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definitely carrot cake. it's my go-to comfort food.

Seven layer. There's just something comforting about it. And you get frosting with every bite.

Spice cake with rum cream cheese frosting.

momofuku chocolate chip passion fruit cake :) yum!

Twenty-Layer Crêpes Cake Brûlée... decadent and delicious

Does sacher torte mit schlag count as cake? If not, I vote for Jean-Georges Vongericthen's winter-spiced molten chocolate cakes (preferably served with Gale Gand's mascarpone-crystallized ginger ice cream)!

I have an old-school affection for yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Frosting must be whipped; straight ganache ruins it!

carrot cake. better get your piece now cause if it stays near me it's disappearing fast!

pound cake

amanda hesser's almond cake

Pineapple upside down cake is one of my favorites!

cannoli cake from an italian bakery in connecticut. doesn't matter which one!

Ooooh tough choice! But any chocolate marbled cheesecake wins, hands down!!!

Giant Carrot Cakes from either the Tremont Hotel in Baltimore or the west coast chain, Claim Jumper. Both are enormous and delicious!

I like vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. Simple, but effective! :)

Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

New York Style Cheesecake!

I love Hummingbird cake with cream cheese icing!

I likes me a nice moist carrot cake with that creamy cheesy frosting yum!

i'm not sure...yellow with chocolate frosting maybe...chocolate fudge with chocolate ganache...maybe white with sprinkles...carrot or red velvet with cream cheese frosting???

Pound cake!

NY Style Cheesecake or Red Velvet cake.

anything with chocolate

anything with fruit in it.. just made bittersweet chocolate & pear cake. Divine.

red velvet cake

classic yellow with chocolate frosting

chocolate cake

My favorite is a bourbon peach upside down cake--a nice variation of the pineapple upside down cake but with rich fall flavors.

Thick & creamy chocolate mousse cake with a chocolate graham cracker crust

Tres Leches please.

Is it wrong that I went to pastry school, intern at a bakery, yet still love boxed cake? Give me some Dunkin Hines yellow cake with chocolate frosting (not from a can, though. I actually make that), and I'll eat the whole thing. Sad, but true

I've been digging on red velvet cake recently.

I'm partial to the Brooklyn Cream cake at Two Little Red Hens/Ladybird Bakery -- fudge frosting, moist yellow cake, pastry cream filling -- but they also make an excellent cheesecake. Also, strawberry shortcake (with real shortbread, not regular cake) is pretty strong.

Carrot cake because I'm a sucker for cream cheese icing and the spiciness of carrot cake is the perfect balance.

Ricotta Cheesecake!

Lemon cake with cream cheese frosting--yum!

My mother's apple walnut cake. Baked in a tube pan, no icing, just a sprinkling of powdered sugar. Amazing taste of apples, spices and of course the crunch of walnuts.

My favorite kind of cake is cake - a little frosting, maybe, but mostly I just like cake. Preferably without nuts or coconut or raisins. And I definitely prefer homemade.

Speaking of cake, today's my husband's birthday and I'd better get baking! (He's having strawberry short cake, with strawberries from the CSA, in case you're wondering).

German Chocolate cake

White chocolate cake with cream cheese pecan frosting. Yum!

I ADORE carrot cake. *drool*

My new favorite is Smitten Kitten's Rasberry Cake - Yumm

Red Velvet cake with Chocolate buttercream frosting...thats right...chocolate buttercream frosting and lots of it!

Caramel Cake from Lottie and Doof

Casellula's chocolate cake

pound cake!

Chocolate banana cake.

Chocolate Cake with a Nutella filling and chocolate frosting

The Mango Mousse cake from a bakery near my parent's house -- Two layers of yellow sponge cake and two layers of fresh mango mousse decorated with fresh fruits OR the Chocolate Grand Marnier -- Thin layers of chocolate mousse and chocolate chiffon cake soaked in Grand Marnier syrup with a touch of orange marmalade. Finished with pure Belgian chocolate ganache.
I want cake for breakfast now...

