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Date and Walnut Cake
Dec. 9th, 2009 10:11 pmYOU GUYS, YOU GUYS, I had the most DELICIOUS cake today at lunch. I went to this cafe and they had a special for a large slice of cake and a pot of tea for three pounds twenty-five and I got a slice of date-walnut cake and it was the best cake ever. Nicely moist cake with good crumb, and the ICING. The ICING WAS FANTASTIC.
I think they made the icing with brown sugar. It had not occurred to me that you could make icing with brown sugar, but of course it's possible and if my supposition that they did is correct then it is amazing. Anyone have brown sugar on hand and feel like whipping up a batch of icing and maybe a cake to go with it to check it out? Anyone, anyone?
I've found that sweets in the UK are almost uniformly excellent. Sticky toffee pudding, clotted cream, biscuits... (by the way, those lexicons that say biscuit = cookie? Are lying. A biscuit is a hard cookie you dip in tea; other kinds of cookies are called "cookies." This may be a recent development, though.) It's a pity that man cannot live by sugar alone.
I think they made the icing with brown sugar. It had not occurred to me that you could make icing with brown sugar, but of course it's possible and if my supposition that they did is correct then it is amazing. Anyone have brown sugar on hand and feel like whipping up a batch of icing and maybe a cake to go with it to check it out? Anyone, anyone?
I've found that sweets in the UK are almost uniformly excellent. Sticky toffee pudding, clotted cream, biscuits... (by the way, those lexicons that say biscuit = cookie? Are lying. A biscuit is a hard cookie you dip in tea; other kinds of cookies are called "cookies." This may be a recent development, though.) It's a pity that man cannot live by sugar alone.
