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 11 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 10 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 and unlike anything I’ve tasted before, has to be my new number 1.

Edited 4 hours ago by iansums

[whelk]

45 minutes ago, iansums said:

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 and unlike anything I’ve tasted before, has to be my new number 1.

Nice but got to have a name. Quite fancy seeing that part of Spain in reasonable weather. Imagine April probably perfect?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

34 minutes ago, whelk said:

Nice but got to have a name. Quite fancy seeing that part of Spain in reasonable weather. Imagine April probably perfect?

 

1 hour ago, iansums said:

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 and unlike anything I’ve tasted before, has to be my new number 1.

Agree with Whelk. Visiting a Magic Cake Shop where you have the best cake ever is frankly taunting all the cake lovers on this thread. 🙂

[iansums]

Apologies for the tease. I think they were called ‘Rosco Solera’. We’re staying in Seville, would certainly recommend visiting this time of year, weather is glorious but not too hot.

[Turkish]

13 minutes ago, iansums said:

Apologies for the tease. I think they were called ‘Rosco Solera’. We’re staying in Seville, would certainly recommend visiting this time of year, weather is glorious but not too hot.

Heard good things about Seville. Any good?

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Cake de Ron (rum cake)

Bread pudding 

Frozen ice cream cake.