# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/21 "2007-09-11T02:31:08Z")
Entemenn’s blackout cake. I see this one on the shelves only sometimes so that makes it all the more special. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/22 "2007-09-11T02:38:50Z")
[QUOTE=Queuing] New York style cheese cake. If that counts as cake. [/QUOTE] Share, please. 🙂 My heart will always go out to the birthday cake I bought for my tenth birthday, covered in gooey white icing and fluffy pink rosettes, at the marina near our lakeshore cottage. I was holding the box on my lap as we docked the boat, bursting with pride, and jumped out of the seat onto the dock… upsetting the box and smushing the cake on the wooden planks. But chocolate cheesecake is proof that there is a God and She loves us very, very much. ---
**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, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/23 "2007-09-11T02:44:21Z")
Costco has the _best_ cheesecake, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/24 "2007-09-11T02:45:05Z")
[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). German chocolate cake is good too, but only if it is homemade. [/QUOTE] My wife makes me a from-scratch German chocolate cake for my birthday every year. It’s about the only reason I look forward to having birthdays anymore! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/25 "2007-09-11T03:00:59Z")
My current fixation is Banana Split cake. Use your favorite banana cake recipe for the batter, pour into prepared pan, then gently fold in a 1/2 cup of well-drained pineapple tidbits and 3/4 cup quartered fresh strawberries. (If you add either/both fruits to the batter while mixing, they tend to smush in and blend and change both taste and texture. You want Banana cake, with bits of flavorful fruit, see?) Thickly frost cooled cake with the lightest buttercream icing you can make or just use whipped cream if you like, it works great if you pipe it on in a hershey kiss like shape with the peaks. Drizzle liberally with chocolate syrup, sprinkle chopped nuts and place halved maraschino cherries every few inches. This thing looks so grand, it tempts the “Oh, no thanks, I’m not really a cake person” types into trying it and they quickly become drooling addicts. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/26 "2007-09-11T03:05:42Z")
German Chocolate! No, Red Velvet! NO! CHEESECAKE! Carrot cake is good, too, with cream cheese frosting. Devil’s Food with white frosting is probably my favorite of the most common, easy to find, ready made cakes. I like Angel food, too, with fresh berries and whipped cream. D’oh! _whine_ I can’t pick just one. Now I want cake. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/27 "2007-09-11T03:09:47Z")
Strawberry shortcake- made with real shortcake biscuits, lightly toasted and buttered with salted butter, sugared strawberries and unsweetened whipped cream. 3 meals a day, I could eat this. Or Boston Cream Pie. That’s good too. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/28 "2007-09-11T03:21:01Z")
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon] Costco has the _best_ cheesecake, by the way. [/QUOTE] “Once past the lips, forever on the hips!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/29 "2007-09-11T03:21:35Z")
My favorite cake does not exist anymore: the kind my mother made. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/30 "2007-09-11T03:26:01Z")
I’m not much of a cake person, but I do love red velvet cake, made from the recipe my mother was charged a gazillion dollars for when she requested it from the chef at the Waldorf-Astoria. OK, not really. It was in our Catholic school PTA cookbook – but I bet the person who submitted was doing so to get revenge for having been charged a gazillion dollars! My brother-in-law bakes a cake from a white cake mix and adds almond extract to the batter and icing. YUMMMMMM! ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/31 "2007-09-11T03:26:11Z")
[QUOTE=Key Lime Guy] Pineapple upside-down for me, please. And a tall glass of milk. [/QUOTE] That’s one of my favorite too. When I was a kid, my mom would occasionally make one and I got to eat the left over pineapple, yum, yum! My number one favorite is Devil’s Food w/ a simple butter icing, maybe served w/ a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream on a generous wedge ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/32 "2007-09-11T03:27:04Z")
I hear ya, **blondebear**. I’ll never have another lemon cake like my mom used to make for my birthday. I was partial to a key lime cheesecake that we used to be able to get at the grocery store, made by brothers of some religious order down in South Florida. But it stopped showing up at the store a couple of years ago. So I’ll have to go with Black Forest cake. ---
**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, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/33 "2007-09-11T03:40:34Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] “Once past the lips, forever on the hips!” 😛 [/QUOTE] I like having big hips- they’re good for shutting things like doors and drawers. Also, when you do The Bump you can send the other person flying across the room, and that’s always good for a laugh. Costco Cheesecake is a win-win. ---
**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, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/34 "2007-09-11T05:17:23Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Tonya] My current fixation is Banana Split cake. Use your favorite banana cake recipe for the batter, pour into prepared pan, then gently fold in a 1/2 cup of well-drained pineapple tidbits and 3/4 cup quartered fresh strawberries. (If you add either/both fruits to the batter while mixing, they tend to smush in and blend and change both taste and texture. You want Banana cake, with bits of flavorful fruit, see?) Thickly frost cooled cake with the lightest buttercream icing you can make or just use whipped cream if you like, it works great if you pipe it on in a hershey kiss like shape with the peaks. Drizzle liberally with chocolate syrup, sprinkle chopped nuts and place halved maraschino cherries every few inches. This thing looks so grand, it tempts the “Oh, no thanks, I’m not really a cake person” types into trying it and they quickly become drooling addicts. [/QUOTE] Oh, that sounds so good (if I can leave out the pineapple, that is). Who’s got a banana cake recipe to go with it? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/35 "2007-09-11T10:28:48Z")
Devil’s food chocolate cake with a good, fudgy, dark chocolate icing. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/36 "2007-09-11T12:48:29Z")
Rich chocolate cake with homemade peanutbutter fudge frosting. Or angelfood cake with chocolate whipping cream (the real stuff, not the fake, of course). StG ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_of\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Sock\_of\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_of_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/37 "2007-09-11T12:56:08Z")
The kind that goes in my mouth. I’m not picky. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/38 "2007-09-11T12:58:38Z")
I’m no big fan of cake, but I have a passion for vanilla icing. I will eat leftover icing with a spoon. I will eat _other people’s_ leftover icing. You leave me alone with a vanilla iced cake and in two minutes that cake will be nekkid 😃 ---
**Author:** ![frog\_princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@frog\_princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frog_princess)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/39 "2007-09-11T13:38:47Z")
Homemade Angel food cake. I usually make 2 at a time (but my family doesn’t know that… 😃 ) ---
**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, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/40 "2007-09-11T13:43:17Z")
Don’t buy fudge at Christmas. Buy a can of chocolate frosting and refrigerate it. Chilled it’s creamy and thick like good fudge, but it costs $1.50. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730.md?page=3)