Top 3 Cakes/Puddings

[Turkish]

Victoria Sponge

Lemon Drizzle

Cheesecake

[badgerx16]

Sticky toffee pudding

Black Forest gateau

Lemon meringue

[ecuk268]

Tiramisu

Sherry Trifle

Lemon Cheesecake

[iansums]

Fruit cake (with plenty of fruit)

Carrot cake

Coffee & Walnut

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Homemade:-

Bakewell tart slices

Fruit scones

Cherry cake

 

 

[egg]

Coffee and Walnut 

Victoria Sponge 

Lemon drizzle. 

[iansums]

Remember a good cake needs to be ‘moist’ (might need to start a thread on favourite words)

[Sevvy]

Spotted Dick,

Creme brulee ,

Jam rolly polly,

[egg]

22 minutes ago, iansums said:

Remember a good cake needs to be ‘moist’ (might need to start a thread on favourite words)

I'm in the anti moist gang... although dry isn't good either. 

[trousers]

Yorkshire

Black

Steak and Kidney

[badgerx16]

8 minutes ago, trousers said:

Black

Walking round Bury market, eating black pudding with piccalilli. Good times.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

12 minutes ago, trousers said:

Yorkshire

Black

Steak and Kidney

If you're going there, then an absolute must is fruit pudding ...

https://scottishscran.com/scottish-fruit-pudding-recipe/

[The Kraken]

Key lime pie

Raspberry and white chocolate cheesecake

Strawberry pavlova

 

 Carrot cake, and coffee and walnut cake are lovely. Brownies epic too. But my top 3 is a lock.

[Winnersaint]

STP

Black Forest Gateaux

Greek Walnut Cake and ice cream

[Gloucester Saint]

Pre-lactose intolerance:

- Sticky Toffee Pudding

- Baked Alaska

- Spotted Dick

I can find lactose free versions of the latter as fine with eggs but the first two just don’t work lactose-free. I’ve tried with STP and it’s nowhere near what I used to make myself or enjoy eating out.

There’s an amazing chocolate and orange jaffa-type cake that a garden centre over the Warwickshire border, Hillers (not Hilliers) does DF. I now make banana bread via the Hairy Bikers recipe which is a favourite.

Honourable mentions to Battenberg and Frangipane. 

Edited Tuesday at 19:12 by Gloucester Saint

[LeBizzier69]

Chocolate Fudge Cake

Battenberg

Queen of Puddings

[trousers]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Pre-lactose intolerance:

- Sticky Toffee Pudding

- Baked Alaska

- Spotted Dick

I can find lactose free versions of the latter as fine with eggs but the first two just don’t work lactose-free. I’ve tried with STP and it’s nowhere near what I used to make myself or enjoy eating out.

There’s an amazing chocolate and orange jaffa-type cake that a garden centre over the Warwickshire border, Hillers (not Hilliers) does DF. I now make banana bread via the Hairy Bikers recipe which is a favourite.

Honourable mentions to Battenberg and Frangipane. 

My wife hates snakes 

[Gloucester Saint]

13 minutes ago, trousers said:

My wife hates snakes 

You might not want to make this one for her birthday

 

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, trousers said:

Yorkshire

Black

Steak and Kidney

Jaffa

Kendall mint

Pan

[skintsaint]

I prefer a Flan.

[Turkish]

6 hours ago, skintsaint said:

I prefer a Flan.

Devils deeds mate, vile. A savory item posing as a cake, as the CoT used to warn us, beware of false prophets

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Chocolate bread and butter pudding (Delia recipe, obviously).

Swiss roll (cheap and cheerful available at any good Co-op).  Honourable mention for the frozen version, Arctic roll, which is harder to come by.

Crème brulé. Cos I'm middle class, innit.

 

[egg]

11 hours ago, Turkish said:

Devils deeds mate, vile. A savory item posing as a cake, as the CoT used to warn us, beware of false prophets

Yep. Does the CoT have an official cake? It strikes me as Red Velvet cake kind of organisation. 

[Turkish]

15 minutes ago, egg said:

Yep. Does the CoT have an official cake? It strikes me as Red Velvet cake kind of organisation. 

I couldn’t possible say, loose lips sink ships but make of this what you will 

Edited yesterday at 18:09 by Turkish

[whelk]

Has no one mentioned crumble? With ice cream, clotted cream and double cream, and maybe custard

[whelk]

On 24/03/2026 at 16:07, ecuk268 said:

Tiramisu

Sherry Trifle

Lemon Cheesecake

Tiramisu is of the devil

[egg]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

Has no one mentioned crumble? With ice cream, clotted cream and double cream, and maybe custard

I've only mentioned cakes, but any pudding top 3 will include a crumble. Apple or cherry.  Not as many toppings as yours though, custard for me. 

[Turkish]

19 minutes ago, whelk said:

Tiramisu is of the devil

Get out

[LGTL]

Apple Sponge

Profiteroles

Banoffee Pie

[Turkish]

The Rome cream buns are epic, Cafe Nero do them and they’re not bad but not a patch on them in Rome 

The second one I had in Stockholm recently a customer brought them to a meeting for us, their daughter works in bakery that makes them I forget what they are called but were wonderful 

[Gloucester Saint]

14 minutes ago, Turkish said:

The Rome cream buns are epic, Cafe Nero do them and they’re not bad but not a patch on them in Rome 

The second one I had in Stockholm recently a customer brought them to a meeting for us, their daughter works in bakery that makes them I forget what they are called but were wonderful 

Semla?

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

Has no one mentioned crumble? With ice cream, clotted cream and double cream, and maybe custard

What about a nice fruit cobbler in the summer?

[Turkish]

5 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Semla?

Yes that’s it! 

[Saint86]

#1 Basque (and other baked) cheesecakes.

#2 Meringues - Eton Mess / Pavlova / Lemon

#3 Crepe Suzette flambé

Honorary mentions to Lemon Drizzle, treacle tart, crumbles, and all non baked cheesecakes...

Edited 7 hours ago by Saint86

[ecuk268]

17 hours ago, whelk said:

Tiramisu is of the devil

You have no soul.

 

[whelk]

37 minutes ago, ecuk268 said:

You have no soul.

 

Sold it at the crossroads in return for some outstanding crumble

Edited 6 hours ago by whelk

[iansums]

Was in Cordoba today and went to a tiny bakery and bought a selection of different cakes. The owner kindly gave us a small cake made with olive oil and wine, absolutely bloody delicious, my new number 1.