Cake!

Raskolnikov

I need to buy a birthday cake for a 21st I'm helping to organise. It doesn't have to be huge and spectacular, but it has to be pretty and delicious. Preferably it needs to be home-made (shop-made or whatever) and fresh! Getting the persons name on the cake would be a bonus too!

First person to suggest a gammy Gateaux cake, gets a box

Judes

Hi there - Douglas Court Shopping Centre - there's a Cake Shop - sorry can't remember the name of it - but they are great for Birthday Cakes - you can bring in a good photo - and they'll print it onto the cake - simple but looks good. So I'd pop in and have a chat - of course if you only want a birthday greeting, that should be dead easy for them. But a "baby pic" on cake of your mate could be amusing to all! Ger you Brownie Points (They can do different types of madeira/butter icing flavours - not too expensive).

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Scoozi's do an amazing chocolate cake that you can get for birthdays, etc. It is the best!!!

dahamsta

Jesus I'd murder a cake.

Tree

my friend likes the supervalu in ballincollig for cakes, they do phots and `arp on the cake too.

amberly do savage cakes btw, absoluletly savage

rymus

dahamsta wrote:

Jesus I'd murder a cake.

When I clicked on the thread I assumed there was a chance of free cake. Now, like yourself, I'd like some cake. Damn power of suggestion.

Roar

rymus wrote:

When I clicked on the thread I assumed there was a chance of free cake. Now, like yourself, I'd like some cake. Damn power of suggestion.

yup, im starvin and nobody from work is going to the shop. now i also want some cake.

a nice custard pastry slice would be the job

Owen

I'm in with Rymus and Dahamsta here. Cake would be good right about now. Found a neat hovel yesterday, we took 30 MINIs down to a place in the Kerry mountains called "Strawberry Field Pancake Cottage". About 40 different types of pancake, all laden with sinfully sweet toppings, chocolate, strawberries, etc. Well worth a visit!

rymus

theres my entire weekend planned

Owen

Plenty of amazing photo ops too Ryan, I filled the poxy 512MB card I had with me, as I'd left the 4 Gig at home.

run_Forrest_run

Judes wrote:

Hi there - Douglas Court Shopping Centre - there's a Cake Shop - sorry can't remember the name of it - but they are great for Birthday Cakes - you can bring in a good photo - and they'll print it onto the cake - simple but looks good. So I'd pop in and have a chat - of course if you only want a birthday greeting, that should be dead easy for them. But a "baby pic" on cake of your mate could be amusing to all! Ger you Brownie Points (They can do different types of madeira/butter icing flavours - not too expensive).

the name of that plce in Douglas Court is 'Crumbs', nice cakes alright.

Also SuperValu in Grange do excellent cakes at a decent price. We got our daughter's first birthday cake there, ordered a week before and it was perfect.

Jack B. Badd

rymus wrote:

When I clicked on the thread I assumed there was a chance of free cake. Now, like yourself, I'd like some cake. Damn power of suggestion.

I'd laugh if this was some strange marketing scheme developed by evil cake manufacturers

dahamsta

Course I'd murder a breakfast roll too, or a beer. Can't have any of 'em, but I'm still up for a night out on the 28th if anyone's around.

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adam

Fysh

Jesus, adam, your taste in domain names is worse than my dad's jokes.

Hijacking the cake-lust thread in order to promote beer, on the other hand, is an exceptional idea

dahamsta

Don't talk about beer. I Kill You, I Keeeeel You!

Judes

"Strawberry Field Pancake Cottage". More details please - where in Kerry Mountains - are you serious or joking about this........... mouth watering at prospect............. J

Jack B. Badd

dahamsta wrote:

I Keeeeel You!

Inigo??! :eek:

dahamsta

Jack B. Badd wrote:

Inigo??! :eek:

Father?

Owen

Judes wrote:

"Strawberry Field Pancake Cottage". More details please - where in Kerry Mountains - are you serious or joking about this........... mouth watering at prospect............. J

Google is your friend :
http://www.strawberryfield-ireland.com/pancakes/index.html

Big Tone

There's a decent cake shop in the English Market, Princes Street end, best cakes ever! I think its called the Farm House.

