# Cake (a poll) **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/21 "2003-01-24T17:10:41Z")
I like flan, too. I want Gateau St. Honore for my birthday. It’s not technically a cake- it’s cream puffs filled with custard, coated with caramel, and stacked in a pyramid. Then you put chocolate sauce and whipped cream on them. Oooohhhh… yum. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/22 "2003-01-24T17:13:03Z")
1. German Chocolate I 'll share with **Skerri** ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/23 "2003-01-24T17:13:41Z")
Doesn’t anyone else like those gummy sickly sweet fat icing roses? I feel so alone. What I’d love, though, beyond all cake and icing roses, is the gooseberry tart my mom used to make when we were kids. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/24 "2003-01-24T17:28:13Z")
Does it have to be cake? I’d rather have one of those great big chocolate chip cookies with chocolate frosting. (whisper whisper) Oh, all right. Mark me down for a Black Forest cake. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/25 "2003-01-24T17:50:52Z")
Cassata cake. Like they make on Murray Hill in Cleveland, with strawberries in the filling. One of the things I miss the most about my hometown. I’ll have to settle for a Carvel Ice Cream cake. My birthday is in a couple weeks and the weather is entirely too lousy to drive to Ohio. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/26 "2003-01-24T17:55:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > \*\*It’s your birthday (happy birthday, by the way). What kind of cake do you hope to get? > > 1. 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. \*\* It won’t be my birthday for about three more months, but I’d like “Other.” Meaning Pie. As in Mmmmm, Pie. Or When come back, bring Pie. I hate cake. I hate frosting. Frosting is just gross. I’d rather have Pie. Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, or Blueberry Pie. Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Silk Pie, Blueberry Pie, or Banana Cream Pie. Lemon Meringue Pie, Key Lime Pie, Turtle Pie, or Coconut Pie. Or even cheesecake or flan. But no cake! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/27 "2003-01-24T18:06:07Z")
My birthday is in August. So when I was a kid, I’d often get a Carvel ice cream cake for my birthday. I wouldn’t mind one of those again. But, I’m several thousand miles from the nearest Carvel. You can see the problem. So I’d like what they call a _lukket valnøtt_ in Trondheim and a _marsipankake_ here: three layers of a spongy cake, moistened with sherry, filled with raspberry jam, walnuts and whipped cream, topped with a marcipan “lid” (and roses and all that for decoration). Second choice would be a Sacher torte from our neighborhood bakery. Mmmm, chocolate and plums… ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/28 "2003-01-24T18:22:49Z")
Other: carrot cake , but it MUST have cream cheese frosting! unclviny ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/29 "2003-01-24T18:26:07Z")
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake or my mom’s chocolate pound cake with bittersweet icing. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/30 "2003-01-24T18:56:03Z")
Apple spice cake, please. With either buttercream or cream cheese frosting. And where the hell were you last week when it _was_ my birthday? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/31 "2003-01-24T18:56:37Z")
Homemade chocolate cake with peanutbutter fudge frosting. Or Angelfood cake with chcolate whipped cream. StG ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/32 "2003-01-24T19:33:25Z")
It was my birthday a week ago (thank you, thank you - please, no applause) & I decided on a yellow cake with chocolate frosting… I’m also partial to devil’s food with vanilla frosting. Big icing roses are a plus in my book! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/33 "2003-01-24T19:45:13Z")
Glory, that’s MY birthday cake! Every year til I was in my 20s! ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/34 "2003-01-24T19:50:50Z")
1. Carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Or tiramisu. My husband’s vote would be for pumpkin pie - his birthday is in November. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/35 "2003-01-24T20:42:00Z")
1. Other: Sachertorte or Other: Baklava or Other: Tarte aux Framboises (Open pâte sablée tart with a layer of custard and fresh raspberries on top) or the Boston Cream Pie that **Oxymoron** mentioned. I hadn’t heard of it before, and I’m liking it already. ---
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/36 "2003-01-24T21:02:28Z")
My birthday is next week, and if I don’t get a Punchbowl Cake, someone’s gonna be sorry. It’s a yellow cake with so much fruit and sloppy, yummy goodness that you have to put it in a punchbowl to assemble it. And I want slightly melty chocolate ice cream. And a pony. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/37 "2003-01-24T21:06:02Z")
We used to make an actual pie that we called boston cream pie… Take a baked pie shell of your choice (I like gramcracker) put in pudding/custard and top with a layer of cake then pour melted chocolate over the top and trim with whipped cream. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/38 "2003-01-24T21:13:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jane\_says \* > \*\*My birthday is next week, and if I don’t get a Punchbowl Cake, someone’s gonna be sorry…And I want slightly melty chocolate ice cream. And a pony. \*\* You’re gonna eat a pony? Ewwww! But it’s your birthday, so knock yourself out. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/39 "2003-01-24T23:22:16Z")
Not pony, donkey. Donkey taste like pie. That donkey taste like donkey poop. Wrong end. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/40 "2003-01-24T23:30:12Z")
I don’t like cake, so my mother has always (and still does, even at the age of 41) made me chocolate chip cookies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598.md?page=3)