*Update* Thanks for all your entries! The contest is closed now. We'll announce the winner in the morning! *Update*
Sweet Things are very special to us. We love trying new cupcakeries, and we want to try every single cupcake we can get our hands on, but Sweet Things are our absolute bakery of choice. Jane sends Sweet Things cakes to her PR clients, Robyn got some for her birthday and The Domestic Sluts even send them to each other when we want to send presents. They're lovely and always our go-to baker. Always moist sponge and ever creamy frosting and lovely friendly folk at the end of the line.
So we absolutely couldn't have a cupcake giveaway without them. National Cupcake Week would be rubbish without them. So you should all try and win a box to find out what's so good about them!
What do you have to do to win? Just leave a comment in this post telling us about the best cake you ever had. Doesn't have to be a cupcake, can be aaaaaaany kind of cake ever. Everyone has one cake they never forget and we want to hear about them!
Sweet Things are based in Primrose Hill and they'll deliver to any London postcode (don't you shout at us you non-Londoners, we've got another contest you can enter later on today). Just comment and tell us about your best ever cake and you'll be entered into the draw at the end of the day (6pm this time). As this is a prize draw, you will get an extra entry if you retweet this post on Twitter, but only one, because spam is still annoying even if it's for free cake.
Once we've got all the entries in, we'll tell you who's won, but make sure you enter the other competition later today - we're keeping that one a surprise, but we're really excited about that too!
The small print bit: Competition cakes only delivered to a London postcode. Please don't shout at us if you don't win, there's other cupcakes tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after that too. The whole week in fact. We're not allowed to enter, but if you were interested, Siany once made a 'woodland creature' cake for her Dad using marshmallow and a yule log. It was awesome. We wish we could enter our own competitions. Humph.
The best cake I ever had was a giant Jaffa cake. I know there's biscuit v. cake debate with normal Jaffa cakes, but the giant one was most certainly a cake :)
ReplyDeleteMy mum bakes cakes to order - not fanciful, decorated things, but good honest home-baked goodies. She regularly supplies a coffee shop in her town, and many of that shop's clients comes specifically to have her cakes. Her most popular is a fairly ugly looking but superbly moist, sweet and delicious apple cake (with a hint of cinnamon).
ReplyDeleteHowever, this is not the best cake I have ever had.
No, the best cake I have ever eaten is another of her creations, and this time, it's both delicious AND gorgeous. It's a four layer black forest... VICTORIA SPONGE. All the delicious, dark chocolatey and cherry-y goodness of a black forest gateau, but without the heaviness: the cake component is a chocolate sponge, so light and fluffy. It is both intensely rich and light and lovely.
She doesn't make these babies for the coffee shop: they are incredibly hard work to make (four layers of sponge, held together with cream, cherry jam, kirsch, etc. etc., and topped off with cream and chocolate shavings), and quite expensive in terms of ingredients. So she just saves them for special occasions, like my birthday ;) Lucky me!
The best cake I ever had was a totally scrumptious dark-chocolate-rich Sacher-torte (does that count too?). Moist rum-hint soft texture with delicious home-made apricot jam. I mean, come on, that is pure indulgence.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite cake ever was a cake my mum made me for my 8th birthday. It was a round dome with an actual Barbie doll sticking out of the top of it!! The cake was Barbies puffball skirt! It was the most outstanding thing I've ever seen. Brilliant! xx
ReplyDeleteOh anything baked by my husband. He had never baked before, but one rainy weekend got the urge, and my lord it was the softest, moistest, tastiest Victoria Sponge I have ever had - knew I married him for a reason ;o)
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(p.s. AstridKitti, your Mum's cake sounds divine!)
The best cake I ever had was for my 12th birthday. My Mum made the most amazing carrot cake with cream icing. I was very much into ponies at the time and she created a whole show-jumping arena, with Mikado sticks for jumps and even some tiny chocolate buttons cut up to make pony droppings! The effort she went to really sticks in my mind and I'd definitely share my cupcakes with my Mum if I win! x
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had... was one cooked by my mother when I was 7. She made a lemon meringue pie, with lemon curd from a lovely elderly local lady. It was the prettiest thing I had ever seen, and although I was not allowed near it, I stole into the fridge for a peak. That became a bite. That became the removal of the meringue... that left my mother with a cake base with smudgy little finger lines on it from digging out the lemon... It will always be the best cake ever because I wasn't allowed it and I ate the entire thing alone without a second thought!
