# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Peach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@Peach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/41 "2003-01-24T23:31:08Z")
I want a macrobiotic cake. if not that than angel food w/ berries. thanks!😃 ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/42 "2003-01-24T23:52:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\*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. \*\* Oh, nonono… that’s not a Gateau St. Honore (although you’re in the right direction), that’s what’s known as a _croquembouche_. The Gateau St. Honore has a puff pastry base in which the cream puffs are attached around the outside with caramel, and the center is filled with pastry cream. It’s finished with whipped cream and drizzled chocolate on the cream puffs. Here’s a picture of one (it’s a little fancier than what I’ve known them to be, but you’ll get the idea): [http://www.monksonline.org/images/Cuisine/Essays/Saint-Honore\_Cake.jpg](http://www.monksonline.org/images/Cuisine/Essays/Saint-Honore_Cake.jpg) This is the croquembouche that you described: [http://www.deliaonline.com/picturelibrary\jpeg230/ma/ma029-croquembouche.jpg](http://www.deliaonline.com/picturelibrary%5Cjpeg230/ma/ma029-croquembouche.jpg) Sorry, the French pastry chef training kicked in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/43 "2003-01-25T00:02:21Z")
Oh, and for my birthday cake? I think this year, I’d like a dark chocolate cake soaked with Chambord, filled with raspberry mousse, and frosted with ganache. But, I’ll be busy making my wedding cake before then… (yellow cake filled with blood orange curd and frosted with orange-flavored buttercream) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/44 "2003-01-25T00:04:06Z")
Chocolate cake with strawberry filling and whipped cream frosting. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![bristlesage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@bristlesage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bristlesage)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/45 "2003-01-25T00:10:27Z")
I’m with **delphica** and **susan\_foster**. Yellow cake, chocolate frosting–the kind that is just butter, cocoa, and confectioner’s sugar, whipped. Yes, this is the cake. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/46 "2003-01-25T00:19:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > \*\*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 🙂 \*\* 😉 Indeed, I do agree with the handsome & talented **Max Carnage** - Red Velvet Cake is the food of the Gods. And yes, it _has to be_ cream cheese icing, accept no substitutes. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/47 "2003-01-25T00:28:11Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by delphica_ > > 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. I agree wholeheartedly (and with **bristlesage** and **susan\_foster** as well). Except that it needs to be a four layer cake, and the frosting is made with cocoa, butter, powdered sugar and milk–not too stiff, not to hard, and almost bitter to offset the sweetness of the cake. My birthday isn’t for months and months, and now I want yellow cake. And I want my Mom to make it for me. And she’s 400 miles away. Waaaa. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/48 "2003-01-25T01:25:53Z")
My Dream Cake-- the best of both worlds: carrot cake with the frosting that goes on German chocolate cake. Only one friend has ever cared enough to actually make one for me. . . Aw. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/49 "2003-01-25T01:53:12Z")
1. Other- a cherry pie. Like what I had every year when I was a kidlet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/50 "2003-01-25T02:02:06Z")
Malted MilK Ball Torte from Copps (the grocery store). Mmmmmm, cake. When come back, bring cake! ---
**Author:** ![snermy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snermy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snermy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/51 "2003-01-25T02:25:42Z")
**Birthday cake:** Triple layer chocolate cake from the recipe on the Hershey powder box. White boiled frosting (the kind that harden juust a bit when it cools.) Mom’s the only one I know who makes it right, I can’t get the knack (mine always seems too thin, so I wind up turning it into a buttercream) \*\*Un-Birthday cake: \*\* Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Dang, **Rue** , don’t make me want cake right before bed. I don’t have anyone here to stop me and my will is WEAK! ---
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/52 "2003-01-25T02:42:00Z")
Triple chocolate mud cake, bring it on! Alternatively, a nice lemon cheesecake… or tiramisu. Oooohhhhhhhh yeh! Max 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/53 "2003-01-25T10:16:52Z")
🙂 Chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate cream filling ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/54 "2003-01-25T10:47:40Z")
Pineapple upside down cake ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/55 "2003-01-25T11:46:08Z")
Double chocolate cake with a raspberry decrumbing glaze and frosted with real buttercream (butter, confectioner’s sugar and vanilla) with fondant flowers which I will not eat but will enjoy looking at. (I hate the taste, but they’re lovely looking.) ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/56 "2003-01-25T12:24:15Z")
Chocolate Layer cake with buttercreme frosting, and good vanilla ice cream on the side,slightly meltled. The Ice cream cuts the sweet a bit:) ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/57 "2003-01-25T15:57:59Z")
My family birthday cake is poppyseed caake. The cake is very dense, and in 2 or 3 layers. between the layers and on the outside is the frosting. Very vanilla pudding-like. At work we can have a cake on our birthday. I request cheesecake. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/58 "2003-01-25T15:59:05Z")
Black forest cake. Chocolate cake brushed with kirsch, REAL whipped cream, fresh sour cherries (not canned). A few bittersweet chocolate curls sprinkled on top would be a nice touch. Once when I was visiting the South, I had a piece of cake that someone’s grandmother made. It was a moist yellow layer cake with a very creamy, fluffy frosting that had pineapple bits in it. Doesn’t sound like much, but it was outstanding. If anyone has the recipe to this and would like to post it, I would consider myself eternally in your debt. A nice, dense, chewy carrot cake with walnuts and ridiculous amounts of cream cheese frosting will work, too. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/59 "2003-01-26T03:16:14Z")
A blonde. Badum pssht. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598/60 "2003-01-26T06:00:38Z")
I’d rather have cheesecake, but my Aunt’s almond cake is nummy. Almond flavored cake, fluffy custardy filling, and this incredible frosting that reminds one of candy truffles but tastes like almonds, and then toffee bits sprinkled over it all. Someday I hope to be found worthy of a copy of her recipe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-a-poll/150598.md?page=4)