Strawberry Iced Butterfly Fairy Cakes
Giveaway:
A Fabulous Collection of Retro British Bakeware by Tala
I remember baking with my grandmother and mum, in the warmth of an old country kitchen, there were free-range eggs from the farm up the road, flour and raisins, butter and sugar……and an old Tala cook’s measure…..with a myriad of ingredients printed inside…..then when we made mince pies at Christmas, and again, there was an old Tala patty tin for our festive pies – with shell patterns on the base……..it is fair to say that I was brought up on Tala in the kitchen, and I recently reviewed some of their latest products here: Sepia Saturday, Happy Baking Days with Tala and Be-Ro: Strawberry Iced Butterfly Fairy Cakes.
Tala loved my review and recipe and have very kindly offered me an amazing collection of Retro Bakeware and Cake Decorating Icing products to give away on my blog, and just in time for National Baking Week, which runs from 15th to 21st October 2012.
I am REALLY pleased to offer the following TEN items for my Giveaway:
Icing Pen; 3 Sunflower Plunger Cutters; Flat Edge Smoother; Fondant Rolling Pin; Spring-form Cake Tin; Retro Cake Pinny; 1960’s Icing Syringe in a tin; 1960’s Retro Cook Measure; 1960’s Retro Hand held trigger sieve and 1960’s Retro 3 tier cake tins
What an amazing prize! All of the items are British designs, and some of the items are based on Retro baking and cooks equipment from the 1960’s and are made in England. What will you make if you win this fabulous prize? A fruit cake or a Victoria sponge? Or maybe some biscuits or scones? Or, will you set about making a celebratory cake and try your hand at icing?
How about making a batch of my Fairy Cakes, Strawberry Iced Butterfly Fairy Cakes, the recipe is shared below……
Heritage:
Tala, originating from Taylor and Law, has been associated with baking and icing for over 100 years – since 1899.
We still proudly own catalogues ranging from the 1920’s up until today, containing products which are still made in the same way; lovely, English manufacturing.
Traditional methods are used to manufacture most of our products. This involves production by hand, by a small team of skilled people behind the high quality of each product.
A priority of Tala has always been to create products that are built to last. Take an icing nozzle manufactured in the 1920’s, and it will still fit an icing syringe made today. So we couldn’t be more honest when we say you are using products that your mothers and grandmothers have always used.
Victoria Sandwich Cake
Print recipe
| Serves | 8 to 10 slices |
| Prep time | 5 minutes |
| Cook time | 25 minutes |
| Total time | 30 minutes |
| Allergy | Egg, Wheat |
| Dietary | Vegetarian |
| Meal type | Dessert, Side Dish, Snack |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold |
| Occasion | Birthday Party, Casual Party, Christmas, Easter, Formal Party, Thanksgiving, Valentines day |
| Region | British |
| By author | Karen S Burns-Booth |
A true Victoria Sandwich would only contain jam, usually raspberry, but as the cake became more popular and cooks became more affluent, cream was added as a delicious addition. I was always taught that caster sugar was sprinkled on top – again, icing sugar is often used nowadays.
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs, weighed in their shells
- butter or soft margarine ~ same weight as the eggs
- caster sugar/super fine sugar ~ same weight as the eggs
- self-rising flour~ same weight as the eggs
- raspberry jam ( or another jam, jelly or curd of your choice.)
- whipped cream (optional) or double cream (optional)
- caster sugar or icing sugar for sprinkling on top
Note
Cook’s Notes:
If you use butter remove from the fridge to soften before using. This is not necessary with soft margarine.
If large eggs are used they may weigh 7 ½ ozs/210g. If so make sure you use this weight for the other ingredients.
A smaller sandwich cake can be made with 2 medium eggs. Weight about 4 oz/55g. If so, use 2 x 7” sandwich tins and the cakes and the cakes will need less time in the oven – probably 20 minutes instead of 25 minutes.
