Cake update
August 11, 2020 1:02 PM Subscribe
Kronans kaka is made with potato, while a bible is required here. Edible rock garden cake. Dinosaur cheesecake. Chocolate courgette cake. Do you want cake AND crumble? Or Jaffa cake AND trifle? #CricketTea. Pigeon cake. Coffee, maple and walnut cake. Stonehenge. Someone take me to Burnham-on-Sea. Treacle and spice "Victoria sponge". Kvæfjordkake. From Malaysia, the geometry of kek lapis Sarawak. Curd cake. Sid. A 24 Carat Gold brownie. Hadrian's wall cake. Even portions. Greggs steak bake cake. Nibble on a bombolini. Stockholm cake purchasing. Kajagoogoo singer Limahl. Pleasantly silent owl. Hot fudge sundae cupcakes. #CakesOfKindness. Almond, black pepper and fig cake. Peanut butter cake. Soon, cake week, then Christmas! (Bonus: Vegan Swedish princess cake)
Hell is there even such a thing as good pie?
You have offended my honor, sir, and I challenge you to pistols at dawn.
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:10 PM on August 11, 2020 [10 favorites]
You have offended my honor, sir, and I challenge you to pistols at dawn.
posted by Johnny Assay at 1:10 PM on August 11, 2020 [10 favorites]
Hadrian's wall cake.
That's pretty impressive.
Before I clicked on the link, I was trying to Pict-ure what it would look like...
...yes, I'll show myself out.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:16 PM on August 11, 2020 [8 favorites]
That's pretty impressive.
Before I clicked on the link, I was trying to Pict-ure what it would look like...
...yes, I'll show myself out.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:16 PM on August 11, 2020 [8 favorites]
I can think of 5 kinds of pie that are better than any kind of cake. That's what makes a market I guess.
posted by jcworth at 1:26 PM on August 11, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by jcworth at 1:26 PM on August 11, 2020 [5 favorites]
I don't have a recipe to hand but lemon mascarpone sponge is my new best friend.
posted by RandomInconsistencies at 1:55 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by RandomInconsistencies at 1:55 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Hell is there even such a thing as good pie?
You have offended my honor, sir, and I challenge you to pistols at dawn.
Your dance card is going to be full like D'Artagnan, sir. I request the midmorning slot with your choice of pastry knives or marble rolling pins.
Seriously, Strawberry-Rhubarb, lemon meringue, key lime, pumpkin, chess pie, pear-ginger galette, Pecan, Walnut, pumpkin, ricotta cheese with lemon zest, a million chocolate pie variations and that's before the delicious savory options, handpies, sheppard's pie, chicken pot pie, tamale pie, etc...
I've only had like ten decent cakes in my life and most were cheesecake or very rich chocolate cake. Pie is where it's at.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:57 PM on August 11, 2020 [6 favorites]
You have offended my honor, sir, and I challenge you to pistols at dawn.
Your dance card is going to be full like D'Artagnan, sir. I request the midmorning slot with your choice of pastry knives or marble rolling pins.
Seriously, Strawberry-Rhubarb, lemon meringue, key lime, pumpkin, chess pie, pear-ginger galette, Pecan, Walnut, pumpkin, ricotta cheese with lemon zest, a million chocolate pie variations and that's before the delicious savory options, handpies, sheppard's pie, chicken pot pie, tamale pie, etc...
I've only had like ten decent cakes in my life and most were cheesecake or very rich chocolate cake. Pie is where it's at.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:57 PM on August 11, 2020 [6 favorites]
Oh, man, I will dream about that Jaffa Cake trifle tonight.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 1:58 PM on August 11, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 1:58 PM on August 11, 2020 [4 favorites]
This moist chocolate cake is surrounded by crunchy chocolate soil and decorated with a piped garden. Feel free to be creative – take the opportunity to design your own garden!
Hopefully a better baker than wordsmith, chocolate soil indeed.
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:02 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Hopefully a better baker than wordsmith, chocolate soil indeed.
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:02 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Oh man.
I want ALL THE CAKES.
The coffee maple walnut cake looks extremely tasty (although - what does "morish" mean?).
The Limahl cake (which is delightful) reminds me of a Japanese children's book I read (it's my favorite way to study Japanese), もりのおかしやさん (Forest Cake Shop), in which Weasel makes custom cakes for all the other forest creatures' birthdays and shows them off in the cake shop window - chocolate spikes for Hedgehog, mint frosting for Frog and multi-colored melted candy glaze for Lizard, marshmallow fluff for Rabbit.
