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Question of the Day: What's Your Favorite Type of Cake?

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cheesecake or carrot cake-hard to pick just one!

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.

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.

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.

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....

I love me some ice cream face cake! (does that even count as cake?)

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.

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.

Guiness Ginger Cake! Also, Carvel ice cream cake. I love those dark crunchy cookie things between the chocolate and vanilla! And anything from Baked.

I love the Guiness Cake!

A standard cake that I love is chocolate with chocolate frosting and choclate sprinkles....overload I know!

Oh, and if I'm not making the cake myself, bring on the incredibly excessive Lord Baltimore!

I like fruity desserts. A good apple cake or plum cake (fruit inside) is tough to beat.

plum cake (fruit inside not on top)

Vanilla cake with home made buttercream frosting is probably my all time favorite.

My mom's chocolate sheet cake with chocolate buttercream icing.

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.

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.

Lia, same neck of the woods. And I love Sugar Sweet's cupcakes.

Italian Cream Cake or Chocolate Sheet Cake.

I love black forest cake.

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

white cake (not yellow), chocolate frosting...the cake of birthdays past

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 ;}

Lemon pound cake!

Red velvet w/cream cheese frosting. So good.

Coffee cake, really fresh, fragrant with cinnamon, studded with walnuts or pecans...

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!

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!

Sheetcake from the grocery store.

Crustless, dense, plain cheesecake is my favorite. Also like lemon poppy seed pound cake, flourless choc cake & carrot cake (without pineapple).

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.

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.

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!

Chocolate Layer Cake...

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

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.

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.

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