I hadn't heard of it either. It looked really good. I'll email him and ask for the recipe and post it in here when he replies back.
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Question Of The Day, Sunday, January 21, 2018
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I like cheesecake even though technically it is a custard pie, not cake. I also love carrot cake and angel food cake.
Red velvet cake without a doubt. I also love chocolate cake though.
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Chocolate -- cake, frosting, and with chunks on top garnishing it!!!Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. With chocolate chunks as garnish on top.I do say frosting and not icing.
that sounds wonderful!! 
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Chocolate mousse, made with high quality imported dark chocolate!!!
most excellent!! 
i really like pudding, home cooked pudding. but mousse is a special dessert -- especially rich and creamy, and light, airy.
i did not know that, about frosting vs icing! that makes sense!!
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My favorite cake I would have to say is whichever one I am eating at the time. Honestly, since I started with gluten free eating, I don't really think about cake that much any more. I have had some gluten free cakes, but they are just not in the class with what I remember. Before my diet changed, I would have said carrot cake.
Here ya go. This is the recipe he uses. I guess it's considered a bread, at least that's what the recipe calls it. He said you can replace the sultanas with other dried fruits which is what he did. It sounds like one of those recipes you can kinda put your own spin on depending what you like. The dried fruit gets gooey and the sugar and milk caramelize. Sorry for the metric measurements. He's from the UK.
Thunder Bread
150g rye flour
75g wheat flour
1/2 tsp fine salt
1 level tsp bicarb
100g molasses sugar or dark brown muscovado sugar
120g sultanas
320ml milk
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Butter a mixing bowl that will comfortably fit inside a slow cooker
In another mixing bowl briefly combine all the ingredients
Turn on slow cooker. Pour mixture into prepared bowl and tightly cover with tin foil. Pour boiling water into the slow cooker around the edge of the bowl so it goes an inch up the side.
Place lid on slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours, checking every so often to make sure the cooker hasn't boiled dry.
Turn off and leave to cool for a few minutes.
Spread with generous amounts of butter.
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ahhh, carrot cake is your favorite -- no raisinsJust the opposite here. Coconut is my second favorite, carrot is first.
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, with coconut cake being your second favorite!!! awesome!! 
i'm pretty sure the carrot cake recipe i use does not contain raisins, i'd remember that. it does have some crushed pineapple in it though...
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yes, it could be that the universe was telling you to bake a cake......'righting itself' kind of thing. especially if you haven't baked one in a while!!
mmmm......chocolate cherry cake is one of your favorites!!!
most excellent!! and i really like that idea, slice of cake cut in half, vanilla ice cream in the middle, and topped with a little cherry pie filling! that might work well with brownies too -- brownie, scoop of ice cream on top, and some cherry pie filling over it.- Thread Starter Thread Starter
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your favorite is a rich chocolate cake with semi-sweet chocolate cream cheese icing!!!Rich chocolate cake with semi- sweet chocolate icing. There is a recipe in Joy of Cooking for devil's foodcockaigne cake with a quarter pound of chocolate that I used to make. Problem was, the cake was so rich it was hard to get out of the pan! Now I read they recommend lining the bottom with parchment paper. I used a semi-sweet chocolate cream cheese icing from Joy of Cooking. Yum! Chocloate is soooo good!
very nice!!oh yes! parchment paper is definitely the way to go!
i don't bake cakes very often (though have been baking more of them lately), but based on my (limited) experience with them, i will always use parchment paper. the rolls of parchment paper are just really annoying -- the cutter on the box never cuts the paper straight, and always requires trimming the paper to get it to fit the pan (a waste of time as well as money). plus the boxed kind wants to roll itself back up. so i buy parchment paper sheets and 8-inch rounds.- Thread Starter Thread Starter
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you love chocolate cake with not-so-sweet frosting -- like from the store bakery, but otherwise don't care for cake!!!It's funny that I do LOVE chocolate cake with not-so-sweet frosting like you get in the store bakery, but I do not care for cake otherwise. That is kind of strange to me. I even can perplex myself.
@Winchester , I think Cook's Country is awesome!
that's great!! and that makes sense to me, too. i think that all frostings, and cakes, are not alike. some frostings are really very sweet, while others are sweet but their......flavor is stronger. and i believe the texture of cakes vary, as well as how light (as opposed to heavy, dense) they are.
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yes, cheesecake does count!
you love cheesecake, and also really like angel food cake as well as butter cakes and chocolate cake!!!
really awesome!!cake with cinnamon, and coffee cake......yummy!
i love cinnamon!! 
i had not heard of Opera Cake before. looking up about it online, that sounds like a truly incredible cake!!
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although you're not really a cake person, you do enjoy chocolate cupcakes with cherries and filling in the middle for your birthday!!!
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ahhh, you like cheesecake!!!
really very nice!! and you love carrot cake and angel food cake too!
i've never had a homemade angel food cake, only store bought. i think i'll try a homemade one, and see how that turns out!- Thread Starter Thread Starter
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Red Velvet Cake is your favorite, and you also love chocolate cake!!!
that sounds great!!i've actually never had red velvet cake.
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you favorite was carrot cake, before your diet changed!!!
awesome!! although i'm not gluten free, i think i can identify with what you're saying. i bake using carob and carob powder, never chocolate or cocoa -- i don't 'do' caffeine. for me, substituting carob instead of chocolate/cocoa is pretty easy, but carob will also never taste just like chocolate or cocoa. two things help me -- using really good recipes (ones which others have had very good results with, and that taste good), and 'going in' with a mind set to try what i'm baking as it's own thing...that it's a carob cake/brownies/etc, not expecting it to taste like chocolate or cocoa.
if i remember correctly, you like fruitcake, around Christmastime. i did come across what looks like a good recipe for gluten free fruitcake, and which the people who posted in the comments had found tasted really very good. here's the recipe, should you be interested -- Gluten Free Fruit Cake (Christmas Cake) - Sweetness & Bite
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Yes, I do love a good fruit cake. I have not tried a gluten free one as in the recipe you posted. I have made the gluten free refrigerator fruit cake with gluten free cookie crumbs or gluten free graham cracker crumb. The recipe you posted looks like it would be good. How does one measure grams? I guess it would have to be converted to ounces?- Thread Starter Thread Starter
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i would use an online converter, calculator, like this one to convert grams to cups -- grams to cups (g to c) and c to g (cups to gram) Online Conversion Calculator - Converter / Chart / Table or, this one to convert grams to ounces -- Grams to Ounces conversion in the recipe, the dried fruit amount of 1.5kg -- see right at the bottom of the recipe, the note that breaks down how much of each type of dried fruit the blogger used. if my addition is correct, she used a total of 1500g of dried fruit, which converts to 6 1/3 cups (exact amount is 6.34013 cups). i'm assuming it would be easier to convert to an amount in cups, rather than ounces.
yes, i thought the fruitcake recipe looked good too!
That's interesting because I don't think I've ever had a store bought angel food cake unless it was part of another recipe for a different type of cake. So yummy with some homemade whipped topping or some fresh strawberriesahhh, you like cheesecake!!!
and you love carrot cake and angel food cake too!
YUM
