Chocolate Cornflake cakes

[welsh dragon]

We had it for school dinners in Brum, too. An interesting cutlery challenge. Spoons just didn't do it, and nobody would let a 12 year old use a jack hammer. Lovely, though, and always with pink custard for some reason.

Pink custard was a must.

 

[snorri]

What delightful treats do you remember from kids parties?

Creamola Foam, .............guaranteed to disappoint

 

[jefmcg]

Trifle. Urgh. Vile stuff. As is jelly with ice cream. One or t'other, never together. And don't get me started on the "delights" of blancmange, semolina etc.

Believe it or not, I've always been a fan of cake. My mother got a lot wrong but you couldn't fault her chocolate cake with white icing. My belly's rumbling just thinking about it. Or maybe that's just my memory playing jokes as I'm pretty sure that was the only thing she ever made that wasn't burnt. Or was it, hence the lashings of icing?

+1 to all of this.

When the waitress says "Ice cream, cream or custard?" I always say, "none".

 

[DEFENDER01]

This thread is making me Hungary.

 

[coffeejo]

+1 to all of this.

When the waitress says "Ice cream, cream or custard?" I always say, "none".

Always to the custard option but the cream / ice cream decision depends on what it's with. No prizes for guessing that I have been known to go for both. Sometimes without the pudding itself (rhubard crumble is another )

 

[EltonFrog]

+1 to all of this.

When the waitress says "Ice cream, cream or custard?" I always say, "none".

Weirdo.

 

[coffeejo]

[QUOTE 3856802, member: 259"]When I was a kid I could never understand why anyone would be so daft as to cook cake mixture. I'd have happily scoffed the lot out of the mixing bowl raw, but usually just had to make do with scraping it out.[/QUOTE]
I once got detention in a home economics class for having a taste of the leftover mixture once the cake was in the oven. At first I thought the teacher was joking. She really wasn't.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Always to the custard option but the cream / ice cream decision depends on what it's with. No prizes for guessing that I have been known to go for both. Sometimes without the pudding itself (rhubard crumble is another )

Mmmm home made rhubarb crumble and custard. Only beaten by home made apple pie and custard

 

[stephec]

If you were a gentleman then you would let Hills and me share

Now this post is definately open to interpretation.

 

[coffeejo]

Mmmm home made rhubarb crumble and custard. Only beaten by home made apple pie and custard

I'll take the apple pie. You're welcome to the rest.

 

[Brandane]

A Scottish birthday tradition used to be "clootie dumpling" ("clootie" because it was boiled in a cloth!).
Wikipedia describes it better than I can, in the same way that my mother could make a better one than anyone else!

A traditional dessert pudding called clootie dumpling is made with flour, breadcrumbs, dried fruit (sultanas and currants), suet, sugar and spice with some milk to bind it, and sometimes golden syrup. Ingredients are mixed well into a dough, then wrapped up in a floured cloth, placed in a large pan of boiling water and simmered for a couple of hours before being lifted out and dried before the fire or in an oven.[6] Recipes vary from region to region e.g. in North Fife and Dundee it is not common to use breadcrumbs but the use of treacle is common.

And a pic.....

 

[coffeejo]

Angel Delight was one of the other favourites. And that magic chocolate that you put on ice cream and went solid.

 

[jefmcg]

Weirdo.

That's what waitresses think, but their expressions. That's why I was hoping to find a soul sister in @coffeejo

 

[EltonFrog]

A Scottish birthday tradition used to be "clootie dumpling" ("clootie" because it was boiled in a cloth!).
Wikipedia describes it better than I can, in the same way that my mother could make a better one than anyone else!


And a pic.....

Oh Gosh, I could eat that right now. Yuuuuummmmeeeee.

 

[coffeejo]

That's what waitresses think, but their expressions. That's why I was hoping to find a soul sister in @coffeejo

Sorry.