ReplyDeleteHmm... unfortunately my post dates back to yesterday's competition, but I thought I'd add it in for posterity:
ReplyDeleteI could give you a sob-story about how my cat has run off with the fiddle (again) or that I work with a one-armed Bratislavian boy who has never seen a tortoise. But in fact, my plea is for free cupcakes to help restore some balance to our office.
You see, we have a regular ‘Bake Monday’ at our office, where everyone takes it in turns to bring in lovely treats, like chocolate and marshmallow brownies, ginger cake, freshly bakes scones, mini tart-au-citrons, carrot cake, and other such wonderful treats.
However, while the girls have been crafting fine treats, us boys have been letting the side down, but not through lack of trying. My attempt at Millionaire Shortbread started off very strong, until the fire alarm went off (I tried to cheat but left the condensed milk in the pan too long). Since then the cheesecake bites crumbled too soon, but the cookies worked out great (as coffee mug coasters).
So – my plea is for free cupcakes to enlighten and motivate us chaps, and get us back in the kitchens and baking with aplomb!
Incidentally, I think Emma is spot on with her giant Jaffa cake. Yum.
A rich fruit cake in the shape of an opened Christmas cracker! It was baked in two Baked Beans cans and decorated with green and red icing.
ReplyDeleteI made this with my mother in law over 24 years ago and the family still talk about it.
I am sure I still have the recipe in one of my cook books. Might just surprise the family later this year!
Best Cake EVER, was a chocolate cupcake with lemon butter icing on that my boyfriend got me every day for a week after I managed to destroy every tendon in my ankle. Being immobile, bad, having a gorgeous man bring you lovely cakes, brilliant!!x
ReplyDeleteI had some fantastic birthday cakes as a child (made by my mum). My first was a fairytale castle with proper turrets (made out of cardboard) and snow. I was five and it was amaaaazing. The rest were made entirely of cake: I remember a grand piano, and a hamster. But the best one ever was a giant fat Buddha.
ReplyDeleteWe had a big wooden Buddha who sat in the living room and as a toddler I was fascinated by it (it was about the same size as me). My Mum made me a replica cake when I was older. I remember fighting with my friends over who got to eat the belly button!
The hamster was pretty good too - it had little paws and everything. How did she do that?!
The best cake I ever had, I haven't had yet. When I was ten, I made a bet with my Dad that if I would learn from him how to make a chicken jalfrezi, he would learn from me how to make a victoria sponge. I made an amazing curry, and have been asking him ever since when we are going to make a cake together. He hasn't succumbed yet. I'm 30 and I still have a cake shaped hole in my life, which would only be filled by winning amazing cupcakes.
ReplyDeleteThe best cake that I have ever had was my gorgeous, divine, amazing wedding cake! It was a tower individual cakes full of flavours and colours...chocolate, hazel nut, lemon, toffee, carrot and coffee - yum!
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had was an incredibly moist banana cake with cream cheese icing. My flatmate baked it, and we had one piece... and then ended up eating half of it in the one sitting. It was THAT good.
ReplyDeleteMy mum makes an amazing double chocolate ganache rasprberry Victoria sponge cake. one layer sponge, one layer white chocolate ganache and raspberrries, one layer sponge, and then the top is covered in dark chocolate (i mean proper dark like 70%) ganache and topped with more raspberries....YUM!!! The combination of moist sponge, rich sweet white chocolate ganache, bitter indulgent dark chocolate ganache and the light fruitness of the raspberries...well ladies, I bet you can just imagine how good it is!:)
ReplyDeleteThe best cake i ever had was the one my sisters friend made for my 17th birthday. She was just starting her own cooking business and she make me a birthday cake in the shape of the tortoise from the british gas creature comforts advert. It was huge and so over the top!! I cant imagine anyone one else ever having one like that. It was so funny, she had it right down to the red and white sweat band he wore. Hilarious!! It tasted fab too, lemon and almond sponge...my fave! Ahhh to be 17 again :)
ReplyDeleteThe best cupcake i ever had was one made for me by my 3 year old brother Jared. His heart and soul goes into baking those cakes and he loves to hand them out to all the family....as well as lick the bowl and eat more 100s and 1000s than there are on the cakes! My personal favourite were the blue iced spiderman ones! :)
ReplyDeleteCan I join in even though I don't live in London? Just because, frankly, I love talking about cake? (And if you really like my entry, well, I know my newly-wed London friend Sarah and her hubby would LOVE some cupcakes to toast their brand-spanking-new flat!)
