Talk:List of cakes/Archive 1

Pink cake
which cake is pink? --24.231.177.197 04:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, Mr Kipling's French Fancies come in yellow, pink and brown varieties. SP-KP 23:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Fondant fancies are often pink, as the first answer to the question implied. One answer to your question is any cake that uses pink icing. By the way, do make sure you get punctuation correct - you should have used a capital "p" at the start.

Actually, it is the person who responded to the original question who should have got punctuation correct, as well as the person who posed the question. It is a capital "W" which should have started the word "which" - there was no need for a capital "p" in "pink" in that question. Can I also say that "Talk pages" (or "Discussion" pages in Wikipedia are meant for discussion of the article as it appears in Wikipedia, not the topic per se. However, I shall confess that when I first began to edit Wikipedia, I was guilty of ignoring that rule myself - and i appreciate the initiator of the question may have been a newcomer. I do not wish to go against  Please do not bite the newcomers. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:53, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Going back to this question, the article on Sno_Balls claims that these cakes are pink, but as I say on the talk page, I think that these cakes as they are sold in the United Kingdom are normally brown. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 16:18, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Inclusion criteria
I think the criteria for inclusion need to be clarified. Is this all cakes? Dessert cakes? Is fish cake legitimate? What about urinal cake, which I saw was added at one point in time. ChildofMidnight (talk) 06:51, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * On this subject, I don't really think Kendal Mint Cake should be here. It's a sweet (US: candy) not a cake. Peridon (talk) 19:42, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

I saw this article and had a similar reaction when I saw that fish cake was included here. I think that if this article is going to be included here, we should at least bifurcate this article into sweet cakes and savoury cakes. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Potato cake
Could we include potato cake?ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:25, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

There is a Wikipedia article on potato cakes, which can be found on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_cake

So, I would be in favour of potato cakes being included here. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 09:52, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Well, I tried to do it tonight (Michaelmas Day 2011) but my edits were not very good, so I have now cut it - I shall leave it to some more skilful at tabulation than me to add potato cake. I also raise it here to ask whether we should really be including savoury cakes here. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:47, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The article does say it's limited to dessert cakes. Potato cakes don't fit that description. I'm not sure that "savoury cakes" are really a category.- gadfium 23:54, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback. Yes, I take your point about exclusion savoury cakes after the notice which is now heading the article. I might have been a little confused by the fact that fishcake was at one time in the article, but that must have been removed some time during April 2011 (if one clicks on the history of this article, and goes back to March 2011, you will see what I mean). I do not know why they were ever in the article - I do not even think of them as being a cake! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 09:44, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

One big table
I would like to join the tables to make them into one sortable table. Objections? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:25, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Are you talking about joining the list of the most popular cakes, according to a "Radio Times" survey, with the main table? As the person who added the list of favourite cakes in the United Kingdom, I do not mind if you make that into table form and integrate it with the main table, just so long as it will still be obvious as to which section of the table is the basic list of cakes, and which is the list of favourite cakes ranked in order of preference. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry. Scratch that. I'm a balloonhead. I failed to inspect the article. List of breads and List of pies are the ones needing action. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:57, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Image size
I would like to enlarge the images to 120px like in List of sandwiches. I think it would improve the visitors' experience. Objections? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:01, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

✅ Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:32, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Sesame seed cake
Wasn't the sesame seed cake in here at one time? Or was I thinking of the category "Cakes"? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:23, 8 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Couldn't find its removal in the history edit summaries, so I just added it to the table. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:17, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Mince pies
How about adding the mince pie to this list? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:54, 5 February 2013 (UTC)


 * No. Samatarou (talk) 06:35, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I take your point - perhaps this would be better off in the List of pies, tarts and flans, where it is  already included. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 11:18, 7 February 2013 (UTC)