FabSwingers.com forum: Cake!

By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

If you make a birthday cake for someone, what type would it be and why?

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

Caramel chocolate popcorn.. It's mental

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By *onk3yb0yMan
15 weeks ago

south west

Red Velvet. The king of red cakes.

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By *ir Toot of the frostMan
15 weeks ago

Burton-on-Trent

"Red Velvet. The king of red cakes. "

this is correct

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By *obilebottomMan
15 weeks ago

All over

A croquembouche of what ever their height was.

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By *vaRose43Woman
15 weeks ago

Forest of Dean

A light multi layered Genoese with raspberry mousse. Finished with chantilly cream and fresh berries

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By *usty kayWoman
15 weeks ago

Burnham

I am making mother in laws 70th birthday cake and have absolutely no idea.

Maybe one chocolate and one lemon tier lol

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By *ozzybear1981Man
15 weeks ago

preston

Perhaps a 4 tier red velvet with a white chocolate and raspberry ganache and maybe iced and airbrushed

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By *asterMeliodasMan
15 weeks ago

Newmill

"If you make a birthday cake for someone, what type would it be and why?"

I promise this isn't a copout answer, but it would entirely depend on who I was making the cake for, because that would define what types of cake they do and don't like.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
15 weeks ago

Leeds

Space cake, wouldn’t tell everyone, just sit back and watch the show.

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

"A light multi layered Genoese with raspberry mousse. Finished with chantilly cream and fresh berries "

It was my birthday yesterday but your cake was a no-show. Devastated

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

"Perhaps a 4 tier red velvet with a white chocolate and raspberry ganache and maybe iced and airbrushed "

Faaar to posh for you I'd say.

Maybe an eccles cake is more your style?

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By *a LunaWoman
15 weeks ago

South Wales

A rainbow cake with LOADS of buttercream inside it.

No idea how to make it but that’s what Google is for right?!

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

I do like a good coffee & walnut

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

Historian sponge. Because sometimes simple is best!

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By *olfandtazCouple
15 weeks ago

Bristol

"A light multi layered Genoese with raspberry mousse. Finished with chantilly cream and fresh berries "

I will take 2 of these

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By *a LunaWoman
15 weeks ago

South Wales

"Historian sponge. Because sometimes simple is best!

I just googled this because I’d never heard of it before. Then my brain kicked in and realised it was a little typo and you mean’t Victorian Sponge.

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
15 weeks ago

Manchester-ish

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, assuming they like it of course.

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Historian sponge. Because sometimes simple is best!

I just googled this because I’d never heard of it before. Then my brain kicked in and realised it was a little typo and you mean’t Victorian Sponge.

I thought it was a variant

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By *rAitchMan
15 weeks ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

"A rainbow cake with LOADS of buttercream inside it.

No idea how to make it but that’s what Google is for right?! "

I made a 6-layer rainbow cake for a Bake-Off competition where I used to work. Was a bit of a faff, but well worth the effort.

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By *idssissyTV/TS
15 weeks ago

Birmingham

Can't bake at all but know who I would ask if needed a cake for someone

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

Coffee and walnut cake.

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By *cLovin2Man
15 weeks ago

Reading

Fresh cream cakes, there are Pakistani style ones that make amazing cakes

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By *ootyfruityCouple
15 weeks ago

andover

Guinness cake! So chocolaty it’s delicious 🤤

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By *emorefridaCouple
15 weeks ago

La la land

I tend to make meringues, either a pavlova or a lemon meringue pie for grown ups. Kids cakes whatever they're latest obsession is, last one I made was a tiger cake where the cake was orange, black and white and covered in green icing with a tiger on top.

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By *anceAloneWoman
15 weeks ago

Adjacent to him

Cheesecake 😍

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

Lemon drizzle cake

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By *ex HolesMan
15 weeks ago

Up North

The birthday type because, well, it’s there ……….

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By *pg321Man
15 weeks ago

athlone tipp

Rice crispy cake is all I’d manage to make 😂😂

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
15 weeks ago

Manchester(ish).

I make good lemon drizzle cake or mississipi mud cake.

Anything the Birthday person would like tbh.

