Marvellous, I love this thread!!!

Great thread idea mummza, if its cakes you want I've got plenty of homegrown recipes to share

Here's my first entry

Sticky Ginger Cake

8oz soft brown sugar
6oz butter
12oz golden syrup or treacle
1lb self raising flour
1 1/2 tspn ground ginger
1 egg
1/2 pt milk
3oz sultanas(optional)
If using treacle replace the brown sugar with caster sugar

Melt butter,sugar and syrup in a pan over a low heat stir until the grainy feeling goes.
Allow to cool
In a large bowl sift the flour with the ginger and make a well in the center, and add the butter/sugar mix, fold in until combined
Mix together the egg and the milk and add this to the cake mix, have a little patience here and keep stirring and gradually the milk will mix in leaving you with quite a sloppy cake mix.

This mix makes one 8" round cake and one 2lb loaf cake or 1 x 9 1/2" round cake.
Bake at 160C for about 1 - 1 1/4 hours.
Leave in the tin for 15 minutes and then cool as usual on a wire rack

Enjoy

brilliant...I am not so great at making cakes so I thought that I might start this thread as a way of learning more

Ok I know that I started off this thread and then neglected it:oops: SORRY

I now have a recipe from my lovely Polish friend Maja who I work with. This is and old recipe that her mother used to make . It is a Walnut cake but is contains no flour. It seems to have a huge amount of eggs for a cake but it works! I have never made it myself, but Maja made one of these cakes for us all in the staff room. It was good, moist and nutty.

                            MAMA' TORT ORZECHOWY
                                 Mama's Nut Cake


         Ingredients.....9 eggs
                              250g caster sugar
                              250g walnuts
                              2-3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
                              a little lemon juice

         Method............
                             1. Grind the Walnuts untill they are ground quite fine.
                             2. Seperate the eggs.
                             3. Mix together the Egg yolks and the sugar,
                                 beat  this mixture untill the mixture is very pale .
                             4. Add the ground Walnuts.
                             5. Add 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs to start with,   
                                 this will help to thicken the mixture , if you feel that
                                 you need a little more bread crums , then
                                 add a little more.
                             6. Whisk the egg whites untill stiff and fold these
                                 in to the mixture.
                                 Add a little squeeze of lemon juice if you wish!
                             7. Take a reasonable sized circular cake tin
                                 and grease it very well,put a circle of baking
                                 paper  in the base of the tin.
                             8. Bake the cake in a medium heat oven (not too hot
                                 an oven!) for around 3/4 hour.
                             
                             9. After the cake has baked allow it to cool.
                                 then top it with 'Masa'(icing),
                                 a simple 'butter cream' icing that if flavoured with
                                 Coffee is best for this cake.

Stefanie, my lovely husbands birthday is next week, I might just try the cake for that occasion, I think that I have all the ingredients already in the cupborad apart from the brandy , I seem to remember using the rest of that in the christmas cooking,I might just go and buy a miniture of that .