BARBADOS LUNCH CAKES

Lunch cakes have been served in Barbados schools during lunch time for years, If you are not in school you can always pick one up from one of the local bakers. Years after leaving school, people still crave a taste of lunch cakes.
Recipes calls for
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tbs baking powder
1/2 salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup of unsalted butter
4 lg eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond
1/2 cup milk mix with 1/2 cup of water
1/2 tsp all spice
4 eggs
sift all dry ingredient together
In bowl beat sugar and butter together until light and fluffy
In another bowl beat eggs with lemon or lime skin for 4 mins
Add flour and milk with water to beaten eggs slowly, remove lemon or lime skin
Grease and flour a square pan, add cake mixture to pan and bake for 30 mins at 350 degrees or until a tooth picks inserted into center comes out clean.
Frosting
1 cup of butter
2 cups confectioner sugar sift
2 tbs milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
Beat until light and fluffy.
You can add red food color to icing for pick color that's optional
After cake has completely cool, Put icing on top of cake and cut cake into squares.
serve and enjoy.

[@orchidilly8]

I do remember having these as part of our (school meal)lunch. They usually arrived in large oblong cake pans, and the servers would cut them in square pieces and served too the students (pupils).It would have been nice if they were cut in larger pieces so that the children could have had more. So that the servers would have gotten less to take home .😗😗😋😋

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Jean, Lol 😂 those servers made sure to get a good chunk. At my school all I remember was biscuits and milk. Thanks for watching!

[@bajanlady6084]

Yeah, Springer Memorial. Yes, I remembered the pink icing on the lunch cake.

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Bajan Lady, that cake use to be good, I think its the butter their baked with that gave it such a unique taste. Its funny but all bajans remember those lunch cakes. Thanks for watching

[@bajanlady6084]

@@Tinaraine You're most welcome. I enjoyed it very much and when you mentioned my former school, that was an additional icing on the cake 😊Stay bless.

[@chickiepup]

Thank you Tina for taking me back to those lunch cake school yard years in BDA smile 😃 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌺

[@Tinaraine]

You are so welcome! Anytime Angela, thank you so much for watching.

[@amaligio]

WHOA! This brings back memories! I remember going to de shop for my lunch cakes... lol!

[@Tinaraine]

You know what's special about these lunch cakes Althea! Everyone have a favorite memory of going to get them or where their got them from. It's always nice to reflect back, it puts a smile on everyone's faces. Thanks for watching

[@AngelA-cu9mg]

Morning Tina, 8.35 am in London U.K lying in bed watching your lunch cakes videos you made me laugh about the milk and four biscuits we use to get at school, that milk use to taste real good. Also licking the cake bowl when parents finish baking I did that too lol but like you said wouldn't do that today. Didn't get lunch cakes at my school, but normally see them when I go home in the supermarkets. Cakes looks delicious and moist , could eat one with a nice cup of coffee. I like your happy mood today. You are such fun and lovely lady. Have a blessed day. Keep recipes coming please.💕🇬🇧

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Angel thank you so much! It was fun going down memory lane with these cakes. i like to tell these stories so younger people will know what fun we had growing up in Barbados. 😀

[@booksbeautylifestyle256]

You're not talking too much. I enjoy hearing the stories. 🇧🇧🇧🇧

[@Tinaraine]

Thank you, I was a little concern about that lol😀

[@kellyspringer7649]

Love it... Enjoy your videos... Barbados 🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧

[@Tinaraine]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@maybradley8337]

i loved the school milk powder and biscuits, i like your lil walk down memory lane.

[@Tinaraine]

Yes! When school was going on vacation there would give us that milk powder in a plastic bag, we would eat it all on the way home. lol

[@Chanrobyn.]

Mmm a nice moist cake 😍😍

[@Tinaraine]

Thank you 😋

[@carolannc2336]

OMG! I forgot about lunch cakes! My grandmother used to make lunch cakes!👍❤

[@Tinaraine]

Lol Carol now you have no choice but to make grandmother's lunch cake. Those goes way way back

[@lyriacoppin2518]

Hi Tina, can't thank you enough. Made the lunch cake, my daughter and I love it. It was simply delicious, nice and fluffy. I also made Bajan seasoning and pudding and souse (chicken). Every thing was delicious. Love your easy to follow instructions. Keep up the great work.

[@Tinaraine]

Fantastic Lyria! I am so glad to hear your lunch came out good and you were able to enjoy them with your daughter. If you went to school in Barbados be sure to tell your daughter all about the milk, biscuits and lunch cakes that was served. Thank you for watching and giving the other recipes a try.

[@shanajames-suckrajh]

This looks simple and delicious. I can't wait to try this.

[@Tinaraine]

It was pretty simple to make, I hope you enjoy it.

[@rashodjackson5687]

I’m so glad i found u 👍🏾 i will definitely give this recipe a try

[@Tinaraine]

Thank you and please do! it was fun going down memory lane with these cakes.😀

[@EverythingPaulette]

I store mine the same way, big thumbs up Tina. Xo

[@EverythingPaulette]

Who can forget that pink icing. I went to Springer too.

