille-feuille.

Mille feuille is delicate, flies cemetery is definitely not. But agree it's definitely not a cake.

Neither is cheesecake. Which is also horrible. (I thought I was just scarred by 70's packet mixes but i tried a proper one recently and that was rank an all.)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Neither is cheesecake. Which is also horrible. (I thought I was just scarred by 70's packet mixes but i tried a proper one recently and that was rank an all.)

Agree - cheesecakes are unpleasant.

 

[danny la rouge]

Mille feuille is delicate, flies cemetery is definitely not.

Yeah, it was irony.

Is flee’s cemetery (fruit slice) a purely Scottish thing? I note only Scots posters have remarked.

 

[Sue]

Yeah, it was irony.

Is flee’s cemetery (fruit slice) a purely Scottish thing? I note only Scots posters have remarked.

I've only ever seen it in Scotland so guess it might be?

 

[May Kasahara]

Cheesecake (good cheesecake) is delicious! But not a cake

 

[danny la rouge]

Cheesecake (good cheesecake) is delicious! But not a cake

A proper baked vanilla cheesecake is definitely a cake. And a delight. The weird fridge-set things that are usually passed off as cheesecake are pies though.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Is flee’s cemetery (fruit slice) a purely Scottish thing? I note only Scots posters have remarked.

Are you talking about Eccles cake type things, or more like a more substantial garibaldi product?

 

[danny la rouge]

Are you talking about Eccles cake type things, or more like a more substantial garibaldi product?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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I remember them as a kid - although possibly only had them while on holiday in Scotland.

 

[prunus]

I don't really like coffee and walnut type cakes - but I will eat them.

Not too fond of the more vegetable-based cakes - courgette and beetroot for example - but I will eat them.

Carrot cake similarly - but I will eat it.

So no, I will eat all cakes, even the ones I don't like.

 

[WouldBe]

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Squashed square mince pies.

 

[Sue]

Squashed square mince pies.

Much nicer than mince pies!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Squashed square mince pies.

Come on, I'm sure you eat mincemeat straight from the jar so the addition of some lovely pastry is acceptable too.

 

[danny la rouge]

Squashed square mince pies.

Well, no. More moist, no suet, no nuts, different spices. Much nicer.