My grandmother's chocolate cake with mint frosting - I didn't even know it was an unusual cake until I started high school.
Although I do have a soft spot for yellow cake from a box with chocolate frosting.

Lemon pound cake

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

red velvet cake.

German chocolate cake. Yum!

Cookie Cakes with the frosting and the yummmmmmmmmm :)

My Mom's upside down German Chocolate Cake.

yellow cake with chocolate icing

HELLOOOO...only the best kind ever - funfetti cake with rainbow chip frosting!!!!!!!!!!! Does it get any better than that?? Does it??? no, it doesn't.

When I was little, it was German chocolate cake. My mom loves to tell me how I would call it "German shepherd cake". apparently we knew someone with a German shepherd and well, I was like 5 or 6 and really couldn't understand WHY everyone thought it was so funny whenver I mentioned my favorite cake!

I'd have to say now, any chocolate cake, but specifically one that I make. It's one of the best I've ever had! Or, I could also say a chocolate lava cake with the molten center. Gawd that stuff is too good!

Carrot cake! It amazes me that carrots can turn into something that fattening and delicious.

Anneliese's German apple cake . . .

Lemon Poppyseed Bundt Cake!

Carrot Cake. It's a good way to eat delicious cake and make others think your eating carrots.

even though it's not made from cake-ice cream cake! glad to be a summer baby!

buttermilk cakes are the best!

Vinartarta.
Five laters of almond cake with prune filling and marzipan icing.
Living near the second largest Icelandic city in the world this cake is often found for sale in good bakeries here in Mb near Christmas. I don't bake or it would be consumed more often than the Holiday season.

creme brulee all the way. mmmm.

Ice cream cake. Fudgy the Whale FTW.

Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

Cold chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream frosting. But really, any kind of cake - yum!

I absolutely *love* gingerbread cake with a light vanilla (not lemon - too acidic for a cake) glaze - bundt cake form, if possible. I would even have that for my wedding cake. :)

carrot

I love coffee cake, especially when it's really moist and the outside is kindof crunchy and has lots of cinnamon.

oh that's easy. tres leches!!

Plain vanilla.

Chocolate cake. I LOVE chocolate cake.

Chocolate mousse cake!

I realize this is extremely boring, but my favorite cake hands down is white cake with white icing. (And from a store bought mix- for shame!)

I sadly haven't had a piece in years, but I LOVE Lithuanian-style Napoleon Torte. So rich and delicious!

Chocolate cake layered with pb cream and drizzled with chocolate ganash.

But funfetti does in a pinch :)

Mainstream cake choices - a tie between carrot cake and german chocolate cake. But as for the true favorite, which comes rarely and with much love is my mom's date cake. soft medjool dates, no icing or frosting, crumbly interior, occasionally with nuts. probably walnuts.

flourless chocolate cake. always

I will eat ANY cake, as long as it's cooked by someone other than myself!

White chocolate cake with raspberry filling and buttercream! MM, the fatty goodness.

Red velvet or lemon!

chocolate icecream cake

Mmmm... black forest

I am a sucker for a good cheesecake, and my favorite cheesecake is dolce de leche cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory, Every time I go there I have intentions of ordering a different kind but cannot get over the fact that I will be highly disappointed that I did not order the dolce de leche, so that is what I get!

Chocolate cake with fresh strawberries.

Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting!!!

Strawberry shortcake. Or any cake from Extraordinary Desserts in San Diego. I miss that place!

Swiss Cherry Torte - white cake with a frosting and cherries...

Chocolate cake, chocolate icing. Lots of icing.

i really like Tres Leches or ice cream cake (even DQ will do!)

chocolate layer cake with strawberries and bananas and vanilla creme in the middle with butter cream frosting. : )

My wedding cake... the cake I ate on my most memorable day...

Red velvet!

Carrot Cake Cheesecake from Junior's in Brooklyn!

White cake with chocolate marshmellow fluff icing

Plain cheesecake. Can't go wrong with that!

Spice cake! Or coconut cake! Or German Chocolate cake! Or "insert name" cake here...I'm really not picky when it comes to this food :)

The Brown Derby Grapefruit Cake

I love yellow cake with white buttercreme icing and coconut. Yum!

