Celebrate with traditional birthday cake?
I prefer a rich cheesecake. Do you like the standard cake, frosting & candles?
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16 Comments:
definitely not! My grandson doesn't like frosting .. he asked for & got brownies last week. His mother's favorite .. double blueberry pie.
About the only birthday we have traditional bithday cake for dessert is at the end of Christmas dinner. The youngest child blows out the candles.
NanaJoie at 7:35PM on 05/25/07
My own birthday is on Halloween. I've been treated to all kinds of cakes, from a three-dimensional mummy head (chocolate cake, with wide ribbons of icing to create wraps, dirtied-up with chocolate cookie crumbs) to "graveyard cake" (oreo-based "dirt" in a 9 x 13, with gummy worms, and vanilla wafers for gravestones).
Following my birthday, three of my four kids have birthdays in November, so we get tired of "standard "cakes pretty fast. Back on May 19th I blogged about two of the cakes two of my kids have asked for: a kitty litter cake, and a spaghetti and meatball cake, complete with pics of the finished cakes.
LunaPierCook at 8:09PM on 05/25/07
When I was a child, my mother always made me the same birthday cake: chocolate with a chocolate soured cream icing. I think it was from a Maida Heatter cookbook. I haven't had it in years, but I'm sure that if I did, it would be an evocative experience. Now I'm not very fond of cake, and my birthday is usually pretty low key (I'm twenty nine this year, and my past few birthdays have been more about drink than about food). If I had a cake, though, I would want David Liebovitz's fresh ginger cake with poached pears. My bithday is in November, so ginger would be fittingly autumnal.
caley at 9:23AM on 05/26/07
I usually forgo the birthday cake all together, these days, and opt for a splurge on the birthday dinner... Mine is in July, so that might mean a couple of lobsters, or a really expensive steak.
But when I was a kid -- oh, those Carvel ice-cream cakes were something I used to really look forward to.
DaveFaris at 11:04AM on 05/26/07
I love real buttercream, and it is quite calorie laden, so my birthday (or someone else's) is probably the only time I eat it. I like either a traditional yellow cake, or a rich chocolate cake. The buttercream can be mocha ,vanilla or chocolate. But the cake must have lots of buttercream flowers. The rest of the year all of the desserts I eat are so "gourmet". This birthday cake is comfort food to me.
Mich23 at 11:33AM on 05/26/07
I love real buttercream, and it is quite calorie laden, so my birthday (or someone else's) is probably the only time I eat it. I like either a traditional yellow cake, or a rich chocolate cake. The buttercream can be mocha ,vanilla or chocolate. But the cake must have lots of buttercream flowers. The rest of the year all of the desserts I eat are so "gourmet". This birthday cake is comfort food to me.
Mich23 at 11:33AM on 05/26/07
Funny story Funny story! My grandmother was a baker the likes of which I may never become. She would make an italian cream cake for my birthday parties. The baking tins she used were depression era and they were HUGE. When people were poor they ate more cake apparently. Marie Antionette segue... blah blah. I hate italian cream cake. One of the layers is always rum custard and I do not like NEVER EVER rum in my baked stuff.
So when I was 6 I said Gram, I don't like italian cream cake and she looked down at me and said well your father does now go open your presents. My birthday is thanksgiving week so there was pumpkin pies, which I like a lot.
This went on till I was 16, in such time that I said to my parents if someone does not buy me a regular GD birthday cake I am freaking right the hell out.
A regular birthday cake showed up.
Fast forward to this thanksgiving past. I made a flourless choc torte, which you guessed it I do not like, not a bittersweet choc fan either.
My father wacked candles in it and everyone sang and I thought holy cupcakes NO ONE BOUGHT ME A GD cake again.
From now on I am going to buy/make my own cake, my people are just not sensitive.
JerzeeTomato at 11:51AM on 05/26/07
Funny. I am baking a birthday cake for my Dad today. It's in the oven right now baking in a large stainless steel bowl. I am hoping for a domed shape cake - I saw something like it on the Martha Stewart website.
Once it is cooked I will slice it in half to fill it will butter cream. If it turns out maybe I will come back and post a link to a picture of it.
My family always has cake for birthdays, not always layered, but usually chocolate.
laura dot at 12:27PM on 05/26/07
When I lived down south they would make a pig pickin cake in a stainless steel bowl. A pig picking cake is not very nice looking and it has some odd things in it. It is sweet to offset eating cue.
I googled pig picking cake and found different versions. One that I saw made had a 1lb can of crushed pineapple with heavy syrup and a 1 lb can of peaches in heavy syrup and 1 lb can of mandarin oranges and chopped pecans right into the cake batter. 2 boxes of yellow cake mix then into a huge stainless steel bowl. When it was done they poked wholes in the cake and poured over it a whiskey /simple syrup mixture into the hot cake. People just tore at it with their hands. I just stood and looked at it this volcano of cake with heavy syrup gurgling out of it.
I had to taste it, it was very very sweet. If I were going to make it I would not use the same fruits in heavy syrup and would steep a syrup with the fruits I thought would go with it.
I call it fruit cocktail cake.
JerzeeTomato at 2:36PM on 05/26/07
LAURA DOT--- Would you please post the link for that recipe that you found on marthastewart.com? Thank you! :o)
Erinay77 at 7:48AM on 05/27/07
Erinay, here is the link:
domed cake
My feeling is that it will work with any 9 inch layer cake recipe if you triple the baking time. This is what I did and it seems to have turned out okay. When I sliced the cake into layers it looked really nice inside. But I won't know for sure until we eat it this evening. I will keep you posted.
laura dot at 10:40AM on 05/27/07
Awesome! Thank you!
Erinay77 at 4:11AM on 05/28/07
Awesome! Thank you!
Erinay77 at 4:11AM on 05/28/07
DaveFaris, yes! Those Carvel ice-cream cakes! Anybody had one recently? Do Carvel shops still exist, or does the company only distribute the product to supermarkets these days? I've seen the brand in freezer cases.
baboo at 6:19PM on 05/28/07
Carvel does still exist, and their cakes are still sinfully sweet...
pbisNOTmyname at 11:32PM on 05/28/07
i love tiramisu cake but prefer to eat it in cups. i'd rather eat a boxful of small pastries, including: baklava, kadaif (honey-soaked phyllo), and tiramisu - than 1 big birthday cake.
Dreamzoxo at 10:50PM on 06/04/07