My DH and kids sometimes don't like my baking either. I made a marzipan stollen this year and I was the only one that ate it! Pound cake would also be something I could say I wouldn't be sure they would like. Chalk it up to a cooking adventure.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds delicious! My immediate family generally likes my cakes. My in-laws on the other hand prefer store bought things from the grocery store. One time I baked a flourless chocolate cake with fresh whipped cream and raspberry on the side. They didn’t want any. My SIL pulled out cupcakes from Giant and proceeded to lick the frosting off while loudly moaning about how good it was. Everyone took one and couldn’t stop praising it. No one except my DH and kids ate my cake. At least I got to take it home.

Why do you bother making anything for them?

I don’t anymore. Pearls before swine as someone said earlier.

Desserts or even donuts with jelly are nasty. One of the few desserts that I can simply walk on by. As in I won't even take a Christmas cookie with jelly in it to be polite.

PP. who said anything about jelly?

Um...the original post. Slow down, read again, and report back.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds delicious! My immediate family generally likes my cakes. My in-laws on the other hand prefer store bought things from the grocery store. One time I baked a flourless chocolate cake with fresh whipped cream and raspberry on the side. They didn’t want any. My SIL pulled out cupcakes from Giant and proceeded to lick the frosting off while loudly moaning about how good it was. Everyone took one and couldn’t stop praising it. No one except my DH and kids ate my cake. At least I got to take it home.

Why do you bother making anything for them?

I don’t anymore. Pearls before swine as someone said earlier.

Desserts or even donuts with jelly are nasty. One of the few desserts that I can simply walk on by. As in I won't even take a Christmas cookie with jelly in it to be polite.

PP. who said anything about jelly?

Anonymous wrote:I used to bake a lot for my coworkers because they appreciated the effort (my boss once proposed to me when I brought in a pie made from peaches we'd gotten at the orchard). That was pre-kids, when DH was going to law school at night and I had free time after work. Now I just bake cookies from scratch.

My kids are usually happy with grocery store cakes, or things like the dump cake I made tonight--dump two cans of pie filling in a 9x13 pan, cover it with one package of cake mix, then pour one stick of melted butter over it. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or so and serve with vanilla ice cream. That was what my mom used to make and I called her last year and asked for the "recipe".

Great post--thanks for the laugh!!

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Anonymous wrote:I used to bake a lot for my coworkers because they appreciated the effort (my boss once proposed to me when I brought in a pie made from peaches we'd gotten at the orchard). That was pre-kids, when DH was going to law school at night and I had free time after work. Now I just bake cookies from scratch.

My kids are usually happy with grocery store cakes, or things like the dump cake I made tonight--dump two cans of pie filling in a 9x13 pan, cover it with one package of cake mix, then pour one stick of melted butter over it. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or so and serve with vanilla ice cream. That was what my mom used to make and I called her last year and asked for the "recipe".

Sounds really awful both tasting and health wise! Hope you don't make it too often.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds delicious! My immediate family generally likes my cakes. My in-laws on the other hand prefer store bought things from the grocery store. One time I baked a flourless chocolate cake with fresh whipped cream and raspberry on the side. They didn’t want any. My SIL pulled out cupcakes from Giant and proceeded to lick the frosting off while loudly moaning about how good it was. Everyone took one and couldn’t stop praising it. No one except my DH and kids ate my cake. At least I got to take it home.

Why do you bother making anything for them?

I don’t anymore. Pearls before swine as someone said earlier.

Desserts or even donuts with jelly are nasty. One of the few desserts that I can simply walk on by. As in I won't even take a Christmas cookie with jelly in it to be polite.

Anonymous wrote:Americans like butter cake.

That was random...

Anonymous wrote:Americans like butter cake.

Let's not speak for all Americans, k?

Anonymous wrote:Sponge cake (especially with a citrus touch) is more of a spring time or summer food.

This cold, and rainy, weather is more warm apple pie/cobbler or maybe a chocolate biscotti with hot chocolate- type comfort food.

Today was gorgeous but, the cake still sounds awful.

Anonymous wrote:I used to bake a lot for my coworkers because they appreciated the effort (my boss once proposed to me when I brought in a pie made from peaches we'd gotten at the orchard). That was pre-kids, when DH was going to law school at night and I had free time after work. Now I just bake cookies from scratch.

My kids are usually happy with grocery store cakes, or things like the dump cake I made tonight--dump two cans of pie filling in a 9x13 pan, cover it with one package of cake mix, then pour one stick of melted butter over it. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or so and serve with vanilla ice cream. That was what my mom used to make and I called her last year and asked for the "recipe".

Sounds really awful both tasting and health wise! Hope you don't make it too often.

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I made a perfect sponge cake, with just eggs, sugar, flour and orange zest. This was my first attempt.
Then soaked it in clementine juice-hard cider jelly and topped it with clementines softened in their juice.

It’s moist in the center, slightly crunchy at the edge, and light and fruity. Not too sweet. You can’t taste any alcohol, it just gives it a bit of depth. And yet either DH nor my teens liked it.

Ingrates.

No chocolate? Sorry not interested either! Maybe ask what kind of cake they like or at least don't get insulted if you don't.

I used to bake a lot for my coworkers because they appreciated the effort (my boss once proposed to me when I brought in a pie made from peaches we'd gotten at the orchard). That was pre-kids, when DH was going to law school at night and I had free time after work. Now I just bake cookies from scratch.

My kids are usually happy with grocery store cakes, or things like the dump cake I made tonight--dump two cans of pie filling in a 9x13 pan, cover it with one package of cake mix, then pour one stick of melted butter over it. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or so and serve with vanilla ice cream. That was what my mom used to make and I called her last year and asked for the "recipe".

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds delicious! My immediate family generally likes my cakes. My in-laws on the other hand prefer store bought things from the grocery store. One time I baked a flourless chocolate cake with fresh whipped cream and raspberry on the side. They didn’t want any. My SIL pulled out cupcakes from Giant and proceeded to lick the frosting off while loudly moaning about how good it was. Everyone took one and couldn’t stop praising it. No one except my DH and kids ate my cake. At least I got to take it home.

Why do you bother making anything for them?

I don’t anymore. Pearls before swine as someone said earlier.

Sponge cake (especially with a citrus touch) is more of a spring time or summer food.

This cold, and rainy, weather is more warm apple pie/cobbler or maybe a chocolate biscotti with hot chocolate- type comfort food.

Anonymous wrote:I think tastes in dessert are very personal. I am impressed with your cake, but would probably not actually enjoy eating it. I’m sorry.

+1. It sounds lovely; however, I’ll eat virtually anything, and I love fresh oranges & clementines, but orange desserts are not my favorite thing. In fact, it comes pretty close to being something that I actively dislike. Orange chocolate? Blech.