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Malt Loaf

Did you ever see a dead cat as you were driving down the road? A dead cat, hit by a car a few hours or a day ago, coming steadily towards you. You don't want to look at a dead cat, you like cats. You really don't want the image of a dead cat, crushed by a tyre and picked at by buzzards in your mind for the rest of the day. It's just...you can't look away; you've moved 200 yards closer and you still can't look away. You see the poor mangled fur getting closer, start making out the broken pattern of it's little shredded body, yet you can't look away. It fills you at once with both sadness and disgust, and fear for that you will be haunted by the nightmare of this carelessly destroyed creature. You are almost on top of it, less than thirty feet from it, you can see it clearly, rotting ,But you can't turn your eyes away. They are locked on its shattered corpse. You finally come within ten feet of it, you could almost reach out and touch it. Then you realize it's a dick . With eyes. Staring at you. Staring right back at you.

That's what eating Battenburg is like.

Date Loaf
Boiled fruit cake
Mud cake
sticky pudding

Although I never refuse any chocolate cake, my absolute favourite cake has to be an orange sponge cake , not the UK version made with self-raising flour or added baking powder, but the American version made with 6 egg white and 6 egg yokes, baked in a tube pan. I found the UK/Australian sponge cake a bit heavy. The American version is much lighter and fluffier. I've tried explaining the difference to people but no one gets it, unless I actually bake one for them to try.

I once brought one into work for morning tea, my colleagues literally just tore it apart with their hands and the cake disappeared with a minute.

I also love the Malaysian Pandan chiffon cake - a coconut-and-pandan flavoured sponge cake. Again, incredibly light. The shop bought ones are often coloured green by food dye, not the real deal.

Mrs JTL

Chocolate cheesecake

Obviously - you're from Yorkshire My mother's rich christmas cake with a huge hunk of Wensleydale.

Cake, just cake, almost any cake - well, apart from Battenburg. And oreo cheesecake. Bleugh.

Shame I'm intolerant to flour, eggs, dairy, and sugar

edit: For those who go on stopovers, PS Cafe in Paragon Mall on Orchard Road in Singapore does the best carrot cake in the world...that I've tasted...and I've tasted a lot.

You haven't tasted mine....

I did some the other day for a local business up here. Apparently it's 'flying out of the door'.
Must be pretty light then eh?

Not a fan of cakes, don't do sweet stuff but I do like a slice of Banana & Walnut Bread (cake, whatever) once in a blue moon. Nothing on it, any kind of icing makes me gag. Give me a bag of chips any day.

That's absolutely totally on the ball. Battenburg is disgusting. You know it's disgusting but you can't help yourself. You try it and you wish you hadn't.
*shudder*

Mmmmm, chips.

Let me know when the next tasting is planned.

Sausage bacon and egg cake.

Carrot cake with loads of cream cheese icing.

And fruit cake.

Black Forest Gateau! With cream, not real cream, cheap squirty cream... yum!!