# What is Your Favorite Type of Cake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730 "2007-09-11T01:15:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patrick\_Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Patrick\_Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patrick_Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/1 "2007-09-11T01:15:51Z")
I’m not entirely sure myself, but I am currently enjoying a delicious carrot cake. What about **you**? (Open to dessert _ **or** _ savory cakes) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/2 "2007-09-11T01:17:23Z")
Carrot cake or spice cake. The main cake I don’t care for is your common chocolate cake. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Patrick\_Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patrick_Wilson)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/3 "2007-09-11T01:18:30Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] Carrot cake or spice cake. The main cake I don’t care for is your common chocolate cake. [/QUOTE] What about molten chocolate cakes? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/4 "2007-09-11T01:21:57Z")
[QUOTE=Patrick Wilson] What about molten chocolate cakes? [/QUOTE] There is such a thing as a good chocolate cake. I used to work fancy weddings so I got to try hundreds of very expensive cakes. However, good chocolate cakes take skill and expense and aren’t something someone can just whip up out of a premix. Regular chocolate cakes don’t taste well defined enough to me and always taste a hint of stale. I always have carrot cake as my birthday 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:** [September 11, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/5 "2007-09-11T01:26:20Z")
Cassatta Cake. The kind made in Cleveland or Pittsburgh. It’s about 5,000 calories a slice, but it’s awesome (think triple-decker yellow cake with custard and strawberry slices as the filling, iced with whipped cream. OMFG). German chocolate cake is good too, but only if it is homemade. ---
**Author:** ![Queuing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Queuing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queuing)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/6 "2007-09-11T01:28:29Z")
New York style cheese cake. If that counts as cake. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/7 "2007-09-11T01:31:58Z")
A good carrot cake is hard to beat. That said, I’d have a hard time deciding between that and a really good white cake with whipped cream and fresh strawberries. Or a good coconut cake. Or any really nice cake with buttercream frosting. Yumm… buttercream… I also dislike most chocolate cakes with chocolate frosting. They just do nothing for me. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/8 "2007-09-11T01:33:52Z")
[QUOTE=romansperson] Cassatta Cake. The kind made in Cleveland or Pittsburgh. It’s about 5,000 calories a slice, but it’s awesome (think triple-decker yellow cake with custard and strawberry slices as the filling, iced with whipped cream. OMFG). [/QUOTE] My God that sounds good. Almost worth going to Cleveland or Pittsburgh to get. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/9 "2007-09-11T01:35:32Z")
A simple sponge with whipped cream, strawberry jam and icing sugar. Yummo. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/10 "2007-09-11T01:47:37Z")
Chocolate cake with strawberry filling in the middle and whipped cream frosting. I ask for this cake every year for my birthday and I never get it. ---
**Author:** ![Labelless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Labelless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labelless)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/11 "2007-09-11T01:50:24Z")
Strawberry cake, right from the oven with chocolate frosting. It’s sinful, it’s boxed and quick, but damn it’s good. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/12 "2007-09-11T01:52:46Z")
Hmmmm, there’s yellow cake with chocolate icing, and yellow/white cake with buttercream, and then there’s a Swiss Black Forest cake that’s made by the Swiss Pastry Shop here in town. It’s not really a cake, it has meringue with almond paste "layers’, it’s frosted with whipped cream, and then it has dark chocolate shavings embedded in the whipped cream. It’s wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/13 "2007-09-11T01:54:32Z")
Pineapple upside-down for me, please. And a tall glass of milk. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/14 "2007-09-11T01:59:01Z")
Definitely the yellow cake with chocolate frosting. There’s really no competition. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/15 "2007-09-11T01:59:54Z")
[Tres Leches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_leches_cake) . My favorite. In both a very good and a very bad way, the bakery in the store across the street from my house makes an absolutely fabulous one. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/16 "2007-09-11T02:05:16Z")
Pumpkin cake, this week. Had a really good one a friend made… Ooooh. Gotta find more Pumpkin cake… ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/17 "2007-09-11T02:07:11Z")
The Cakes from the upscale bakeries leave all normal cakes in the dust. My favorite normal cake is lemon with butter cream frosting and coconut. The next one is lemon sponge cake. I think the pumpkin sponge cake I came up with two weeks ago is really good. [Pumpkin Sponge Cake](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=434429) ---
**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:** [September 11, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/18 "2007-09-11T02:08:36Z")
[QUOTE=Athena] My God that sounds good. Almost worth going to Cleveland or Pittsburgh to get. [/QUOTE] You don’t have to. Here’s a recipe. It takes me two days to make and I gain 5 lbs. afterwards, but it is so good! You can cheat and use a box mix to make the cake and save time but, heck, why not go all out? I don’t bother with the whole strawberries on the top or the rosettes, though, that’s just for show. [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s\_76063.html](http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_76063.html) [Corbo’s](http://www.corbos.com/) in Cleveland’s Little Italy makes this, and sells it in single slices too (my butt thanks them, :p). ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/19 "2007-09-11T02:27:49Z")
[QUOTE=monica] Definitely the yellow cake with chocolate frosting. There’s really no competition. [/QUOTE] Amen, sistah friend! I asked my girlfriend to make me one for my birthday in a few weeks. Wheeeeeeeeee! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/20 "2007-09-11T02:29:44Z")
[QUOTE=psycat90] [Tres Leches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_leches_cake) . My favorite. In both a very good and a very bad way, the bakery in the store across the street from my house makes an absolutely fabulous one. [/QUOTE] Oh, yes. Sing it, sister. I’m not really a cake person, but tres leches is muy delicioso. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730.md?page=2)