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37 Comments:
cheesecake or carrot cake-hard to pick just one!
psychsarah at 10:21AM on 04/25/07
oh lord, so many to choose from. i love cake. i love cupcakes even more. chocolate, coconut, lemon loaf, white cake with strawberries and fresh cream, so many.
french tart at 10:21AM on 04/25/07
I second cheesecake and carrot cake!! Also, yellow cake from the box with chocolate frosting (yum!) and cake de Momy (a bakery in Panama where I live which makes birthday cakes which are essentially vanilla cake with majar blanco (dulce de leche like substance) in the middle and sugary frosting), this with vanilla icecream is delicious.
cristi at 10:37AM on 04/25/07
Several years ago, there was a recipe in Gourmet for a brown butter almond torte served with sour cherries. This is my absolute favourite cake. I also love sticky toffee pudding with custard.
caley at 10:45AM on 04/25/07
Chocolate cake with chocolate icing and Jewish coffee cake are amongst my faves. I'm with french tart--there are too many delicious options. Strawberry shortcake, carrot cake, burned butter....
superkb at 10:51AM on 04/25/07
I love me some ice cream face cake! (does that even count as cake?)
Joshua Bousel at 11:04AM on 04/25/07
Strawberry shortcake with lightly crushed and sugared berries (tristar from the farmers' market) , lightly buttered (Kate's unsalted) dour biscuit of a cake (from the old, *good* Fanny Farmer), and unsweetened whipped cream (Ronnybrook or the like). Split biscuit, fill with strawberries, put top half back on, press lightly, cover with more berries, and lots of lightly whipped cream. A good June supper on its own.
Barbara Hanson at 11:09AM on 04/25/07
I love pound cake. I also love coffee cakes. Once is a while I love coconut layer cake and chocolate layer cake. This is a very deep subject for me personally. When you bake you do not just eat any cake. I am so picky about my cake my husband gets totally frustrated. When I say pound cake it has to be dense cake with tight crumb, not a loaf cake thats light and airy. When I say coffee cake I mean with streusel thats not hard as cement. When I say coconut cake I mean the traditional kind with white cake, seven minute frosting and good coconut. When I say chocolate cake I mean chocolate cake with chocolate icing dense crumb and so rich you only need a tiny slice.
I made Ina Garten's strawberry country cake and my crowd begs for it every holiday. The cake is dense crumb, nicely flavored and it is easy to assemble. I recommend it.
JerzeeTomato at 11:57AM on 04/25/07
Guiness Ginger Cake! Also, Carvel ice cream cake. I love those dark crunchy cookie things between the chocolate and vanilla! And anything from Baked.
K at 11:58AM on 04/25/07
I love the Guiness Cake!
A standard cake that I love is chocolate with chocolate frosting and choclate sprinkles....overload I know!
ThatGirl153 at 12:12PM on 04/25/07
Oh, and if I'm not making the cake myself, bring on the incredibly excessive Lord Baltimore!
Barbara Hanson at 12:33PM on 04/25/07
I like fruity desserts. A good apple cake or plum cake (fruit inside) is tough to beat.
kqrbob at 12:42PM on 04/25/07
plum cake (fruit inside not on top)
kqrbob at 12:48PM on 04/25/07
Vanilla cake with home made buttercream frosting is probably my all time favorite.
Sarahrm at 1:05PM on 04/25/07
My mom's chocolate sheet cake with chocolate buttercream icing.
homesicktexan at 1:18PM on 04/25/07
I grew up in a bakery so I'm about as picky as JerzeeTomato—except for that I can't actually bake to my own standards! Any good cake is a cake for me, so I'll just go into specifics. I live a five minute walk from what are currently my two favorite desserts in NYC: the sticky toffee pudding at Schiller's, and the banana pudding at Sugar Sweet Sunshine. I'd walk miles for either one.
Lia Bulaong at 1:27PM on 04/25/07
Sour cream chocolate cake from the Cafe Beaujolais CB, with a Swiss meringue frosting. Layers, in an 8" pan so it sits higher. Made by me or someone else. I make other tasty cakes, but that's the one I yearn for.
lemons at 1:32PM on 04/25/07
Lia, same neck of the woods. And I love Sugar Sweet's cupcakes.