Alternative measurements:
4 eggs
8 ounces soft margarine or butter
8 ounces caster sugar
8 ounces SR flour
Proceed as above for method
Directions
| Step 1 | The measurements for this recipe are equal amounts of sugar, flour and fat to the weight of the eggs; therefore, weigh the eggs first – if the eggs weigh 8 ounces, you will use 8 ounces of sugar, 8 ounces of butter or margarine and 8 ounces of flour. If the eggs weigh 6 ounces, all the other ingredients will be 6 ounces – easy! |
| Step 2 | Preheat oven Gas 4, 160C (fan oven), 180C or 360F: grease and base line the bottom of 2 x 8” sandwich tins – cake tins. |
| Step 3 | Cream margarine or butter together with the sugar, until light and fluffy. Beat the eggs, and then add them to the mixture, gradually and beating well after each addition. Sieve the flour and fold into the mixture with a metal spoon. |
| Step 4 | Divide equally between the 2 prepared tins and bake for 25 minutes in the middle of the oven. |
| Step 5 | Remove and allow to cool for 1-2 minutes. Remove from the tins and fill with raspberry jam (and cream if using) when cold, to avoid the cream melting or the jam seeping into the sponge. |
| Step 6 | A light dusting of caster sugar or icing sugar on the top will finish it. Place on an attractive cake stand or plate, and serve in dainty wedges with freshly brewed tea. |
Butter Icing (Buttercream)
| Serves | 12 fairy cakes |
| Prep time | 10 minutes |
| Allergy | Milk |
| Dietary | Vegetarian |
| Meal type | Dessert, Side Dish, Snack |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold |
| Occasion | Birthday Party, Casual Party, Christmas, Easter, Formal Party, Valentines day |
| Website | Be-Ro |
A simple standard recipe from the Be-Ro cookbook, for buttercream suitable for fairy cakes and butterfly cakes.
Ingredients
- 50 g (2oz) butter or margarine
- 100 g (4 oz) sieved icing sugar
- flavouring and colouring as required
Note
A simple standard recipe from the Be-Ro cookbook, for buttercream suitable for fairy cakes and butterfly cakes.
Directions
| Step 1 | Cream fat, gradually add icing sugar and cream together. Add flavouring and colouring. Double this quantity to sandwich and coat a 15-18 cm (6-7 inch) cake. |
| Step 2 | Suggested flavourings: Few drops vanilla essence. Few drops almond essence. Finely grated rind orange/lemon and 1 x 5 ml spoon (1 tsp.) orange/lemon juice. 2 x 5 ml spoon (2 tsp.) coffee essence. 25 g (1 oz) melted chocolate. 2 x 5 ml spoon (2 tsp.) cocoa and 1 x 2.5 ml spoon (½ tsp.) vanilla essence. Chopped walnuts. Strawberry or raspberry jam |
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Karen
This Giveaway starts today, Wednesday 3rd October 2012 and runs until 2nd November 2012
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I love these retro items, I recall my grandmother having a similar icing set. Fabulous. Would love to win to assist my baking journey which is just starting to blossom!
The Tala 1950’s and 1960’s Icing Syringe is still produced the same way as when first manufactured in the 1920’s -Lovely English manufacturing. Therefore there is a huge posibility that your grandmothers was a Tala product!
I wish you Good Luck with the competition!
You are the queen of scones as I remember!
Love my mum’s chocolate cake
Favourite family recipe is muffins with whatever over-ripe fruit is left in the fruitbowl. My 5 year old is becoming a dab hand – warm plum muffins made in 15 minutes is his favourite.
My grandma’s banana bread is still my favorite… now it’s “mom’s recipe” and someday maybe people will say that about me!
Great review and giveaway thank you! I love a coffee cake with lots of coffee buttercream and walnuts!
Well my younger son today asked if we can have a tea party so I’ll need to do some baking. I think a lovely retro tea party will be rather good.
Oops. I did log in to the raffle copter thing but didn’t see the question.
Probably a simple Victoria sponge.
What a wonderful giveaway.
I first started using Tala products at school in our ‘Housecraft’ classes, how that ages me 🙂 Lol
I have always owned the measure and a few other bits and pieces, and the wonderful thing is the more they get knocked about by time the more wonderful they look – or is that just me!!
Sue xx
Dear Sue,
It is lovely to hear you are already enjoying some of the Tala range and are a loyal customer.
I wish you luck with the competition.
Yours,
Ms Taylor
Good luck Sue! Ah, I sense another TALA fan…….
