would you pay £2.50 for a homemade, 6 portion cake? I ask because this ...

[merciasounds]

*!!"£$*&^(*%$£% Woman!! She moans at me about paying £2.50 for one of my homemade Victoria sponges, it's got three new-laid, free range eggs (from a neighbour who keeps chickens in her garden) 6 oz of best butter and caster sugar, the best flour and practically half a jar of my homemade lemon curd to sandwich it together. It cuts into 6 generous portions - and I KNOW she'd pass it off as her own - (like she did Christmas with my mince pies - what she didn't know was, i was part of the choir invited in for mince pie and a sherry - the vicar said to me in a quiet aside, 'he didn't make these' - I
said I know, I did! he smiled and told me she'd once made a simnel cake for Easter and they'd use it as a door-stop in the vestry.....)

Anyway, I snatched it back and said she couldn't have it...and to go to M&S and try and pass one one of their cakes off as her own...now she's put in a complaint about me to the WI....

[B00]

I wouldn't moan, but in the same vein, I wouldn't buy it- sorry.

The ingredients might be expensive, but when all's said and done, it's still a cake, and £2.50 is out of my price range.

[ummmm]

£2.50 for a whole cake?

You'd pay that for a large slice in Oliver Adams....

[redman41]

£2.50 is far too cheap merciasounds. You would have to pay around £4-£5 in Waitrose for a comparable cake to yours.

[B00]

Pfft, I can get a victoria sponge for 89p at work.

[rowanwitch]

Nasty baggage!!! I'd pay a fiver happily for a decent cake, and would never take credit for it... I would set the vicar on her... maybe he could add something about honesty and neighbourliness to a sermon and stare at her so everyone knows its aimed at her... It costs more than £2.50 for a decent sized lemon sponge from the co-op

She'd get a chocolate cake made with ex-lax if she'd behaved like that to me

[ummmm]

BOO...but how good is it?

[ChuckFickens]

LOL...

It's B00 and it's Cake, it's good enough :)

[B00]

Oh i grant you ummmm, its not the best there is out there, but it's do-able. And despite my many jokes I honestly don't buy many cakes, the majority of which if I do buy them go Mini Boo's way, and God love her- giving her a £2.50 cake is like giving pigs cherries.

[AB Editor]

Scandelous!

[ummmm]

I don't actually like cake.

[Mamyalynne]

Its a very fair price to pay and I wouldn`t give her the time of day.

[snags]

I'd have pushed her face in to it. £2.50 well spent.

[annie0000]

Our local farm shop and cafe sells a lovely chocolate chip butter iced sponge - no filling, for £3.00 - happy to pay that and your cake sounds lovely as well. As has been said, If I sat in and had a slice of cake- i'd be expecting to be paying £2 minimum for a slice.

[merciasounds]

See I know it's very much roundabouts and swings, I totally understand where Boo is coming from, and thank others that say I don't charge enough, it's just this woman does her weekly shop at M&S - she looks at everything and everybody like there's a bad smell coming from it, and I just want to pull her hat down so hard that it makes so I have to sit on my hands when I see her!

[B00]

you're kidding??

£2.00 for a SLICE of cake?

My God!

[ummmm]

Do you ever go to Oliver Adams BOO? £7.40 for 2 ham roles and two small cakes.

[annie0000]

Boo lol - you need to get out more - that is pretty much the going price - £2.50 - £3.00 if you choose something special or if you have cream or ice cream with it - which is exactly why when we go there for lunch (lovely btw) we don't get a pud and buy a cake ont he way out to have at home.

[mazie]

I sorry but the thought of WI members squabbling over a cake, just makes me laugh out loud.

£2.50 is a good price for a high quality home made cake, you did right by not selling it to her. I hope the WI let you off with a warning mercia x

[merciasounds]

With me, the WI know which side their bl**dy breads buttered - they could always have their monthy meetings at somebody elses house - without a decent supper!!

[KaptKopter]

Would any of you cake experts know where i could buy a white round cake which i think is called toffee and walnut cake.