But - yow. I don't get nearly enough cake in my diet, and it definitely seems like I need to address this.
Thanks for the advance notice about Cake Week - I'll have to find some appropriate ways to celebrate.
Thank you for this, Wordshore! (If you have any excess cake, please feel free to send it my way.)
posted by kristi at 2:10 PM on August 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
I want ALL THE CAKES.
The coffee maple walnut cake looks extremely tasty (although - what does "morish" mean?).
The Limahl cake (which is delightful) reminds me of a Japanese children's book I read (it's my favorite way to study Japanese), もりのおかしやさん (Forest Cake Shop), in which Weasel makes custom cakes for all the other forest creatures' birthdays and shows them off in the cake shop window - chocolate spikes for Hedgehog, mint frosting for Frog and multi-colored melted candy glaze for Lizard, marshmallow fluff for Rabbit.
But - yow. I don't get nearly enough cake in my diet, and it definitely seems like I need to address this.
Thanks for the advance notice about Cake Week - I'll have to find some appropriate ways to celebrate.
Thank you for this, Wordshore! (If you have any excess cake, please feel free to send it my way.)
posted by kristi at 2:10 PM on August 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
Hell is there even such a thing as good pie?
posted by Keith Talent
Boston Cream Pie. It's essentially cake plus.
posted by Splunge at 2:31 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Keith Talent
Boston Cream Pie. It's essentially cake plus.
posted by Splunge at 2:31 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
what does "morish" mean?
Something that makes you want more of it. Often spelled "moreish", which makes the origin & meaning a bit clearer.
posted by Lexica at 2:40 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Something that makes you want more of it. Often spelled "moreish", which makes the origin & meaning a bit clearer.
posted by Lexica at 2:40 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
What's the bestest, scrummiest, cake you've eaten so far in 2020?
posted by Wordshore at 4:02 PM on August 11, 2020
posted by Wordshore at 4:02 PM on August 11, 2020
Cake is just fancy bread. I do like the Stonehenge one, though.
posted by valkane at 4:21 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by valkane at 4:21 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Looks at the pie vs cake debate above... shakes head sadly...
So that "Treacle and spice Victoria sponge" looks pretty good to me but I thought Victoria sponge had to be a specific thing for it be called a Victoria sponge (GBBO has led me astray here)?
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:11 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
So that "Treacle and spice Victoria sponge" looks pretty good to me but I thought Victoria sponge had to be a specific thing for it be called a Victoria sponge (GBBO has led me astray here)?
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:11 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
You have offended my honor, sir, and I challenge you to pistols at dawn.
Shouldn't that be forks at dawn?
(or better cream pie throwing vs cupcake bazooka?)
** Chocolate Pudding Cake
posted by sammyo at 8:08 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Shouldn't that be forks at dawn?
(or better cream pie throwing vs cupcake bazooka?)
** Chocolate Pudding Cake
posted by sammyo at 8:08 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Bombolini is more like a donut, but all the better.
My wife made an olive-oil thyme fig cake a bit like the one mentioned that was delicious once, she's also made excellent panforte di siena, but I really think that's more like confection than cake. I have a french style baker near that makes caneles and financiers that are to die for, but I don't know if they're cakes or pastry.
posted by BrotherCaine at 9:53 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
My wife made an olive-oil thyme fig cake a bit like the one mentioned that was delicious once, she's also made excellent panforte di siena, but I really think that's more like confection than cake. I have a french style baker near that makes caneles and financiers that are to die for, but I don't know if they're cakes or pastry.
posted by BrotherCaine at 9:53 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
sammyo that is a Chocolate Self-saucing Pudding, not a cake. Known to generations of Australian children as the single greatest and most lethally hot item to emerge from the oven since the party pie. (context)
You are correct that it is best, however.
posted by prismatic7 at 11:48 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
You are correct that it is best, however.
posted by prismatic7 at 11:48 PM on August 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
I really need to make that Stonehenge cake.
Current Archaeology had a thing about archaeological cakes a couple of years ago. Here, and the winner.
posted by paduasoy at 12:41 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
Current Archaeology had a thing about archaeological cakes a couple of years ago. Here, and the winner.
posted by paduasoy at 12:41 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
This magic custard cake is one of my current favourites, which manages to be both easy to make, AND simultaneously have some of the attributes of a tart (the base ends up a little reminiscent of a fudgier pie case), custard, pudding (the center is more like a thick egg tart filling) and a meringue sponge on the top. I might try a rhubarb/blackberry one this weekend...