Ah, it's a tough decision between carrot and chocolate. How I love them both!

An old fashioned coconut cake with the frosting you make over a double broiler!

My wedding cake... the cake I ate on my most memorable day..

choclate cake with peanut butter icing

Cheesecake...yum

Chocolate cake with cool whip as fosting studded with mandarin oranges

Definately Spice Cake with cream cheese frosting. I love this cake so much because it makes me think of holidays with my family!

It's a tie between New York style Cheesecake (with sliced bananas on top) and Mandarin Orange Cake.

Chocolate. With vanilla or cream-cheese based frosting.

any kind of cake.

Dark chocolate cake with peanut-butter frosting!

Or pineapple upside-down cake.

Southern Coconut, yes, m'am.

My mother's version of strawberry shortcake. From scratch white cake sliced into four layers, cooked strawberries and whipped cream on each layer and frosted with whippped cream, additional cooked strawberries drizzled over each slice!! Fabulous!

I don't think there's a cake that I don't like. I'm pretty easy to please foodwise :).

Carrot. Berta's recipe from Silver Palate.
Cream Cheese icing, which can later be removed when eating leftover cake for breakfast!

Carrot Cake! Yum!

all of them!

white or yellow layer cake with chocolate frosting...for my birthday!

my grandmother's chocolate cake w/chocolate frosting

I like strawberry filled cakes and coconut cake.

Carrot cake!

ice cream cake...with that layer of fudge....mmmm

chocolate layer cake

i have cravings for yellow cake with chocolate icing, korean strawberry cake with that weird light white frosting, devil's food cake, red velvet cake, chocolate cake, cheesecake.... um cake cake...

Red velvet cake. definitely red velvet. Or angel food cake with strawberries and whip cream.

Carrot Cake with walnuts and cream cheese frosting! mmm

Or maybe a three-layered pineapple-coconut cake I made one year.

Strawberry sponge cake from a Chinese bakery. The strawberries are always fresh and juicy, the whipped cream is not too sweet, and the cake is light and fluffy! =D

Black Forest - the real deal homemade with kirsh and sour cherries

About twice a year, I eat one of those Asian mooncakes with fruit and nuts during lunar celebrations. Some of them have the cooked yolk in it which is beautiful when you cut it in half. I have eaten them when it wasn't a lunar holiday and it doesn't taste as good. So it's all about the moon. And a cup of tea.

red velvet without doubt

Carrot cake, but without nuts. And the icing can't be overly sweetened. The tang of the cream cheese has to come through.

Although in the summer one of the best ways to enjoy the bounty of berries is over angel food cake, making it a close second.

swirl pound cake with strawberry slices, vanilla ice cream, and whipped cream. wonderful memories & wonderfully tasting!

Angel food cake with fresh strawberries

red velvet

funfetti!

Spice cake with cinnamon streusel

Epicurious' Chocolate Ganache cake is the best chocolate cake I've ever tasted. That said, I also love red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, my mother's Boston Cream Pie (Better Homes & Gardens red & white cookbook, I think), and sour cream poundcake with fresh strawberries & whipped cream. And I'm dying to try Deb from Smitten Kitchen's chocolate-peanut butter cake. Yeah...I pretty much just love cake in general.

Carrot cake

Chocolate cake hands down, especially with a molten or lava center! Swoon!

i love strawberry cake

apple cake made with plenty of cinnamon and a caramel glaze.

a nice tart lemon cake with buttercream frosting!

layer cake with buttercream icing. Pretty much any flavor of either.

It's always been chocolate.

Blackout Cake with a cup of coffee.

Chocolate-raspberry cake with chocolate frosting.

i love white cake with chocolate frosting...plain and simple : )

red velvet with roux icing. yum.

carrot cake. yes on the raisins, no on the nuts, lots of classic, tangy, cream cheese frosting, and just a hint of nostalgia.

Princess Torte - white cake with some raspberry filling halfway through and a white creaming filling and marzipan over it all. YUM!