Cakes you don't eat

[QueenOfGoths]

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

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

I made some "fly pie" a little while ago and it was great. Sugary, curranty, pastry goodness!! (with bonus jam tarts in the photo!)

 

[pug]

Custard. Custard is eaten with spoons.

See how wrong it is

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Looks similar to a date slice but probably nicer as no dates in it

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That looks lovely QueenOfGoths. Never understood why some people seem to be frightened of dried fruits.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

That looks lovely QueenOfGoths. Never understood why some people seem to be frightened of dried fruits.

I didn't quite get the pastry/filling ratio right in that one, it needed more filling. I made another one about a week later which was more filling laden!

 

[trashpony]

Sainsbury’s do these things called ecclefechan cakes which are like mince pies crossed with bakewell tarts. They’re bloody lovely

 

[Sue]

Sainsbury’s do these things called ecclefechan cakes which are like mince pies crossed with bakewell tarts. They’re bloody lovely

They're from my neckish of the woods and were unknown to everyone i know until they became a thing with Sainsbury's....

(Ecclefechan is known locally as 'fechan so 'fechan tarts... )

 

[WouldBe]

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

No problems with mincemeat and pastry, mince pies are nice. Some of those are not so much squashed mince pies as mince sandwiches.

 

[Elpenor]

Sainsbury’s do these things called ecclefechan cakes which are like mince pies crossed with bakewell tarts. They’re bloody lovely

Just added to my next order

 

[Saul Goodman]

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

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[Saul Goodman]

Agree - cheesecakes are unpleasant.

And wasps are great... I'm detecting a pattern.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Sainsbury’s do these things called ecclefechan cakes which are like mince pies crossed with bakewell tarts. They’re bloody lovely

Think I've had those before, but not been to a Sainsbury's for ages so will trek to one soon.

 

[oryx]

Yeah, it was irony.

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

We had them when I was growing up (in Yorkshire).

Definitely not an Eccles cake - currants between two slices of sweet pastry, served in squares.

I am sure there was a more formal name for them (not fruit slice, not anything Scottish). I've googled and can't find anything.

My dad called them flies' cemeteries. He was part (a quarter) Scottish but these pastries were easily available in cake shops.

 

[marty21]

Always disappointed when the only cake option is coffee and walnut, I don't do coffee and I don't do it in cakes. And does anyone actually like fruit cake? Why does it exist? I will eat most other cakes, though I aways find victoria sponge a bit 'meh' and I'm not that interested in carrot cake unless it's the flour-free one I make which tastes more like lemon cake anyway.

Initiates cakefight

The last cake I ate was a coffee & walnut one I don't eat a lot of cake tbf , but none spring out as a cake I wouldn't eat .

 

[trashpony]

They're from my neckish of the woods and were unknown to everyone i know until they became a thing with Sainsbury's....

(Ecclefechan is known locally as 'fechan so 'fechan tarts... )

I have totally changed my imaginary impression of you. I have never imagined you with a Scottish accent.

 

[A380]

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

Biscuit thread > stated case and everything.

 

[danny la rouge]

I don’t understand the coffee and walnut hatred. I really fancy some now.

 

[May Kasahara]

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

I endorse this view.

 

[seeformiles]

Agree - cheesecakes are unpleasant.

No way - a decent baked German style kasekuchen is a thing of beauty and a culinary delight

 

[Johnny Vodka]

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Those ones actually look okay. I'd have a go at one of those warm with a bit of custard.

 

[WouldBe]

Just enjoying a coffee with a slice of banana cake someone has brought into share at work.

The only cake I don't like is stomach ache.

A stoma cake might be a bit yuck.

 

[danny la rouge]

Those ones actually look okay. I'd have a go at one of those warm with a bit of custard.

That’s how we’d have it at school dinners.

 

[komodo]

Simnel cake (Madeira like cake with caraway seeds) inexplicably a favourite of my late Mum and offered to and rejected by the rest of us. Maybe so she could have a whole cake to herself?
cake was horrible, tasted like rancid twigs, so horrible it seems to have gone extinct.

 

[fishfinger]

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My aunt used to make that, it was wonderful. RIP auntie Joy.

 

[danny la rouge]

My aunt used to make that, it was wonderful. RIP auntie Joy.

She sounds great. RIP Joy.

 

[trashpony]

Joy is such a great name. Possibly a bit much to be saddled with tho

 

[WouldBe]

That’s how we’d have it at school dinners.

Not a cake though.

 

[pug]

Simnel cake (Madeira like cake with caraway seeds) inexplicably a favourite of my late Mum and offered to and rejected by the rest of us. Maybe so she could have a whole cake to herself?
cake was horrible, tasted like rancid twigs, so horrible it seems to have gone extinct.

I've not heard of putting caraway seeds in simnel cake or it being Madeira like, it sounds like what I would call seedy cake.
Simnel cake as I know it is a mid weight fruit cake with marzipan layer baked in the middle and marzipan decoration on top toasted.

 

[danny la rouge]

Not a cake though.

Indeed.

 

[komodo]

I've not heard of putting caraway seeds in simnel cake or it being Madeira like, it sounds like what I would call seedy cake.
Simnel cake as I know it is a mid weight fruit cake with marzipan layer baked in the middle and marzipan decoration on top toasted.

ah - it certainly was seedy

 

[maomao]

inexplicably a favourite of my late Mum and offered to and rejected by the rest of us. Maybe so she could have a whole cake to herself?

That's the reasoning behind my love of carrot cakes.

Though Mrs maomao has a tendency to moan if I buy something she doesn't like and then eat it all before I get a chance anyway. But this applies more to crisp flavours than to cake.