Oops sorry, forgot to answer the question.
My favourite would have to be a good crumble, any fruit and then a thick oaty crumble mix on top, not cooked too much just softy crunchy!! Mmmmm, you’ve made me hungry just typing that…lol!
My family’s favourite cake would have to be my Olive Oil Chocolate Cake, moist and very chocolatey!
My mum’s chocolate cake!
My fav cake has to be a good old chocolate cake – it was the 1st ever cake I baked as a young girl!
Mine has to be mums brownies!
Nicest, most luxurious brownies ever!
Ohh and now I want them!
Count me in Karen and I’ll have a slice of cake. My favourites have to be a good victoria with lots of jam and cream or a dense chocoalte cake with chocolate frosting. Mmmmmm!
You can cut me a slice of any of those…..
Bran Muffins
Mine’s a triple lemon cake – I can’t say I invented it really, but it is a hybrid of several different recipes. I make 2 lemon flavoured sponge sandwich cakes, then use lemon & sugar to drizzle them as you would a lemon drizzle loaf cake. I sandwich together with lemon curd and lemon flavoured butter cream, and top with more buttercream and candied lemon zest!
It’s very rich, but because of the zinginess of the lemon (it takes 4 altogether) you can still have a fairly hefty slice!
That sounds lovely…..
I make fab Pumpkin and Orange cupcakes at this time of year.
We love pineapple upside-down cake/ pudding.
Our favourite spur-of-the-mo cake is a nice Lemon and Lime Drizzle. I like to add one lime for extra “zing”! So quick and easy and always polished off! Our other favourite is a Poppy Seed cake (Makiewicz) but, because we prepare the poppy seed filling from scratch and it takes a bit of effort, it is something we make just for Christmas.
Chocolate sponge cake! 🙂
Family recipes I’ve always made since a child and now still as an adult are fruit fairy cakes, butterfly fairy cakes and victoria sponge in various flavours. Loving the Tala retro range, especially the cake tins!
All my favourites too! Lovely selection…..
We like a lovely apple cake in this house!
Cakes look amazing! Retro items are always fun to have! Thanks for sharing!
This recipe, given to me by an ex colleague about 20 years ago, remains a favourite.
12floz cold tea, 10ox SR flour, 7, oz soft brown sugar, 12ox dried fruit, 1 beaten egg.
Leave the fruit and sugar soaking in the tea overnight. Grease a 2lb loaf tin. Stir your soaked fruit and all the liquid into the flour. Add the egg and mix to a smooth mixture. Cook for 1hr 45mins on Gas mark 4. Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
We always struggle with the last instruction, as it is absolutely gorgeous eaten warm and spread with butter 🙂
Thanks for the recipe, looks like my grandmothers tea loaf……
A really lemony lemon drizzle cake
A lovely cream sponge cake with oodles and oodles of strawberries
My favourite family bake is a Dundee Cake. My mum always made one which we took on holiday in the caravan. It was a real treat to have a nice slice of fruit cake wherever we were. I did the same when my boys were young and we were on self-catering holidays.
I love Dundee cake too……
Want want want!
Another of your impossible to answer questions Karen. I guess I’d have to say it would be the rock cakes I grew up on made by my lovely mother.
Rice Krispie cake with sprinkles. Winner, every time.
Victoria Sponge Cake 😉
My current favourite is flourless chocolate roulade. Yummy and easy to make.
Mine is chocolate fudge cake.
Has to be flapjacks – quick, easy, tasty and almost healthy! I do like a nice chocolate cake too!
I simply love carrot cake 🙂 my favourite
Malay style banana cake, Kek Pisang
My Nan’s fruitcake recipe which I have, the baking gene not only skipped a generation it changed sex too. It uses fermented rhubarb and raisins (usually the leftovers from making home-made wine) The process seems to keep the fruitcake rally moist. I think it is mainly the rhubarb and have experimented with it just stewed, whilst it still adds something extra I think the fermented version is still the best.
Lemon bars
We love date and walnut cake. Reminds me of grandma making it as well as tasting great.
Family favourite is a large fruit cake with chopped apricots in which gives the finished cake a wonderful taste. I cut the apricots up with scissors into small pieces so they distribute throughout the mix. Bakes a treat!
