I love to bake for my friends...I have three main go to recipes for the cake and I tweak them for slightly different flavours...Carrot Cake, Chocolate Cake and Banana Cake are the ones they like the best..

I made a Banana Buttermilk Cake with Cream Cheese and Nutella Frosting this week and it had the most raves so far.

I would like to try something a little different this time but don't like wasting expensive ingredients on recipes I cant get feed back on...

SOOOOOO...
Hit me with your best cake recipe ever....simple and tasty is preferred and if anyone has a really yummy NON-Chocolate Vegan recipe please add it as well. My manager is Vegan and often gets left out of cake day..:-(

Thanks.
:-)

Malibu, lime and coconut cake with coconut frosting, it was yummy. I found the recipe on the BBC website.
No good for the vegan or those who can't have alcohol and laden with calories but nice as the occasional treat.

The Pink Whisk Chocolate Orange cake is a relatively recent find that I have made several times - I halve the amount of chocolate, 200g seemed OTT both taste and cost-wise. As long as you have a good orange, it is a lovely cake.

Vegan too complicated for me, sorry!

There are vegan cake recipes on the Vegan Society website.  They all look delicious.

Don't laugh :-)

Sweet Potato Cake - peel and grate the raw sweet potato and add it to your favourite cake recipe.  No more than equal measures Sweet Potato to cake mixture, less if the sweet potato is very moist, more if it's dryer.  Add some Cinnamon to taste and whack it in the oven, cook like carrot cake.

No need for frosting or Icing, gorgeous as it is :-p

I've had people rave about this and beg me to make it :-D

The Sweet potato goes soft and fudgy and most people can't tell what the flavour is, but it's soo lovely :-)

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-BEST-chococlate-cake-ever...that-happens-to-be/ any good ? you could use carob instead of choclatewhich you can get from places like holland and barratt

Mind non choclate and vegan is a tall order

sweet potato cake sounds nce no different to carrot or courgette cake. I have even had tomato soup used in a cake. Yep tomato soup you would never of guessed we served it a class of 14 yearolds at school and asked them to guess the secret ingredient. they loved it and no they didnt get the secret ingredient

Not vegan, but my uncle's wife comes from a German farming family and is a demon baker. For my mother's 80th she brought over two I hadn't seen before, a rhubarb meringue torte which was unbelievably good, and another chilled cake which was a dark chocolate and hazelnut base, with gooseberries and an Advocaat cream done in a spring form tin...out of this world! You can find recipes for these on Google. I haven't tried them yet but I plan to.

Apple cake (cooked in a loaf tin).
Just make a normal victoria sponge mixture and add chunks of cooking apple. Keeps the cake lovely and moist and goes down very well with a  cuppa. My friends request i cook this when we meet for coffee and catch up.
Cooking in a loaf tin rather than sponge tin makes it easier to serve up so you have a slice rather than a wedge. I usually spinkle with brown sugar before placing in the oven as it makes the top sticky and crunchy. I suppose you could add a simple frosting on the top although it realy is delicious as it is.

mm mmm :-)