# Cake (a poll)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 24, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598 "2003-01-24T15:19:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/1 "2003-01-24T15:19:53Z")
It’s your birthday (happy birthday, by the way). What kind of cake do you hope to get?
1. White sheet cake from the bakery with the white icing made mostly from lard, with icing flowers.
2. Chocolate sheet cake from the bakery with the white icing made mostly from lard, with icing flowers.
3. Yellow cake, chocolate icing.
4. Angel food cake with the dribbley icing.
5. 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.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/2 "2003-01-24T15:27:11Z")
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??
😉
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### Author:  [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/3 "2003-01-24T15:34:52Z")
5 - Ice cream cake! It’s yummy, AND it make your teeth hurt!
Mmmmmm, cake…
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/4 "2003-01-24T15:35:43Z")
I guess it might be different each year.
This year I would like an orange cake(cannot find any stores who do this) with chocolate frosting.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/5 "2003-01-24T15:37:11Z")
How about angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries?
If you’re talking regular sheet cakes, I much prefer the lighter icing that tastes a bit like cool whip to the “lard” type icing.
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### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/6 "2003-01-24T15:37:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/7 "2003-01-24T15:46:02Z")
New York Cheesecake.
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### Author:  [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/8 "2003-01-24T15:51:39Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@swingchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swingchick)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/9 "2003-01-24T15:51:41Z")
Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake. mmmmmmmm there is no finer cake.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/10 "2003-01-24T15:53:16Z")
Chocolate fudge cake with walnuts, chocolate frosting.
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### Author:  [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/11 "2003-01-24T15:53:47Z")
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!
Now I wish it was my birthday
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### Author:  [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/12 "2003-01-24T15:55:34Z")
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. 😃
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### Author:  [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/13 "2003-01-24T16:16:19Z")
Other.
Pie, maybe a nice custard pie. Or shortcake.
I don’t like cake.
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### Author:  [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/14 "2003-01-24T16:18:13Z")
Oh, there was that time that I got a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cake - it was half Kaberry Kaboom, and half Island Pineapple.
That was yummy.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/15 "2003-01-24T16:36:08Z")
Three-layer red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.
And if she sees this thread, **Slainte** will be in here soon and prove she’s the smartest babe in the world by agreeing with me 🙂
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### Author:  [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/16 "2003-01-24T16:38:33Z")
I’m with **Gravity**. I despise cake in all forms. Cake needs to go back to where it came from!
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### Author:  [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/17 "2003-01-24T16:43:49Z")
Mmm. Forbidden birthday cake…
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!
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### Author:  [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/18 "2003-01-24T16:46:32Z")
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.
So, OTHER: I’ll have a Cookie Puss, please.
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/19 "2003-01-24T17:04:48Z")
I like flan! Bring that on.
But if it must be cake, then make it yellow cake with butter-cream frosting. So delicious and not too sweet!
Or pound cake with wine-soaked pears and cherries. But that’s getting a little fancy.
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### Author:  [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/20 "2003-01-24T17:07:40Z")
1. But I don’t eat cake much anymore - no cake this year!
Susan
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