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

Ice cream cake 🍰

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By *hole Nuts n ChillCouple
15 weeks ago

Basingstoke

No fruit in our cake please… thanks 🙏🏼

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

Everyone knows cake leads to heroin homosexuality and heroin…for the love of god please stay away from taking cake

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By *mily36CWoman
15 weeks ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Can we cheat and do the cakeaway thingy from a bakery

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By *ust another WonkoMan
15 weeks ago

here and there

"Can we cheat and get the jaffa cake cakeaway thingy from a bakery

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Everyone knows cake leads to heroin homosexuality and heroin…for the love of god please stay away from taking cake"

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By *ripfillMan
15 weeks ago

havant

I made for the very first time a Victoria sponge cake

In fact two - the first one is in the front lawn as a stepping stone

Oddly the history of the Victoria sponge was down to the invention of self raising flour !!! No cream , has to be raspberry filling and granulated sugar dusting

Oh Mrs Beeton published the recipe for the first time in her first book !

Anyone asleep yet ? 😇😬💤

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By *iberius61Man
15 weeks ago

Pontefract

Carrot, maybe lemon drizzle. As a keen cyclist I'm often faced with coffee and cake at a cafe, but to be honest, nearly all cake looks better than it tastes. On the plate it's great, but sadly disappointing when you eat it

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

"Everyone knows cake leads to heroin homosexuality and heroin…for the love of god please stay away from taking cake

I’m glad someone got the reference!!!

❤️

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By *viatrixWoman
15 weeks ago

Redhill

Lately, it’s Tres Leches Cake with fresh strawberries. Everyone loves it. 🤗 🍰

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By *ornishvikingMan
15 weeks ago

lala land

Victoria sandwich with strawberry loveb the classics

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By *ysizeMan
15 weeks ago

Nottingham (ish)

"Everyone knows cake leads to heroin homosexuality and heroin…for the love of god please stay away from taking cake

I’m glad someone got the reference!!!

❤️"

Wasn't that Ali G ??

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

"Everyone knows cake leads to heroin homosexuality and heroin…for the love of god please stay away from taking cake

I’m glad someone got the reference!!!

❤️

Wasn't that Ali G ?? "

Brass eye was awesome loved the genetic modification one with the big bollock in the pram lol

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By *ozzybear1981Man
15 weeks ago

preston

"Perhaps a 4 tier red velvet with a white chocolate and raspberry ganache and maybe iced and airbrushed

Faaar to posh for you I'd say.

Maybe an eccles cake is more your style?"

I can do posh cakes

Eccles cakes are very much 🤢🤢😂

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By *ittlemiss Hal O weenCouple
15 weeks ago

Southampton

Lemon drizzle

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By *mily36CWoman
15 weeks ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"Can we cheat and get the jaffa cake cakeaway thingy from a bakery

Awh Wonko .... you'd get a jaffa cake takeaway with me??

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By *mily36CWoman
15 weeks ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"...but to be honest, nearly all looks better than it tastes. On the plate it's great, but sadly disappointing when you eat it

Still talking about cake, right??!

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By *cLovin2Man
15 weeks ago

Reading

"...but to be honest, nearly all looks better than it tastes. On the plate it's great, but sadly disappointing when you eat it

Still talking about cake, right??!

Some years back I was visiting a client site for work having lunch with a colleague, talking about the usual nonsense, I bought a portion of cheesecake for dessert, just ordinary looking cheesecake and bit into it.

In mid Sentence I let out an mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Wow, it looked ordinary but was the best damn cheesecake I'd ever tasted.

Sometimes things look good and are disappointing to taste, sometimes just sometimes an ordinary looking bit of food just blows your mind.

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By *asterMeliodasMan
15 weeks ago

Newmill

"...but to be honest, nearly all looks better than it tastes. On the plate it's great, but sadly disappointing when you eat it

Still talking about cake, right??!

In mid Sentence I let out an mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Wow, it looked ordinary but was the best damn cheesecake I'd ever tasted.

Sometimes things look good and are disappointing to taste, sometimes just sometimes an ordinary looking bit of food just blows your mind.