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:55 AM on August 12, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:55 AM on August 12, 2020 [4 favorites]
So that "Treacle and spice Victoria sponge" looks pretty good to me but I thought Victoria sponge had to be a specific thing for it be called a Victoria sponge (GBBO has led me astray here)?
No, you’re right, that is infuriatingly inaccurate naming. What they’ve made there is gingerbread. It has literally nothing in common with Victoria sponge apart from being a cake.
posted by Bloxworth Snout at 3:23 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
No, you’re right, that is infuriatingly inaccurate naming. What they’ve made there is gingerbread. It has literally nothing in common with Victoria sponge apart from being a cake.
posted by Bloxworth Snout at 3:23 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
It’s not even layered!
posted by Bloxworth Snout at 3:23 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Bloxworth Snout at 3:23 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
Mod note: Added quotation marks around "Victorian sponge" per OP's request.
posted by taz (staff) at 3:51 AM on August 12, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by taz (staff) at 3:51 AM on August 12, 2020 [3 favorites]
What they’ve made there is gingerbread.
Yep; I side-eyed that when I first saw it, but forgot to mention it in a sarcastic way in the FPP; the mods have now made a slight adjustment. Country Living is a strange publication, seemingly aimed at day-dreaming, heavily-loaded residents of the "home" counties ("Ride on a steam train with Mary Berry for four hours: £340") and it's not the first time they've labelled something in a quite inaccurate manner.
posted by Wordshore at 3:56 AM on August 12, 2020 [3 favorites]
Yep; I side-eyed that when I first saw it, but forgot to mention it in a sarcastic way in the FPP; the mods have now made a slight adjustment. Country Living is a strange publication, seemingly aimed at day-dreaming, heavily-loaded residents of the "home" counties ("Ride on a steam train with Mary Berry for four hours: £340") and it's not the first time they've labelled something in a quite inaccurate manner.
posted by Wordshore at 3:56 AM on August 12, 2020 [3 favorites]
I am relieved that this "Victoria Sponge" debacle can be put behind us now. May Mary Berry's name be praised!
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:32 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:32 AM on August 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
What's the bestest, scrummiest, cake you've eaten so far in 2020?
I was treated to four days of a nearly-flourless chocolate cake - incredibly moist and decadent - first with raspberry sauce and mint leaves, then with powdered sugar, then with butter almond sauce, and then again with raspberry sauce.
That was MAGNIFICENT.
It was also months ago, and I would love a great big slab of German's chocolate cake right about now. Also it's been years since I've had like an orange iced bundt or lemon cake; I could go for that, too.
All the cake, please!
posted by kristi at 7:57 AM on August 13, 2020 [1 favorite]
I was treated to four days of a nearly-flourless chocolate cake - incredibly moist and decadent - first with raspberry sauce and mint leaves, then with powdered sugar, then with butter almond sauce, and then again with raspberry sauce.
That was MAGNIFICENT.
It was also months ago, and I would love a great big slab of German's chocolate cake right about now. Also it's been years since I've had like an orange iced bundt or lemon cake; I could go for that, too.
All the cake, please!
posted by kristi at 7:57 AM on August 13, 2020 [1 favorite]
What's the bestest, scrummiest, cake you've eaten so far in 2020?
posted by Wordshore
The SO made a triple layer cheesecake for a friend having a birthday. First layer as plain cheesecake. The second was peach flavored cheesecake. The third was sliced peaches arranged like a tart tatin covered with a prosecco flavored gelatin. It looked amazing and tasted better. I'd post pics but... maybe I will.
posted by Splunge at 5:32 PM on August 17, 2020
posted by Wordshore
The SO made a triple layer cheesecake for a friend having a birthday. First layer as plain cheesecake. The second was peach flavored cheesecake. The third was sliced peaches arranged like a tart tatin covered with a prosecco flavored gelatin. It looked amazing and tasted better. I'd post pics but... maybe I will.
posted by Splunge at 5:32 PM on August 17, 2020
Cake is just fancy bread.
You mean like this?
posted by Wordshore at 12:41 AM on August 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
You mean like this?
posted by Wordshore at 12:41 AM on August 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
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