Friday Fun: Cupcakes for all!

Disclaimer - I am not offering cupcakes for all!

Good morning Community! Welcome to Friday!

I've been involved in Friday Fun for a while now - trying to comment regularly and it's great learning all of these strange and unusual facts about fellow Community members.

When I was asked to do my own post, I thought about what I wanted to know about everyone...and I immediately thought of cake!!

I love cake! Almost any kind...apart from coconut. I'd love to be skilled enough to bake, but I'll settle for just eating instead.

My all time favourite cake though is coffee and walnut cake.

It has everything I'm looking for - it's sweet, but not too sweet, it has a delicious crunch, it has coffee, and it has a soft frosting. Runner up cakes include carrot, black forest gateau and the humble Victoria sponge.

So my question to you all is: what's your favourite cake, and why? Bonus points for pictures, especially if they're homemade

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Caaaake!

This pretty much sums up on how I feel about cake..

I don't think I really have a favorite cake, as long as it's not too dry I'm happy with it.

Not a big coconut fan either.. oh and those sugar pastes that they use to decorate cakes should just be banned.

I do like to bake/cook so here are few of my latest creations.

A lovely applie pie and a cheesecake "flan".

Altho I like cake, my physique thanks me when I don't over-induldge in it so i've been exploring other ways of making cakes. Besides using artificial sweetener I discovered a neat little trick of use white beans, yes .. beans.. to create a nice dough.

You might not think it works but it actually tastes great and it avoids all the sugar and butter :) The apple pie -one actually is made with beans!

If I really need to choose a favorite.. I'd say simple but moist apple pie/cake would take the lead.

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I'd forgotten about apple cake! I love a good apple cake!

Your bakes look very impressive too...all we're missing is some whipped cream!

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Oooh, I LOVE FLAN!!!

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I LOVE FLAN too. Not as hard to buid as most people think, and always gets a lot of love from the audience (eaters)

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Sometimes food taste so good that I'd like to do like the person with his face in the cake :)

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I make an awesome cheese flan, and recently learned how to make it in individual mason jars using a sous vide circulator, yum.

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My favorite is Beet and Carrot cake because it isn't too sweet, it is spongy, it doesn't taste carrot and there is a little something from the beet. You can add nuts if you like and also the same frosting that is used for carrot cake. Miam!!

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This sounds amazing!

But the cake is a lie! Right?

(You know someone was going to say it, might as well be me)

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I wish it wasn't a lie!

Get Half-Life: Alyx? It's tempting to funnel the money I'm saving by not going on trips into a home VR setup. 😉

the cake is definitely a lie....

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I'm savory over sweet, so my favorite cakes are probably meat loaf cupcakes topped with mashed potato "icing" 😜

But if I had to go for an actual cake, it's a tie between carrot cake or ice cream cake! Hmm, is ice cream cake cake?

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A meatloaf cupcake sounds amazing!

And of course ice cream cake is cake!!

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A good recipe for a diabetic person :)

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I so like the idea of a meatloaf cupcake with mashed potato frosting!

I love Mojito cake

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But also Cranachan, A Lovely Scottish Dessert

And of course Christmas pudding

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I've never manged to get on board with Christmas pudding, or Christmas cake.

I love mojitos though, so I think cake would work.

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As I'm in love with the country Scotland, Christmas pudding is a tradition there :-D, but indeed you need to love it.

As for the Mojito I really enjoy it, especially in the summer :-D

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It's quite traditional all over the UK - I'm just not a big fan of the fruit. I do like Scotland though...a little cold and wet, but Edinburgh was beautiful when I visited

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Edinburgh is indeed beautiful, but also the rest of Scotland.
Last year I got engaged in Edinburgh :-)

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Congratulations - I was in Edinburgh last year for a stag do (bachelor party for our American readers), and I agree all of Scotland is beautiful

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The last time (and the first time!) I was in Scotland was back in the 90's. Hopefully I'll get back one day; it was indeed beautiful.

If anyone does Instagram, my sister just shared the Hidden Scotland account with me. Lots of amazing, atmospheric landscape photos, and no annoying humans 😂.