I am an absolute slut for a good cheesecake.

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By *odrigoRomeroMan
15 weeks ago

Twixt Purgatory & Palookaville

Weeeeey at last! Stoopid blooming biscuit threads.

Good ol' Viccy sponge myself too and if it was half as good as the one I made in food tech many moons ago they'd be in for a treat I'll tell ya!

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By *illie fitMan
15 weeks ago

Bournemouth

Buy one at Asda job done

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By *d mirerMan
15 weeks ago

lost

Lemon drizzle

But you’ll wish someone else made it !

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

I've chosen something not on this list, but my victim might read this so I'm not sharing yet.

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Buy one at Asda job done "

if I wanted it to taste like cardboard - not just Asda, all supermarkets - I would

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

It's in the oven 😁

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By (user no longer on site)
15 weeks ago

"It's in the oven 😁"

A bun in the oven

You'll have to tell us if he likes it?

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By *cLovin2Man
15 weeks ago

Reading

"Buy one at Asda job done

if I wanted it to taste like cardboard - not just Asda, all supermarkets - I would

Fresh cake is just something else, especially with fresh cream.

Beats biscuits hands down in my book

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

"It's in the oven 😁

A bun in the oven

You'll have to tell us if he likes it?"

Nah, that factory I nuked from orbit 😁

Who says it's a "he"?

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Buy one at Asda job done

if I wanted it to taste like cardboard - not just Asda, all supermarkets - I would

Fresh cake is just something else, especially with fresh cream.

Beats biscuits hands down in my book "

Got the cream, just made the ganache, and a syrup sauce

This might be diabetic coma stuff 😅

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

If you Google "Donna Hay mud cake", you'll find what I made.

Death by chocolate ☠️

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By *urry BlokeMan
15 weeks ago

Stalybridge

I wouldn't insult anyone with my baking

I'd nip to M&S and indulge them with one of the pistachio and raspberry cakes they do these days

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By *ad NannaWoman
15 weeks ago

East London

I'd ask what they wanted.

I've done a Kinder themed one; a fresh strawberries and cream Victoria sponge; a bakewell one; a lemon drizzle, and a couple of cheesecakes.

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By *cLovin2Man
15 weeks ago

Reading

"Buy one at Asda job done

if I wanted it to taste like cardboard - not just Asda, all supermarkets - I would

Fresh cake is just something else, especially with fresh cream.

Beats biscuits hands down in my book

Got the cream, just made the ganache, and a syrup sauce

This might be diabetic coma stuff 😅"

That's ok, I'm on my way. Worth going 200 miles for a good bake

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By *naswingdress OP Woman
15 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

"I'd ask what they wanted.

I've done a Kinder themed one; a fresh strawberries and cream Victoria sponge; a bakewell one; a lemon drizzle, and a couple of cheesecakes.

This was a surprise. So I went with variations on what I knew they liked

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By *riel13Woman
15 weeks ago

Northampton

I have made alot of birthday cakes for people but The Ultimate chocolate cake is the most popular and definitely the tastiest, so that one

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By *cLovin2Man
15 weeks ago

Reading

"If you Google "Donna Hay mud cake", you'll find what I made.

Death by chocolate ☠️"

Looks calorific, the way a cake should

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By *cLovin2Man
15 weeks ago

Reading

"I have made alot of birthday cakes for people but The Ultimate chocolate cake is the most popular and definitely the tastiest, so that one

Gotta have chocolate custard with it tho, not the poncy cream stuff.

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By *ou only live onceMan
15 weeks ago

London

It would be a Colin the Caterpillar. The only birthday cake anyone ever needs!

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By *empest2KMan
15 weeks ago

Derby

"If you make a birthday cake for someone, what type would it be and why?"

Sorry I'm late to the party (no pun intended), but it'd probably be a lemon and elderflower sponge cake 👍

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By *riel13Woman
15 weeks ago

Northampton

"I have made alot of birthday cakes for people but The Ultimate chocolate cake is the most popular and definitely the tastiest, so that one

Gotta have chocolate custard with it tho, not the poncy cream stuff."

No!! It's fine without that stuff spoiling it, ta!

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