last minute birthday cake

[craigthecoupe]

Anyone?
Need to get a cake made by tomorrow lunchtime. I will shop ingredients tomorrow morning, I'm an ok cook, but a crap baker. Nothing sickly, current thinking is lemon drizzle cake, anyone got any fool proof tasty cakes I can knock up in a couple of hours?
TIA

[Ace-T]

Tom Kerridge orange cake. It's a Christmas recipe but it's super easy (I can't bake!) and tastes lovely. And is gluten free.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/spiced_orange_c...

Lovely with vanilla ice cream.

[SpydieNut]

Fantastic lemon drizzle - easy and tasty

[48k]

Find a Mary Berry Foolproof recipe like her all in one Victoria sponge

[nikaiyo2]

Does it have to be a cake?

I do a giant pan cookie that you can knock out in a few minutes. I tailor if to who it is for, M&Ms, kitkat, buttons etc

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/giantcookie

[sherman]

6oz flour
6oz marg/butter
6oz caster sugar.
3 large eggs

Mix it altogether until light and fluffy

Put in a greased and floured cake tin.

Bake at 200c for 30mins or until golden and a skewer comes clean.

Cool and then slice in half horizontally

Spread the top of the bottom half with jam of choice. Lemon curd would work.

Put the top half on top of the jammy bottom half.

Make up a butter cream icing and spread on top of the cake and sides if you want.

Add candles to the top.
Light candles
Birthday person blow out candles.
Slice up cake and eat

[moorx]

My all-time favourite cake, which I have made many times for many years.

It is called Passion Cake, but it's really just a carrot cake. We sometimes add a handful of sultanas too.

Passion Cake
Makes one 8 inch cake
280g/10oz plain flour
1 tsp bicarb of soda
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp cinnamon
170g/6oz soft light brown sugar
60g/2oz chopped walnuts
3 eggs (beaten)
2 ripe bananas mashed
170g/6oz grated carrots
170ml/6 fl oz soya or sunflower oil

Frosting:
85g/3oz butter softened
85g/3oz cream cheese
170g/6oz icing sugar
½ tsp vanilla essence

To decorate:
Walnut halves

Grease and base line two 8 inch sandwich cake tins

Set oven to Gas Mark 4, 180 degrees C
Sift the flour with the bicarbonate and baking powder
Mix in sugar, walnuts, eggs, bananas, carrots and oil
Beat until thoroughly blended, then divide the mixture between the tins
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean (may need to check at 30 mins)
Turn out and cool

For the frosting:
Beat all the ingredients together until very light and creamy
Use to sandwich and frost the cake
Decorate with walnuts
Eat within a week

Unfrosted cake can be frozen for up to 3 months

[craigthecoupe]

Thanks for the quick responses! I ended up going lemon drizzle as we had the loaf tin, and ingredients at home. I also had a rather keen young helper, so simplicity was king.
The Tom Kerridge cake, and the passion cake both sound super. Once the summer weather relents, and it cools down, I can see me trying both.

One thing I hate about baking is knowing just how much bad stuff goes into making a cake/cookies! no wonder it all tastes nice.