[Georgie_porgie]

Hi all,

After a bit of a break, I'm back things are moving on and we are getting closer to getting out of town!
(Hi Hester by the way....I'm still pawing over those books you gave us!  I'll probably know it all of by heart by the time we get sorted hehehe).

Anyway.......

In the meantime, lets talk cake....I'm doing loads of baking from some fab WW2 leaflets I got recently and some of the cakes, tarts, biscuits etc I'd not heard of before.  Which lead me to thinking.....what cakes do you guys remember from childhood that you cannot buy in shops, bakeries etc anymore?

Georgie x

[Fanackapan]

I seem to recall Mums Friday treat after shopping in Owen Owen in Coventry was a Kunzle cake . They were individual cakes made up of 4 slabs of chocolate (yes it was that thick) that made a box around a chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream  swirled on top and a big chocolate button to finish off.
The baker used to come to our house on a Saturday with his huge basket full of cakes and loaves and my favourite used to be the mini hovis loaves , couldn't wait for Mum to slice it into its tiny slices and butter it for me for tea.
If I close my eyes and breathe in I can still remember the smell of the bakers basket of treats.

[Lesley Silvester]

My mum used to make the most wonderful leather cakes (as my brothers and I called them) until someone taught her how to make a proper sponge and we never had a decent leather cake again.