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Seems a legit scientific comparison...
Love this place.
True enough. Dafna's is heaven for the lover of delicious cakeage. It's only a couple of miles away from home, too. 🙂
That London
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Depends if i was after quality or quantity each have their day.
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Glasgow
Inshriach Nursery
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I was going to post a nice cake shop pic, but now I can't as Druidh has ended the thread 🙁
A man walks into Humble Pie and asks "Is that a macaroon or a meringue?". The guy behind the counter says "No you're right it's a macaroon".
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For UK yes.
For EU... Pohorjska Kavarna cake hotel in Maribor.
Ah yes, Paddy Macaroon. He was in Half Man Half Biscuit.
cup cakes are american inspired rubbish though, this thread needs proper cake like bread pudding, lardy cake and stodgy goodness like that
Wet nelly.
Southerners likely won't have a clue what one is.
Betty's
You buy cakes? Homemade are just so much tastier 🙂
Chesters at Skelwith Bridge. Omnomnom.
yes.Inshriach Nursery
Inshriach, absolutely and another Scottish institution, Falko in Gullane... Germany's finest time served cakemeister...
AdamW
Was there on Sunday, any cake shop that doesn't serve fruit cake is no cake shop at all....
A few years ago whilst doing trailAddiction's HEIDI ride, we called into Chevallot in Val d'Isere... Wow is all I can say.
My other half's cake shop wins for me..
Probably a bit niche, serving mainly extravagantly decorated celebration cakes, but she's a terrifyingly accomplished baker and her banana, toffee and pecan cake is a sticky, shiny, gooey lesson in indulgence..
Christmas cake here in Copenhagen 🙂
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Cabosse, Warkworth, England.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/leecollis/8440808953/ ]A cake for tough mountain bikers[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/leecollis/ ]Lee Collis[/url], on Flickr
Inshriach Nursery
Yeah
Inshriach Nursery
New to me Scotduirdh, I suspect I'll shed a tear or two of joy when I check this place out.
That said, I'm more of a truffle/chocolate man. I still whimper at the thought of the chocolate brownie I had from one of Paul A Youngs shops.
*wipes tears from cheek
I take it you have never been to Manchestershire the home of 'Patisserie Valerie'
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Or Huf****s in the Cotswolds
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Cannot beat a nice Bathbun though or a bit of Lardycake.
Those French cakes look nice but just taste of cream and sugar in my experience. Always disappointed.
It's not a fair comparison though, you took a picture of the crap cookie section of Gregs at the end of the day by the look of it. Right next to that there should have been a stand of cream cakes, custard slices and other goodies.
Are you a tabloid journalist by any chance?
Zappi's Bike Cafe in Oxford. Cakes - and bikes. What's not to like? 🙂
http://www.zappisbikecafe.co.uk/
The cake in the Dales Bike Centre Cafe is excellent, especially when you are staying in the accommodation and have 24hr cake access.
Happy times.
You can stuff your patisseries - we've got one of these new posh Greggs in town...
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This is in France.
McDonalds in Paris to be exact:
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Mc Cafe the Mc Donalds answer to Starbucks.
ady Gresley - Member
You buy cakes? Homemade are just so much tastier
Do you offer a delivery service?
There's a "Maison Blanc" near me -looks exactly like the French one in the OP's pic. Buns cost 6 times more though.
Do you offer a delivery service?
Do you know how incredibly easy it is to make cakes?
Do you know how incredibly easy it is to make cakes?
It's a bit tricky when I'm out on my bike and spontaneously think "Hmmm! I fancy a right nice coffee and cake just now."
Just take some with you 🙂
That would be planned not spontaneous.
Plan for the spontaneous!
Anyway I was talking to Rocketdog not you.
Out of curiosity, what cakes do you make, Molgrips?
All sorts. I made a battenburg once, it was awesome. Almond slices a favourite too.
Do you know how incredibly easy it is to make cakes?