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I love Mojitos, so I need to learn to bake the Mojito cake! :)

I am not a big cake person, though I love sweets. The cake needs to be moist or at least not dry. Cookies are my go to, and more chewy than crisp is the preference. Again with the dry thing.

I like that while in Bolivia they used two different words for dry (an no icing) and moist (with icing - and often had fruit on top). They used queque for the first and torta for the second. If you heard the word, you knew which one you were getting. Although the tortas there were usually VERY moist.

Queque

Torta

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I fully agree with both the chewy cookies, and the moist cake...torta is certainly the way to go

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I agree cake is not my thing. I do like freshly baked cookies or brownies.

In Costa Rica they also call it queque. When we visited from PR the tour guide warned us to call it queque instead of bizcocho, which is what we call it in PR, because bizcocho is a vulgar term in Costa Rica.

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I am often making Banana breads these days. That's quite simple but i love it.

When I have a little more time, I love baking carrot cakes.

I used to bake jam rolled cake but not too much anymore.

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Oh I like banana bread! (but a healthy one)

2 banana's, 120g almond flour, 3 eggs, baking powder, cinnamon, pinch of salt (tablespoon of coconut fat if you want) and that's it!

You can add some chocolate and/or raisins to taste.

40min later (oven at 180 C) you have a great banana bread!

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A rolled jam cake sounds delicious...and that banana bread looks yummy too.

We went to a wedding in Ireland, the hotel's speciality was banana bread - they served it at every meal!

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I love everything which contains whipped cream and unfortunately new sweet-shop was opened this year in our neighbourhoods. Last week we've enjoyed these Pavlova cakes. Yummyyy.

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They look delicious! I'd never leave the shop if it was in my neighbourhood!

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Real whipped cream, chocolate (both chopped mixed into the cream and melted over the whole cake), strawberries and meringue - this is my favorite. We call it tower cake :)

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Just incredible! I love strawberries and chocolate too!

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Wow!

Others might call that a heart attack waiting to happen 😂

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Wow. I want to dive into that. Is there "cake" cake under there, or is the meringue the cake?

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@Esther Strom no cake there. Just whipped cream and meringue... I am not a huge whipped cream fan but this "cake" is AWESOME!

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@Dirk Ronsmans life is short, like me. We better live it well :)

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My best friend is an amazing baker and he baked me a cake last weekend. Carrot cake, NO NUTS, with a brown butter and lemon cream cheese frosting. Absolutely divine.

I also love vanilla cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

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That looks delicious!!

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Just awesome!

While i do love cake i'm not a huge icing fan. My sis-n-law loves icing. So i get her cake and she gets my icing. :-) I actually would grab the pie before the cake.

Devils food, Pound cake toasted lightly w/ a dab of butter

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I'm not a huge fan of the fondant icing, but I don't mind the cream cheese style you get on a carrot cake. I've never toasted cake before, but I'm not certain what pound cake is either so it might work well

Same here - the occasional top-quality Italian or French buttercream is acceptable, but generally I prefer my cake without icing. When our family is able to be together, my uncle and I have the same ingredient-splitting arrangement you and your SIL do 😅

I've also done the toasted pound cake, although I do jelly on mine. @Liam Green pound cake is a very dense, butter-heavy cake usually made in a loaf or bundt pan. It generally doesn't have icing, per se, although some people do a light glaze, or serve with whipped cream and fruit. Apocryphal tales say it got its name because the original recipe was a pound of butter, pound of flour, pound of eggs, and pound of sugar. I haven't tried baking it myself, but from what I've seen a lot of modern recipes use sour cream or cream cheese.

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@Esther Strom Well pound cake sounds delicious!

There are a few American / British words that have different meanings (pants being one of them) ... but jelly has to be my favourite!

@Liam Green yes, I definitely meant the American definition of jelly!

I was lucky enough to visit Ireland last summer, and a friend from Dublin gave me an informal translation table of Irish English to American English. There was one particular phrase that I would have used a lot as a traveler, and while completely innocuous in American English, is apparently rather filthy in Irish English. 😂

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@Liam Green jelly:

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Yes!!!!

Cake is awesome! I eat more of it than I probably should.

