Hello!
I’m Katy and I’ll be your Rhyme & Ribbons blogger for today.
I usually write over at Little Miss Katy and you’re more than welcome to come and join me there for the after-party (the party being this post obvs).
I’ve wanted to work with Amanda for ages and am so excited to be writing this guest post for her. We’re both actresses (I gave it up a year ago but still sometimes call myself an actress, that’s allowed right?), we both love writing and, most importantly, we both love CAKE.
One of my most popular series on Little Miss Katy is My Top 5 lists.
Basically, I rate my top 5 in everything from chick flicks to pizza toppings and photography apps.
Simple, easy and it means I get to talk about food a lot.
So I felt like a Top 5 of my favourite cakes was one of my more brilliant ideas!
I mean, Amanda is great at making cake, and I’m good at eating it.
So, really, this was always going to happen…
5. RED VELVET CUPCAKE
It has to be a cupcake. Don’t ask me why because I have no idea.
But normal red velvet cake just does not taste the same as a red velvet cupcake.
Oh and it has to have cream cheese frosting on top! It doesn’t count otherwise.
Image Credit (under Creative Commons): Benson Kua
4. STOLLEN
Stollen is a traditional German Christmas cake stuffed full of candied and dried fruits, nuts, spices and (this is the best bit) hunks of marzipan.
It’s basically pure Christmas wrapped in a cake.
My Mum makes it every year in the week leading up to Christmas, and we tend to (naughtily) have it toasted with butter for breakfast.
Decadent, but totally acceptable in December right?
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3. COFFEE AND WALNUT CAKE
This is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee and scattered with walnuts. I always aaaalways have it when I visit my Grandparents, because it’s my Mum’s favourite so Gran makes her one especially every time we go.
It’s super yummy with a cup of coffee after lunch. And with tea in the afternoon. And with orange juice in the mornings…
Image Credit (under Creative Commons): Phil Gradwell
2. BANANA BREAD
The easiest cake in the world to make, and definitely the one I make the most frequently.
Because I always buy bananas and I never eat all the bananas before they go brown…
And the best way to get rid of them is to mash ’em up and stick ’em in a cake.
And then eat the cake, hot from the oven and drizzled with local honey.
And then feel virtuous cos banana is a fruit so basically it’s a healthy cake yeah?
No calories. Nope, none at all.
1. VICTORIA SPONGE
Classic and delightful.
A light, airy, vanilla-flavoured sponge cake, layered with plenty of raspberry jam and thick cream, and dusted with caster sugar (NEVER with icing sugar!)
Perfect with afternoon tea served in a porcelain cup.
Royally posh British accent optional but recommended.
And there you have it.
Image Credit (under Creative Commons): Kelly Hunter
My Top 5 Favourite Cakes!
I hope you liked it, and I very much hope somebody (somebody? anybody?) will pop over say hi on my blog.
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It’s much more fun to have a conversation with other people than it is to try and talk to myself…