I love all that retro stuff. I particularly like the measuring jugs and cake tins. Such pretty colours too. They just have to make the baking taste so much better.
My family love really dark chocolate so their favourite cake is a chocolate one covered in 85% dark chocolate and filled with apricot conserve.
What a great giveaway!
Favourite cake is Coffee Walnut with lots of rich icing between the layers 🙂
It has to be my mum’s Banana Cake with buttercream icing
I love my nana’s scones they are so tasty and the recipe has been passed down 4 generations and only slight ingrediants have ever been changed.There is nothing better than homemade cakes yummm 🙂
Xx
My favourite bake? Marbled chocolate cheesecake.
Such lovely products & some nice cakes in the other comments. I make a simple sponge and add coloured sprinkles to the mix – kids love it.
I adore Banana Bread, its simple to make and its a fab way to use up any leftover ingredients, and those ripe banananas that are always left over in the fruit bowl
That’s a tough question but I may go with the family of bake: Biscuits. Really any kind of biscuits!
Great giveaway! My favorite family cake recipe is a simple vanilla sheet cake with chocolate frosting!
Seasidesmitten@aol.com
Amazing prizes, I want them all! I am new to baking so more trial and error than sophistication at the moment I fear, but managed to make lovely Austrian chocolate brownies.
Everyone here loves my blackberry and coconut crumble slices – delicious!
i make a lovely iced lemon drizzle cake and our family recipe victoria sponge. it goes down well.
I love the retro styled Tala products. I’ve been keeping an eye on them in my local shops in Nottingham. I love that retro scales too!
I also love that you’ve included the Victoria Sponge recipe in there too. It’s such a great classic. I made a standard Victoria sponge cake for my partners birthday recently, he loved it. The Victoria sponge cake has to be a classic family favourite.
Great giveaway. 🙂
GOOD luck and thanks for your lovely comments too! Karen
Victoria sponge – can be adapted in so many ways.
Clootie dumpling – I make it every New Year, just like my mum & gran xx
I make some delicious coconut buns that are family favourites!
Janey L
We make delicious fork biscuits!
Chocolate & banana cake
my mum’s banana and walnut cake
I used to love my Grandmas Simnel biscuits. 🙂
Simon.
Victoria sandwich
Everyone’s favourite in my family is the home made bread baked every 2 days
carrot cake yummy!!
Carrot cake
Lemon sponge that my mum used to make
Love this Prize xxx
My mum makes perfect meringues – crispy on the outside and chewy in the middle. We always have them as a birthday treat.
One of our all time favourites is the deliciously rich & moist Chocolate Beetroot Cake.
My two girls love a plain victoria sandwich cake with jam inside. I use my nana’s old recipe and they love it 🙂
My favourite cake is made by my other half. He calls it “pineapple all over the place cake” He followed a pineapple upside down cake receipe his mum gave him, it came out an ugly mess, but so tasty. He does it deliberatly wrong so its the same 🙂
my family’s favourite is christmas cake – funnily enough I started macerating the fruit for one today
My Girlfriends Banana Cake
My grans banana cake.
Cream together 150g of butter with 150g of caster sugar.
Whisk in a few drops of vanilla essence and 3 beaten eggs.
Add to this mixture 200g of S. R. flour and 2 large mashed ripe bananas.
Pour into a greased cake tin and bake for aprox 1 hour at Gas 6, 160c.
Makes a lovely moist cake.
Chocolate biscuit cake made with rick tea biscuits, condensed milk and chocolate. Tooth breaking but delicious!
I love a plain victoria songe with white icing x
I love chocolate fudge cake.
victoria sponge
Coffee & Coconut Cake with Chocolate Cake Covering & Glace Cherries
Home made scones with fresh cream
Banana Bread
Butter shortbread – made so its a teeny bit chewy – doesn’t normally get a chance to cool down!