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had was the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe cake my Mum made for my 5th birthday party. Covered in thick yellow buttercream and complete with "children" nicked from my Fisher Price Big Wheel...
The best I ever made was for my ex's 27th birthday. It was a ninja monkey pirate ship cake, complete with handwoven red liquorice lace rigging and a ninja monkey pirate captain made of fimo (so he could be kept - the rest were edible though!). The cake was chocolate, and the cabin was gluten-free for one of his friends. I was so proud!
Can we please talk about cake every week??
The best cake i ever had was a betty crocker carrot cake, absolutely plastered in vanilla frosting. Ok, granted it was made from a cake mix out of a box but it really was heavenly.I was very naughty and practicly ate the whole cake to myself, disregarding the fact that the box stated that it served way more than one person!
ReplyDeleteA close second was a Thortons toffee cake i had with a mug of tea recently. Rather small but a mouthful of lovely lush yummyness nevertheless!
I think mine would have to be a cake I had a few weeks ago on holiday. We were in Northumberland and ventured over to Holy Island. There was a cafe there called The Priory.
ReplyDeleteThey served the Best. Brownies. Ever. (Firm on the outside, chewy in the centre...) (But I was/am on a diet so to be fair any cake would have tasted good. But they were still gorgeous.)
The best cake I ever had was my fourth birthday, baked by my Mum, who isn't a professional baker or decorator by any means, but still managed to fashion me a delicious cake in the form of Thomas the Tank Engine - I can still remember it to this day!
ReplyDeleteNow I want cake.... yummy....!
I don't feel I should answer this because I'm probably forgetting The Best Cake I Ever Had and maybe even The Second Best Cake I Ever Had in favour of what happens to the most recent cakealicious delight.
ReplyDeleteBut The (Third? I mean, it might be First but who knows) Best Cake I Ever Had was probably carrot cake at work. Homemade carrot cake. Squidgey and moist and amazing, with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting on top and in the middle. Because that's how a cake should be: light (not too light or you'll feel like you're not getting your money's worth), moist, sweet, with another cream/icing/frosting to make it all blend together and melt in your mouth.
Mmmmm cake cake cake cake cake! Even the word is delicious!
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had was made for me as a leaving present when I left a job. It was an office job with a tradition of staff coffee breaks at 11am so cake was a regular feature. At the time, I kept rats and my office was situated halfway between home and the vets so, on occasion, the rats came with me to work, enjoyed a day exploring my desk and hiding my paperclips, and then on to the vets afterwards. They were firm favourites in the staff coffee room so nobody minded finding a rat or two in the envelope tray.
On my last day, I went to staff coffee as usual and was met with the most amazing RAT CAKE ever! Made from deliciously light sponge, held together with jam and decorated with wonderfully sweet vanilla and chocolate buttercream, he had to be super tasty because he was far to gorgeous to eat otherwise! Yes, the rat cake was actually rat shaped!
You can see him at http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/257320211_29d5c4bd80.jpg
Cutting into him was hard... but oh so worth it!
My mum made some great cakes when we were kids, but the best one was a chocolate sponge hedgehog with chocolate butter icing and chocolate buttons for the spines. So completely excellent that my wonderful sister recreated it for my 30th. Cos I'm a grown-up, obviously.
ReplyDeleteContrary to most of the comments above, I'm going to be controversial and say that the best cake I've ever had was one that I baked myself. There's some modesty for you.
ReplyDeleteIt was a birthday cake for my flatmate: basic recipe was chocolate brownie, poured into two sponge tins.
I used 70% cocoa chocolate (always a good start), and mixed a good healthy dose of Jack Daniels into the mix. I baked it on a low heat for half an hour, until it was just starting to firm up, and then pushed little nuggets of white chocolate and crystalised ginger into the mixture (in both tins). I turned the heat up a bit more, and baked until set on the outside, but still nice and squidgy in the centre. I left it to cool, and then placed the two brownie/cakes together with a thick layer of freshly muddled rasberries in the centre.
Amazing, though I say so myself.
My bestest most cakiest cake ever was for my 10th birthday and baked by my step-mum-from-hell who I hated (so the fact that I still love the cake says a lot about that there cake)! It was huuuuuowwwwwge and shaped like a Siamese cat and decorated with buttercream icing (in beige with chocolate colour for the ears, face, paws and tail)and licorice whiskers and the sparkly blue siamese cat eyes were made from those licorice allsorts - the round ones that are covered in little balls that come in pink and blue and tastle like Bonjela - the ones that appear like they don't belong in the bag and have just bullied their way in to the Licorice Allsort coven.