Gauge

The photo cakes are crap, unless they've improved them, it's just typical madeira cakey stuff. Had to tell my parents I appreciated the sentiment after 3 birthdays with photo cakes but I wanted chocolate! Marks and spencers do some class chocolate cakes and you can get the beloved classic chocolate caterpillar there! :P

dahamsta

Big Tone wrote:

There's a decent cake shop in the English Market, Princes Street end, best cakes ever! I think its called the Farm House.

Jesus, it's not the Farm House that used to be in Douglas Shopping Centre, is it? The one with the violent green cake boxes? Feck, the memories! The proper chocolate slices, with that thin layer of kinda-jelly stuff in 'em!

On chocolate cakes, there was never better than the chocolate fudge cake they used to do in the Farm Gate in Midleton when I was in my late teens / early twenties. Sweet-but-slightly-gritty fondant icing, not-too-chocolatey filling, and sponge that was just that little bit moister than usual, but not too moist.

You'd never guess I was on a diet.

adam

Judes

Ned78 - THANK YOU - I can't believe this place is hidden away in Kerry, methinks a trip to the wild west is called for. Thank you for making me a happy woman (happier when I get there, of course). J

Owen

Judes wrote:

Ned78 - THANK YOU - I can't believe this place is hidden away in Kerry, methinks a trip to the wild west is called for. Thank you for making me a happy woman (happier when I get there, of course). J

Try the Banana & Chocolate Chip pancake. It's scrumptious! The road there is class too, if you like driving fast, it's perfect. Ireland's equivilant of the Alps.

Tree

Gauge wrote:

The photo cakes are crap, unless they've improved them, it's just typical madeira cakey stuff. Had to tell my parents I appreciated the sentiment after 3 birthdays with photo cakes but I wanted chocolate! Marks and spencers do some class chocolate cakes and you can get the beloved classic chocolate caterpillar there! :P

i rather like the madeiraey stuff, esp if its out of a fridge, and crammed w/ rasberry jam.

my sister claims the nicest cakes in the world can be had from cinamon cottage on the rochestown road. i have yet to try this though.

dahamsta

I've never had anything from that gaff but when I was working for a packaging firm they had a reputation as being the best in the business. Their ready-meals are fantastic by all accounts.

adam

LilMrsDahamsta

If you want to go for taste and presentation the nicest cake shop around is the one in Douglas Village Shopping Centre. It's a pink shop adjacent to Tesco. Unfortunately, I can't think of the name right now!

Raskolnikov wrote:

I need to buy a birthday cake for a 21st I'm helping to organise. It doesn't have to be huge and spectacular, but it has to be pretty and delicious. Preferably it needs to be home-made (shop-made or whatever) and fresh! Getting the persons name on the cake would be a bonus too!

First person to suggest a gammy Gateaux cake, gets a box

Raskolnikov

If I had known earlier, I could have got a custom made cake a few doors down from where I live! They look amazing too.

www.atouchofmagic.ie

MICHAEL9

hi, just to let you know i make cakes from my home. Any Size or shape you like. I have some cakes on http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MID=367137231&MemberId=4414337022 drop us a line & tell us what you think

Owen

Well well Michael, it appears you also make spam.

dahamsta

It's not Michael ned78, it's MICHAEL! Just in case you couldn't HEAR like.

Owen

Goddammit. Some day I'll figure out this Internets and it's whacky tubes. I love the Bebo concept of a business model. Appealing to the skanger wedding cake audience must be a niche no one has thought of yet.

dahamsta

Plenty of weddings up the northside ned78, in the Bebo heartlands. I pass one of the churches up there on the way to the DC, and one day there was a pink stretch Town Car - in woeful condition I might add - and a Cinderalla style coach outside the door. I kid you not. I damn near pissed myself laughing in the van.

(Sorry, I know I'm an awful snob, but I needed a link! )

adam