Mega Chocolate Fudge Cake … although it’s more like a pudding and not stable enough to remove from the pan! Gorgeous and perfect for a chocoholic like me! xx
My mum makes an excellent victoria sponge, I can never quite make it as nice as she does!! Followed on Twitter and FB – cazzzie987
i love to bake my apple and cinnamon pie.
my sisters carrot cake recipe!
mmm hard decision, mine has to be chocolate chip cake though, yum 🙂 x
My family love victoria sponge
I love to make lemon drizzle cake 🙂
My Nan makes the most amazing ginger loaf cake. It’s moist & sticky on the top. I absolutely love making it; it never lasts very long in this house!
Chocolate fudge! mmmmmmmmmmm xx
I love baking chocolate cake topped with chocolate buttons
Ooh, it’s got to be good old coffee and walnut loaf with butter icing filling, yummy!
Chocolate cake!
A classic Victoria sponge, a real favourite with my family
Chocolate brownies!
carn’t beat my mums walnut cake , she wont give me the recipe ive tryed to copy it but it dont taste the same
My favourite is my Mum’s lemon drizzle cake – so simple but so nice!
These are gorgeous! I’m always moaning about the lack of bakeware in my kitchen… these would be perfect. Now just to get a decent oven and I’ll be away! 😛
My favourite has been a favourite in our family for years. It is coffee kisses from the original bero recipe book.
These were always my birthday treat and the ony thing my mum baked!
I love to bake! A firm favorite in my family is Cherry Bakewell muffins!
I like a traditional victoria sponge cake
lemon meringue
My favourite cake is my Chocolate and banana cake on my blog.
Love the retro products. I remember the Tala measuring cones from school..
I Love carrot cake
We love lemon drizzle cake
Old fashioned sticky gingerbread….mmmmm
My sons coconut cake
Chocolate sponge cake!
Baked Lemon & Vanilla Cheesecake
Baked Viennese cheesecake… hmmmmm
My favourite is my mum’s carrot cake, can I just say I love your blog, the above recipes have got my mouth watering and got me itching to bake some gorgeous cakes
Great review and giveaway
Gorgeous prizes. WOuld so love to use this stuff
My aunt makes the most fabulous caramel shortcake.
aw my sister would love this so much! x
I discovered a squidgy apple cake last year and now its the families favourite
Chocolate cake
Crispy Cakes!
A simple Victoria Sponge cake
my daughters double chocolate brownies, hate to admit their way better than mine
I like cooking mini victoria sponges in a muffin tin.
I love this retro bakeware! My favourite cake is victoria sponge, mmmmmmmmmmmm!
My mum’s macademia, walnut and carrot cake with coconut icing is my absolute favourite! I ask for it every time I’m home from uni. It’s vegan too 🙂
My gran makes a lovely chocolate cake
My Victoria Sponge recipe is stupidly easy but always turns out really well and is made really quickly.
It has to be banana cake! 🙂 x
@LilinhaAngel
Yummy biscuits.
Apple Amber – always takes me back to Sunday lunch as a kid
My favourite is a good old fashioned Victoria sponge cake :0
A Victoria Sponge cake, timeless
Nothing more satisfying than homemade lemon drizzle cake… with a cuppa!
I love my own recipe chocolate fudge gateaux!
Love chocolate fudge cake
Fantastic Competition! I love to make “Vienniese Biscuits” which I make with real butter and they just melt in your mouth! The aroma when they are cooking, is addictive and I love piping them which brings out my artistic side.
Chocolate sponge cake
carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
My favorite cake is the Victoria cake,very English & traditional.
I love the carrot cake recipe from my mum’s old cookery book.x
i love to make cupcakes with the kids , also fruit cake @chanson2010 on twitter
My gran makes a lovely chocolate cake
I love making butterfly cakes like my granny used to make. Its time consuming making all the ‘wings’ but they just look sweet and taste fab!
Our family favourite is red velvet cupcakes. But I love to experiment and make all different things, and looking for ward to some Halloween recipes at half term
My Mum makes a gorgeous Coffee cake that I have tried so hard to recreate but fail miserably, hers is magic!
making cupcakes love making them
With a four year old girl in the house, all demands are understandably for pink cupcakes with pink icing and pink sprinkles 🙂
Lemon Drizzle cake is my favourite to bake
Carrot cake
double choc muffins nom nom
Three chocolate brownies
My favourite is the chocolate cake with fudge icing that my mum makes for me every birthday. Its an old recipe thats been passed down. Hand written on a scrap of paper. We have now saved it by scanning in on to the computer.