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had was my wedding cake. My mother baked it in London and carried it to Hong Kong complete with fancy icing flowers for a special ceremony at the culmination of my intercontinental romance. China was blown away by a nice, heavy good old English fruit cake.
ReplyDeleteIt's so hard to choose! I think maybe the New York Cheesecake my housemate made for me on my birthday - it always tastes better when it's baked with love, innit.
ReplyDeleteMmm I have had a lot of good cake in my time, however two that stand out are: recently a chocolate and beetroot cake in a tea shop in Edinburgh - absolutely delish with yummy chocolatey frosting on top and the smug knowledge that I am eating vegetable disguised as cake.
ReplyDeleteAnother that stands out is a birthday cake my sister had when she was about 5 and I was 10. It was shaped like a big bed with fondant icing pillows and duvet and had a little fudge cat and dog on top. Luckily my sister didn't have such a sweet tooth and didn't like it, so I got to eat it all NOM NOM NOM! :)
The best cake I ever had was a chocolate fudge cake (boring it may sound but so totally memorable I can nearly taste it thinking about it.) Unlike most choclate fudge cakes this wasn't sickly or filling it was pure heavenly. The cake was warm with small white chocolate drops in the centre...melted. The sponge was light and fluffy with a choclate frosting that would make you drool. To top it off there was a white AND milk chocolate sauce to accompany it. MMMMMMMMMMM hungry now....!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a cheap toffee cheesecake, probably purchased that afternoon from a mediocre supermarket in the local high street.
ReplyDeleteI remember it because a) it was surprisingly delicious, and b) eating it with one of my best friends in his kitchen made it taste all the sweeter.
The best cake I have ever tasted was last year at my cousins double wedding. They had a cake each, with different flavours for each tier. The best was a really rich, deep moist chocolate cake with chocolate cream filling all covered with white icing. So delicious! Two cakes ~ that's gotta be better than just one! x
ReplyDeleteMy Mum baked me a fantastic cake shaped and decorated like a television set, with a picture of a newsreader on the tv set made out of fondant icing. All very artisinal, none of this digital-printing-on-rice-paper rubbish (plus this was 20 years ago and there was no such thing as digital printing).
ReplyDeleteShe then recorded the headlines of the 6 o' clock news onto an audio tape and added an extra headline about it being my birthday, which played as she brought the cake out. Everyone at my party thought it was so fabulous, we made her play the tape over and over again.
Cake wasn't at all bad, either.
Earlier this year I made a special 30th birthday cake for my boyfriend. I had ideas of grandeur - he loves deep sea fishing, so I envisioned a marlin leaping out of the base of the cake. In the end, it turned out to be quite a spectacle! I made the marlin out of rice krispie treats, and after dinner when the pub brought the cake to the table, the marlin was passed around so that all my boyfriend's friends could take a bite. It ended up being pretty funny looking, but it was absolutely delicious, the cake was perfect, the marlin devoured and inspired a lot of good laughs!!!
ReplyDeleteMy best ever cake was made for my 18th by my mum. I felt I was too old for such things but mum decided to have a family afternoon tea when I visited home from London. She made the most fantastic chocolate castle cake for me -it was gorgeous, home made chocolate cake, covered in chocolate frosting, with chocolate rolls as turrets complete with little flags and even a little princess hand made by her standing outside. It was gorgeous and absolutely fabulous and made a very (privately) homesick me very happy!
ReplyDeleteTerry's used to make a chocolate orange cake - two layers of moist orange sponge separated by chocolate orange fudge, and then covered in chocolate orange icing. Absolutely marvellous. I only ever saw them once - luckily I got to sample one for my birthday that year. Can we pressgang them into bringing it back?
ReplyDeleteBest cake ive ever had was a vanilla cupcake with gorgeous colored buttercream icing that my sister made for me on 3 tiers for my engagement party. They were yellow, pink, green and blue with sprinkles and icing flowers/decorations on top. Sponge was so light and gorgeous and buttercrem so moreish! Yum!
ReplyDeleteBest cake I ever had was the German Chocolate cake at Magnolia Bakery. Totally sticky and delicious.
ReplyDeleteI love any type of cakes, they are all a good start to the day, making people happy and making people smile. I like making cakes and also eating them and finding the most unusual ones.
