What is "Cakes We've Had"?

This blog started as an idea some years ago, before blogs really existed in fact.

We were sitting outside our tent in Normandy, France eating some superb patisserie. It was Me (George), my husband (Jack) and our daughter (Polly). I can’t remember now what the cakes were, but I do remember the conversation. Jack was reminiscing about an earlier trip to Paris with a friend in his post-student days, he told us that they had spent days wandering the streets of the capital in search of the one best cake….an arduous task! Polly, being interested in all things ‘cake’ decided that the best job in the world would be to become a ‘cake reviewer’. The job description would read something like: to find lovely cakes, eat them and then write a book about them- I think everyone would agree it would be brilliant way to live except for the possibility of an ever expanding waist line!

Following that conversation we spent a few years doing our best to sample patisserie from Spain, Italy and the UK, not obsessively of course, just for treats!

Time has moved on and the cake book idea is now this blog “Cakes We’ve Had”. We will do our best to sample cakes, pastries and all things lovely wherever we go, we’ll tell you all about them, we’ll give them a very scientific rating and you can add your own comments about patisserie from around the world. Some may be from shops, some we’ll bake ourselves, the only criteria is that it must be about cake! Until someone can prove to us otherwise, we firmly believe the best cake is in France, so the blog starts with a culinary tour as a benchmark of cakes to come.

It’s just the two of us now, we lost Polly to epilepsy 18 months ago, this blog is in her memory and we will be tasting every mouthful with thoughts of her in our hearts forever. This is for you Polly…..