Coffee and walnut is a favourite in our house
I love blondies, oh & my mum’s lemon drizzle cake was amazing!
Cupcakes with melted rolo topping! They don’t last long!
Good old chocolate biscuit cake, made with Marie biscuits (in Spanish Maria so they fit me perfectly!)
Carrot and Ginger cake
Tea Cake
My grandads macaroons
Cheesecakes! Love backing them and they’re aways a hit =]
I love pinapple cake 🙂
Coffee and walnut cake (from my Nans’ hand written recipe book)
Chocolate cake
Coffe and walnut cake
Victoria Sponge
Amazing giveaway and tips, my daughter has started baking lovely cakes and tarts. The best one so far is her butterscotch tarts.
My Mum’s Christmas cookies are yummy and both my sister and me bake them with our kids.
CARAMEL SHORTCAKE
My favourite is Lemon Drizzle cake – gorgeous! @Bobbity666
I absolutely love anything with buttercream so butterfly cakes are always go down well with me
Fab prize! My vote goes for coffee and walnut cake.
Lemon cake
A nice classic victoria sponge.
Jam filled cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are delicious!
Carrot cake as you get to indulge whilst still having one of your 5-a day!
I love our families banana bread recipe. Really easy to make with three over ripe bananas, some flour, baking soda, sugar and egg!
My fav family recipe is my nana’s Scones they are yummy cant seem to get them to taste just like hers thou 🙂
Xx
I have a brilliant chocolate cake recipe, that’s definitely my favourite bake!
Hard one to choose but at the moment it would be Chocolate Cake – delicious!
Austrian Coffee Cake
My favourite to bake at the moment is a fruit cake recipe handed down to my by my Mother-inLaw, it’s an all in one fruit cake, very easy to make. She makes it with almond & sultanas, I’ve changed it a bit andmake mine with raisins & cinnamon with a crispy cinnamon topping.
I love making cheesecakes!
i love a jam and cream victoria sponge and coffee and walnut cake. i cannot decide as both glorious!!! great giveaway thank you so much
I have a lovely german recipe for a cake topped with cherries and cinnamon flavoured crumble, then topped with cream and cocoa sprinkled over it – sooooo goooood!
Fairy cakes with the grandchildren is always a winner.
my mams spice
My mother’s Lemon Drizzle Cake 🙂 It’s to die for!
My Nan used to make the best cakes ever. When she made a victoria sponge she didn’t fold the flour fully into the eggs, butter and sugar. I have tried this myself and trust me, the sponge is so light and moist. I would definitely recommend this method.
Carrot Cake with a thick frosting. Nom Nom
Carrot cake
Lemon Drizzle Cake
My family favourite is a Victoria Sponge
My mam’s chocolate cake x
My favourite is lemon dizzle cake
Got to love a Victoria Sponge – it’s a classic
It’s got to be coffee and walnut cake for me
I love a banana and walnut loaf cake, it is SO easy to make and lasts for days, plus it tastes lovely!
Coffee and walnut cake
A sponge cake filled with home made strawberry jam and fresh cream.
it is a lemon cheesecake
Banana and chocolate chip cake is our family fave. My personal favourite is Coffee Cake, but no one else in our house likes it :(. Great giveaway – thank you!
Victoria sponge cake!
I make a lovely seed cake, recipe from my grandmother x
Bread and Butter Pudding following my late mother’s recipe.
victoria sponge
double choc cake! The kids love baking too, and this is their favourite to bake. I think they like to scrape the pot of this one the most
Its like stepping back in time and looking at my Nanas’s kitchen who I miss every day she was a confectioner and taught me to bake from a young age which I still do for my own family. x
carrot cake =)
A fabulous giveaway. The colours remind me of my childhood and holidays by the seaside, with lots of homemade cake for the picnic. My favourite these days is scones, sweet or savoury, I don’t mind!
My family favorite is Coconut Macaroons. I remember my mum making them with me when I was very small.
My little daughter loves ‘jabs’, or flapjacks as they are more commonly known! So we make them at least once a week, has to be with condensed milk.
My favourite is home made apple pie. Mum used to make every sunday lunch.
