http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cake of the day en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:11:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420&page=2#post-146418 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:44:12 +0000 Focus 146418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ <strong>amir</strong></p> <p>Did you wash it down with those curr<strong><em>e</em></strong>nts?</p> <p>Sorry, couldn't resist! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420&page=2#post-146414 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:25:47 +0000 amir 146414@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a really good borders tart the other day, at Kailze. Packed with currents and nice crisp pastry. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420&page=2#post-117246 Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:04:00 +0000 gembo 117246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Crimbles are coconut macaroons dipped in chocolate. They do a gluten free macaroon without chocolate but with a jammy bit and some rice paper. All v good for eating on the move. Tesco at canon mills used to do a galette biscuit Normandy, style with salt crust round the rim and substantial diameter, haven't seen them for long time. All three items biscuits rather than cakes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-117214 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 23:00:57 +0000 sallyhinch 117214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coconut macaroons are fairly light, albeit more of a biscuit than a cake - no butter in them, just egg white, sugar and desiccated coconut. Although we dip ours in chocolate, which probably adds a few calories... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-117210 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:50:08 +0000 Charterhall 117210@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Amusing story in the Radio Times this week about the time when the Queen presented the test match commentary team with a fruit cake during the interval. Good choice Ma'am. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-117111 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:12:49 +0000 Cyclingmollie 117111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oatcakes? Or this "fabulous flapjacks" recipe I found in Tracy Griffen's wonderful <a href="http://www.tracygriffen.com/">Healthy Living Yearbook</a>. If you don't have a copy then get one!</p> <p>50g butter melted<br /> 75g soft brown sugar or honey<br /> 1 free-range organic egg<br /> 1 tsp mixed spice<br /> 1 tsp baking powder<br /> 150g porridge oats<br /> 50g plain flour<br /> 50 - 100g raisins/dried cranberries/sunflower seeds/pumpkin seeds/mixed nuts<br /> 1 dessertspoon golden syrup (optional)</p> <p>Preheat oven to 150C<br /> Mix butter and sugar, add egg and mix<br /> Add flour, baking powder and spice and mix<br /> Add oats and fruit/nuts/seeds; the golden syrup if added at this point will ensure they stay soft<br /> Divide mix into 12 paper cases or spread in a greased, lined baking tray<br /> Bake for around 15 minutes - better underdone than overdone. I've made these dozens of times and they are great. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-117110 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:08:18 +0000 Two Tired 117110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have a look at Harry Eastwood's recipes. She makes awesomely tasty cakes and they all have the butter replaced with vegetables (though you would never know from the taste). I pretty much don't make 'normal' cakes any more thanks to her. Most recipes are gluten free too, or easily adapted. </p> <p>I know her beetroot brownie recipe is online (<a href="http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/523430/chocolate-beetroot-brownies" rel="nofollow">http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/523430/chocolate-beetroot-brownies</a>) but not sure about any others. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-117106 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:31:03 +0000 amir 117106@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I originally set up this thread as an antidote to that other more annoying debate.</p> <p>So, anyone got any suggestions for cake that can be consumed by a fairly immobile cyclist without making him rounder? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-115507 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:51:00 +0000 chdot 115507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5543/9115732556_a7f6ec39ab.jpg"> </p> <p><a href="http://www.theopendoor-morningside.org.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.theopendoor-morningside.org.uk</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-114453 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:52:28 +0000 amir 114453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Raspberry Cranachan. £1.50 from my local. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-114449 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:45:21 +0000 Cyclingmollie 114449@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hummingbird cake? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-114444 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:31:12 +0000 amir 114444@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A Friday treat:</p> <p><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2878/9042099422_cb6ce27371.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113985 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:45:05 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 113985@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New chocolate chip hobnobs being road tested in the office today. Feedback so far is positive, but that may be because there's no cake to steal the limelight... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113973 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:04:44 +0000 Zenfrozt 113973@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I rather like the look of this one :P</p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/3915152625_087697da8b.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113967 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:37:20 +0000 DaveC 113967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Carrot cake is very nice but I'm a sucker for lashings of cream, icing sugar and custard, so I think cake is a less accurate description for me...