ReplyDeleteI recently tried a recipe for Chocolate fudge cake and Chilli. This has to be one of the best cakes I have ahd in a long time, quite bizarre but very good. I cooked this for my friends and family and they all seemed to enjoy it.
The best cake I ever had was a triple tier chocolate cake with a chocolate fudge sauce which was made for my friends birthday. Perfection
ReplyDeleteA caterpillar cake baked by my grandma! Green icing and desicated coconut to make it fuzzy! Plus carrot antenna!
ReplyDeleteThe best cupcake I have ever had was from Milligans and consisted of a crunched up cookie for the base with chocolate chunks with a chocolate icing and a pink smartie on top. It was absolutely delicious!!!!! mmmmm
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had was the one that appeared out of a tupperware box on my birthday, two days into a festival. My husband has baked my birthday chocolate cake with chocky icing while I was out the night before we left & had snuck it into his pack to surprise me. It was a great breakfast treat!
ReplyDeleteAt my brothers wedding earlier this year, the zip on my dress split and I spent the entire afternoon in the toilet crying. I was eventually coaxed out and brought a change of clothes.
ReplyDeleteThe wedding cake was array of cupcakes - it was genuinely beautiful.
On reappearing from the toilet a few hours later, I was handed a couple of cupcakes. The one with pink icing really got me smiling again, totally cheered me up and got me back into the party spirit.
Cup cakes saved the day!!
One of the (many) cakes I eaten that sticks in the mind is the one my mother made for me for my 6th (?) birthday. It was a princess cake. She'd stolen one of my Barbies and built a skirt out of cake. It was awesome. And I was dressed up as a Queen (not entirely sure why or what relevance it has but the photos show me looking very regal!).
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had was my sister's wedding cake - it was a classic fruit cake, tasted great and looked lovely. But more importantly, it was my sister's wedding cake. Awwwwww. I set her up with her hubby, and five years later they have a gorgeous baby. I still get weepy when I think about it.
ReplyDeleteHow about the best cake I never had?
ReplyDeleteMy wedding cake. 3 tiers of chocolate cake. Decorated with gold and chocolate stars and a thing of utter beauty. Massive too. We only had 70 guests but provided enough cake for probably 3 times that number. The guests tucked in and many yummy noises were made.
But I was wearing a corseted dress. And by the time I'd had my starter I couldn't eat anymore. So I didn't eat my cake.
The next day we discovered we still had vast quantities of cake left. What do you do with half a massive chocolate cake? It doesn't keep like fruitcake. It needs to be eaten. We were off on honeymoon, it would spoil.
Someone at the venue worked for Meals on Wheels. Suggested she could cut it up and take it to her customers. Spread a little happiness with our delicious chocolatey wedding cake.
So that's what we did. The beautiful cake went out with Meals on Wheels and was apparently a massive hit.
But I didn't get any. Not a taste of my wedding cake. Not a morsel. I'm told it was delicious. It certainly looked good.
The best cake I ever had a was a HUGE slice of cheesecake in New York about 2 years ago (actually to the day!)
ReplyDeleteI went there with my then boyfriend (now wonderful husband!) and we had been travelling for about 20 hrs, had literally just dumped our bags and started to explore the Lower East Side.
I was in my element watching him take everything in (he'd never been to the US before, let alone NYC). He was like a Miss Crafty in a cake shop!
I got out my map to a recommended bakers and we set off in the scorching heat - jetlag be damned! I had the New York cheesecake and he had Canoli(?)(purely because they eat it in The Sopranos - such a boy!).
It was an amazing holiday and amazing cakes. Thanks for reminding me it's our cheesecake anniversary and of this great memory.
The best cake I ever had was the first cake my daughter baked at school!
ReplyDeleteA recent and accidental discovery resulted in a cake to remember. I was disappointed when a chocolate sponge did not bake with the light and fluffy finish I strive for but instead of wasting it I combined it with chocolate ganache, heaped into a loaf tin and put it in the fridge - an hour later you can cut it into chunks or slices for ultimate chocolate satisfaction!
ReplyDeleteThe best cake I ever had was a Lemon loaf cake I made on Monday. It took me ages to make as I dont have an electric mixer so had to whisk it all by hand and I was still baking at 11pm but when it was ready it was heaven, even my cat, fiance and work mates loved it!!
ReplyDeleteThe best cake sentimentality-wise that I have ever had would have to be a toss up between the barbie cake my mom made for me for one of my birthdays or the treasure chest cake that was filled with sweeties!