I love a good carrot cake.
My mum bakes the most amazing manchester tart!
Just a plain and simple chocolate victoria – can’t beat it if made well and it’s light and fluffy
Banana bread – my mum used to make it and I do now whenever I have a couple of bananas that need using. Lovely with a little bit of ‘real’ butter spread on it!
My Banana and Walnut Cake.
It is truly awesome!!
I love making strawberry cheesecake 🙂
I won I’d use the items to make some homebaked goodies for my colleagues in work -cinnamon and raison swirls with icing drizzled on them are yum. Have to say I am inspired by your victoria sandwich too!
Great blog, BTW. And I am LOVING the retro goodies they are awesome! Right, so my favourite baked goodie is brownie.
Vanilla buttercream cupcakes – make them for every birthday! xoxo
My Mum’s coffee and walnut cake is one of the family favourites
love the retro look. victoria sponge all the way!
Coffee & Walnut Cake
Has to be chocolate cake.Yum
My favourite is my Grandmother’s carrot cake recipie. I would share it but it’s a close guarded family secret!
my favourite is lemon drizzle cake!
Lemon cake with lemon butter icing
A basic chocolate cake but with a secret ingredient a pinch of chopped chilli! It brings out the flavour of the chocolate but doesn’t taint the taste (as long as you dont add too much haha!)
A good old victoria sponge
My wife would love these as an early Xmas present because she’s so into baking at the moment. I cook all the dinners & she can bake all the desserts!
My favourite has to be my Nan’s Victoria Sponge.
Can’t beat a good old victoria sponge.
My Mum’s cherry & almond cake
Bakewell Pudding
chocolate mint cake my favourite even from when I was little and my mum would make it especially was sooo nice
Love victoria sponge! 🙂
Carrot Cake.
Our favourite is chocolate mayonaise cake, its a gooey rich chocolate cake, divine! Another favourite is milk tart, its a traditional South Africa dish and a real comfort food
what a fab prize love it, my fave cake gotta be good old victoria sponge can do so much with it x
I love all things baking and all thing vintage, great recipes and prizes!
Carrot cake with a butter cream topping, it goes down a treat with everyone in our home. Lovely competition, thanks.
i love making lemon drizzle cake it looks good and tastes fab
Sherry Trifle
I love really simple currant buns
Victoria sponge
Probably Chocolate Brownies. So easy to make and yet so tasty.
Coffee and Walnut cake
Lemon drizzle cake for me especially if it is extra lemony 🙂
Chocolate mint cake
I have a really lovely squidgy chocolate cake recipe that I use for the girls birthdays but I love Victoria spoge the best – with fresh whipped cream and raspberries 🙂
victoria sponge cake 🙂
I don’t think you can beat a well made Victoria Sponge
My Nans Coffee and Walnut cake….mmm mmmm 🙂
My favourite bake is Broken Biscuit Cake. When we were young, my brother couldn’t eat diary or eggs so my mum experimented a lot with cakes. A lot were failures but this has to be her best creation!
You cannot beat a really good coffee and walnut cake – lots of lovely coffee flavoured butter icing both on the inside and the outside and lovely walnuts over the top! MMMMmmmmmmmm x
Gorgeous items. I love making Dundee cake, it always goes down well
Honey Victoria sandwich, tastes amazing.
Almond Chocolate Polenta Cake
sticky toffee puds
My sisters Victoria Sponge. It is always so light but so tall! Dont know how she does it!
My Mum used to make lovely fresh fruit and cream flans, but my fave ever was her lovely Eves Pudding with some vanilla custard 🙂
Coffee and Walnut cake
GOOD OLD VICTORIA SPONGE
Lemon drizzle cupcakes!
My Mum’s coffee sponge; plain and simple, nothing fancy, but completely delicious 🙂
Chocolate and vanilla marble cake with melted chocolate icing
My sister’s carrot cake
Our tried and tested faithful is Apfelkuchen
frosted carrot cake
I love a victoria sponge cake, but if i’m baking with the kids its cupcakes!
Lemon drizzle tray bake.
I love to make a fruit cake from a recipe in a book bought many years ago in Worcester Cathedral. I vary it depending on what different people prefer.
chocolate marble cake
These are just great