</p> <p><a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/Dave_Crampton/media/382208_10151546033120579_1873885770_n_zps375e585a.jpg.html"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/Dave_Crampton/382208_10151546033120579_1873885770_n_zps375e585a.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113956 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:06:39 +0000 amir 113956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Today I think that I will be partaking in Turkish Delight - it is Biscuit Wednesday at work (part of our Healthy Working Lives initiative).</p> <p>Yesterday I brought in some Korean sweet thingymajigs - very nice too.</p> <p>Now all this makes me wish I had actually cycled in today. Still guilt uses up calories (I think). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113879 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:05:43 +0000 SRD 113879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8417/9003551025_a7719d14a2.jpg"></p> <p>spot the recycled pop posters... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113878 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:02:01 +0000 chdot 113878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a thread with recipes somewhere - or was that just bread?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113876 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:57:55 +0000 PS 113876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Carrot cake. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113872 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:54:00 +0000 Uberuce 113872@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The biggest one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113865 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:25:38 +0000 Cyclingmollie 113865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Too Tired - that's funny.</p> <p>I'll go for Eccles cakes. Not a cake perhaps but then neither are Pontefract Cakes or Kendal Mint Cake so I don't care. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113860 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:29:41 +0000 Charterhall 113860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fruit cake, no question. It's a great disappointment that so few cafes and tea rooms offer it, fruit scones are often the nearest they can manage. I was pleased to hear Richard from Pointless also decrying the relative rarity of fruit cake recently, his suggestion was to make it trendy in the form of fruit cupcakes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113856 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:14:28 +0000 kaputnik 113856@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>biscuits can qualify as cake</em></p> <p>Not according to HMRC!</p> <p>A cake should go hard as it goes stale, a biscuit should go soft.</p> <p>The question is, what happens to a Brownie, as a fresh brownie is softish and chewyish with a crspyish outside. Then it goes hard and dry before going soft and crumbly. </p> <p>It's clearly some sort of Frankenstein's monster of a mutantfood. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113849 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:48:33 +0000 steveo 113849@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Millionaire shortbread<br /> /thread </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113847 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:42:07 +0000 fimm 113847@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We had some very fine blueberry upsidedown cake at the cafe in West Linton on Sunday.</p> <p>I once made a courgette cake. It was good, especially as it caused my boyfriend to eat courgette...</p> <p>The best cake, however, is my Mum's Christmas cake. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113845 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:31:57 +0000 gdm 113845@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brownies must count when your options for baked goods are limited to the gluten free 'range' available most places. </p> <p>Are we talking cake as a post-ride treat or sugar-filled fuel? My dear mum has just discovered how to make gluten free choux pastry, so whichever the thread was intended to establish, don't be surprised if you see someone on the Innocent Path chomping down on a chocolate éclair.</p> <p>That probably doesn't read too well, so I may edit it later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113843 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:28:29 +0000 lionfish 113843@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I feel I have considerable experience in this field...</p> <p>I'm relived to see amir has permitted traybakes and similar in this category. If I had to pick a perfect-cycling treat, it would be my own home-made raisin and dried apricot chocolate covered flapjack[1]. Besides being really yummy, it has a good mix of quick and slow release carbohydrates (from the syrup/honey that made the flapjack and the sugar in the chocolate to the oats which will give you energy after the initial sugars have worn off). This might be blowing-my-own-trumpet too much though...</p> <p>[1] - idea stolen from flapjacks sold in The Kitchen (the best cafe south-of-the-border maybe) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kitchencafe" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/kitchencafe</a><br /> [the clientèle are almost always parked on the double-yellows outside causing chaos, but that's not the cafe's fault] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113841 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:22:40 +0000 Two Tired 113841@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/janes-cake-tragedy/3931543200/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/janes-cake-tragedy/3931543200/</a></p> <p>Still too soon? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113839 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:19:20 +0000 amir 113839@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think that tray bakes and for that matter biscuits can qualify as cake for the purposes of this thread. However ice cream doesn't. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10420#post-113838 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:18:05 +0000 rust 113838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Malt loaf does indeed condense well. Pop a little hole in the packet and the squidge until it is about a third of the size that it was. </p>