The perfect cake?

[IanR]

What's a dumpling?

A clootie Dumpling is a Scottish dessert traditionally made of dried fruit, spices, oatmeal or breadcrumbs, flour, and beef suet. It's boiled in a cloth, called a “cloot”, hence the name.

 

[hotmetal]

FOR FIGHTING

Hard to beat a custard pie. Maybe a really dense fruit cake if it's serious.

You, sir, have won the Internet for this! Who answers "best cake" with "for fighting"?! Genius! I mean, I've heard of bun fight but bring on the custard cavalry!
I guess you too were a fan of Tiswas back in the day?

 

[BigBruce]

A clootie Dumpling is a Scottish dessert traditionally made of dried fruit, spices, oatmeal or breadcrumbs, flour, and beef suet. It's boiled in a cloth, called a “cloot”, hence the name.

Thanks Ian!

 

[Sabre]

A clootie Dumpling is a Scottish dessert traditionally made of dried fruit, spices, oatmeal or breadcrumbs, flour, and beef suet. It's boiled in a cloth, called a “cloot”, hence the name.

Cakes are baked not boiled, this is a suet pudding.

 

[IanR]

Cakes are baked not boiled, this is a suet pudding.

Cake is a form of sweet food made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, that is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies. - Wikipedia

 

[hotmetal]

This thread is gonna end with McVities v HMRC 1991.
If it gets harder when you leave it out it's a cake. Food scientists would agree that a Clootie Dumpling would indeed get harder if left out. However this could be challenged by Rab C Nesbitt, who would maintain that said dumpling is made in Scotland frae girders and couldnae get any harder than it is already, see you. That might be counterproductive to the decision but nonetheless a price worth paying for honour. In vimto veritas.

 

[TobyC]

New York cheese cake. Plain, simple , delicious.

Been eating cheesecake all my life, never heard anyone call it "New York" cheesecake. I avoid anything associated with that city, the state is ok though. All cheesecakes are delicious, even with stuff on 'em or in 'em.

 

[TobyC]

Dumplings are not cakes!




Then again, you fellas call crackers biscuits, so who knows?

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[TobyC]

Actual cake? German chocolate for me.

But Krispy Kreme doughnuts need to get a mention too!

 

[Radar]

Parkin. I think I'll make one again!

I hate Parkin .............. I can never find a space !

 

[IanR]

‘A cake by any other name would be a dumpling’ - William Shakespeare.

 

[hotmetal]

I pretty much gave up eating cheesecake ("NY" or otherwise) after realising that after having had my mum's baked cheesecake, all other cheesecake is just an exercise in disappointment. Other commercial baked cheesecakes have run a close second and I've enjoyed them, but the "light, white and covered with sh... " variety just don't do it for me. YMMV as ever!

 

[IanR]

'Let them eat Dumpling' - Marie Antoinette