The Great Cake Debate

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So last night J and I popped round to see the Moores for "tea and cake". Amonst many pleasant discussions, we got involved in a rather protracted argument about the nature of cake. For Dave had gone out and bought a cheesecake, a fact which both Tamsin and I were a little confused about, since we would classify it as a dessert, and would expect something more traditional like a Victoria sponge, if we were having tea and cake.[Poll #1598802]

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[hungry-pixel.livejournal.com]

In "other" you can include any and all flavours of cake - choc cake (but not choc FUDGE cake; that is a dessert!), brownies, carrot cake, coffee and walnut cake, etc. Something that involves a sponge is crucial to what "cake" is.

I might also include scones or tart in a "tea and cakes" afternoon tewa, but that doesn't mean I think they're cakes, just that they're appropriate examples of things to serve.

mmm. Cake.

[violetnights.livejournal.com]

If I was pushed, I'd call it a dessert, but I'll admit I really wouldn't give a stuff what people classify it as. You'd be serving me sweet things, dammit. I have a one track mind when it comes to stuff like this :)

[putrescine.livejournal.com]

Cheese cake doesn't go hard when it's stale, therefore it's not a cake. Tax law says so. Likewise pavlova.

Most if not all sponge-based articles, pastries such as tarts and Danish pastries together with tortes are all acceptable, although personally I prefer the latter two with coffee.

Point of order: do you serve both cakes and biscuits, for variety, or is that over-indulging?