Mine is known back East as a "shadow cake." Rich chocolate cake with buttercream frosting topped with a bittersweet chocolate ganache nicely chilled before serving.



Here's an online recipe https://www.littlesweetbaker.c...iple-chocolate-cake/

Wanted one for my birthday today but a previous attempt to have a local bakery make one in 2021 was less than stellar. My son isn't a baker so he bought a "normal" chocolate layer cake which still was quite good.

A friend proclaims his as a roll cake filled with dulce de leche and topped with sweetened whipped cream.

What's yours?

When I’m feeling like a slice of cake, it’s a lemon Bundt cake from these guys Nothing Bundt Cakes

Carrot.

Happy birthday!

My grandmother used to bake a simple layer cake, three layers of a yellow cake, the cake layers separated by thick layers of a sort of fudgy chocolate, which was also applied generously to the top and sides.

Pretty much like this:

They have to be homemade-either Italian Cream or German Sweet Chocolate.

Carrot cake. It has vegetables, so it's the healthy choice.

German Chocolate.

Ive always been a red velvet guy, but dang if that shadow cake might convert me!

Strawberry poke cake or cherry chip cake.

Black Forrest Cherry Torte Cake - yum!

But a Costco birthday cake will do in a pinch

Happy birthday!

My favorite is angel food cake with whipped cream and a fruit topping (strawberry and/or blueberry).

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I might be the only guy here that would rather have Triscuits than any kind of cake. I just don’t have a sweet tooth nowadays.

When I was a kid I liked my mother’s “Devil’s Float” cake. A dense brownie-like cake floating on melted fudge. Usually with thick cream from our Jersey cow spooned over it.

While not technically a cake, nearly any Cheesecake would have me crawl through broken glass.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Where I live seems EVERY cake is from Costco. Every birthday. Every going-away or baby celebration at work. Every graduation. Everything. Not that they are bad cakes, but I just want to try something that's not Costco.

Well, except this one...

Tivoli is a bakery in NoVA that makes a Grand Marnier chocolate cake, Mrs. A. pretty much always surprises me with one of these on my birthday. Not much of a surprise, true, but appreciated none the less.

For out-of-the-box cakes, a yellow cake with chocolate frosting is my go to. In recent years I have experimented with two different frostings, one between layers, and a different one to cover. Buttercream and chocolate, coconut and buttercream, you get the idea, adds appeal at very little additional work.

Berry Chantilly cake from Whole Foods.

Happy Birthday, bald1 !

I had bourbon pecan? cake at a friends that they then poured a splash of bourbon over before serving. It was incredible. I asked for the recipe but they had ordered it.

W/ that in mind, I got a Bourbon bundt cake recipe and upped the splashes of bourbon in the cake and icing and it was almost perfect. I need to adjust the ingredients to retain some moisture (sour cream?).
Thank you for reminding me of this potentially homemade great cake.
Did I mention "Happy Birthday!"

Happy birthday!

The cake I remember best is one my mom made for my birthday one year. Lemon bundt cake with blue berries in the mix, lightly glazed.

I honestly thought it was available as a mix that I just couldn't find for the longest time, but no, it was all mom.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Carrot.

Yep.

Those kind they sell at the supermarket- you know, the premium kind that sell for 30 bucks or whatever- the kind that after one bite, you have the urge to knife everyone at the table and steal the entire cake. I don't know what they're called- Chocolate Psycho Cake, whatever.

Aside from that? All the typical American varieties? A well-made Pineapple Upside Down cake is delish. Coconut cake, or German Chocolate cake (which is almost certainly not called that in Germany).