what is the best cake for sailors?

[mjcoon]

Cakes is great but biscotti last for weeks and weeks and dunking them in coffee is just wonderful. Really easy to make- our favourite is cranberry and pistachio-yummy got to go and have some now.

Some people dunk flapjack too, but I think that is disgraceful...

Mike.

 

[nigelmercier]

I'd like to say a Victoria Sponge, but in truth it's gonna be a heavy fruit cake, like Christmas Cake, with lots of brandy.

Xmas cake every time. But without the bloody icing.

 

[dylanwinter]

Xmas cake every time. But without the bloody icing.

with you nigel

icing and cats - two of the greatest evils on earth as we know it

 

[nigelmercier]

icing and cats - two of the greatest evils on earth as we know it

Did you know that neither are mentioned in the bible, so they must be evil

 

[sailorgirl]

+1 for Christmas cake (Delia's recipe preferred) or ginger cake made with plenty of golden syrup and or my mother's sticky chocolate cake recipe which has a large dollop of black treacle in it plus lots of cocoa and is best if you can resist it for at least a week.

 

[Yantlet]

Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is a favorite and despite Dylan's aversion it has to have cream cheese icing too.
Also has the benefit of making you see better in the dark,a useful attribute on a boat I would suggest

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

Any suggestions....

my mum used to make uber dense alcoholc fruit cake

any other suggestions

longevity and calories is what we are after

and places to buy them

Dylan

Buy????

Does anyone buy cake?

Bake it yourself.

And cakes are like good women. Silly to restrict yourself to just one brand.

 

[dylanwinter]

are soft icing is diffferent

Carrot cake is a favorite and despite Dylan's aversion it has to have cream cheese icing too.
Also has the benefit of making you see better in the dark,a useful attribute on a boat I would suggest

not icing at all

that is goo

but hard to manage on a boat

D

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Does anyone remember Molly O'Rourke's Irish Whiskey Cake, which came in a tin? I haven't seen them for years, they were a favourite on mountaineering expeditions etc.

If I ever found them, or their equivalent, they would be ideal for long voyages!

 

[aquaplane]

Stormy does 4 or 5 different ones all involving fruit and usually alcohol.

One involves cold tea, one gets boiled, that's what I understand anyway, I just eat them.

Only pic is Xmas cake from '09, loads of nuts:

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o360/aquaplanebob/2009/xmas cake 09/xmascake09001.jpg

 

[mjcoon]

And cakes are like good women. Silly to restrict yourself to just one brand.

Oh, I thought that branding women wasn't allowed any more! Or was that walnut trees? Or walnut cake?

Mike.

 

[Victoria Sponge]

Cakes is great but biscotti last for weeks and weeks and dunking them in coffee is just wonderful. Really easy to make- our favourite is cranberry and pistachio-yummy got to go and have some now.

Christmas Cake lasts for years, if you store it properly.

 

[Evadne]

Dense alcoholic fruitcake? That sounds like someone I met on the forum...

 

[nigelmercier]

It's got to be Kendal mint cake!

I saw a programme on how they made this (Ade in Britain). They handle it without gloves. Fine for something that is cooked afterwards, but it isn't.

 

[Habebty]

Rock Cakes, no really I get Mrs H to spin up a batch and they last for ages.

 

[Pye_End]

I saw a programme on how they made this (Ade in Britain). They handle it without gloves. Fine for something that is cooked afterwards, but it isn't.

Not sure why you think this. The majority food is made in uk with operators who do not wear gloves, and has been for many years. Bare hands tend to get washed regularly, whereas gloves don't so unless gloves are getting changed several times a day then bare hands can be cleaner.

If your worry is bacterial contamination then there would be recalls since food producers regularly test end of shelf life product. It is remarkably difficult to grow anything which is pretty well raw sugar anyway, so this is probably one of the safest products to eat and end of shelf.

 

[WestWittering]

Got to be a malt loaf. Buttered if conditions allow - au natural if too rough to bother. Not many crumbs & no wet wipes needed afterwards.

Di

 

[lenseman]

Lots of calories but wont last long. . . . .

I like this one. Lots of rats brains stuck round the top. Yum!!



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[Vara]

For long haul, any of the dense supermarket fruitcakes, for short haul, Lemon drizzle with lemon liqueur to bulk up the Lemon syrup from which it gets its name.

Making your own fruit cake involves ages messing around with mixing, greasing, lining, skewering etc etc to produce something which is almost as good as a shop bought one at a saving of 50p, life's too short.

 

[Gordonmc]

What is the best cake for sailors?

1. Fish cake.
2. Arbroath smokie cake.
3. Crab cake.

Sorry... don't like sweet stuff.