Lemon drizzle revealed as UK's favourite cake
Banana bread doesn't even make the top 20
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Your support makes all the difference.Whether you prefer a cupcake, multi-layered slice or traybake, cake is undeniably a crucial part of British culture.
From a classic Victoria sponge to American imports like brownies, we’re spoiled for choice when it comes to ways to indulge our sweet teeth.
But which is the nation’s favourite treat?
A new study has found that the most popular cake flavour in the UK is in fact lemon drizzle.
The zesty treat is the most-loved cake of 40 per cent of Brits, according to the poll of 2,000 people by Protein World.
In a close second place came chocolate fudge cake (38 per cent), followed by carrot cake in third (37 per cent).
Chocolate brownies took fourth position, with the British teatime staple Victoria sponge cake coming in fifth.
The UK’s favourite cakes:
- Lemon drizzle, 40 per cent
- Chocolate fudge cake, 38 per cent
- Carrot cake, 37 per cent
- Chocolate brownie, 36 per cent
- Victoria sponge, 35 per cent
- Chocolate muffin, 31 per cent
- Sticky toffee pudding, 29 per cent
- Coffee and walnut cake, 28 per cent
- Black forest gate, 26 per cent
- Blueberry muffin, 26 per cent
- Fruit cake, 25 per cent
- Swiss roll, 23 per cent
- Battenburg, 19 per cent
- Madeira cake, 18 per cent
- Fairy cakes, 18 per cent
- Angel cakes, 18 per cent
- Butterfly cakes, 17 per cent
- Chelsea bun, 16 per cent
- Red velvet, 15 per cent
- Date and walnut loaf, 12 per cent
Peculiarly absent from the list are banana bread, cheesecake and cupcakes though.
The research also found that Brits love cake so much that as many as 55 per cent of us would choose a slice of cake over sex, with women more likely to do so than men (73 per cent).
The average Brit eats three slices of cake a week and bakes an impressive four times a month.
In true British fashion, 77 per cent of people agree that “there's not much that can't be sorted with a cup of tea and slice of cake.”
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