[@Tinaraine]

Three of my sisters when there and there remember that pick icing.

[@gotchawon]

I am sooo happy I found this channel omg 😩 lunch cakes were the best thank you miss Tina love tug see and hear ah bajan 🇧🇧mother talk 😂 Happy Mother’s Day to you

[@Tinaraine]

Good morning Ms. Cherbliss I am happy you found this channel as well! A big welcome to the tinaraine family. Cant forget those lunch cakes everyone looked forward to them. I appreciate you watching the channel and commenting. Have a blessed and beautiful day.

[@marianmcclean8050]

I am glad I found your channel. You are the first Bajan cooking channel I came across on KZbin. I am happy. New Subscriber. Thumbs-up.

[@Tinaraine]

Marian thank you so much 🙂I'm glad you found my channel to. Unfortunate there's not a lot of bajan cooking channel and my goal is to bring all the bajan dishes to light that some people forgot how to make or just need a quick reminder.Thank you for watching.

[@honeywest2262]

Delicious good memories 😄

[@Tinaraine]

Yes indeed!

[@DesignedByTheboss]

Woww your cakes looks so delicious. My kids would love it💕 Great job TFS🙏🏼

[@Tinaraine]

Linda thanks for watching! It's one of kids favorites because of the sweetness.

[@dorielbyer3363]

Looking yummy Tina, such a joy listening to you and remembering eating that Klim milk powder. Enjoyed those school days, just did not like the leather belts even though it made me a better person. I am going to bake this

[@Tinaraine]

Thank you Doriel! Lol how can anyone forget those leather belts, I almost felt it when I read your message. Some people said their got real milk including my husband, he used to help unload the milk truck, I never saw a milk truck I got milk powder that was made into milk, I enjoyed eating the powder at the end of the school term. I better not get started lol 😀Thanks for watching.

[@portiaforde5980]

O wow Tina you took me back to my days at Belmont Primary School. I Sure used to look forward to getting the biscuits and milk. But thinking back now to the lunch cake,, I think that's what got my sweet tooth started...lol I also loved the pink ice cream blocks. Thanks for sharing.

[@Tinaraine]

I remember the ice cream blocks also, that's so funny because when you think back we would find five cents or ten cents to buy one and it was only a little milk sugar and water but as kids we loved it. lol 😀

[@erinbarrow4819]

I used to love a lunch cake all of my lunch money for rhe week used to go in buying lunch cakes😍😍😋😋😋😋i remember milk and biscuits that was my favorite

[@Tinaraine]

I don't have much memories of the lunch cakes but I do of the milk and biscuits. I love eating the dry milk it was so good lol. Thanks for watching and have a very merry christmas and happy new year.

[@msmlovers463Jamboree]

BUT I'M FROM MASSACHUSETTS I LOVE HOW THEY TASTE IN BARBADOS 🇧🇧

[@Tinaraine]

There do have a different taste, its probably the mellow cream butter😍

[@msmlovers463Jamboree]

IT JUST TASTE SO GOOD SO WHAT'S THE RECIPE AGAIN 😋

[@msmlovers463Jamboree]

IT'S ALSO AT STORES IN BARBADOS 🇧🇧 I WISH THOSES CAKES WERE NEAR ME 🇺🇸

[@Tinaraine]

@@msmlovers463Jamboree Good morning MSM, take a look at the video for the recipe. its very easy to make

[@msmlovers463Jamboree]

Very Easy you Say Hmmmmm....

[@derikabrathwaite4576]

Hi I live in Barbados , I used to enjoy the milk and biscuit ,you need to get vanilla essence from here the real macaw. Wonderful Barbados.

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Derika! You are right about that vanilla essence in Barbados it's nice I've used it before but of course it's not that easy for me to get. I will be making my own in an upcoming video soon.that milk and biscuit takes me way back lol. Thanks for watching!

[@dianacharron7506]

I am so glad I found you r channel you are a beautiful lady I remember getting milk and biscuits but not lunch cakes I will be making some

[@ettagirl38]

Hi Tinaraine. Girl you ate that cake all wrong. No fork girl. Show them the real bajan way. Fingers with pinky stuck out and teeth sinking in the cake slowly then nibbling when you have a small piece left. Those cakes were like treats to me. I loved them. I loved the strawberry flavored milk and the milk blocks. I went to St. Luke's Primary and the Reverend's wife of the Rectory used to sell the milk blocks. Down memory lane. Great job. I enjoy your videos. Love from BIM

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Ettie, your right about the way that cake should be eaten but if your not a bajan you probable wont understand so I have to eat it that way on camera lol. I love going down memory lane every once in awhile it teaches my kids a little about my culture. I am so glad you were able to watch. Thank you and be bless.

