"If you make a birthday cake for someone, what type would it be and why?"
I promise this isn't a copout answer, but it would entirely depend on who I was making the cake for, because that would define what types of cake they do and don't like. |
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By (user no longer on site) 16 weeks ago
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"A light multi layered Genoese with raspberry mousse. Finished with chantilly cream and fresh berries "
It was my birthday yesterday but your cake was a no-show. Devastated  |
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By (user no longer on site) 16 weeks ago
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"Perhaps a 4 tier red velvet with a white chocolate and raspberry ganache and maybe iced and airbrushed "
Faaar to posh for you I'd say.
Maybe an eccles cake is more your style? |
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By *a LunaWoman 16 weeks ago
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"Historian sponge. Because sometimes simple is best!  "
I just googled this because I’d never heard of it before. Then my brain kicked in and realised it was a little typo and you mean’t Victorian Sponge.
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"Historian sponge. Because sometimes simple is best!
I just googled this because I’d never heard of it before. Then my brain kicked in and realised it was a little typo and you mean’t Victorian Sponge.
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I thought it was a variant |
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By *rAitchMan 16 weeks ago
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe |
"A rainbow cake with LOADS of buttercream inside it.
No idea how to make it but that’s what Google is for right?! "
I made a 6-layer rainbow cake for a Bake-Off competition where I used to work. Was a bit of a faff, but well worth the effort. |
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I tend to make meringues, either a pavlova or a lemon meringue pie for grown ups. Kids cakes whatever they're latest obsession is, last one I made was a tiger cake where the cake was orange, black and white and covered in green icing with a tiger on top. |
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I made for the very first time a Victoria sponge cake
In fact two - the first one is in the front lawn as a stepping stone
Oddly the history of the Victoria sponge was down to the invention of self raising flour !!! No cream , has to be raspberry filling and granulated sugar dusting
Oh Mrs Beeton published the recipe for the first time in her first book !
Anyone asleep yet ? 😇😬💤
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Carrot, maybe lemon drizzle. As a keen cyclist I'm often faced with coffee and cake at a cafe, but to be honest, nearly all cake looks better than it tastes. On the plate it's great, but sadly disappointing when you eat it |
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By (user no longer on site) 16 weeks ago
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"Everyone knows cake leads to heroin homosexuality and heroin…for the love of god please stay away from taking cake
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I’m glad someone got the reference!!!
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By (user no longer on site) 16 weeks ago
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"Everyone knows cake leads to heroin homosexuality and heroin…for the love of god please stay away from taking cake
I’m glad someone got the reference!!!
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Wasn't that Ali G ?? "
Brass eye was awesome loved the genetic modification one with the big bollock in the pram lol |
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"Perhaps a 4 tier red velvet with a white chocolate and raspberry ganache and maybe iced and airbrushed
Faaar to posh for you I'd say.
Maybe an eccles cake is more your style?"
I can do posh cakes
Eccles cakes are very much 🤢🤢😂 |
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"...but to be honest, nearly all looks better than it tastes. On the plate it's great, but sadly disappointing when you eat it
Still talking about cake, right??!  "
Some years back I was visiting a client site for work having lunch with a colleague, talking about the usual nonsense, I bought a portion of cheesecake for dessert, just ordinary looking cheesecake and bit into it.
In mid Sentence I let out an mmmmmmmmmmmm!
Wow, it looked ordinary but was the best damn cheesecake I'd ever tasted.
Sometimes things look good and are disappointing to taste, sometimes just sometimes an ordinary looking bit of food just blows your mind.  |
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"...but to be honest, nearly all looks better than it tastes. On the plate it's great, but sadly disappointing when you eat it
Still talking about cake, right??!
Some years back I was visiting a client site for work having lunch with a colleague, talking about the usual nonsense, I bought a portion of cheesecake for dessert, just ordinary looking cheesecake and bit into it.
In mid Sentence I let out an mmmmmmmmmmmm!
Wow, it looked ordinary but was the best damn cheesecake I'd ever tasted.
Sometimes things look good and are disappointing to taste, sometimes just sometimes an ordinary looking bit of food just blows your mind. "
I am an absolute slut for a good cheesecake. |
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"Buy one at Asda job done
if I wanted it to taste like cardboard - not just Asda, all supermarkets - I would "
Fresh cake is just something else, especially with fresh cream.
Beats biscuits hands down in my book |
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"Buy one at Asda job done
if I wanted it to taste like cardboard - not just Asda, all supermarkets - I would
Fresh cake is just something else, especially with fresh cream.
Beats biscuits hands down in my book "
Got the cream, just made the ganache, and a syrup sauce
This might be diabetic coma stuff 😅 |
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"Buy one at Asda job done
if I wanted it to taste like cardboard - not just Asda, all supermarkets - I would
Fresh cake is just something else, especially with fresh cream.
Beats biscuits hands down in my book
Got the cream, just made the ganache, and a syrup sauce
This might be diabetic coma stuff 😅"
That's ok, I'm on my way. Worth going 200 miles for a good bake  |
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"I'd ask what they wanted.
I've done a Kinder themed one; a fresh strawberries and cream Victoria sponge; a bakewell one; a lemon drizzle, and a couple of cheesecakes.
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This was a surprise. So I went with variations on what I knew they liked |
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"I have made alot of birthday cakes for people but The Ultimate chocolate cake is the most popular and definitely the tastiest, so that one "
Gotta have chocolate custard with it tho, not the poncy cream stuff. |
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By *riel13Woman 16 weeks ago
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"I have made alot of birthday cakes for people but The Ultimate chocolate cake is the most popular and definitely the tastiest, so that one
Gotta have chocolate custard with it tho, not the poncy cream stuff."
No!! It's fine without that stuff spoiling it, ta! |
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