We had a cake for my son’s birthday a couple of days ago, and I was reminded of one of the benefits of living in the UK – decent cake. It is, as with so many other things, possible to get good cake in the US, but you have to know where to go as the default is a kind of blown polystyrene block garnished with milky sugar. And not in a good way. In contrast Sam’s cake, from the local supermarket, had chocolate icing that tasted of actual chocolate, slathered over a sponge that tasted of sponge-cake, rather than just sponge.
Man I’m hungry.
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The Farmington Bakery makes lengendary cake. I don’t really like sweets, and they have the only cake I’ll eat. I didn’t know you were so long without good cake here in Minnesota! I would have brought in a sheet cake from Farmington. Although we lack white baps and choccy bikkies, we do have good cake.
The very words sheet cake make me shudder – too many pieces of sponge slimed with sugar-free sugar.