Cake or ice cream?

[Ambivalid]

So you're at a birthday party and it's time for cake and ice cream. Which do you enjoy more? Cake? Ice cream? Both equally? Me personally, I like ice cream much more than cake but I DO enjoy the two together. But I know preferences vary just like personalities so I pose this question to the entire Doping community...Cake or ice cream??

[Eeyore'sgirl]

Cake...no question about it. My answer is probably a bit skewed by the fact that I'm allergic to milk, but still...cake.

[foxymoron]

I can eat ice cream any old time. If I'm at a birthday party, it's all about the cake.

[Foggy]

Cheesecake!


ETA: I don't like ordinary cake, so if there is no Cheesecake it will be the ice cream.

[Yorikke]

I don't actually like ice cream very much. It's fine, but meh. If it's good cake, it'll be cake every time.

Joe

[Punoqllads]

Death.

--whoops. Ice cream, sorry.

[runner pat]

I can eat ice cream any old time. If I'm at a birthday party, it's all about the cake.

Same here.
Normally, ice cream gets the nod but cake is party food.

And don't put ice cream on my cake. Ruins two perfectly good desserts.

Jim Gaffigan on cake. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o-u4IwXkbE)

[Leaper]

Ice cream cake?

[Hennessy]

Ice cream cake?

Yes

[alindallas]

A little of each to avoid being a party pooper. Rather have pizza.

[Covered_In_Bees!]

Ice cream, easy.

[Max the Immortal]

"Or"? Cake and ice cream are such a great combination for what I call gastronomic alchemy. They don't even have to mix; when they are simply next to one another on the same plate, both are improved.

[nikonikosuru]

Ice cream.

There's just something about cake...The consistency, always an overabundance of overly sugary frosting, the abnormal looking colors, it all churns my stomach for some reason. One of of the few foods that does that. When presented with a piece, I decline about nine out of ten times and just have ice cream instead. That ten percent where I accept is when I go "Hey, I haven't had cake in a while this might be better than I rememb---oh. Nevermind."

[Hypno-Toad]

Ice cream trumps cake. If we were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, ice cream, cake, Ice Cream would beat Cake.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

So you're at a birthday party and it's time for cake and ice cream. Which do you enjoy more? Cake? Ice cream? Both equally? Me personally, I like ice cream much more than cake but I DO enjoy the two together. But I know preferences vary just like personalities so I pose this question to the entire Doping community...Cake or ice cream??

Ice cream, hands down. Unless it's homemade strawberry shortcake. I'm not a big frosting fan, except for whipped cream. In fact, my wedding cake was a cheesecake, so I'm a non-fan of regular cake!

OK- sugar cone or cake cone?

Me- either, but a slight nod to the cake cone (ironic, eh?).

[twickster]

Moved MPSIMS --> IMHO.

[Vihaga]

It depends on the cake and the ice cream. If we're talking mediocre cake with that gross crisco icing versus plain normal vanilla ice cream, then ice cream all the way. If we're talking a moist, flavorful, homemade concoction versus gourmet ice cream, it's a tough choice but the cake usually wins.

[Czarcasm]

Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.

[phantom lamb]

I don't like cake and I love ice cream. The choice is easy.

[Manda JO]

It depends on if I am watching what I eat. Four hundred calories of cake (a little more than a cupcake!) is a lot less satisfying that 400 calories of ice cream (a scoop in a cone!), but 1000 calories of really good cake (a nice, generous slice, not grocery store vanilla) is more satisfying than a thousand calories of ice cream (a double scoop sundae).

So if it's a minor party and I am not indulging myself, a scoop of ice cream. If it's a special occasion and I am throwing caution to the wind (and it's good cake), a big ol' slice of cake.

[kayaker]

The last time I was offers cake/ice cream was at a St Patrick's Day megaparty. I put a chunk of cake and a spoon of ice-cream into a pint of Guinness and had a float. It was awesome.

[twickster]

Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.

I thought about that, decided against it since it didn't involve flavors of ice cream or recipes for cake. ;)

[GilaB]

If it's good cake, probably cake, but most birthday cakes aren't good. That said, my feeling is, why choose?

