# What is your Favorite type of Cake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734 "2010-08-09T17:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/41 "2010-08-10T04:09:39Z")
I’m not a big cake fan but mostly chocolate on chocolate. The chocolatier the better. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/42 "2010-08-10T04:12:36Z")
Coconut. And coconut cupcakes from Zaftig’s in Brookline, MA. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/43 "2010-08-10T04:38:16Z")
For the cake itself, I like pound cake. I like red velvet cake but that really doesn’t taste like much on it’s own. It’s more about the cream cheese frosting. Death by cholocate cake is heaven if you like chocolate ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/44 "2010-08-10T04:44:08Z")
I love cheesecake, but it’s got to be that dense, crumbly kind with the thin sour cream layer on top. Except… isn’t that really a pie? Of cakety cakes, carrot with cream cheese frosting. ETA: I guess I like cheese. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/45 "2010-08-10T04:58:02Z")
Another vote for Pineapple Upside-Down Cake. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/46 "2010-08-10T05:14:50Z")
My mother’s homemade Banana Nut Cake is my absolute all-time favorite. Followed closely by any other flavor of cake. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/47 "2010-08-10T05:42:54Z")
All of them really, as long as they’re made from scratch. But I guess the two I have the fondest memories of would be my Grandmother’s jam cake with caramel frosting and my mother’s Hershey Cocoa Cake. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/48 "2010-08-10T05:49:00Z")
> [@RainGrowsBrite](#): > > My vote is: any cake thats not from a grocery store Now, I beg to differ. Other than those generic yellow, chocolate, or marble birthday cakes with Crisco icing and flowers, the grocery store here sells expensive concoctions (for about $15 and up) that would make you weep with joy. Pound cake. Milky Way bar bundt cake. Hershey’s cocoa cake. Coffee cake with cinnamon streusle and pecans. Never from a mix! (though The Cake Doctor recipes certainly sound interesting). In an emergency, cake-in-a-cup (coffee mug), ‘baked’ in the microwave. Also called the world’s most dangerous cake, as you are always six minutes away from hot freshly baked cake any time of the day or night. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/49 "2010-08-10T06:24:18Z")
Nutmeg Cake… I can eat it and eat it and eat it for days without eating anything else, and generally do when I make it. For my birthday, Toll House Cake… SCRUMPTIOUS… especially the butterysugarynutty topping (that is actually the bottom during baking… it’s sort of a chocolate chip walnuts/pecans upside down cake. AWESOME.) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/50 "2010-08-10T06:36:22Z")
I also like a good Black Forest cake from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/51 "2010-08-10T06:39:24Z")
I sort of like cheesecake. It really depends on the toppings. I like the baker’s canned blueberries and canned cherries. I can eat these toppings without the 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:** [August 10, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/52 "2010-08-10T06:47:11Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > I sort of like cheesecake. The words make sense individually, but put together and, uh… you shot who in the what, now? No comprende. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/53 "2010-08-10T07:31:52Z")
My cousin makes an awesome coconut cake. It’s not just white cake with coconut sprinkled on top, it’s actually made with coconut milk. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/54 "2010-08-10T08:14:05Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > > [@Superhal](#): > > > > I sort of like cheesecake. > > The words make sense individually, but put together and, uh… you shot who in the what, now? No comprende. Read the rest: I like the toppings more than the cake, and i can eat the toppings without cake ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/55 "2010-08-10T08:23:21Z")
Mmmm…cake. Where do I start? Probably my favorite is carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Or is it my mom’s mayonnaise cake (a sinfully rich, dark, moist chocolate cake, good with or without icing)? Or New York cheesecake plain or with fruit? Or a good, homemade fruitcake soaked for a few weeks in bourbon? Too many choices! ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/56 "2010-08-10T19:51:22Z")
RECIPES, people, Recipes! If you’re going to talk about not-from-a-box cake being so frickin’ good, please provide recipes or at least references where the recipes can be found! I’m a fan of pretty much any cake, but as many have said here, a lot has to do with the icing. I _LOVE_ the icing to cake ratio of cupcakes, but I’m no from-scratch snob. I do take advantage of The Cake Doctor’s recipes from time to time. Pray, tell, what is this Tollhouse cake? Yum – cherry cake with chocolate frosting. I have an easy single-pan recipe for chocolate cake with a can of cherry pie filling in it, but not with me at work, alas. Imma go home and bake a cake. Curse you all! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/57 "2010-08-10T20:25:23Z")
Lava Cake. And Cheesecake is not cake, it’s Pie! ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/58 "2010-08-10T22:47:19Z")
Homemade chocolate cake with homemade chocolate frosting. Followed closely by cherry cheesecake. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm ---
**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:** [August 11, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/59 "2010-08-11T06:19:36Z")
Well, my Grandmother’s recipe is a family secret of course but this [jam cake](http://southernfood.about.com/od/spicecakerecipes/r/bl30223r.htm) is similar. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734/60 "2010-08-11T10:26:19Z")
I like very few sweets: key lime pie (which isn’t really much of a pie despite its name), chocolate cake and pastel de yema (plain cake decorated with a frosting made from egg yolk and maybe a bit of whipped cream on the edge) is about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-type-of-cake/549734.md?page=4)