Given that the debate on that other topic has been closed down, I thought I would introduce an equally controversial topic:
"What is your favourite cake for cycling"
or if you are unwilling to commit, you can simply report recent consumption.
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Cake of the day
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Posted 12 years ago #
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If I'm being bad about my gluten-freeness, malt loaf, second to none.
GF I can load up on my intensely sugared chocolate and cherry brownies.
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Is a brownie a cake? Always had it down in the "tray bake" category myself :P
Carrot is one of my favourites, but there are so many bad carrot cakes out there... Banana loaf. Ginger loaf. Marmalade cake. In general I like all cakes, except chocolate sponges.
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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.
Posted 12 years ago # -
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.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/janes-cake-tragedy/3931543200/
Still too soon?
Posted 12 years ago # -
I feel I have considerable experience in this field...
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...
[1] - idea stolen from flapjacks sold in The Kitchen (the best cafe south-of-the-border maybe) http://tinyurl.com/kitchencafe
[the clientèle are almost always parked on the double-yellows outside causing chaos, but that's not the cafe's fault]Posted 12 years ago # -
Brownies must count when your options for baked goods are limited to the gluten free 'range' available most places.
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.
That probably doesn't read too well, so I may edit it later.
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We had some very fine blueberry upsidedown cake at the cafe in West Linton on Sunday.
I once made a courgette cake. It was good, especially as it caused my boyfriend to eat courgette...
The best cake, however, is my Mum's Christmas cake.
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Millionaire shortbread
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biscuits can qualify as cake
Not according to HMRC!
A cake should go hard as it goes stale, a biscuit should go soft.
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.
It's clearly some sort of Frankenstein's monster of a mutantfood.
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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.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Too Tired - that's funny.
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.
Posted 12 years ago # -
The biggest one.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Carrot cake.
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There's a thread with recipes somewhere - or was that just bread??
Posted 12 years ago # -
spot the recycled pop posters...
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Today I think that I will be partaking in Turkish Delight - it is Biscuit Wednesday at work (part of our Healthy Working Lives initiative).
Yesterday I brought in some Korean sweet thingymajigs - very nice too.
Now all this makes me wish I had actually cycled in today. Still guilt uses up calories (I think).
Posted 12 years ago # -
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...
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I rather like the look of this one :P
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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...
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A Friday treat:
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Hummingbird cake?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Raspberry Cranachan. £1.50 from my local.
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Posted 12 years ago #
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I originally set up this thread as an antidote to that other more annoying debate.
So, anyone got any suggestions for cake that can be consumed by a fairly immobile cyclist without making him rounder?
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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.
I know her beetroot brownie recipe is online (http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/523430/chocolate-beetroot-brownies) but not sure about any others.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Oatcakes? Or this "fabulous flapjacks" recipe I found in Tracy Griffen's wonderful Healthy Living Yearbook. If you don't have a copy then get one!
50g butter melted
75g soft brown sugar or honey
1 free-range organic egg
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp baking powder
150g porridge oats
50g plain flour
50 - 100g raisins/dried cranberries/sunflower seeds/pumpkin seeds/mixed nuts
1 dessertspoon golden syrup (optional)Preheat oven to 150C
Mix butter and sugar, add egg and mix
Add flour, baking powder and spice and mix
Add oats and fruit/nuts/seeds; the golden syrup if added at this point will ensure they stay soft
Divide mix into 12 paper cases or spread in a greased, lined baking tray
Bake for around 15 minutes - better underdone than overdone. I've made these dozens of times and they are great.Posted 12 years ago # -
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.
Posted 12 years ago # -
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...
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