London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

Drop your pedal spanners and crank pullers and pick up your wooden spoons, it's time for the first LFGSS cake&bake off. I'm laying down the gauntlet (or oven glove) to all aspiring pastry chefs in a challenge to find the forums best baker.

Date: 18 October 2009
Location: The Coach & Horses SW4 7EX
http://www.coachandhorsesclapham.com/
Rules: All contestants must bring something resembling a cake/pastry/biscuit which has come from their oven (no tesco's finest here thank you).

Catagories:
Best Cake
Best Cookie/Biscuit
Best Tart
Best Decoration

Prizes will be decided by a public vote

Meet at 5pm to begin tasting at 6pm.

Oh this sounds like a competition for me! Will there be prizes? Or a crown made of cheese?

mmmm cheese. . .

IN!

*goes off to talk to MOC about Guinness cake Mk2*

Maybe a crown made of fairy cakes and wooden spoons, but there shall be no cheese in this competition. I can't be dealing with any crossing of the sweet/savory divide.

No cheese? What fucking bullshit is this?

Meringue?

Cheesecake?

NB: This idea is golden.

You called?

What about cheese cake?


edit: Balki beat me :(

Pickle will you make some of your lovely cookies? They are fucking lush.

MOC has now entered military Guiness cake preparation mode - this time it's gonna be messy!

Its gonna be like that "Forum these days" thread, but in real life!!!

Live threads FTW!

Mrs O's carrot cake -which is not only the best carrot cakle that I have ever tasted but also her piece de resistance - uses cream cheese in the frosting. Cheese is entirely appropriate, as a consequence, for cakes.

Ahh I can't keep up with all the posts, basically there are no rules on what you can or can't cook. Just whatever you bake make lots of it and have some fun.

Smack him back then

Hmmm. I also make a mean Carrot Cake.

So cheese is in?

Do I have to cook it myself or can I get Mrs O to cook for me.


[NB - tasters would be well advised to go with the Mrs O option]

Sweet bake off lovin it !
Avocado and banana bread ummmm .....

I'm excellent at eating cakes

I'm going to make a shit cake, it will be a big turd coverred in Chocolate icing.

Hmm I also make a mean carrot cake - but don't want to flood the market so will stick with MOC's guiness cake, however I may throw in a chocolate cake for the hell of it.
Ed we need plenty of warning for the bake off date - G cakes take approximately 2 weeks to prepare

I reckon Clefty has this in the bag, I love cake and I love stout... nom nom nom...

How mean exactly?

It won't be this though

If Claire is making Guiness cake then I shall have to push the boat our and make Rum cake- no smoking within 15 metres as the cake is over 45% proof.

Cliveo - anything goes just no glory taking if you didn't bake it with your own fair hands

Clefty - Date will be announced as soon as bright times is all sorted

Quite

I will be icing a meat loaf and feeding it to the vegans.

@clefty, never got to try the guiness cake, can't wait to try it.

and my cousin gave me a reciepe for her guiness cake so you may have some competition ;)

I'm starting to think I'll have to step up my baking game, my lemon drizzle cake is starting to sound a bit basic.

Quite

i may just do a victoria spunge.....

Me too!

Official Tasters List:

1. Donut!
2. RPM

Turn the other cheek.

Jesuits.

Totally down for this, pending date/diary clash. Put me down for a cheesecake, natch.

Wicked idea moog, though I won't be entering, never been a baker. Though if I was allowed to enter my chocolate pudding...

I would have thought that would be acceptable Ben. Sounds lovely!

I'm sure exceptions can be made, especially when they involve chocolate puddings.

this is a brilliant idea moog, love your work. in like flynn.

given the insanely insane guinness cake seems to be a shoe-in to trump any award, (i am yet to experience it but have witnessed slamm's eyes roll back in his head at the mere mention...) how about some categories to encourage more baking peeps out of the woodwork?

one suggestion, perhaps perhaps...

best baked delight featuring:

- alchohol
- cheese (for the dairy fanatics)
and....

MEAT!

because i really want an excuse to make these:

yes it is bacon and caramel, together at last

yummy

Yes.

But all of your crazy weird cakes will fall under my This Cake Is a Pipe Bomb vegan chocolate cake of doom.

Be prepared, mortal fools.

Thats a bloody good idea WSP (not the plastic wrapped vegans)
Obviously all this pressure could crack me and MOC and we could end up delivering a crap cake..

Mrs v-r's banana cake will be entered into this. It is 110% excellence and deliciousness.

Oh for a "tasty tasty murder" sign to put under that banner below the vegans-in-clingfilm (what a great name for a band).

I tried photoshopping it, but it was too small to read.