Given my current Lent fasting, I was wondering if doughnuts count as a cake or not (particularly my favourite jam doughnuts). Unlike cakes, they're fried rather than baked and made with quite different ingredients.
What do you think? I think I'm just trying to find an excuse to pig out, but there you go...
*cough* :)
To answer your question, no I don't think they count as a 'cake', but I do think they're close enough to cake to warrant a ban :)