Volunteers?

I need, for reasons I won’t go into right now, to make sure that a cake I make will survive a journey through the post and still look okay and taste good. Any volunteer recipients? I’m not certain yet what cake you’ll get but chiffon cake and chocolate fondant are looking promising…
I’ll need an address and feedback 😉

16 thoughts on “Volunteers?”

  9. Sarah and Nic – addresses noted 😀
    I’m not sure I’m going to have this many, but we’ll see how it goes!

  11. Well, we made fondant au chocolat and lemon angel food cake today, then the children each thought of a way to get them through the post, so there are three parcels on their way (Nic, Sarah and Jan as most easily available addresses) which may arrive with cake or with crumbs…
    The fondant is very soft (but really yummy) and I think more likely to fall apart, while the angel food cake is rather springy (a bit like chewy meringue) and should travel okay but I’m not sure how it will be after a couple of days. It should be served with fresh lemon curd but I really didn’t think that would travel well 😆 so if that’s the one I decide to use in the end I’ll see if I can get hold of a mini jar 😉

  12. Got ours today, very exciting, thank you to all of you! Kids were all reading in bed when I got home so I was even privileged enough to eat it all myself, as they hadn’t opened it!

    Mine was Libby’s packaging – cake was lovely in the paper cup (I imagine even better with lemon curd but can understand why you didn’t send that!) and tasted fine after a day. Still nice and springy with a sticky top, very lemon-meringue-pie-esque.
    Chocolate fondant thing was *delicious*! Mine hadn’t fallen apart at all.

    Do you want the plastic cup back? If so, can I have a reminder of your address by email please, I’m sure I have it somewhere but not to hand!

    What is the purpose of all this experimentation, then?

  13. Ours arrived yesterday. Jonathan took some photos of the packaging when it arrived, but might not get round to sending them before we go away. The postman put the parcel through the letterbox! So even despite several layers of careful packaging the cakes were pretty squashed. The chocolate one was however, still absolutely delicious, and the crushing didn’t seem to have too bad an effect on the texture. The angel food cake tasted very good but its texture didn’t stand up so well to being sqeezed through a letterbox.

  14. oh no, Jan! Our postman didn’t squeeze, just left a card so we had to pick it up from the service centre. Didn’t think to take photos, I was just desperate to get to the cake!

  15. Lol at over-zealous postman! It did look rather flat in the photo Jonathan sent 😆
    It sounds as though fondant au chocolat is the winner then, both on taste and on survival. Or is the lemon one worth doing as well, if I get some lemon curd sorted out too?
    It’s for a craft fairy/swap btw. My sewing machine is (still) out of action and I don’t knit so I thought I might do some baking 🙂

  16. Argh, I thought I’d replied to this, well I did reply to this but I must have not pressed submit or something, sorry.
    Our’s arrived on Thursday. Ady happened to be outside so he took it from the postwoman so no letterbox issues here.
    We had chocolate fondant cakes in cardboard and strong foil. They stood up well to the journey and were not squashed and kept their shape well. They were fine in the plastic bag too and hadn’t sweated or anything.
    Taste wise they were delicious, really light and moist and tasted freshly baked.

    Thanks! 🙂

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