[tdn]

Ice cream all the way. I'll grudgingly eat cake without ice cream, but I'll gladly eat ice cream without cake.

But it's a tricky question, as cakes vary wildly in goodness. I love butter cream frosting but loathe marshmallow frosting. I like yellow cake but am lukewarm at best to chocolate.

[salinqmind]

I loathe ordinary cake. I loathe the box cakes baked in a cruddy 9x13 pan almost as much as the disgusting half-sheet crisco-frosted things from the grocery store. (It's OK if you're, say, 10, and want frosting roses on it, but I gag just looking at it.) The thing is, there are beautiful and delicious cakes right in the same case - strawberry and whipped cream, carrot cake, red velvet cake, beautiful confections! but expensive, and maybe that's why the fallback is the same old thing - something big n' bland to fill up all those mouths. I'll take a tiny piece just to be polite but I put a napkin over it and stuff it in the trash when no one is looking.... The ice cream is OK, anyone can swallow a scoop of choklit or vaniller ice cream.

[CrimeThink]

Cake stinks, I have a birthday pies on my birthdays. With ice cream, of course.

[ZipperJJ]

Cake! I've got sensitive teeth. Ice cream bothers my teeth. I've grown to not be all that fond of ice cream.

Plus, cake is awesome!

[PapSett]

If it's that typical birthday cake that to me has no real flavor beyond 'sweet', it will be ice cream every time. In fact, off the top of my head, I van only think of a couple cakes that would beat ice cream-German chocolate, chocolate covered cherry cake, or carrot cake.

[Freudian Slit]

Cake. Ice cream is the kind of thing I only eat a couple of times a year. I don't really care for it that much unless I'm really in the mood.

[BetsQ]

I love to bake cakes. I'll take the cake every time. Especially if I'm the one who made it. :)

The fact that I'm lactose intolerant probably figures into my answer as well. Ice cream is almost never worth it. It's a sad state of affairs.

[Annie-Xmas]

Definitely ice cream, unless it's vanilla frosting. I have a love an addiction to vanilla frosting that is so strong I've been known to eat it off of other people's plates if they discard them.

[Sir T-Cups]

Ice cream cake?

Bingo was his name-o

[BMalion]

Oysters or snails?

[FairyChatMom]

Unless it's a special cake as opposed to a run-of-the-mill layer cake, I'll go for ice cream every time. I loves me some ice cream!

[Rachellelogram]

Ice cream. I have finicky taste in cake (pie > cake!). Most commercial frosting tastes like crap. But almost any ice cream can taste good. Especially green tea ice cream, yay!

[Cat Whisperer]

I love cake, and I love ice cream, but at a birthday party, I only want cake*. I don't care much for ice cream on anything - it melts and does strange things to my dessert.

I don't like ice cream cakes at all. There, I said it, and I stand by it. :)

*And no damned yellow cake, either - I don't get to waste calories on cake every day, so it had better be chocolate!

[markdash]

If it's an actual, honest-to-god "good" cake, I will choose the cake. Otherwise, I prefer ice cream.

Approximately 95% of the cakes I have been served at birthday parties are not good.

[pulykamell]

Ice cream, no question.

[Ambivalid]

Ice cream. I have finicky taste in cake (pie > cake!). Most commercial frosting tastes like crap. But almost any ice cream can taste good. Especially green tea ice cream, yay!

Well, welcome back.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Well, welcome back.

Really? This was a fun thread. :(

[missred]

Depends.

Good carrot cake...cake. Any other time, ice cream.

[Ambivalid]

Really? This was a fun thread. :(

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[devilsknew]

Apparently my Toledo ladies won on the food channel... best cupcakes11!!! Unfortunately I hate cupcakes... they are inferior cake in my book.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

??

You are saying that your comment to Rachelellogram was not a snarky reference to this post?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13989107&postcount=103

If you want to correct me that you meant it sincerely as a welcome, not as a snipe, than I apologize. But you're acting like you have no idea what I was talking about at all.