As for a favourite, I'm going to jump on the carrot cake band wagon. Now for the part where everyone hates me. I enjoy carrot cake that has both walnuts and raisins in it.

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@Jimmy Seddon raisins.... and... walnuts?!?!

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I also like both raisins and chocolate chips in cookies! Why choose when I can have it all!

p.s. the Birdcage is a fantastic movie!

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I really gotta make a carrot cake now.. so many fans it just has to be awesome. (Never had one)

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Choc chip and nuts would be my cookie preference ... I can see how raisins would work in carrot cake though.

@Dirk Ronsmans - you really should make one!

Yum... cupcakes.

So I'm not actually a huge cake fan. My mom was a pro-level baker and I think I got tired of cake as a kid. I do enjoy an occasional cupcake from my local bakery, which uses real Italian buttercream icing.

As to cake-cakes, my two favorites and pretty simple, and both are citrus-based.

The clementine cake from Smitten Kitchen is divine, plus gluten-free if that's your thing.

And Nigella Lawson's madeira cake is amazing. I've made the lemon-poppyseed variant, and have also made it with oranges in place of lemons.

(Also, I love coconut, but not in cakes. My absolute favorite once a year dessert is the amazing coconut cream pie at a local restaurant. It's about 6 inches tall, and has tons of actual coconut in it; it's not just a glob of pudding with coconut flavoring.)

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Yes to nearly all of this (no coconut!)

Everything Nigella does is so decadent, so I imagine it is delicious.

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Thanks for the Nigella Madeira cake link sounds and looks delicious ☺️

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It is amazingly good. And really easy to make. It's more like what we'd consider a quick bread in the U.S. (like banana bread) rather than a true "cake", so I don't feel guilty having a slice for breakfast. My favorite variation is using oranges, and throwing in some candied orange rind for a bit of texture. So good. Now I really want some; maybe I'll make one while I'm "on vacation" this week.

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My name is Nina and I am a cake Addict! 🙈
I love cakes... yes, I have to admit that. ☺️
Couldn‘t decide which one is my favourite, perhaps blueberry crumble, a classic strawberry cake (without whipped cream) or anything with chocolate. ☺️

The good thing is: a small village backery that is making everything by themselves is just in the middle of my running route, so I could (and often do) have fresh bread, bread rolls and cakes. ☺️

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Welcome to Cake Addicts Anonymous @nina_schmidt - you're among friends here!

This thread has reminded me of so many cakes...I love crumble!

I don't like the idea of running, but if there is a bakery on route I could be tempted

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A cake is not complete without some kind of chocolateeeee topping, am I right? :-)

I love it when there are some strawberries or cherries in it (visible or not, ha!) ... or on top.
Well, I need to stop here and get some cake now...

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I feel the same!! And love cherries in a cake!

And strawberries

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Another disclaimer should be added: Beware reading this post or your craving for food will increase !!!

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Oh... I forgot Korvapuusti / Kanelbullar 🥰 Finnish / Swedish cinnamon buns

that‘s really a „drug“ 😊

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I love and I mean LOVE cinnamon buns!!

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YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

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Go for cinnamon buns 😍

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Again a little bit too late - but cake (next to pizza) definitely is life too 🍕🍰

My all-time favourite is 'Frankfurter Kranz' (which can only be made by my grandma) badly translated as wreath of frankfurt

It's a revelation of biscuit and buttercream with marmelade and roasted almonds on the outside ❤❤

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And don't forget those not real super sweet cherries on top

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That looks delicious...there are so many things only a grandma can make!

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After many abstinent years I actually had a piece yesterday 😆

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you're kidding right?!? 😥 Haven't seen my granny since last christmas - no granny no yummy

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Sorry, didn‘t want to hurt you! 🥲

We fetched some cake from that village bakery and they had Frankfurter Kranz 🙈

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My favorite cake is "bizcocho de novia" from Puerto Rico, it is a dense cake soaked with simple syrup, rum or brandy and a buttercream icing. But where I am right now, I settle for raspberry elegance, or just about any cake from Publix supermarket, anyone that lives or has lived in FL knows what I'm talking about.

Bizcocho de Novia

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