Looby
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I don’t like fruit cake. We had a fruit layer, a chocolate and a lemon. I didn’t get any chocolate or lemon.
Fruit or Chocolate Cake for Mum's Birthday Help!
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Near enough - it's sweet and cake-shaped.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
This is a really easy cake, and probably passes Looby's stringent cake-o-meter rules.
www.nigella.com
I made it with lemons instead of clementines - a beautiful cake.
Clementine Cake
This, an adaption of Claudia Roden's magnificent orange and almond cake, is a wonderfully damp, dense and aromatic flourless cake: it tastes like one of those sponges you drench, while cooling, with syrup, only you don't have to. And it's such an accommodating kind of cake, too: it keeps well...
www.nigella.com
I made it with lemons instead of clementines - a beautiful cake.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Nigellas Guinness cake is piece of piss and chocolatey. You can do it n half pint glasses to give it the full effect if you have a few of those.
Would a fruit cake have to be a trad ‘fruit cake’ or could it be anything with fruit in? Lots of lovely apple cake recipes.
Would a fruit cake have to be a trad ‘fruit cake’ or could it be anything with fruit in? Lots of lovely apple cake recipes.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Ooh I’ve done v similar to that a couple of times, must try it with lemons.This is a really easy cake, and probably passes Looby's stringent cake-o-meter rules.
Clementine Cake
This, an adaption of Claudia Roden's magnificent orange and almond cake, is a wonderfully damp, dense and aromatic flourless cake: it tastes like one of those sponges you drench, while cooling, with syrup, only you don't have to. And it's such an accommodating kind of cake, too: it keeps well...
I made it with lemons instead of clementines - a beautiful cake.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I like fruit cake (loaf) - and was introduced to having Wensleydale cheese with it a few years ago - and I can bake a mean loaf.
Funnily enough, me and OH both like fruit cake, but my FiL didn't get on with dried fruit in anything, unlike his brother. At crimble auntie J had to bake another fruit loaf to keep her OH out of the official cakes, I baked him several fruit loaves as a thank you for helping with a motorbike repair that took some months to complete ...
I also like any manner and form of cake, including cheesecake ... but when watching one's waistline, rationing of consumption is required.
Special exemptions for birthdays and anniversaries !
Funnily enough, me and OH both like fruit cake, but my FiL didn't get on with dried fruit in anything, unlike his brother. At crimble auntie J had to bake another fruit loaf to keep her OH out of the official cakes, I baked him several fruit loaves as a thank you for helping with a motorbike repair that took some months to complete ...
I also like any manner and form of cake, including cheesecake ... but when watching one's waistline, rationing of consumption is required.
Special exemptions for birthdays and anniversaries !
Looby
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It looks amazing and I would totally eat it all. I guess it’s not a birthday cake sort of cake. It seems I have some quite rigid cake opinions I wasn’t aware of.Near enough - it's sweet and cake-shaped.
Looby
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Ooh, Dorset Apple cake!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I was thinking Devonshire (amongst others) but Dorset would do.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Use the bun tin and make lots of different small cakes.
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
I love a good fruit cake. I make an excellent Dundee cake.
andysays
Love and solidarity
If your repertoire is banana loaf or carrot cake, I'd stick with one (or both) of those at this point.MumBadgers birthday on Sunday and she wants a cake as a 'present' when I see her tomorrow
I asked her what she wanted and she said 'fruit or chocolate' which is a broad remit! My repertoire is limited to banana loaf and carrot cake which are not that fruity or chocolatey
I'm not your Mum, but if I was, I'd rather have a well made but simple cake than an elaborate cake that didn't turn out right.
And then spend some time practising and broadening your repertoire so you can make her something more elaborate on her next birthday.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I love sponge cakes, the queen of cakes. At our wedding Ms747 and I had a multi tiered fruit cake but with, get this, one tier of sponge cake. Thumbs.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
I made a wedding cake for a friend. His sister didn't like fruit cake so the top tier was a Madeira cake.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
A man after my own heart, the only ingredients I need to make any kind of cake is a phone and a credit card.
Wrong 'un,
I love those. My corner shop sells them for a pound. I think they only get them in for me.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Order an ordinary one and use scrabble tiles
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I bought a battenberg a couple of months ago for old times sake - it was shit.Wrong 'un,
I love those. My corner shop sells them for a pound. I think they only get them in for me.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Are you one of the legion of weirdos who don't like marzipan?
Which is also often a problem among the celebration fruit cake hating folk as well.
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Someone I know actually MADE a battenburg once. It was a bity wonky but by god it was good.I bought a battenberg a couple of months ago for old times sake - it was shit.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
I Iove almonds, hate marzipan and yes fruit cake/wedding cake/christmas cake and christmas pudding , not cus of the marzipan but as well as....
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
clicker
nanook rubs it....
Yes, I think it stems from never actually knowing what it was made of when I was a kid and being cruelly tricked into thinking it should be nice, because look at all that snowy peaked icing on top of it....and the rosy cheeked Santa figurine. Crushing disappointments at Christmas time over and over again.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Chocolate ganache, FTW.
Looby
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That’s a good idea, thanks. I’ve got a travel scrabble set with smaller tiles so should fit on a cake.
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