It’s your birthday (happy birthday, by the way). What kind of cake do you hope to get?
White sheet cake from the bakery with the white icing made mostly from lard, with icing flowers.
Chocolate sheet cake from the bakery with the white icing made mostly from lard, with icing flowers.
Yellow cake, chocolate icing.
Angel food cake with the dribbley icing.
Other. (There are so many kinds of cake, you’ll have to specify which “other” you’re thinking about. Or you’ll risk getting flan for your birthday. I mean it.)
-Rue.
Devil’s food cake with fudge icing - layered - no flowers or other crap - slightly melty French Vanilla ice cream on the side - served by a scantily clad young stud…
Why do you ask - are you planning my birthday party for next year??
Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is the official cake of birthdays. No matter what other frightfully delicious cakes I enjoy at other times of the year, birthdays are strictly a yellow cake with chocolate frosting affair.
Boston Cream Pie. For years I asked for chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, because I thought BCP would be too much trouble for my mom. But last year I said something about it in a different context and she offered (“aw, that’s no big deal, honey…”), and my Dad (whose birthday is but two weeks after mine) was most pleased at my choice, and It Was Good.
P.s. if there are furriners about: A Boston Cream Pie is actually a cake - a sponge or white cake, in 2 layers, with custard in between, and topped with chocolate glaze. Cook’s Illustrated says that it indeed originated in Boston in the 1850s, and that it was called a pie because they used pie tins to bake the cake in - apparently, round cake tins weren’t around yet.
Hey… I make yummy flans! pudding and fruit and flaky dough mmmmmmmm…
I like to try experimental cakes on my birthdays… Birthday’s are a great excuse for some overly rich and decadent cake
I do like cakes cut open and filled with fruit and whipped cream Not a chocolate cake or frosting kind of girl though… I like strawberry cake or lemon cake or french vanilla cake…
Or checkerboard cake… then you can get all three flavors in one cake!
Definitely the DQ Ice Cream Cake. With a Batman symbol on it!
Heheheh, that’s what I’ve had every year for my birthday since I turned 18. It seems before I turned 18, I still had to get the girlie stuff, but I was allowed “boy” stuff when I became an adult.
My favorite birthday cake is a nice German chocolate cake. My western civ teacher in high school used to buy us a cake on our birthdays. I got the German chocolate, and no one wanted it. Woo! Mine! All MINE!
I’m not a big cake fan, either, but I have a certain fondness for the rainbow cakes my mom used to make when I was a kid. 6 thin layers, each in a different color, frosted w/white frosting. Pretty!
I do like Boston Cream Pie, so that’s always a safe bet for my birthday, but what I really want is a Carvel Ice Cream Cake. Carvel cakes have a layer of incredible chocolate crunchies that I’m positive must contain crack, they are sooooooooo good.
