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I'm in the mood to bake a cake..............

I'd like to make a cake this weekend and just feel at a loss as to what kind to make. I made a red velvet cake a couple of weeks ago and before that I made a carrot cake. Can you give me some suggestions? What's your favorite or what do you think would be especially good to celebrate Labor Day?

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If you can still get local berries in your area, flag cake would be yummy and festive. (yellow or white cake frosted with white icing, cream cheese frosting, or whipped cream and decorated with strawberries and blueberries to look like a flag).

Tres leches cake is really nice in the summer, too.

chocolate lava cake.

Texas sheet cake is always fun. If you have lots of zuchinni around you could try a chocolate zucchini cake.

coconut layer? I'd want to make that if my hubby would let me:) I bake so much we end up giving it all away and now I'm on a baking budget. The rule: only bake what we can eat...torture!

How about an angel food cake? Slice into two layers. Make real whipped cream for your "frosting" and add fresh fruit in between layers and on top.

I'm with btchyfoody. Flag cake at this time of the year is amazing. Berries of all types are at their peak. I prefer cream cheese icing.

Dorie Greenspan's recipe for Perfect Party Cake, which she got from Nick Maglieri, is really, really good and there are lots of options for playing around with it using fresh or preserved berries. Her Devil's Food White Out cake is also very, very good.

http://www.mybitofearth.net/2008/03/daring-bakers-d.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6504932

These two recipes have made me very, very popular with relatives, friends and neighbors.

I love tres leches! It's definitely a good summer cake and can be served right out of the fridge.

If you're not doing any other large-scale cooking this weekend and want to dedicate time and energy to a fancy cake, a nice Black Forest or layer cake is great. However, if you're doing a BBQ or labor intensive meal, go with a real, all butter pound cake. You can do so many things with it - Serve unadorned, with a nice fruit sauce and whipped cream, and leftovers (if there are any) can be toasted for breakfast.

chocolate zucchini cake (actually my favorite chocolate cake) or

spice cake with penuche frosting.

There's a recipe on epicurious.com for blueberry layer cake with lemon cream cheese frosting that is divine. It's light, summery, incredibly delicious, and not too complicated.

Thanks you guys I really appreciate your input. I haven't made a tres leches cake in a long time and I think that's the one I'm gonna go with.

Tres Leche cake sounds pretty good...but if you feel the cake-urge again in the future, check out my Cake of the Week feature (Tuesdays).

I've done Brown Velvet Cake, Carrot Cake, Lemon Cake, Banana Cake...and look forward to caking more this weekend!

http://eatrunread.blogspot.com

I am in the mood for making a cheesecake, not just any a Nutella CC.

@Junie--That blueberry cake sounds amazing. Going to bake it tomorrow for a party we're attending on Sunday.

Coconut cream

or Bavarian Cream

Or Sunshine cake (butter cake with broiled coconut frosting)

.....I love red velvet. *sighs* With boiled frosting? *double sighs*

i've been craving a pineapple upsidedown cake. thinking i might just have to do it this weekend.

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