# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/41 "2007-09-11T14:19:48Z")
I like just about any kind of cake. But probably my favorite is my grandmother’s applesauce cake – no frosting, but lots of raisins. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/42 "2007-09-11T14:35:57Z")
I like marble cake, marbled chocolate and yellow cake, with chocolate frosting. Also, the best cake I’ve ever had is a piece of the carrot cake which **danceswithcats** and **bibliocat** made for my husband’s birthday. I had one piece and had to immediately give away the leftovers, or I’d have eaten all of it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/43 "2007-09-11T14:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=monica] Definitely the yellow cake with chocolate frosting. There’s really no competition. [/QUOTE] Absolutely. Sometimes we add a speck of cayenne pepper to a boxed chocolate cake mix and frost it with the darkest chocolate we can find and that’s yummy too! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/44 "2007-09-11T14:42:02Z")
First, Devil’s Food with Chocolate Frosting Second, Yellow with Chocolate Frosting Third, Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/45 "2007-09-11T14:42:14Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] 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. [/QUOTE] What’s that thing people say about subscribing to newsletters? That. ---
**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/46 "2007-09-11T14:53:29Z")
My mom makes a hazelnut cake with maple filling. You make it in a thin layer, spread the filling on, and roll it up into a log. The slices look all swirly and pretty. It is just barely sweet. Heaven! ---
**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, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/47 "2007-09-11T15:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] What’s that thing people say about subscribing to newsletters? That. [/QUOTE] Your not clear. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/48 "2007-09-11T15:21:44Z")
A classic white cake, properly made so it has an impossibly tender crumb, flavored with almond extract, and topped with a creamy homemade chocolate frosting. Every other cake mentioned above is adequate substitute. Mmm, cake. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/49 "2007-09-11T15:26:47Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Your not clear. 😕 [/QUOTE] I’m intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter? Whatever. I just want to eat canned frosting. ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/50 "2007-09-11T15:30:06Z")
[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] This is my favorite type also. Where I grew up it was called Danish LAyer Cake. Of course it came from the same bakery that made the best Danish Kringle also. ETA- OK looking at the recipe you posted not quite the same. The Danish Layer Cake is yellow cake with a banana and strawberry cream kind of filling with a white cream frosting. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730/51 "2007-09-11T15:32:51Z")
I like Cake with a short skirt and a long jacket. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/418730.md?page=2)