# Chocolate Cake
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** food-cooking
**Created:** [November 23, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791 "2021-11-23T00:35:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791/21 "2021-11-24T03:15:03Z")
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake? Andy Warhol would be laughing in his grave!
Polite thing to do is wonder aloud whether this qualifies as chocolate cake if yellow, and ask for more to continue investigations.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791/22 "2021-11-24T20:50:03Z")
So, here’s another question.
Why is this called Boston Creme **pie**? It’s a yellow cake with creme filling. 😋
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791/23 "2021-11-25T01:06:14Z")
First of all, a person who gives you _any_ kind of cake is your friend.
More to the point; if someone did what the OP mentioned I wouldn’t think them a liar. Instead I’d think:
“…well, I _guess._ Sorta… Where you from, anyway?”
> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
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> Okay, what if it’s a white cake with mini-chocolate chips?
No way. That’s a cake too far. Especially since chances are, those mini chocolate chips taste like pencil shavings. Or carob, even if they’re nominally “chocolate”.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791/24 "2021-11-25T01:14:23Z")
I still remember liking a childhood story about a kid whose mother wanted to make him a birthday cake. They discussed maybe a hundred different combinations of cake and icing, agreed they all sounded yummy, couldn’t decide and ended up with some fantastic combination of all of them. It doesn’t beat Harry Potter for being famous among magicians, or whatever, but it is hard not to like.
“Or maybe a lemon pound cake with white chocolate marshmallow macadamia icing?”
“That also sounds scrumptious…”
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791/25 "2021-12-14T23:27:38Z")
To me, it’s perfectly acceptable to call yellow cake with chocolate frosting ‘chocolate cake’. Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting should be called ‘double chocolate cake’.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cake/954791/26 "2021-12-15T00:10:18Z")
My wife and I went to Cheddars for dinner yesterday and we sprang for the (double) Chocolate Cake. The slice was _slightly_ smaller than a regulation football and came with two scoops of vanilla bean ice cream. Three luscious layers and _ **THICK** _ choco fudge icing – half-inch thick. I’m still wired. I didn’t know I could type this fast. I cfjio;ahjg[hsofuhhvlooryhgonhvlkjhufhljlnxjfkhalsu\<\>CZBvlihjkB 😶 😜 🤗 🤪 🥴 hhijwioc…
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