[@coreenh237]

Omgosh, I missed these cakes, Thank You 😊

[@Tinaraine]

I guess that means you remember them in school. The good old days. 😀

[@cherylmeansbelovedordearon3916]

Oh yes 😊

[@ayeshac2813]

Thank you so much Tinaraine, you're a sweetheart! Your family is blessed to have you! You remind me of my aunt Myrna. Yeah , I can taste that sweet, cold milk and crackers right now ! The milk truck would bring it cold in canteens every morning. Can't wait to try your recipe, my daughter loves lunch cake. Stay sweet!

[@Tinaraine]

Thank you so much Ayesha! I was just talking to my husband he remembers the milk truck as well, at my school we had milk powder, so there was no delivery trucks. The milk powder was mix with water and that's what we had, but it tasted good. lol the last day of school we were given the left over powder 😊 Hope your daughter enjoys these cakes.

[@ayeshac2813]

@@Tinaraine I'm about to make them! Hope they come out as good as yours!

[@Tinaraine]

@@ayeshac2813 I'm excited you're making them, you must let me know how there come out, there going to taste great.

[@ayeshac2813]

@@Tinaraine, I made them and they were delicious! Again, you're a sweetheart!

[@Tinaraine]

@@ayeshac2813 Thank you! I’m glad there came out well for you

[@charmsworld8909]

I never had lunch cakes I guess I’m old must be after my time. I think I would like them tho. Lol

[@Tinaraine]

I don't remember having them either but the're served at schools I was told. 😀

[@lieshurttellthetruth.195]

I remember lunch cake as clear as day one thing you did wrong was the icing was never that thick and it was a little softer but thanks for the memory.

[@Tinaraine]

If you grew up in Barbados and had those lunch cakes it's hard to forget the taste and of course the look. The icing was a little tick but the taste was spot on. Thanks for watching have a great evening

[@marcelbrowne6245]

Hello Tina how are you doing hope all is well the recipe for your lunch cake is very good you use brown sugar that is the recipe I used for pound cake but with six eggs thank you very much will make it this weekend have a blessed day 🙏😇

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Marcel I am doing fine thanks for asking. when my grandmother baked pound cake she used a whole dozen 😊 Glad you were able to watch. Have fun making making your cakes this weekend.

[@EverythingPaulette]

Wow, Tina how can I miss this; omgoodness. Girlfriend I completely forgot about lunch cakes. Wow, such good memories. I must ask my girlfriend if she remember that because that honestly slipped my memory, lol. They look amazing!!! Dejavou

[@Tinaraine]

Thank you Paulette, I forgot all about them too, until someone ask me to make them. There just took me down memory lane. I had fun making them.

[@marcelbrowne6245]

@@Tinaraine hi Tina I enjoyed your cod fish casserole but wanted the recipe for pudding and souse you did not reply to my text have a great night thank you 👍🇧🇧🙏🏼

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Marcel, I did reply to you message. There is a pudding and souse recipe already up, after watching the video scroll down and you will see the written recipe.

[@marcelbrowne6245]

@@Tinaraine good morning 🌞 Tina thank you very much I didn't see the recipe before have a great day.

[@Tinaraine]

Marcel Browne No problem, you’re welcome 😊

[@navycottoncandi]

Looks yummy Tina. Would I be able to substitute condensed for eggs?

[@Tinaraine]

Using around a ¼ cup of condense milk will replace an egg, just remember to go lighter on the sugar when using condense milk.

[@navycottoncandi]

Tinaraine thanks will try it.

[@cleopatra183]

I made this last night I never had this at my school just biscuits and milk but it came out really good can’t use the icing because of health reasons thanks hon blessings to you and your family

[@Tinaraine]

All the school may not have served it, I just remembered the powdered milk and biscuits myself. I am glad you were able to give it a try, just going down memory lane a little.😀

[@balrajkistow2696]

Hi. Made this cake following the recipe. Taste good but came out with a grease line to the base. I live in the Caribbean so not sure if that made a difference. Should not but just asking

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Balraj, Thank you for giving the recipe a try! When you say grease line to the base, I'm thinking you are talking about in the bottom of the pan. The only thing I could think of, is when you greased the pan before adding the mixture, could it have come form that?

[@balrajkistow2696]

Thanks for your response. I used waxed paper at the base not grease. By grease line i mean that the bottom 1/4 inch was solid rather than spongy. Like it dropped. Baked for 40 mins at 350 and did not open oven. The taste is great.

[@Tinaraine]

@@balrajkistow2696 The only thing I could think of is, did you over mixed the cake once the flour was added?This causes air to get trap which deflates and causes the cake to get dense.

[@maybradley8337]

pink wid sprinkles

[@lindaparris2258]

Hi Tinaraine I just got to start watch your cooking for a few weeks now and lady you can really cook and i love your happyness in what you are doing. please keep up the good work. From one bajan to another.

[@denyshoyte4559]

i went to south district girls also do not remember getting this

[@Tinaraine]

Lunch cake was not something that was served on a regular basis but I remember having it every once in awhile along with that good food was cooked. Thanks for watching

[@chinesebytyler7349]

Hi Tinaraine, how are you?

[@Tinaraine]

Hi Tyler, I am well, thank you for asking.