Yes I do.
I also know I can't reproduce the quality of a cake made by a professional with many thousands of hours of experience.
Sadly, those sort of cakes a few and far between. But when I find them it's an ugly, almost violent scene that follows.
And this is seriously easy?
I'm an eccles cake kind of guy... I'd do my own, but the idea of making pastry is terrifying.
La Mallorquina, Puerta del Sol, Madrid:
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Not ideal for riding, though. Besides, Nigella has turned me into a [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Domestic-Goddess-Comfort/dp/0701171081 ]Domestic Goddess[/url], and I bake all my own cakes. It's not really that difficult.
but the idea of making pastry is terrifying.
Doing it, however, is really pretty easy.
Plan for the spontaneous!
Ermmm!
Doing it, however, is really pretty easy.
Seriously? Proper eccles pastry? Easy? Tell me more, if you please. 🙂
You said cake, not pastry. Plain cake is very easy, it doesn't require thousands of hours of experience. Getting a perfect mille feuille or whatever, that does, but not cake.
It's called an eccles [b]cake[/b] though? Blurred boundaries right there.
Jaffa? Biscuit or cake?
Seriously? Proper eccles pastry? Easy? Tell me more, if you please
Never made Eccles cakes, but puff or flaky pastry isn't that hard, there are loads of recipes out there. The [url= http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2403/roughpuff-pastry- ]BBC website[/url] is usually pretty reliable, although the Nigella Domestic Goddess book is excellent and the one I turn to.
One thing I should mention: while satisfying, making pastry is a faff compared to just buying the stuff ready made. It's not difficult, just a bit messy and time consuming. Bit like indexing your own gears rather than just dumping the bike off at the LBS.
Short crust pastry is easy (but as above, buying it is even easier). Puff pastry though, thjat's more difficult.
I once tried to make a Cornish pasty. It tasted perfect, but I had to eat it with a spoon!
You said cake, not pastry. Plain cake is very easy, it doesn't require thousands of hours of experience. Getting a perfect mille feuille or whatever, that does, but not cake.
Mille feuille is just puff pastry, and that's not that difficult to make. And learning to make pastry is the key to the Wonderful World of Pies.
Yeah.. just reading about pasty pastry. Looks like strong flour helps, extra gluten, and kneading the dough well to get it doing its job.
Tempted to try again now 🙂
I once made a pie - the pastry was ok but the filling was way off. May try again.
The white hot chocolate and Tiramisu are amazing in a Mc Cafe.
The best cake shops are "Oberlaa" in Vienna. It's impossible to walk past one.
Jaffa? Biscuit or cake?
Legally (for VAT reasons), cake.
@mogrim : those pics have made me so dam hungry....for a holiday to madrid 😀
Hit The north Land
I see your slatterys - marvellous
and add http://www.macaroonbyalisonseagrave.co.uk/
you took a picture of the crap cookie section of Gregs at the end of the day by the look of it. Right next to that there should have been a stand of cream cakes, custard slices and other goodies.
It isn't Greggs.
Do you offer a delivery service?
Do you know how incredibly easy it is to make cakes?
Hmm let me think, I make them or get them delivered by a lady into riding bikes who likes cake....no, can't see your point
Local farmers market
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Peanut & snickers muffin? Yuk
Hmm... look a lot nicer than most farmers I meet *ahem*
Anyway
Peanut & snickers muffin? Yuk
Bought, no. Homemade, yes. Very easy to make as well.
the idea of making pastry is terrifying.
MTFU.......................and get baking.
i'm a member of our local wi. cake baking is easy however pastry just takes time as it has to rest in the fridge.
nowadays the shop bought ready made pastry is of a decent quality so you could always cheat.
@mogrim : those pics have made me so dam hungry....for a holiday to madrid
The shop is conveniently located in the very centre of Madrid, too 🙂
nowadays the shop bought ready made pastry is of a decent quality so you could always cheat.
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