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Let’s start being nice again, by baking our cakes bigger The associations with the rise of the cupcake and Sex and the City are nauseating. Just as no lady writing a single column per month spends the rest of her time as a designer clothes horse, no lady writing a single column per month is stopping between meals for a £1.85 snack at Magnolia Bakery. Said lady is much more likely to be washing up Magnolia’s teapots. So let’s get real. In times of economic woe, mustn’t we throw out our crystallised flowers and start stewing again? Mustn’t we stew and braise and boil just like days of yonder? No, but what we might start doing is being nice again, by taking cake round to share with our friends, instead of chomping on individual servings one-handed on the way to yoga. We need big cakes again, cut into slithers and slabs and sloppy ends depending on how up to it we all feel. Big cakes which we can work our way through, so that if we achieve absolutely nothing else today, we can wipe the crumbs from our moustaches triumphantly, as we gaze upon the small remaining wedge and think: ‘I ate that’. Thrifty Gobbler brings you three of the best, most basic, most comforting proper cake recipes ever written. And, to aid our cupcake backlash, we’d love you to scrawl some more below. Victoria sandwich from Jane Asher’s Beautiful Baking Banana tea bread from Be-Ro Home Recipes Damp gingerbread from Delia Smith’s Book of Cakes - http://www.thriftygobbler.com/4/

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