Barbara Hanson at 1:44PM on 04/25/07
Italian Cream Cake or Chocolate Sheet Cake.
KItkat at 2:24PM on 04/25/07
I love black forest cake.
malenky at 2:27PM on 04/25/07
Years ago, before I could bake, I loved Entenmans crumb cake. Now, I like Sugar Sweet Sunshines apple cake, and cakes I bake: Warren Brown's pumpkin spice poundcake with eggnog buttercream, Cook's Illustrated German choc. cake, Heirloom Baking's coffee cake, Ina Garten's coconut cupcakes, and everything chocolate
Mich23 at 2:33PM on 04/25/07
white cake (not yellow), chocolate frosting...the cake of birthdays past
Lilla at 3:51PM on 04/25/07
Boston Cream Pie, hands down.. though really, it's not a pie, it's a cake, and if I /have/ to eat cake, which largely I don't like at all, it really should have a fantastic layer of custard through the middle to make it all worth while ;}
myzkyti at 4:09PM on 04/25/07
Lemon pound cake!
pageycooks at 4:13PM on 04/25/07
Red velvet w/cream cheese frosting. So good.
rockchick at 4:38PM on 04/25/07
Coffee cake, really fresh, fragrant with cinnamon, studded with walnuts or pecans...
baboo at 5:07PM on 04/25/07
Cassada cake (strawberries with custard in the center of a white cake with light as air frosting) is my all time favorite. I also love white/white cake, chocolate/chocolate cake or any combination of the two and if they're in cupcake form, even better!
jenki at 5:20PM on 04/25/07
Coming in at number one is my grandmother's, and subsequently father's, yellow cake from a (Duncan Hines) box with real whipped cream between the two cakes and homemade jam between each carefully sliced cake layer. And, of course, lots of buttercream frosting with chocolate chips or M&M decorations!
My second pick would have to be my mother's lemon cheesecake - divine!
woodenspoon at 5:47PM on 04/25/07
Sheetcake from the grocery store.
Myszka at 6:22PM on 04/25/07
Crustless, dense, plain cheesecake is my favorite. Also like lemon poppy seed pound cake, flourless choc cake & carrot cake (without pineapple).
JEP at 7:03PM on 04/25/07
From both a cooking and eating standpoint - my grandmother's recipe for pound cake. It's ridiculously easy to make and makes a huge cake, which means there's plenty for everyone and maybe a little left over for bread pudding.
segalbraith at 8:20PM on 04/25/07
Red velvet cake with lots and lots of cream cheese frosting!I loove putting fresh berries in between the layers . It looks lovely when you slice it.
orcutbm at 9:41PM on 04/25/07
My grandmother's 1930s German recipe for Napfkuchen/Gugelhupf, which in her case was a very rich marble pound cake made in a fluted Bundt pan. I've made it more than a few times and it's just delicious. The rich almond or lemond parts, the dense chocolate swirls, the moist, tight crumb, the crunchy crust.... yum!
AdamH at 9:43PM on 04/25/07
Chocolate Layer Cake...
spaghetti at 10:21PM on 04/25/07
My carrot cake is totally addictive, and I usually like super-lemony pound cakes, but other than that, I'm really more of a tart person
ChristineB at 11:43PM on 04/25/07
i'll be really predictable and boring, but chocolate molten cake. I'm not crazy about frosting or heavy cake (as in cheescakes), so I usually go for light, airy ones, like mousse cake.
I also love my cappucinno cake with mocha ganache on top. I'm addicted to apple pies, but never made one worthy of obsession. My family is crazy about my white-chocolate mousse cake with oreo crusts and strawberry topping.
winny at 3:31AM on 04/26/07
My absolute favorite is Italian frutti di bosca. It's more of a fruit tart than a cake, but it's just divine. A pefect balance of tangy ripe berries atop a sweet lemon filling and a crumbly crust. I will drive for miles to get one.
Mr. K at 9:45AM on 04/26/07