ReplyDeleteMore recently THE best chocolate cake EVER has got to be at a rose farm in the Eastern cape of South Africa. Absolutely gorgeous and made even more gorgeous by the surroundings!
The best cake I ever had was a dense chocolate cake served at the museum in Toronto. It was the perfect balance between dense chocolate, moistness and structural integrity. It was a thing of beauty and it was never the same again after the chef left. I went in to mourning for a week.
ReplyDeleteBest cupackae ever had was a chocholate and mint cupckae that was specially desined by a friend to have the picture of my pet dascaund dog Lance!! Taseted great and Lance even had a small bit!
ReplyDeleteI had a cake for something that doesn't usually require a cake - however i have a family who literally use any situation out of the norm as an oppurtunity to buy or make cakes.
ReplyDeleteThis one was from a lady who used to be my babysitter about 10 years a go and has now opened a little shop called Bake a Boo, small pink flowery mis-matched living room type shop - and the cakes match the cosey yummy sunday afternoon feeling of the shop. W
e all sat around my kitchen table, the families of me and my friend who was leaving with me for 9 months and the cake managaed to silence 14 people as the moist yet perfectly flakey cake melted in our mouths, it went beautifully with a cup of tea - and evan my nan who never induldges had a second helping.
I regretted how much i ate of that cake on the plane the next day! But when cake is that good - no one can resist.
The best cake I ever had was my sister’s wedding cake. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “What a cliché!”, but it is actually the most amazing cake I have ever had.
ReplyDeleteRight, so, imagine this: Chocolate cake with a ‘dulce de leche’ filling, along with a coconut layer in the middle. Not only does this make your taste bunds tingle from all the sugar, but add vanilla icing and strawberry sauce surrounding the slice to the mix. If that doesn’t make you drool (and I know your were writing down the ingredients as you read this), I don’t know what will!
I don't know if it counts as a cake as such. But we had a truly excellent confectionary experience with the construction of a double-decker toffee crisp. It was 40cm long with two layers of crisp, caramel and chocolate. And by god it was calory filled. Some may argue that it wasn't a cake as a small toffee crisp is a biscuit or chocolate bar. But for sheer size, I believe it qualifies. Unfortunately, all the amazing experience was in the construction, as it needed to cool for 2 days in a fridge before it could be enjoyed and my co-chef abandoned my contribution for other people and I never got to taste our monstrosity.
ReplyDeleteThankfully, a few weeks later, I reconstructed a bigger one and sampled it's delights. Nevertheless, the original cooking of our toffee crisp cake was the best experience of the saga. And it taught me two important lessons: don't make a giant cake in somebody else's fridge; and don't exercise on a chcolate-filled stomach.
The best cake I've ever eaten was a red velvet cupcake, sneaked from its pastel pink box in the dead of night.
ReplyDeleteMy sister had brought it home as a reward for passing an exam and had kept it in the cake tin for us to eat the next morning...but it was far too late.
The Cupcake Devil had claimed another soul as his own and as the hours ticked by, I lay in bed fretting - conscious of the scarlet lady downstairs, calling my name in sweet, frosting-coated tones!
Being discovered in my icing covered pyjamas with tell tale scarlet crumbs round my mouth was definitely not my finest hour - though it was worth it for the best cake i've ever eaten!
BANANA CAKE!!! Gets so overlooked as its more like a loaf, but it is amazing!! especially with a bananery buttercream topping ala pret! yumyum
ReplyDeleteUpside down pineapple cake that me ma used to make!! was amazing- the contrast of the fresh, zingy pineapple with the soft sweet sponge was just amazing
ReplyDeleteMy nan made the best cakes- not sure if this counts but she made an AMAZING apple tart! no one has ever made one that compares since- the soft apple and undertones of cinnamon, yum!
ReplyDeleteWe had a bake off at work recently, eahc member of staff had to bake something and we rated them- someone made the most awesome chocolate cake- 3 layers- sponge, chocolate fudge, sponge, fudge etc etc. AMAZING- So rich and moreish, lovely when put in microwave too
ReplyDeleteThe best cakes I've ever had were these muffins that I used to buy from the cafe while I was at uni. They were chocolate with a gooey caramel centre and a white chocolate button on top. They were always hot and they were cheap. I probably ate one almost every day!
ReplyDeleteBest cake must have been the giant marshmallow cake with smarties icing I accidentally fell into. What went into my mouth was essentially delightful and if such an accident can occur again, I will take it to go!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter makes the messiest but crunchiest cake of Rice Krispie cakes covered in Galaxy chocolate!
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