what is your favorite cake and post pix pls.

[جوري]

I am a pie/pastry kind of person..
don't know much about cakes outside of chocolate (which of course I love) but I want some ideas..



p.s yes pix are important and I'd like ethnic things too so I can learn something.. so if you're Russian or Malaysian put your favorite regional sweet/pastry/cake type item

 

[LavaDog]

Navajo fried bread, it taste better than it looks. Makes great pastries but much better on indain tacos.

 

[Abu Zainab]

I am sure you will like this. She says its a recipe she learned from Puerto Rico. It doesn't seem very hard to make either.

 

[Ramadhan]

One of my favorite cakes is Indonesian "lapis legit" (or thousand layer spice cake). I dont make them myself because it takes patience.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...e-cake-spekkoek-lapis-legit-recipe/index.html

 

[ayesha.ansari]

Well i like to eat fresh cream pineapple cake on my birthday specially and black forest cake too.

 

[جوري]

I am not familiar with any of those but that Indonesian one reminds me of a 'napoleon' which is also similar to Mille-feuille one of my absolute favs.

 

[sister herb]

I am cake fan too and bake them quite often (maybe too often and risk my family to become overweighted). One my favourite is Swedish strawberry-white chocolate cheesecake:

Here is recipe too:

Bottom:
170 g unsalted butter
75 g pecans
170 g flour
1 tbsp powdered sugar

Melt the butter. Chop the nuts finely. Combine everything and spread into a buttered springform pan, lined with a round of parchment paper or cut out teflon sheet. (You can attempt to do this without lining, but I wouldn't dare.)

Bake at 175° for 22-25 minutes or until lightly golden. Remove and let cool completely in the pan.

Filling:
200 g cream cheese
300 g white chocolate
25 g sugar
500 ml (2 cups) heavy cream (35-40% fat)

Melt the chocolate. Mix sugar and cream cheese and add the chocolate to this. Beat the cream until it holds soft peaks - don't overbeat it. Fold in with the rest. Pour into the pan, and smooth the top. Refrigerate for at least three hours.

Topping:
500 g strawberries

Trim the strawberries to a fairly even size, and decorate the top of the cake.

Here is also website about cakes, with pictures: http://jeenaskitchen.blogspot.com/2008/03/cake-recipes.html

 

[sister herb]

This is my favourite pie:

Finnish apple pie

150 g butter
3 dl wheat flour
½ dl milk

4-5 apples

½ dl sugar
1 egg
2 dl milk
1 - 2 teaspoon cinnamon

Heat oven +225 degrees (Celsius).

Mix butter and wheat flour, add milk, stir together.

Push dough onto a pie pan. Peel and core the apples, then slice them, cover the pan with the apples sciles (like in the picture).

Mix sugar, cinnamon, egg and milk, pour over the apples.

Bake in the oven for about 20 - 30 minutes.

 

[GuestFellow]

I'm not a fan of chocolate. The only cake that I really like is carrot cake:

 

[Musalman]

Ingredients for Chocolate Cake Recipe

6oz Self Raising Flour
4oz Margarine
4oz Caster Sugar
80-100g Dark Chocolate
2 Medium Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 Large Tbsp Powdered Sugar

For the Butter Cream Filling

Butter
Powdered Sugar
1 tsp corn starch
Vanilla Essence

 

[Reflections]

I'm not much of a fan of cake either to be honest, the two I do eat are :

Strawberry cheesecake

Or carrot cake:

but with a picture of bugs bunny in the middle.

 

[جوري]

mmmmmm-- ever since I started this 'do you want to lose weight thread'-- I haven't satisfied my appetite for anything good in ages...
the food network whose delicious slogan is 'stay hungry' has become my best friend and worst enemy .. and my sinister intent for this thread was to look at all the pretty and delicious succulent deserts, close my eyes and concentrate that I am eating them lololol

so keep em coming.. I like to visit this thread often

 

[Cabdullahi]

A somalis favorite cake....its banana

 

[جوري]

^^ my mom always makes this with our left over bananas that are about to go bad, I like it for breakfast with a good cup of coffee.. it is delicious

 

[Reflections]

Almost forgot...Marble cake! Chocolate and orange one..I make the best ones (if I say so myself :X;D)

 

[جوري]

send some my way =)

I like things with peach jam in it too..

 

[sister herb]

mmmmmm-- ever since I started this 'do you want to lose weight thread'-- I haven't satisfied my appetite for anything good in ages...
the food network whose delicious slogan is 'stay hungry' has become my best friend and worst enemy .. and my sinister intent for this thread was to look at all the pretty and delicious succulent deserts, close my eyes and concentrate that I am eating them lololol

so keep em coming.. I like to visit this thread often

Poor sis... hew

 

[جوري]

Poor sis... hew

I love those buttery soft rolls but I am waiting for the chocolaty things.. so much about cakes I don't know.. yesterday they were making a red velvet, I can't believe I have lived this long never having heard of it..

 

[yas2010]

MashAllah all these yummy cakes. I have put on 20lb just by looking at them
Love em all. Would not be able to discriminate. LOL

 

[sister herb]

Something chocolate then (before I go to sleep and seeing chocolate dreams):