(In jealous tones) oh, so you UKer's are posting cakes to each other now, is that it? Well! How very nice!

I got a slice of the choccie cake too! I must say I wish I worked in Sundae's school! I can't stand kids but it'd be worth it for the cake!

:D

Coffee and walnut cake.
This broke a new record as the fastest moving cake I have made.

I am definitely going to make one for the May Fayre.
Carrot cake too, despite the faff, because I was proud of it. Althought I will buy some little icing carrots for the top. Because some lilies need gilding.

Challah.

This one rose more, having been frozen, then defrosted overnight in the fridge.
I then gave it a few hours to return to room temperature. All as advised.

It's more tidily plaited than the last one - which will tell you something about the last one :) Then again I went for three strands not the more ambitious six.

It went down exceptionally well with the children and our graduate trainee!
As we were re-enacting a shabbat - I also brought in red grape juice to stand in for wine. Compliments all round. I was asked by more than one child if we would be having it again next week. Only one lad refused it, but he will not eat anything offered (Miss N's chocolate/ vanilla cake was also refused a few months ago).

If I thought there was more of a request for it here at home I could see me making it every month. As it is, this batch of two might be my only foray into Jewish baking.

Oh and I couldn't find poppy seeds anywhere!

Oh my heavenly FSM! They both look absolutely deeeeelish!

Oh, man!!!!

Sundae will you pm me with the recipes????

You may not want me to when you see my Lemon Drizzle Fail :(
Although I am bilingual when it comes to cooking instructions (thanks to the Cellar) the coffee cake is in metric weights, not cups. The Challah recipe I will send though.

So - lemon drizzle. I admit I was careless from the off but I think my two biggest fails were using oil not butter to grease the tin and trying to remove when the cake was still too hot.

As you can see it fell to pieces.
It was also far too sweet, although that is a fail of the recipe, and if I ever dared make it again I'd rectify it.

Monster was right to warn me of the difficulty of using moulds, but this is honestly my first real fail. I need a deep 20" cake tin I think. My 20" sandwich tin would have overflowed.

Still taking it into school. I'm not wasting four eggs! Especially as I had six gifted to me by my chicken-keeping colleague. They can eat it with spoons. Mum has already had all the slivers and crumbs she could sneak off it. I said she could. It's Mothers' Day here afer all. She agrees it's too sweet, but can't stop eating it. I'd say at least a 1/6 has gone...!

Oh and also shown is my cake carrier. Ta-daaaa! After all that eBay searching I found one in big Tesco. Much cheaper than those I had looked at online.

So.
Today I discovered that perhaps you get what you pay for.
I walked into school and was faffing about at a bin, putting some rubbish in while trying to switch the bag on my shoulder and move the cake carrier from one hand to another. Somehow I must have clipped the catch on one side of the cake carrier. I was previously concerned about how easily they opened, but put it down to paranoia.

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that your Lemon Drizzle Cake won't end up on the ground.

Cake came tumbling out, smashed to pieces.

I salvaged the bits on top which I didn't think had made content with the pavement, then picked the rest up and scattered it over the verge - let the birds get cavities, why not indeed.

However, the good news is that although I wrote a note explaining why it was a dis-assembled cake, and warning that I could not 100% guarantee that it was safe ("eat at your own risk" I puts) 2/3 of it was eaten, and I was complimented very highly by Mrs W who said every cake of mine got better and better and this was the best yet, despite the exploded serving fashion.

She also assured me that Lemon Drizzle cake should be sweet. Go figure.

Oh and they never got to see the mess it was in before it was dropped and I got lots of sympathy AND praise for my stoicism. I guess it won't work every week though.

Some people drop names, you drop cakes. ;)

btw, that bread (Challah?) looks positively foodgasmic!

I love your cake stories.
(I wish you would send me a slice of every one. I'll refund the P&P costs if you like.)

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Haggis!

Yes! This is what I hear every time I see the thread title.

Sundae, your challah looks amazing. I can't believe how generous you are with your coworkers. I would kill for a colleague who brought in a delicious cake every week.

Wow.

I've no appetite now due to being sick, but these pictures still make my mouth water in anticipation. Bravo!!